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This list of notable actors from the United Kingdom includes performers in film, radio, stage and television This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Julian Chagrin (born 1940) Dame Joan Collins (born 1933) Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022) Daniel Craig (born 1968) Michael Crawford (born 1942) Mackenzie Crook (born 1971) Benedict Cumberbatch (born 1976) Tim Curry (born 1946) Kit Connor (born 2004)
Music Hall, Britain's first form of commercial mass entertainment, emerged, broadly speaking, in the mid-19th century, and ended (arguably) after the First World War, when the halls rebranded their entertainment as Variety. [1]
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier (/ ˈ l ɒr ə n s ˈ k ɜːr ə ˈ l ɪ v i eɪ / LORR-ənss KUR ə-LIV-ee-ay; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director. He and his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud made up a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in ...
Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is a British singer and actor.He has total sales of over 21.5 million singles in the United Kingdom and, as of 2012, was the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley.
George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British actor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters.
Bono (1983) Bono, the lead singer of U2, emerged onto the scene with long hair in the early '80s. Throughout the decade he transformed his hair into a mullet and later chopped it off for a short ...
5 March – The Beggar's Opera (Music and Lyrics: John Gay adapted by Frederic Austin). London revival, directed by John Gielgud, opened at the Haymarket Theatre. [5] 20 March – White Horse Inn (Music: Ralph Benatzky Lyrics and Book: Harry Graham). London revival opened at the London Coliseum and ran for 268 performances until ended by ...