Caravan

Stewart Granger (Actor) .. Richard Darrell

Born: May 06, 1913
Died: August 16, 1993

Trivia: British actor Stewart Granger, born James Stewart, studied acting at the Webber-Douglas School of Dramatic Art and began getting work as an extra in British films in 1933. In the late '30s he adopted his professional name to avoid confusion with recent star James Stewart. He worked with various stage companies before getting his first lead role onscreen in So This Is London (1939). In the '40s Granger was one of British films' two top romantic leading men (along with James Mason) and a steady box-office draw, attracting the interest of Hollywood. He signed with MGM in 1950, and for the next seven years played a variety of virile "he-man" types such as romantic swashbucklers and white hunters. After becoming a U.S. citizen in 1956, Granger began free-lancing, appearing again in British films as well as in international productions in the following decade. He began accepting starring roles on TV in the early '70s. From 1950-60 Stewart Granger was married to actress Jean Simmons, the second of his three wives.

Jean Kent (Actor) .. Rosal

Born: June 21, 1921
Died: November 30, 2013

Trivia: A performer from age 11, Jean Kent was billed as Jean Carr when she danced in the chorus of London's Windmill Theater, a popular quasi-burlesque establishment. Kent made her first film appearance in 1935, hitting her stride in the mid-1940s. She joyously harked back to her music hall roots in the leading role of the 1945 movie musical Trottie True. A busy television performer, Jean Kent has been a regular on such British series as Sir Francis Drake (1962, as Queen Elizabeth), Tycoon (1978), Crossroads (1981), Lovejoy (1990) and Shrinks (1991). Kent died in 2013 at age 92 after falling at her home.

Anne Crawford (Actor) .. Oriana Camperdene

Born: January 01, 1920
Died: January 01, 1956

Dennis Price (Actor) .. Sir Francis Castleton

Born: June 23, 1915
Died: October 07, 1973

Trivia: "I am not a star and never was. I lack that essential spark." There are precious few filmgoers who would agree with British actor Dennis Price's doleful self-assessment. The son of a military man, the Oxford-educated Price embarked upon an acting career in 1937. After several seasons in John Gielgud's acting company, Price began making films in 1944. He was often cast as handsome scoundrels, notably the charmingly homicidal heir in 1949's Kind Hearts and Coronets. A busy character actor into the 1970s, Price gained a whole new flock of fans for his appearances as Jeeves in the BBC TVer The World of Wooster. He was last seen onscreen as one of Vincent Price's victims in Theatre of Blood (1973).

Robert Helpmann (Actor) .. Wycroft

Born: April 09, 1909
Died: September 28, 1986

Trivia: At age 11 he began appearing in the Australian ballet, and later appeared in stage musicals and toured with Pavlova's dance company. In 1933 he moved to England and joined the Sadler's Wells Ballet; soon he became that company's principal dancer, and in the '40s he choreographed many of its productions. He devoted most of the '50s to acting, appearing with the Old Vic in productions of Shakespeare, then returned to ballet in the '60s; in 1965 he was appointed co-director of the Australian Ballet company. Beginning in the early '40s, he appeared sporadically in films; some of his work involved dancing -- such as The Red Shoes (1948), which he also choreographed -- and some involved straight dramatic roles. He co-directed (with Rudolf Nureyev) and played the title role in the ballet-film Don Quixote (1973). He was knighted in 1950.

Gerard Heinz (Actor) .. Don Carlos

Born: January 01, 1902
Died: January 01, 1972

Arthur Goullet (Actor) .. Suiza

John Salew (Actor) .. Diego

Born: January 01, 1897

Trivia: British stage actor John Salew made the transition to films in 1939. The manpower shortage during WWII enabled the stout, balding Salew to play larger and more important roles than would have been his lot in other circumstances. He usually played suspicious-looking characters, often Germanic in origin. His screen assignments include such parts as William Shakespeare (yes, that William Shakespeare) in the comedy-fantasy Time Flies (1944), Grimstone in the Gothic meller Uncle Silas (1947), and the librarian in the psychological thriller Night of the Demon (1957). John Salew was active into the TV era, playing the sort of parts that John McGiver essayed in the U.S.

Julian Somers (Actor) .. Manoel

Born: January 01, 1903
Died: January 01, 1976

Peter Murray (Actor) .. Juan

Born: September 19, 1925

Merle Tottenham (Actor) .. Tweeny

Born: January 22, 1901

David Horne (Actor) .. Camperdene

Born: July 14, 1898
Died: March 15, 1970

Trivia: Well-padded British actor/playwright David Horne entered films in 1935, making his mark in pompous, self-satisfied characterizations. Seldom seen in large roles, he was indispensable in such utility parts as desk clerks, newspaper editors, police officials, lawyers, and doctors. Lutheran filmgoers will recall Horne as Duke Frederick in the church basement perennial Martin Luther (1953). David Horne remained active until 1968.

Sylvie St. Clair (Actor) .. Marie

Patricia Laffan (Actor) .. Betty

Born: March 19, 1919

Trivia: Patricia Laffan is an English actress of stage, film, and television. Her big-screen career, which lasted from 1945 through 1965, generally took the form of small (sometimes uncredited) parts in bigger movies (The Rake's Progress, I See a Dark Stranger) and bigger roles in low-budget movies (Old Mother Riley at Home). Her two most widely seen parts came early on, as Poppaea, the decadent wife of Peter Ustinov's Nero -- with designs on Robert Taylor's Marcus Venicius -- in Quo Vadis? (1951); and as the fierce, leather-clad alien invader Nyah in the low-budget science fiction feature Devil Girl from Mars (1954), where her imperious manner, coupled with her costume, turned her into a memorably campy figure among bad-movie enthusiasts and leather fetishists for generations to come. Oddly enough, some critics who have seen Devil Girl from Mars have had relatively kind things to say about Laffan's work in the role of Nyah. As written, the part is utterly incomprehensible, much as the movie is ineptly directed; but she, like the other cast of professionals (including Joseph Tomelty and Adrienne Corri), does give it her best shot. Her height and gaunt, intense features made her difficult to cast in much other than bit or character roles on-screen, and Laffan's movie work gave way to television as the decade wore on. By the 1960s, she was mostly visible on the small screen.

Joseph O'Donohue (Actor) .. Bandit

Mabel Constanduros (Actor) .. Woman

Yusef Ramart (Actor) .. Jose

Gypsy Petulengro (Actor) .. Paco

Enid Stamp-Taylor (Actor) .. Bertha

Born: January 01, 1903
Died: January 01, 1946

Henry Morrell (Actor) .. Cumbermere

Phillip Guard (Actor) .. Young Francis

Peter Mullins (Actor) .. Young Richard

Born: July 09, 1926

Cecil Brock (Actor) .. Guitarist

H.R. Hignett (Actor) .. Don Carlos' Butler

Born: January 01, 1869
Died: January 01, 1959

Oscar Nation (Actor) .. Man

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Monday, May 18 on WEPT Main Street Media (15.2)