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Early Life and Career Richard (Samuel) Attenborough was born on 29 August 1923 in Cambridge. He was the eldest of the three sons of Mary and Frederick Levi Attenborough. His father was a scholar and academic at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. While he was still a young child the family moved to Leicester. His mother, a…
Early Life Christopher Lee was born on 27 May 1922 in Belgravia, London. He was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Trollope Lee, and his wife, Countess Estelle Marie (née Carandini di Sarzano), who was born into Italian nobility. He had a sister, Xandra, who was 5 years older. Lee’s parents separated when he was…
Early Life Edward (Albert Arthur) Woodward was born on 1 June 1930 in Croydon, Surrey. He was the only child of Edward (Oliver) Woodward, a metalworker, and his wife, Violet. He received his tertiary education at a number of schools in Surrey, including the Kingston Day Commercial School. Later, he went on to attend Kingston…
Early Life Charles Laughton was born on 1 July 1899 at the Victoria Hotel in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. He was the eldest son of Robert and Eliza Laughton, who were the hotel proprietors. His mother, a devout Christian of Irish descent, raised her three sons to follow the Catholic faith. Laughton briefly attended the local…
Early Life and Career Peter (Wilton) Cushing was born on 26 May 1913 in Kenley, Surrey. He was the second son of Nellie and George Cushing, a quantity surveyor. During the First World War, the family lived in Dulwich but moved to Purley in Croydon after the war ended in 1918. Cushing was taken with…
Early life Donald (Henry) Pleasence was born on 5 October 1919 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He was the son of Alice and Thomas Stanley Pleasence, a railway station master. His brother, Ralph, five years older, was his only sibling. Pleasence was brought up as a strict Methodist in the small village of Grimoldby, Lincolnshire. He received…
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