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Early life The actor Kenneth (Gilbert) More was born on 20 September 1914 at Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire. He was the only son of Edith and Charles More, a civil engineer. More spent much of his childhood in the Channel Islands where he attended Victoria College in Jersey. After leaving school, More followed the family…
Early Life The British actor, director, and producer John Mills was born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills on 22 February 1908 in North Elmham, Norfolk. Mills grew up in Felixstowe, Suffolk, where his father was a maths teacher, and his mother was a theatre box office manager. He had a sister, Annette, some 13 years older,…
Early Life The British character actor Claude Rains was born William Claude Rains on 10 November 1889 in Clapham, London. His father, Frederick William Rains was a boilermaker turned stage actor. His mother Emily Eliza (nee Cox), a housewife, was plagued with ill health. He was one of twelve children though only three of his…
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…
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