Richard David Briers, CBE 14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013 was an English actor. His fifty-year career encompassed television, stage, film and radio. Briers first came to prominence as George Starling in Marriage Lines (1961–66), but it was a decade later, when he narrated Roobarb and Noah and Nelly in… SkylArk (1974–76) and when he played Tom Good in the BBC sitcom The Good
Fritz Kortner 12 May 1892 – 22 July 1970 was an Austrian stage and film actor and theatre director. Contents 1Life and career 2Death 3Selected filmography 4Autobiographical works 5References 6External links Life and career Kortner was born in Vienna as Fritz Nathan Kohn. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After graduating, he joined Max Reinhardt in Berlin in 1911 and then Leopold
Willy Fritsch 27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973 was a German theater and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s. Contents 1Biography 1.1Early life 1.21919–1932 1.31933–1945 1.41945–1964 2Personal life 3Filmography 3.1Silent films 3.2Sound films 4In popular media 5References 6Literature 7External links Biography Early
Emily Olivia Leah Blunt born 23 February 1983 is a British actress. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for two British Academy Film Awards. Educated at Hurtwood House in Dorking, Blunt made her acting debut in a 2001 stage production of The Royal Family.
Friedrich Rudolf Klein 24 November 1885 – 29 May 1955, better known as Rudolf Klein-Rogge, was a German film actor, best known for playing sinister figures in films in the 1920s and 1930s as well as being a mainstay in director Fritz Lang’s Weimar-era films. He is probably best known in popular culture, particularly to English-speaking audiences,
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom born 13 January 1977 is an English actor. He made his breakthrough as the character Legolas in The Lord of the Rings film series, a role he reprised in The Hobbit film series. He gained further acclaim by appearing in epic fantasy, historical, and adventure films, notably as Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. Bloom subsequently established
Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957 was an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. His adaptation of Frank Norris’s McTeague titled Greed is considered one of the finest and most important films ever made. After
Brian Blessed OBE born 9 October 1936 is an English actor, writer and television presenter. Blessed is known for portraying PC “Fancy” Smith in Z-Cars, Augustus in the 1976 BBC television production of I, Claudius, King Richard IV in the first series of Blackadder, Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon, Bustopher Jones and Old Deuteronomy in the 1981 original London production of Cats at the New London Theatre, Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter in Henry V, Boss Nass in Star Wars: Episode
Gustav Fröhlich 21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987 was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis. He remained a popular film star in Germany until the 1950s. Contents 1Biography 1.1Early life and Weimar Republic 1.2Third
Alfred Peter Abel 12 March 1879 – 12 December 1937 was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. His best-known performance was as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang’s 1927 film, Metropolis. Contents 1Early life 2Stage career 3Film career 4Directing career 5Personal