| birth_place = [[Guildford]], [[Surrey]], England<ref name="Coveney">{{cite news|last=Coveney|first=Mi ...ineer, and his wife, Anne, a nurse. He attended [[Farnham Grammar School]] from 1948 to 1955, where he was head boy. He gained a [[State Scholarship (UK)|S

...dvertiser]]|date=2008-10-02|last=Greer|first=Stuart}}</ref> He had decided from an early age to become an actor, but had his hopes dashed when his father d ...e manager at Oldham, and later became the manager of the old [[w:Guildford|Guildford]] Theatre until 1963; at both theatres he continued to act, and occasionall

| birth_place = [[Guildford|Guildford]], [[Surrey|Surrey]], England Born in [[Guildford|Guildford]], Surrey,<ref name=":0" /> and orphaned as a baby, Evans was educated at t

| death_place = [[w:Guildford|Guildford]], [[w:Surrey|Surrey]], England ...hise holders from the early-1960s beginning with ''[[Coronation Street]]'' from 1961; Powell ceased writing for the programme in 1964, but Driver's involve

| death_place = [[Guildford|Guildford]], [[Surre|y]], England ...s|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=1995|page=926|isbn=0-8240-5990-5}}</ref> From the age of 11 he attended [[Dynevor School, Swansea|Dynevor School]], a sta

...|Players' Theatre]] in London, an old time [[music hall|music hall]] club, from the 1950s onwards. ...ma|publisher=McFarland}}</ref> She is buried at Watts Cemetery, [[Compton, Guildford|Compton]], Surrey.<ref>Monumental inscription.</ref>

...house]] in 1973, as well as at the [[Lyric Theatre, London|Lyric Theatre]] from 1973 to 1974.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/play ...om |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref> In 1975 the single "Amazin' Man", from the album, was released on the [[Transatlantic Records|Transatlantic]] labe

...or the programme's innovative, surreal structure, in which sketches flowed from one to the next without the use of punch lines. He made his directorial deb ...aphasia|aphasia]], he gradually lost the ability to speak and died in 2020 from [[w:frontotemporal dementia|frontotemporal dementia]] at the age of 77.<ref

...970), ''[[Theatre of Blood]]'' (1973) and ''[[Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell]]'' (1974) and comedy films including ''[[Up Pompeii (film)|Up Pompeii ...shing]] in ''[[The Vampire Lovers]]'' and ''[[Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell]]'', [[Diana Dors]] in ''[[The Amazing Mr Blunden]]'', [[Frankie Hower

...in ''[[Monarch of the Glen (TV series)|Monarch of the Glen]]'' (2000–05). From the late 1980s, with [[Kenneth Branagh]] as director, he performed Shakespe ...red a relationship.<ref name=more/> The family occasionally received money from a wealthy relation, and Briers' maternal grandparents paid for his educatio

...d produced by [[Peter Rogers]], a partnership which would last until 1978. Actors in this film, who went on to be part of the regular team in the series, wer ...ma-bookers on 1 August 1958 after which some regional screenings were held from 31 August including Aberdeen and Birmingham.

...309&dat=19880925&id=2a1UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GJADAAAAIBAJ&pg=2478,2432896}}</ref> from which she graduated in 1952.<ref>[https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles?aos=actin Tewson was married to actor [[Leonard Rossiter]] from 1958 until their divorce in 1961.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chilton |first=Mart

...rly in [[w:Albania|Albania]] where his films were the only ones by Western actors permitted by dictator [[w:Enver Hoxha]] to be shown.<ref name="TelegraphObi ...s centre in a command bunker in London, where he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the [[w:Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|prime minister]

...] by [[Elizabeth II]] in 1976. In 2002, he received a [[BAFTA Fellowship]] from the [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] and was named a [[Disne ...ffence]]'' (1936). He had another excellent part in an "A", playing [[Lord Guildford Dudley]] in ''[[Tudor Rose (film)|Tudor Rose]]'' (1936). He did ''Aren't Me

...ers (1960 film)|The Sundowners]]''. She is one of the last surviving stars from the [[Classical Hollywood cinema|Golden Age of Hollywood]] and class years ...Strangers (1945 film)|Perfect Strangers]]'' (1945) (also titled ''Vacation from Marriage'').

..., her parents told Smith the romantic story of how they had met on a train from Glasgow to London via Newcastle. She moved with her family to [[Oxford]] wh ...les in the review ''New Faces of '56'', at the [[Ethel Barrymore Theatre]] from June to December 1956.<ref>Maggie Smith acceptance speech at the 44th Tony

| birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> ...his career, and reruns of television programs featuring Harris were pulled from syndication.<ref>[http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/perth-rolf-

...963) and ''[[w:How to Murder Your Wife|How to Murder Your Wife]]'' (1965). From the mid-1960s on he also frequently starred in European films, in roles suc ...rtly before his death, was living in poverty, existing on charity from the Actors' Benevolent Fund. A charity gala was held in his honour, which raised suffi

...st a mere £23,000 to produce, it was a hit at the box office, with profits from its Australian release alone being £150,000.<ref name="bfireleases">[https ...as ''The Show Goes On''. The film, with a script featuring a contribution from [[Herman J. Mankiewicz]] (later to co-write ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' with [[Ors