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Early Life The English-Australian actor Peter Finch was born on 28 September 1916 in London, England. He was given the birth name of Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch. His parents were George Ingle Finch, a chemist and noted mountaineer, and his wife Alicia, who he had married the previous year. However, his parents divorced in…
Early Life The character actor Ron Moody was born on 8 January 1924 in Tottenham, London. He was the son of Jewish parents of East European extraction, Bernard Moodnick, a studio executive, and his wife, Kate. In 1930, Bernard Moodnick changed the family name to the anglicised surname of ‘Moody’. Ron received a grammar school…
Early Life The actor Robert (William) Hoskins, better known as Bob Hoskins, was born in Bury St. Edmund’s, Suffolk on 26 October 1942. He was the only child of Robert William Hoskins Sr., a lorry driver, and his wife Lillian, a nursery school teacher. He was brought up in Finsbury Park, London, and attended Stroud…
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…
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