The 35th British Academy Film Awards (1982) Premiere

1. Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury was born in 1925 into a prominent family of the upper middle class living in the Regent's Park neighborhood of London. Her father was socialist politician Edgar Isaac Lansbury (1887-1935), a member of both the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Labour Party. Edgar ...

2. Burt Lancaster

Actor | From Here to Eternity

Burt Lancaster, one of five children, was born in Manhattan, to Elizabeth (Roberts) and James Henry Lancaster, a postal worker. All his grandparents were immigrants from the north of Ireland. He was a tough street kid who took an early interest in gymnastics. He joined the circus as an acrobat and ...

3. Edward Mirzoeff

Producer | The Ritz

Edward Mirzoeff was born on April 11, 1936 in London, England, UK. He is a producer and director, known for The Ritz (1981), Forty Minutes (1981) and The Yard (1977).

4. David Puttnam

Producer | The Mission

David Puttnam was born on February 25, 1941 in London, England, UK. He is a producer and executive, known for The Mission (1986), Chariots of Fire (1981) and The Killing Fields (1984). He has been married to Patricia Mary Jones since 1961. They have two children.

5. Lindsay Anderson

Director | If....

Lindsay was born in Bangalore, India but educated in England at Cheltenham College and Wadham College, Oxford where he was a classical scholar. He then spent 3 years war time service in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps. His career in the theatre started at the Royal Court in the late 1950's where he was...

6. Ian Holm

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Sir Ian Holm was one of the world's greatest actors, a Laurence Olivier Award-winning, Tony Award-winning, BAFTA-winning and Academy Award-nominated British star of films and the stage. He was a member of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company and has played more than 100 roles in films and on ...

7. John Kaye Cooper

Producer | Wednesday at Eight

John Kaye Cooper was born on May 20, 1947 in Yorkshire, England, UK. He is a producer and director, known for Wednesday at Eight (1988), Time After Time (1994) and Do You Remember? (1978).

8. Topol

Actor | Fiddler on the Roof

Topol was born on September 9, 1935 in Tel Aviv, Palestine [now Israel]. He was an actor and producer, known for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Flash Gordon (1980) and For Your Eyes Only (1981). He was married to Galia Topol. He died on March 8, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

9. Hannah Gordon

Actress | The Elephant Man

Hannah Gordon was born on April 9, 1941 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She is an actress, known for The Elephant Man (1980), Watership Down (1978) and Made of Honor (2008). She is married to Robert Lampitt. She was previously married to Norman Warwick.

10. John Hurt

Actor | Nineteen Eighty-Four

One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...

11. Judi Dench

Actress | Skyfall

Dame Judi Dench was born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England, to Eleanora Olive (Jones), who was from Dublin, Ireland, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Dorset, England. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with the ...

12. Joe Pesci

Actor | Goodfellas

Compact Italian-American actor Joe Pesci was born February 9, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, to Mary (Mesce), a part-time barber, and Angelo Pesci, a bartender and forklift driver. Pesci first broke into entertainment as a child actor, and by the mid-1950s, was starring on the series "Star Time Kids"....

13. Arthur Lowe

Actor | Dad's Army

Lowe, rotund and professionally indefatigable, rightly gained acclaim as an accomplished comedy character actor; fondly remembered as the irascible "Captain Mainwaring" in the Home Guard comedy series Dad's Army (1968-1977), and as Coronation Street (1960)'s "Leonard Swindley". The only child of a ...

14. David Croft

Writer | Dad's Army

David Croft was born on September 7, 1922 in Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for Dad's Army (1968), Hi-de-Hi! (1980) and Are You Being Served? (1972). He was married to Ann Croft. He died on September 27, 2011 in Tavira, Portugal.

15. John Boulting

Director | I'm All Right Jack

John Boulting was born on December 21, 1913 in Bray, Berkshire, England, UK. He was a producer and director, known for I'm All Right Jack (1959), Seven Days to Noon (1950) and Private's Progress (1956). He was married to Anne Josephine Flynn, Ann Marion Ware, Jacqueline Helen Duncan and Veronica ...

16. Roy Boulting

Director | Seven Days to Noon

Roy Boulting was born on December 21, 1913 in Bray, Berkshire, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for Seven Days to Noon (1950), A French Mistress (1960) and The Family Way (1966). He was married to Sandra Payne, Hayley Mills, Enid Munnik, Jean Capon and Marian Angela Warnock. He died...

17. Terry Scott

Actor | Carry on Up the Khyber

A brilliant comic actor Terry Scott was one of the most familiar faces on British television in the 1960s and 70s. At the height of his popularity his classic comedy series, Terry and June, (in which he co-starred with June Whitfield) was watched by 15 million viewers weekly.

Born Owen John Scott in...

18. Bob Bentley

Director | Recluse

Bob Bentley was born on July 31, 1946 in London, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for Recluse (1981), The Private Life of a Masterpiece (2001) and Screenplay (1986).

19. Frank Thornton

Actor | Are You Being Served?

He was the third child of William Ernest Ball, a bank manager and Rosina whose other children were Marjorie, who died in 1980 and John, Thornton was his mother's maiden name and his middle name, He played the cello in his school's orchestra and was a corporal in the Officer's Training Corps which ...

20. Norman Reynolds

Art_director | Star Wars

Oscar-winning British art director and production designer, most famous for being the creative genius behind the look of the original Star Wars trilogy. Reynolds also worked on many other blockbusters like Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Superman (1978), Empire of the Sun (1987) and Bicentennial Man...

21. Anthony Andrews

Actor | The King's Speech

Anthony Andrews made his West End theater debut at the Apollo Theatre as one of twenty young schoolboys in Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On" with John Gielgud. He began his career at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the UK. His theater credits include spells with the New Shakespeare Company - "...

22. Ian Ogilvy

Actor | Death Becomes Her

Ian Ogilvy was born on September 30, 1943 in Woking, Surrey, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Death Becomes Her (1992), I, Claudius (1976) and My Life in Ruins (2009). He has been married to Kathryn Holcomb since 1992. He was previously married to Diane Sarah Patricia Hart.

23. Selina Scott

Self | Breakfast Time

Selina Scott was born on May 13, 1951 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK.

24. Jeremy Isaacs

Producer | The World at War

Jeremy Isaacs was born on September 28, 1932 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is a producer and writer, known for The World at War (1973), Cold War (1998) and Ireland: A Television History (1980). He is married to Gillian Widdicombe.

25. George Fenton

Composer | Groundhog Day

George Fenton was born on October 19, 1949 in Bromley, Kent, England, UK. He is a composer and actor, known for Groundhog Day (1993), Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998) and The Bounty Hunter (2010).

26. Trevor Griffiths

Writer | Reds

Trevor Griffiths was born on April 4, 1935 in Ancoats, Manchester, England, UK. He was a writer and director, known for Reds (1981), Food for Ravens (1997) and Bill Brand (1976). He was married to Gill Cliff and Janice Stansfield. He died on March 29, 2024 in Yorkshire, England, UK.

27. Peter Whitmore

Producer | Yes Minister

Peter Whitmore is known for Yes Minister (1980), The Two Ronnies (1971) and Dave Allen at Large (1971).

28. Roy Plomley

Writer | Celia

Roy Plomley was born on January 20, 1914 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Celia (1949), Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress (1949) and Kaleidoscope (1946). He was married to Diana Wong. He died on May 28, 1985 in London, England, UK.

29. Mark Hall

Producer | Danger Mouse

Mark Hall was born on May 17, 1936 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a producer and writer, known for Danger Mouse (1981), The Wind in the Willows (1984) and The Wind in the Willows (1983). He was married to Margaret Routledge. He died on November 17, 2011 in Manchester, Greater ...

30. Nanette Newman

Actress | The Stepford Wives

Prior to going to RADA she'd had a small part in 'The Rebel' with Tony Hancock but after the first day she went home in tears as she'd been made up with bright green lips and mud in her hair for her part as an extra sensualist. While she liked making the film and working with Tony she didn't enjoy ...

31. Lionel Jeffries

Actor | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

With his bald head, firm jawline and bristling moustache, Lionel Jeffries played a nice line of English eccentrics. This belied his RADA training. Following military service in WWII, he played his major roles - everything from Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) to the Marquis of ...

32. Tim Sebastian

Writer | Fatal Ally

Tim Sebastian was born on March 13, 1952 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Fatal Ally (2022), TECX (1990) and News 39 (1989). He has been married to Diane Buscombe since 1977. They have three children.

33. Derek Granger

Producer | Country Matters

Derek Granger was born on April 23, 1921 in Bramhall, Cheshire, England, UK. He was a producer and writer, known for Country Matters (1972), Brideshead Revisited (1981) and A Handful of Dust (1988). He was married to Kenneth Partridge. He died on November 29, 2022 in London, England, UK.

34. Charles Sturridge

Director | Brideshead Revisited

Charles Sturridge was born on June 24, 1951 in London, England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for Brideshead Revisited (1981), Cobra (2020) and Shackleton (2002). He has been married to Phoebe Nicholls since July 6, 1985. They have three children.

35. Dilys Powell

Self | Women of Today

Dilys Powell was born on July 20, 1901 in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England, UK. She was married to Leonard Russell and Humfry Payne. She died on June 3, 1995 in London, England, UK.

36. Denholm Elliott

Actor | A Room with a View

Denholm entered RADA at the age of 17, but dropped out after a year having hated every minute being there. He joined the RAF in 1940, trained as a gunner/radio operator, and was shot down over Germany in 1942. In the POW camp he and his fellow prisoners staged various productions in a theatre ...

37. Timothy Burrill

Production_manager | Superman

Timothy Burrill was born on June 8, 1931 in St Aspagh, Denbighshire. Wales, UK. He is a producer and production manager, known for Superman (1978), The Ghost Writer (2010) and Swimming Pool (2003).