• 1963-02-13

East Lancashire born Peter Gunn is best known for the films Twelfth Night, Brassed Off, Blue Juice and 24 Hour Party People and for his regular appearances in TV shows such as Coronation Street and Born and Bred.

• 1943-03-15

Lynda La Plante, CBE, is an English author, screenwriter and former actress, best known for writing the Prime Suspect television crime series.

• 1942-12-07

• 1887-08-26

James Henderson Jimmy Finlayson (August 27, 1887 – October 9, 1953) was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache, Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is famous for his squinting, outraged, double take and fade away head reaction, and

• 1853-01-15

Tom Ricketts (January 15, 1853 – January 19, 1939) was an English stage, later a Hollywood screen, actor. He also directed numerous early Hollywood Silent films, and was the writer of several.

• 1949-01-16

Caroline Munro is an English stage and screen actress, vocalist, and model known for her many appearances in horror, science fiction and action films, and even in one where her character Naomi attempted to exterminate James Bond (Roger Moore). Among the many Hammer Films productions she has been sta

• 1939-10-04

• 1963-12-10

Born in Leeds, Steve Huison is a British actor of TV, theatre and film. He is best known for playing Lomper in the 1997 hit movie The Full Monty and for playing Eddie Windass in Coronation Street. He appeared in the Ken Loach film the Navigators and the Mike Leigh film Peterloo, and starred in Victo

• 1894-10-18

• 1939-08-17

Anthony Valentine was born on August 17, 1939 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. He was an actor, known for TV series such as Callan, Coronation Street, Colditz, Raffles, and Minder and the films Performance and Escape to Athena. He was married to Susan Valentine. He died on December 2, 2015 after s

• 1897-04-26

• 1958-01-01

Douglas McFerran (born 1958) is an English actor and writer. He has also directed and produced a small number of television programmes and films.