Early Life The English actress Honor Blackman was born on 22 August 1925 in Plaistow, East London. Her parents, Frederick, a civil servant, and Edith, a housewife, had three daughters and a son. Third-born Honor had one younger sister. She attended North Ealing Primary School, where she proved to be an athletic child from an…
Early Life The British actress Audrey Hepburn was born Audrey Kathleen Ruston on 4 May 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. Her mother, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra, was born into Dutch nobility. Her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, was born to English and Austrian parents in the present-day Czech Republic. Joseph would later double-barrel his surname…
Early Life The blonde bombshell actress and singer Diana Dors was born Diana Mary Fluck on 23 October 1931 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. She was the only child of Winifred and Albert Fluck, a railway clerk. Her mother later admitted to having an affair around the time of becoming pregnant. It appears that Diana’s uncertain…
Early Life The character actor James Mason was born on 15 May 1909, in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. He was the youngest of the three sons of John Mason and Mabel Hattersley. His father was a wealthy textile merchant, who travelled extensively to Europe on business. His well-educated mother had studied and worked in London as an…
Early Life The comedy actor Terry-Thomas was born Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens on 10 July 1911 in Finchley, North London. He was the fourth of the five children of Ernest and Ellen Stevens (née Hoar). Ernest Stevens was the manager of a butchery business at Smithfield Market and an amateur actor in his spare time….
Early Years The famed horror actor Boris Karloff was born on 23 November 1887 at 36 Forest Hill Road, Dulwich, London, England. His parents, Edward and Eliza Pratt gave him the birth name William Henry Pratt. Edward, a high-flying diplomat of Indian extraction, met the frail and sickly Eliza, in India. Karloff’s maternal great aunt…
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