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- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Charles Wesley was born on 11 December 1757 in Bristol, England, UK. Charles is known for Cast Away (2000), Rushmore (1998) and Serendipity (2001). Charles died on 23 May 1834 in London, England, UK.- Art Department
Thomas Lawrence was born on 13 April 1769 in Bristol, England, UK. Thomas is known for The Queen's Palaces (2011). Thomas died on 7 January 1830 in London, England, UK.- Robert Southey was born on 12 August 1774 in Bristol, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Nelson (1918), Nelson (1926) and Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Death and Porridge (2024). He died on 21 March 1843 in Keswick, England, UK.
- Joseph Allen was born on 2 January 1840 in Bristol, England, UK. He died on 12 January 1917 in Newton, Massachusetts, USA.
- Hugh Conway was born on 26 December 1847 in Bristol, England, UK. He was a writer, known for El recuerdo de aquella noche (1945), Aunt Rachel (1920) and The Last Rose of Summer (1920). He died on 15 May 1885 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
- W.G. Grace was born on 18 July 1848 in Downend, Bristol, England, UK. He was married to Agness Nicholls Day. He died on 23 October 1915 in Mottingham, Kent, England, UK.
- Alfred Fisher was born on 14 January 1849 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Prince and the Pauper (1915), Beasts of Paradise (1923) and The Fighting American (1924). He died on 26 August 1933 in Glendale, California, USA.
- Frank Desprez was born on 10 February 1853 in Bristol, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Lasca (1919), Lasca of the Rio Grande (1931) and The Mad Stampede (1917). He died on 22 November 1916 in Barnet, England, UK.
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Producer
William Friese-Greene was a prolific English inventor and professional photographer born in Bristol, England. He studied at the Queen Elizabeth's Hospital school. In 1871, he was apprenticed to the Bristol photographer Marcus Guttenberg, but later successfully went to court to be freed early from the indentures of his seven-year apprenticeship. He married the Swiss, Helena Friese, on 24 March 1874 and, in a remarkable move for the era, decided to add her maiden name to his surname. In 1876, he set up his own studio in Bath and, by 1881, had expanded his business, having more studios in Bath, Bristol and Plymouth. In Bath he came into contact with John Arthur Roebuck Rudge, a scientific instrument maker, who built what he called the Biophantic Lantern, which could display seven photographic slides in rapid succession, producing the illusion of movement. Friese-Greene was fascinated by the machine and worked with Rudge on a variety of devices over the 1880s, various of which Rudge called the Biophantascope. Moving his base to London in 1885, Friese-Greene realised that glass plates would never be a practical medium for continuously capturing life as it happens. Hence he began experiments with the new Eastman paper roll film before turning his attention to experimenting with celluloid as a medium for motion picture cameras. In 1888, he had some form of moving picture camera constructed, the nature of which is not known. On 21 June 1889, he was issued patent no. 10131 for a motion-picture camera, in collaboration with a civil engineer, Mortimer Evans. It was apparently capable of taking up to ten photographs per second using paper and celluloid film. In 1890 he developed a camera with Frederick Varley to shoot stereoscopic moving images. This ran at a slower frame rate, and although the 3D arrangement worked, there are no records of projection. He worked on a series of moving picture cameras into 1891, but although many individuals recount seeing his projected images privately, he never gave a successful public projection of moving pictures. His experiments with motion pictures were to the detriment of his other business interests and in 1891 he was declared bankrupt. From 1904 he lived in Brighton and, in 1905, he patented a two-colour moving picture system using prisms. Eventually, the arrival of the war and personal poverty meant there was nothing more to be done with colour for some years. On 5 May 1921, Friese-Greene, then a largely forgotten figure, attended a stormy meeting of the cinema trade at the Connaught Rooms in London to discuss the current poor state of British film distribution. Disturbed by the tone of the proceedings, Friese-Greene got to his feet to speak. The chairman asked him to come forward onto the platform to be heard better, which he did, appealing for the two sides to come together. Shortly after returning to his seat, he collapsed. People went to his aid and took him outside, but he died almost immediately of heart failure.- Jennette Lee was born on 10 November 1860 in Bristol, Connecticut, USA. She was a writer, known for Ruler of the Road (1918). She was married to Gerald Stanley Lee. She died in 1951.
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Lawrence Hope was born on 9 April 1865 in Stoke Bishop, Bristol, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Tolkien (2019), The Indian Love Lyrics (1923) and Less Than the Dust (1916). He died on 4 October 1904 in Teynampet, Chennai Madras, Tamil Nadu, India.- J. Fisher White was born on 1 May 1865 in Clifton, Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Owd Bob (1924), As You Like It (1936) and Under the Red Robe (1937). He was married to Edith Blackwood and Joan V. Rees. He died on 14 January 1945 in London, England, UK.
- Actor
- Director
George Bellamy was born on 10 July 1866 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Lorna Doone (1920), The Christian (1915) and Little Dorrit (1920). He died on 26 December 1944 in London, England, UK.- Julian Royce was born on 26 March 1868 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Criminal at Large (1932), Not Negotiable (1918) and Temptation's Hour (1916). He was married to Bertha Emilie Herzog (actress - stage name: Ivy Hertzog) and Elizabeth Mary Day (actress - stage name: Norah Day). He died on 10 May 1946 in Hailsham, Sussex, England, UK.
- Richard Andean was born on 29 December 1873 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Hamlet (1913). He died on 6 July 1943 in Exeter, Devon, England, UK.
- Lechmere Worrall was born on 4 April 1874 in Bristol, England, UK. Lechmere was a writer, known for The Man Who Stayed at Home (1915), Her Winning Way (1921) and The Man Who Stayed at Home (1919). Lechmere died in 1957.
- Actor
- Director
Lawson Butt was born on 4 March 1880 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Dante's Inferno (1924), The Beloved Rogue (1927) and Afterwards (1928). He died on 14 January 1956 in Hampshire, England, UK.- Born in Bristol, England. As a youth sailed around the world, worked in South Africa as a mining technician and served in the Boer War. Established England and America as a stage actor, he was hired by Jesse L. Lasky and quickly became a leading light of the silent film. His son, House Peters Jr., was also an actor and appeared with him in at least one film, The Old West (1952).
- Additional Crew
- Actor
Operatic baritone. Studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Frederick King, and in Dresden with George Henschel. His career was almost entirely in Britain. He made his debut with the Beecham Opera Company in 1915 as Mercutio in Gounod's ROMEO AND JULIET. Subsequently sang with the British National Opera Company, the Covent Garden touring company, and Sadlers Well's Opera. He was the Artistic Director of the Covent Garden English company 1937-39, and after WWII became its Artistic Advisor. His best roles were Marcello (LA BOHEME), Sharpless (MADAME BUTTERFLY), and he was the finest Scarpia (TOSCA) of his day. He also found time to appear in musicals, including LILAC TIME and JOLLY ROGER; at one time, he toured the USA as MacHeath in THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. He made many recordings, mostly of popular songs, but he did record some extracts from Wagner's PARSIFAL (in 1919, he had been the Amfortas in the first British production).- Ethel Hook was born on 15 July 1884 in Bedminster, Bristol, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Phototone Reel #1 (1928), Phototone Reel #7 (1928) and Ethel Hook (1926). She was married to Arthur Argent and David Alfred Herbert Hastings-Wilson. She died on 4 January 1975 in West Runton, Norfolk, England, UK.
- Muriel Dole was born on 13 November 1886 in Bristol, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Divine Gift (1918). She died on 1 November 1982 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- English classical Shakespearian star Nell Carter born in England in 1894. Highly popular performer in classical and modern drama theatre from 1910. Beautiful brunette who appeared in only one movie playing the role of Beatrice Cuthbert in a crime thriller 'The World, the Flesh and the Devil' directed by F. Martin Thornton from a play by Laurence Cowen, starring Frank Esmond as Nicholas Brophy and Stella St. Audrie as Caroline Stanger made at the Natural Colour Kinematograph Film Co in 1914. Her only screen appearance, perferring the stage.
- Malcolm Keen was born on 8 August 1887 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Manxman (1929), The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) and Scotland Yard Commands (1936). He was married to Phyllis May Abell (1900-1988) and ? (first). He died on 30 January 1970 in England, UK.
- Randolph Sutton was born on 24 July 1888 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Coronation Street (1960), The Good Old Days (1953) and That's for Me (1964). He was married to Kate Curley. He died on 28 February 1969 in London, England, UK.
- Actor
- Composer
Victor Young was born on 9 April 1889 in Bristol, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for In Old California (1929) and Frontier Romance (1929). He died on 2 September 1968 in Ossining, New York, USA.- Steuart Wilson was born on 21 July 1889 in Bristol, England, UK. He died on 18 December 1966 in Petersfield, Hampshire, England, UK.
- Art Satherley was born on 19 October 1889 in Windmill Hill, Bristol, England, UK. Art was married to Gladys X and Harriet Melka. Art died in 1986 in Fountain Valley, California, USA.
- Miss Fish was born on 27 March 1890 in Bristol, England, UK. She is known for Adam As a Special Constable (1918), Eve in the Country (1918) and Eve Goes to the East Coast (1918).
- Actor
- Director
Billy Armstrong was born on 14 January 1891 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for The Bank (1915), Up in Alf's Place (1919) and Down on the Farm (1920). He was married to Marion Parker. He died on 1 March 1924 in Sunland, California, USA.- William Slim was born near Bristol, England in 1891. In 1903, he and his family moved to Birmingham where he was educated in a Roman Catholic school. Silm's craving for a life in the army persisted in which he entered the Birmingham Unversity Officer Training Center in 1912. At the start of World War I, he was commissioned to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment which he saw action at Gallipoli where he was wounded in August 1915. After nearly a year in a army hospital, Slim also served in France and in Mesopotamia where he participated in the capture of Baghdad in 1917 where he won a Military Cross medal. In May 1919, Slim became a captain in the Indian Army and was posted to the 6th Gurkha Rifles. From 1926 onward, he held various staff appointments until he was given command of the 10th Indian Brigade at the start of World War II which he fought in the Sudan, and Italian-held Eritrea, and led the capture of Vichy French held Syria and Iran in 1941. In March 1942 Slim was given command of the 1st Burma Corps which he extricated from Burma in the face of the Japanese advance. In 1943, he fought major conflicts against the Japanese in India and the border region of Burma until he was appointed commander of the 14th Army in Burma where he won the Second Battle of Arakan (February 4-24, 1944) and the campaign of Kohima and Imphal (March 7-June 22, 1944). Revitalizing the British-Indian army he led it to the victorius Battle of Meiktila/Mandalay (January 14-March 28, 1945) which smashed the Japanese Area Army in Burma which led to the recapture of the Burmese capital of Rangoon in May and the reconquest of Burma until the formal Japanese surrender in September that same year. Slim's achievement in welding a smaller, defeated, demoralized army into a united confident fighting instrument was matched during World War II only by Montgomery with the 8th Army in North Africa. At the end of the war, Slim was appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Governor-General of Australia in 1953. Slim retired from politics in 1960 and retired to his home in London where he died in 1970.
- Paule Vézelay was born on 14 May 1892 in Clifton, Bristol, England, UK. She died on 20 March 1984 in Mortlake, London, England, UK.
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Neal Burns was born on 26 June 1892 in Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Divorce Made Easy (1929), Good Night, Nurse (1916) and Ladies' Choice (1929). He was married to Joan Marquis. He died on 3 October 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Constance Mollineaux was born on 4 April 1893 in Bristol, Rhode Island, USA. She was an actress, known for The Senator (1915) and The Redemption of David Corson (1914). She was married to Walter H. Conley. She died on 1 May 1983 in Pennsylvania, USA.
- Phyllis Bedells was born on 9 August 1893 in Bristol, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Fairyland (1916) and The Land of Mystery (1920). She was married to Ian Gordon McBean. She died on 2 May 1985 in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK.
- Peggy Kurton was born on 4 May 1895 in Bristol, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Tout se paie (1921) and Daddy (1917). She died on 25 April 1977 in Southwark, London, England, UK.
- Music Department
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Desmond Carter was born on 15 June 1895 in Bristol, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Public Enemies (2009), Marry Me (1932) and Over She Goes (1937). He was married to Betty Lynn. He died on 3 February 1939 in London, England, UK.- Producer
- Actor
- Director
Reginald Smith was born on 19 July 1895 in Bristol, England, UK. He was a producer and actor, known for Marshal Your Facts (1937), Queue for Song (1937) and Armchair Theatre (1956). He died in 1962 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.- Joe Walter was born on 16 August 1895 in Eastville, Bristol, England, UK. He died on 23 May 1995 in England, UK.
- Soundtrack
Clarence Ashley was born on 29 September 1895 in Bristol, Tennessee, USA. He was previously married to Hettie Osborne.- Elsie Griffin was born on 6 December 1895 in Bristol, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Mikado (1926). She was married to Ivan Menzies (singing actor). She died on 21 December 1989 in Blackheath, London, England, UK.
- Paul Jones was born on 14 March 1897 in Bristol, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for Not at All (1962). He died on 30 December 1966 in North Hollywood, California, USA.
- Music Department
Boris Ord was born on 9 July 1897 in Bristol, England, UK. He is known for A Festival of Lessons and Carols (1954). He died on 30 December 1961 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.- Hilary St George Saunders served with the Welsh Guards during World War I and later read history at Baliol College, Oxford. He worked with the League of Nations between 1920 and 1937, and would serve as the Secretary of the British Ministry in Paris up to the beginning of World War II. He would subsequently serve as the Librarian of the House of Commons until he retired in 1950. He was also a novelist, short story writer, popular historian and biographer; he wrote under a number of pseudonyms and in collaboration with other writers.
- George Howe was born on 19 April 1898 in Bristol, Rhode Island, USA. He was a writer, known for Decision Before Dawn (1951). He was married to Elizabeth Wolcott Parker. He died on 19 June 1977 in Salem, Virginia, USA.
- Arthur Young was born on 2 September 1898 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor, known for San Demetrio London (1943), St. Ives (1955) and The Lady with a Lamp (1951). He was married to Beatrice Kane. He died on 14 February 1959 in Paddington, London, England, UK.
- Writer
- Music Department
- Actor
Beverley Nichols was born on 9 September 1898 in Bower Ashton, Bristol, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Evensong (1934), Nine Till Six (1932) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He died on 15 September 1983.- Leading British baritone. Made his debut for the British National Opera Company in 1923/24, and sang until the 1950s. He performed regularly all over Britain, as well as at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (in both International and English Opera Seasons). His principal roles were Figaro (THE BARBER OF SEVILLE), Tonio (PAGLIACCI), Lescaut (MANON LESCAUT), Escamillo (CARMEN), Valentine (FAUST), Amonasro (AIDA) and the title role in RIGOLETTO. In 1935 and 1936 he spent time in Cleveland, Ohio in the USA. He made many recordings, mostly in English.
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
- Costume Designer
- Actress
Dolly Tree (1899-1962) had an international reputation as a designer for stage and screen costumes during the 1920's and 1930's in London, Paris, New York and Hollywood. She was England's leading stage designer during the 1920's and her ingenious costumes proliferated in major revues, musicals, pantomimes and cabaret in London and the regions. Dolly Tree was also involved in designing costumes for the British film industry and was allied to the couture house of Jean Peron. Her work also had a great vogue in Paris where she became the first English person and the first woman to design for the Folies Bergere. In New York in the late 1920's she became famous for creating the quintessensial 1890's look for Mae West and it is believed that she was one of the first designers to propogate the use of the strapless evening gown. Finally Dolly Tree became one of Hollywood's major screen designers, working for MGM during the 1930's. Here she maintained the style and glamour of costume for which MGM was famous, designing elegant creations for Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, Rosalind Russell, Virginia Bruce and Judy Garland, besides the historical costumes for the classic David Selznick movies such as Viva Villa, David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities. Despite the excellence of her work and the broad scope of her achievements, misinformation in many forms surrounds Dolly Tree. She has been consistantly overshadowed by the accomplishments of others and as a result her work and achievements have been wrongly overlooked and ignored. For example, her work at the Folies Bergere in Paris has been eclipsed by the towering edifice of Erte's shrewd self publicity and in Hollywood the excellence of MGM's publicity machine has relegated her to a position of relative unimportance at the expense of glittering praise for Adrian.- Newton Blick was born on 10 June 1899 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Barnaby Rudge (1960), Morgan! (1966) and The Avengers (1961). He died on 14 October 1965 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Janet Vaughan was born on 18 October 1899 in Clifton, Bristol, England, UK. She was married to David Gourlay. She died on 9 January 1993 in Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK.