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• 1911-05-28

Dame Thora Hird, DBE was an English actress and comedian of stage and screen, presenter and writer. In a career spanning over 70 years, she appeared in more than 100 film and television roles, becoming a household name and a British institution.

• 1927-07-12

Actor known for the television series Z-Cars and its spin-offs Softly, Softly and Softly, Softly Taskforce.

• 1934-01-08

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roy Mitchell Kinnear (8 January 1934 – 20 September 1988) was an English character actor.Description above from the Wikipedia article Roy Kinnear, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

• 1937-01-02

Terence Christopher Gerald Rigby was an English RADA trained actor with a number of film credits including Get Carter, Tomorrow Never Dies, Essex Boys and Watership Down. On television, he memorably played police dog-handler PC Snow in the long-running 1970s Z Cars spin-off series Softly, Softly Tas

• 1936-05-01

Ray Smith (1 May 1936 – 15 December 1991) was a Welsh actor who played the tough-talking police chief, Detective Superintendent Gordon Spikings, in the television series Dempsey and Makepeace. He was the first actor to play Brother Cadfael for BBC radio, and played a memorable Dai Bando in the BBC

• 1953-07-30

Philip Davis (born 30 July 1953) is an English actor, writer, director and narrator.

• 1917-06-13

Teddy Turner was a Yorkshire-born English actor and comedian who played dustbin man Chalky Whiteley in the soap opera Coronation Street. He also played the part of the similarly named farmer Bill Whiteley in Emmerdale from 1989 to 1990. In the late 1970s (and all the way up to the final series in 19