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- Actress
- Soundtrack
Jessica was born in 1982 and brought up on a farm near Eardisley, Herefordshire. Wanting to act from an early age she read drama at the University of the West of England at Bristol before taking a gap year to teach English in Thailand. On return she enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from where she graduated in 2008. Over the next couple of years she distinguished herself as a promising stage actress appearing with the Young Vic in the leading role of Jacobean tragedy 'The Changeling',at the National Theatre in 'Rocket to the Moon' and in 'Ghosts' and winning the Manchester Evening News award for best supporting actress in the revival of 'Punk Rock'. At the beginning of 2012 she became known to a far wider audience taking the lead role in the nostalgic television series 'Call the Midwife'.- Actress
- Producer
Signy Coleman was born on 4 July 1960 in Ross, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The X-Files (1993), The Young and the Restless (1973) and River Ridge (2012). She was previously married to Thomas Nolan and Vincent Irizarry.- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Alan Sues was born on 7 March 1926 in Ross, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967), The Americanization of Emily (1964) and The Twilight Zone (1959). He was married to Phyllis Gehrig. He died on 1 December 2011 in West Hollywood, California, USA.- John Rowe was born at Ross-on-Wye on January 1st 1941. After reading English at Oxford he returned to the Midlands where he worked as a teacher before training at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama. After some years in repertory theatre he joined the BBC's Radio Drama Company at Broadcasting House and has been a stalwart radio actor ever since, notably as Professor Jim Lloyd in 'The Archers'. He has also played numerous character roles on television and film and has extensive stage experience, touring with the Old Vic in Europe, China, the Middle East and Australia. He married theatre director Vicky Ireland by whom he has two children.
- Actor
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Clyde Beatty, who was born on June 10, 1903 in Bainbridge, Ohio, was a big game hunter who became famous as a lion tamer and animal trainer. He was the first lion tamer to be featured in a circus. Eventually, he became a circus impresario who owned his own show.
Beatty became famous for his "fighting act," in which he entered the cage with wild animals armed only with a bull-whip and a pistol strapped to his hip. The act was designed to showcase the five & a half-foot tall Beatty's courage and mastery of the wild beasts, which included lions, tigers, pumas, and hyenas, sometimes brought together all at once in a single cage in a potentially lethal combination. At the height of his fame, the act featured Beatty solo, in a cage confronting 40 snarling, roaring and caterwauling lions and tigers of both sexes.
Such was Beatty's fame that he appeared in films from the 1930s through the 1950s and on television until the 1960s. His "fighting act" made him the paradigm of a lion tamer for more than a generation.
Begining in the 1930s, he owned outright or allowed different circuses for which he performed to bear his name. His own circus converted from a railroad to a truck operation in 1956 (think of the ultimate scene from Cecil B. DeMille's Academy Award-winning _The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)_ for one reason why), and in 1958, added "Cole Bros." to its name to create the "Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus." Still in existence, and rivaled only by Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus in North America, it bills itself as "The World's Largest Circus Under The Big Top."
In 2004, the circus dropped "Clyde Beatty" from its name after it terminated its elephant act. This brought an end to an era that Beatty's name epitomized in which circuses featured wild animals from foreign climes. The era had lasted for well over two centuries in North America, since Captain Jacob Crowninshield exhibited his two-year old Indian pachyderm in New York, at the corner of Beaver Street and Broadway on April 23, 1796.
Clyde Beatty, King of the Lion Tamers, died of cancer in Ventura, California on July 19, 1965, just before the beginnings of the political correctness movement that assigned his once-illustrious name to obscurity. He was 62 years old. The plaque at his grave at Forestlawn Hollywood Hills Cemetary in Los Angeles, California features, fittingly, a lion.- Actor
- Writer
Hamilton Deane was born on 2 December 1879 in New Ross, Co Wexford, Ireland. He was an actor and writer, known for Dracula (1931), Dracula (1979) and The Case of Charles Peace (1949). He was married to Dora Mary Patrick. He died on 25 October 1958 in Ealing, London, England, UK.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
Ira H. Morgan was born on 2 April 1889 in Fort Ross, California, USA. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Modern Times (1936), Lost in the Stratosphere (1934) and Congo Bill (1948). He was married to Rena Carlton. He died on 10 April 1959 in San Rafael, California, USA.- Mark Porter was born in September 1962 in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Get Fit with Brittas (1997), Am I Old Yet? (2021) and Doctor, Doctor (2005). He has been married to Rosalind Lovell since July 1987. They have two children.
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
John Harlow was born on 19 August 1896 in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, UK. He was a director and assistant director, known for While I Live (1947), Meet Sexton Blake! (1945) and Candles at Nine (1944). He was married to Enid Hewitt. He died in 1977 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK.- Production Manager
- Editorial Department
- Editor
James Potter was born on 15 September 1927 in Ross, California, USA. He was a production manager and editor, known for On Golden Pond (1981), The Muppet Movie (1979) and Sophie's Choice (1982). He was married to Glenda Grant. He died on 14 December 2005 in Calabasas, California, USA.- Dale Griffin was born on 24 October 1948 in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Hotties (2004) and The Ballad of Mott the Hoople (2010). He died on 17 January 2016 in Brecon, Powys, Wales, UK.
- With an I.Q of 144, and a prodigious memory for a child, he was the first 'Quiz Kid' to be recruited for the radio program, having delivered a school lecture in Chicago, at age six, in which he identified three hundred bird species. When asked on the program 'Where would you plant vallisnaria and calomba?' he replied coolly, "in a fish bowl because they are aquatic plants." He was unsuccessful in his later life, living on welfare.
- Sound Department
Trevor Carless was born on 15 April 1942 in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, UK. Trevor is known for The Golden Lady (1979), Dempsey and Makepeace (1985) and The Lifetaker (1975). Trevor died on 9 January 2008 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK.- Matt Hazeltine was born on 2 August 1933 in Ross, California, USA. He died on 13 January 1987 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Paul Stacey was born on 30 September 1979 in New Ross, Co Wexford, Ireland. He is an actor, known for Cell (1998) and Podge and Rodge. A Scare at Bedtime (1997). He is married to Una Kavanagh. He was previously married to Nichola Bourne.
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Daphne Willis was born on 5 July 1928 in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Passing Show (1951), The Golden Toy (1954) and Ninety Years On (1964).- Rob Maclean was born in 1958 in Invergordon, Easter Ross, Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland, UK. He is an actor, known for Atletico Partick (1995), Caledonian MacBrains (2002) and Children in Need 2001 (2001). He is married to Pauline ?. They have two children.
- Erle Smith Jr. was born on 16 March 1919 in Rosskeen, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Terrors (1930). He died on 21 May 2015 in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England, UK.
- Christopher Walker was born on 3 June 1967 in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, UK.