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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…
Early Life The actor James Robertson Justice was given the name James Norval Harald Justice at birth. He was born in Lewisham, South East London on 15 June 1907. His parents were Edith and James Norval Justice, a Scottish mining engineer. He was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire. After leaving school he studied science…
Early Life and Career The actor Jack Hawkins was born John Edward Hawkins on 14 September 1910 in the Wood Green suburb of Haringey, London. He was the youngest of the four children of Thomas Hawkins, a builder, and his wife, Phoebe. Hawkins was educated at Wood Green’s Trinity County Grammar School. He made his…
Early Life and Career Flora (McKenzie) Robson was born on 28 March 1902 in South Shields, County Durham. The fifth of the six children of Eliza and David Robson, a ship’s engineer, she had four sisters and a brother. In 1907, the family moved from Wallsend to Palmers Green, North London. She was educated at…
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