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A.B. Imeson was born on 21 December 1874 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for Dicky Monteith (1922), Tense Moments from Opera (1922) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1916). He was married to Ann Stephenson. He died on 28 February 1944 in Epsom, Surrey, England, UK.- Aimee Willmott was born on 26 February 1993 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Alan Magor was born and raised in Middlesbrough, England, and trained at what is now the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - Acting, where he continues to be affiliated as an Audition Panellist today. Since graduating in 2010, he has amassed professional acting credits across stage and screen.
Alan made his West End debut in 2019, taking on the role of Detective Sergeant Trotter in the World's longest running play - Agatha Christie's 'The Mousetrap' - at the St. Martin's Theatre. He has worked extensively in theatres around the UK, as well as in Europe and India.
As well as a professional actor, Alan also works as a Theatre Director and Dramaturge, and is an Associate Lecturer at Performers College Birmingham. - Alethea Charlton was born on 9 August 1931 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Doctor Who (1963), The Woman in White (1966) and Sam (1973). She died on 6 May 1976 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.
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- Actor
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Alex Close was born on 19 May 1992 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is a director and actor, known for The Secret Eye (2013) and Our Father (2015).- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Manager
Alex John Wiseman was born on 4 October 1995 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is a producer and manager, known for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012) and The Spaceman (2024).- Actor
- Producer
Anand Desai-Barochia was born in Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The Outpost (2018), Bridgerton (2020) and The Tiger Hunter (2016).- Visual Effects
- Make-Up Department
- Art Department
Andrew Glazebrook was born in 1967 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is known for The 25th Reich (2012), Predator Shellshock and Mondo Creepy (2019). He has been married to Joanna Marion Warren since November 1991. They have three children.- Andy Pemberton was born on 17 January 1976 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He has been married to Isabella since 18 January 2014. He was previously married to Michelle Pemberton.
- Ann Jellicoe was born on the 15th of July 1927 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire and studied acting at London's Central School of Speech and Drama. She had wanted to be an actress since the age of four, when she took a dancing class. She fell in love with performance and was engaged in theatricals during her school days.
Ann Jellicoe is an English playwright and theatrical director who's best known for her 1962 play "The Knack", which was adapted into the 1965 film The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) by director Richard Lester, and for promoting the idea of "community plays".
Her first tentative efforts at writing were creating dialogue in her head for charades. At the Central School of Speech and Drama, a class in improvisation whetted her appetite for making up dialogue. She also was exposed to the dramatist Christopher Fry, who was invited in the school to talk to the students about playwriting.
After she graduated from the Central School, she did her apprenticeship as a thespian in a repertory theatre in Aberystwyth,Wales. She was a plain girl in a time when young actresses were expected to be good-looking and were not allowed to be interesting, before the impact of Bertolt Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble on English theatre, a revolution she would be part of. It was friends who got her her first job at Aberystwyth, and after that was over, she bounced around between acting gigs and tried her hand at directing. She also taught acting.
Jellicoe established and ran the experimental Cockpit Theatre at the Little Theatre Club. She began her career as a dramatist with a one-act play written to implement her own innovative ideas of the theatre that was included in a showcase she was directing. Her breakthrough was the play "The Sport of My Mad Mother", written for a 1955 competition for aspiring playwrights sponsored by "The Observer" newspaper, overseen by critic Kenneth Tynan. The play, which used absurdist dialogue and physical theater to tell the story of juvenile delinquents, won third prize . The initial production was staged by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre. Company founder George Devine directed the play.
Tasking himself with the mission of creating a new type of theater that broke with the class-bound complacency of the commercial West End theater, Devine also directed John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1959) in 1956, the play that heralded the arrival of "The Angry Young Man" who forever changed English theater. Eschewing plot, Jellicoe's drama embraced absurdity and unconventional theatrical devices. In contrast, "Look Back in Anger", which started the revolution in the London theater, was conventional in plot and dialog. Jellicoe's technique sought to involve the audience more directly.
"The Sport of My Mad Mother" was a commercial flop in its initial run, and it also failed to win over the critics. This was not seen as a bad thing by Devine and others at the Royal Court, as they were in a war against conventional theater whose foot-soldiers were stodgy Establishment critics.
Working with Devine at the Royal Court was a great experience for Jellicoe as Devine loved writers, believing that it was writers who would change the English theater. In 1955, he had declared the English Stage Company to be a "writer's theatre". There was a writers group at the Royal Court that influenced the development of her drama. She even met her second husband, the photographer Roger Mayne, at the Royal Court.
The sole woman member of the Royal Court's Writers Workshop, she continued to write, earning a reputation as someone who knew about the younger generation as her plays focused on young people. "The Sport of My Mad Mother" was re-staged many times and was revised by the author in 1962 That was the year she had her greatest success, when the Royal Court staged her play "The Knack" starring Rita Tushingham, who also would star in the 1965 film.
Jellicoe had decided to write a sex comedy after the discouraging reception of her first play. Developed under the aegis of the Royal Court's writers group, "The Knack" is autobiographical, with her second husband Roger, whom she lived with for a while before marriage, being the mode for the character of Colin. "The Knack", directed by Mike Nichols, was a hit when it was staged Off-Broadway in New York in 1964, running for 685 performances.
Jellicoe never had another huge success like "The Knack", for instead of following it up with a similar work, the Royal Court stated her play "The Rising Generation", which had been written before the "Knack" for the Girl Guides, who had wanted a play about teenagers, and "Shelley", an historical play about the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. She eventually became literary manager of the Royal Court in the period 1973-5, where she promoted women playwrights, including Caryl Churchill.
She had two children with her husband Roger, and wrote several children's plays, plays about children in which children would act the parts, as part of an evolution as dramatist that was as a result of raising her own kids. She wrote the first of children's plays (known as Jellieplays) in Dorset, where they had moved in the early '70s to get away from the decay of London which accelerated under 'Edward Heath''s ministry. The first children's play was written for a small comprehensive school, but the teacher who normally staged plays with the schoolchildren felt threatened, and the school backed out of putting on the play. Through her involvement with South West Arts' Drama Committee, she had become acquainted with the Medium Fair Theatre Company, which put on community plays. (It has since disbanded.) She approached Medium Fair and they staged her first children's play.
It involved a cast of 80, including children from the school that had originally rejected it (the teacher who had stymied the production had moved on). In this iteration of a community play, it involves many members of a community, not just the cast but the crew and community members who sign on for various jobs like selling refreshments during the intermission.
In 1978, she launched the Colway Theatre Trust, which evolved into the Claque Theatre, to promote the concept of community plays. As the concept evolved, a community play is written about a particular group of people and the issues they face. It is written and staged, employing locals, in no more than 18 months. The Colway/Claque Theatre has produced 30 community plays in all. The community play movement was instrumental in bringing more women into the theater, providing a vehicle for women dramatists. - Writer
- Actress
Anna Raeburn was born on 3 April 1944 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She is a writer and actress, known for Agony (1979), The Lucie Arnaz Show (1985) and Play for Today (1970). She was previously married to Nigel Lilley and Michael Raeburn.- Bethany Wieczorek was born on 24 November 1995 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Hills (2016) and The Clean White Coats (2016).
- Bill Athey was born on 22 September 1957 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Bill was born and bred in the North-East town of Middlesbrough, close to the North Yorkshire border, and trained at the Guildford drama school in the early Eighties.
Amongst his many Theatre credits are Mickey in the West End production of Blood Brothers, alongside Stephanie Lawrence, Tony Harrison's Trackers at the Royal National Theatre, Pastoral at the Soho Theatre.
Bill has been seen on television many times, most recently in Ted Lasso starring Jason Sudeikis, This Time with Alan Partridge starring Steve Coogan, Vera with Brenda Blethyn, the hugely popular drama Broadchurch with Olivia Colman and in the multi award-winning Downton Abbey opposite Phyllis Logan - as well as starring in Alan Bleasdale's Monicled Mutineer with Paul McGann, Hallmark's Blackbeard with Stacy Keach and Jessica Chastain, and the role of Stu Carpenter in Coronation Street for ITV.
His film credits include Lady Macbeth with Florence Pugh, Final Score with Pierce Brosnan, The Tournament with Robert Carlyle, In Our Name with Joanne Froggatt, United, the story of the Munich air disaster, with Jack O'Connell and David Tennant, Harrigan with Stephen Tompkinson and Extremis with David O'Hara. - Actor
- Writer
- Composer
Bob Mortimer was born on 23 May 1959 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for House of Fools (2014), Catterick (2004) and Shooting Stars (1993). He has been married to Lisa Matthews since October 2015. They have two children.- Considered by many to be the best manager the England national team never had, Brian Clough's professional football career began when aged 16 he signed for hometown club, Middlesbrough F.C.. Working his way up through the ranks, he made his full first-team debut in a league match against Barnsley in September 1955. Over the following six seasons he scored 197 goals in 213 league appearances, a fantastic record by modern standards. It was during this period that he earned his two England caps, both in 1959 against Wales and Sweden.
In 1961 he moved to Sunderland where he continued his prolific strike-rate, scoring 54 times in 61 games. At the age of 30 though, a clash with the Bury goalkeeper resulted in an injury which forced him to retire.
Looking for new challenges, Brian decided to go into management, gaining experience at Hartlepool for two seasons before taking the job at Derby County, where he led them to the league championship in 1972 and the European Cup semi-finals a year later. His tenure ended when he resigned after a dispute with Derby chairman Sam Longson.
More success was to follow though. After unsuccessful stints at Brighton and Leeds United, he took the top job at Nottingham Forest where he won them 11 trophies, including the league championship in 1978 and the European Cup twice in 1979 and 1980. His extraordinary success with the club made him the public and the press's first choice to manage the under-performing England national team, but the English Football Association would not employ him under any circumstances. Bobby Robson even offered to resign twice in favour of Clough during the 1980s but his resignation was rejected on both occasions.
In May 1993, after 18 years at Forest, Brian retired from football. He suffered from ill-health in his later years years and underwent a liver transplant in early 2003. - Producer
- Director
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Calum Chalmers was born on 2 February 1988 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is a producer and director, known for Graduation Afternoon (2015), If You Go Down (2013) and Minutes Past Midnight (2016).- Carina was born in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She is known for L'amour et la veine (1932), Barranco, Ltd (1932) and Romain Kalbris (1911).
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Carl Pemberton was born on 15 October 1980 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is a composer, known for Clowns, Women and Failures (2011), Loose Women (1999) and Top of the Pops (1964).- Charles Sewell was born on 20 October 1877 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Music Hall Parade (1939), Darby and Joan (1937) and Racing Romance (1937). He died in 1955 in Denville Hall, Northwood, London, England, UK.
- Born in 2000 in North Yorkshire, Charlotte is rapidly gaining the highest acclaim for her performances in the UK and overseas. Charlotte has recently finished her training at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London (BMus Hons), and before this attended the prestigious Chetham's School of Music Sixth Form in Manchester.
In October 2017, Charlotte was honoured to sing at Westminster's Central Hall, London, for 2000 invited guests and July 2018 saw her singing at the Proms in the Priory, Guisborough, with the London Gala Orchestra. Charlotte has performed solos with a range of vocal ensembles including the Chetham's Chamber Choir, Chetham's Vocal Department, Durham Singers, Guisborough Choral Society, Honley MVC, Stockton Synthonia MVC and in June 2019 she was invited, by Chesterfield Philharmonic Choir, to sing with Lesley Garrett. Further afield, Charlotte has been invited for four summers to perform a number of recitals in Bagni di Lucca.
In spring 2020 Charlotte appeared in Season 7, episode 3 of ITV's Endeavour, where she played the role of an Oxford University Music undergraduate. In 2022, Charlotte was part of a SATB small ensemble recording of 'A Song for the Commonwealth' that was heard around the UK and Commonwealth as the beacons were lit in celebration of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee on Thursday 2nd June 2022. For the last two years, Charlotte has had the great honour of joining the Band of the Royal Fusiliers at Durham Cathedral as their soloist for the 2022 and 2023 Festival of Remembrance. On the 21st October 2023, Charlotte was the principal soloist at a Proms concert at the O2 City Hall, Newcastle. The 17th November 2023 saw Charlotte performing at Mansion house, London for The Worshipful Company of Coopers and the Lord Mayor of London, and on the 25th November she was the guest soloist with the Teesside Symphony Orchestra. - Director
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Chris Corner was born on 23 January 1974 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is a director and composer, known for The Saint (1997), Open Your Eyes (1997) and The Watcher (2000).- Actor
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Chris Kamara was born on 25 December 1957 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Keith and Paddy Picture Show (2017), Emmerdale Farm (1972) and Code 404 (2020).- Christopher, whose real name is Christopher Bell, was born in 1957 in Station Street, Middlesborough has an older sister, Sue and a younger sister, Terry. He did judo at 10, gymnastics at 13. He was educated at Brookside Scool in Middlesborough and did drama at night classes at Kirby College.. He became a fitter at Smiths Docks saw an advert for dancers at Bailey's night club in Stockton on Tees and got a job at 18. He moved to London for a career as an actor/dancer.
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- Actor
He was born in Middlesborough to Irish and Italian parents in 1951. His first ambition was to be a journalist which ended when a college teacher tore up one of his essays after which he went to work in his father's ice cream factory. Away from music Chris' passion was for motor racing and Ferrari cars and he holds a full racing licence, doing 18 laps in a Jordan Formula One car and raced a BMW touring car shoot out in the TOCA shoot out at Donington Park side by side with Nigel Mansell. .Having given up motor racing he almost lost his life when a medical ailment imobilised him for 18 months, However confined to bed he used his time to dictate the script for La Passione. He had no need to work though as his father owned an ice cream business which Chris is the only inheritor, His ambition was to travel to his Italian homeland and to own a Ferrari.- Chris Tomlinson was born on 15 September 1981 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK.
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Craig Douglas (born on February 7, 1986) in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, He is an Award-winning Screenwriter and Film Director. Due to earlier school grades he was refused entry to a TV and Film Production course at Teesside University, so over the years he studied the work of Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Martin Scorsese, which taught him how to make films and write screenplays, to which he owes his success to.
When he was a child he started writing short stories with his younger brother Callum, they would go on to make short videos and clips for friends and family.
They went on to start their own production company CCD Productions, using this label on videos and clips made for local companies. In 2019 Craig founded a new production company Pine Barrens Pictures, this he named after his favourite episode of the globally successful HBO show The Sopranos. In 2021 he formed the distribution and production company Douglasfilm Ltd.
He was a Kickstarter contributor on the Documentary Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters. He had a brief cameo in the highly rated BBC show Peaky Blinders. He has a number of titles on his resume including films that featured Doctor Who and The Hobbit star Sylvester McCoy and monster actor Doug Jones. In 2020 he featured in the true crime documentary Lee Duffy: Too Far, Too Soon. In September 2019 he signed on to the Dollar Baby Project writing the short film The Woman In The Room which is based on the short story by the best selling Horror writer Stephen King.- Soundtrack
Cyril Smith was born on 11 August 1909 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He was married to Phyllis Sellick and Andrée Antoinette Marie Paty. He died on 2 August 1974 in Surrey, England, UK.- Actor
- Director
- Editor
Dan McGee is a British Actor, Writer and Director, born in Middlesbrough, and is known for his work on Crumb (2016), Surprise (2018) and Benny Brasco (2018). He moved away to study Special Effects Make-up at Grimsby University, before moving to Manchester to pursue a career in film. He frequently collaborates with his girlfriend Zoe Marshall Hatley, and fellow director Dave Green.- Sound Department
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- Camera and Electrical Department
Daniel Angioy was born on 30 March 1997 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is a cinematographer, known for What's Left Behind (2018), Violence Breeds Violence (2017) and Shed (2016).- Daniel Sacchelli was born in 1982 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for God on the Rocks (1990).
- Dave Morris was born on 5 July 1896 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Artful Dodger (1959), Club Night (1957) and Blackpool Show Parade (1957). He died on 8 June 1960 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK.
- Derek Thompson was born on 31 July 1950 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Don Revie was born on 10 July 1927 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He died on 26 May 1989 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Donald Pelmear was born on 6 July 1924 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Elizabeth (1998), Doctor Who (1963) and The Citadel (1983).
- Donald Tyerman was born on 1 March 1908 in Middlesbrough, England, UK. He died on 24 April 1981 in Wesleton, Suffolk, England, UK.
- E.W. Hornung was born on 7 June 1866 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Raffles (1939), Raffles (1930) and Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (1925). He was married to Constance Conan Doyle. He died on 22 March 1921 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.
- Edythe French was born on 24 January 1929 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Encounter (1952).
- Script and Continuity Department
Eileen Bowen-Jones was born on 4 July 1909 in Middlesbrough, England, UK. She is known for Over Night (1932), I, Claudius (1937) and For Love or Money (1933). She was married to Tony Bowen-Jones. She died on 29 September 1996 in Norfolk, England, UK.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Elizabeth Carling was born on 20 October 1967 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Casualty (1986), Goodnight Sweetheart (1993) and The Damned United (2009).- Actor
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- Producer
Ethan Stapley was born on 23 October 1996 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Therapy Session (2015) and Ventriloquism (2015).- Faye Marsay was born on 30 December 1986 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Game of Thrones (2011), Pride (2014) and Andor (2022).
- Gabrielle is a British actress, best known for playing series regular Katrina in 5 seasons of Wolfblood and 2 seasons of spin-off series Wolfblood Secrets, both for BBC Television, making her the longest serving cast member on the show. She was raised in Middlesbrough, North East England and is now based in East London.
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Garry Cooper was born on 10 July 1973 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is known for Logan (2017), The Jacket (2005) and Terminator Genisys (2015).- Actor
- Cinematographer
- Soundtrack
Gem Archer was born on 7 December 1965 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and cinematographer, known for Radio 2: In Concert (2010), All or Nothing: Manchester City (2018) and NHL 12 (2011).- Actor
- Writer
George Collings was born on 11 August 1975 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for The Dark Ages (2015), Guardian Angel (2016) and Dead Frequency (2010).- Soundtrack
Georgina Anderson was born on 22 October 1998 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. Georgina died on 14 November 2013 in Marske-by-the-Sea, Redcar, North Yorkshire, England, UK.- Gerardine Douglas was born in 1939 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Festival (1960), Summer Circuit (1961) and Scarlett Hill (1962).
- H. Paulsen Forster was born in 1880 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Vulture's Prey (1922). He died in 1943 in Transvaal, South Africa.
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Heather started acting at the age of five. She trained professionally as an actress in Newcastle graduating 2008. After which she won a place on the prestigious acting course InterAct the Northern Regions Theatre Training Ensemble ran by Northumberland Theatre Company. Heather has worked professionally since she left University, working with a range of companies such as ImpAct Univesal, Forest Forge and Northern Stage, building up an extensive theatre CV. Heather is now moving towards a promising career as an actress in television and film.