Trivia: The only child of a London policeman, Roger Moore started out working as a film extra to support his first love, painting, but soon found he preferred acting, and so enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He began his film, radio and stage career just after World War II (his early credits are often confused with American actor Roger Moore, a minor Columbia contractee of the 1940s), and also performed with a military entertainment unit. Though in childhood Moore had been mercilessly teased by friends and family alike for being fat, by the time he was ready to start his career, he had become an exceptionally handsome man with a toned, well-muscled body. Signed on the basis of his good looks to an MGM contract in 1954, Moore began making appearances in American films, none of which amounted to much dramatically; his biggest success of the 1950s was as star of the British-filmed TV series Ivanhoe. Signed by Warner Bros. Television for the 1959 adventure weekly The Alaskans, Moore became the latest of a long line of James Garner surrogates on Maverick, appearing during the 1960-1961 season as cousin Beau. After a few years making European films, Moore was chosen to play Simon Templar in the TV-series version of Leslie Charteris' The Saint (an earlier attempt at a Saint series with David Niven had fallen through). Moore remained with the series from 1963-1967, occasionally directing a few episodes (he was never completely comfortable as simply an actor, forever claiming that he was merely getting by on his face and physique). After another British TV series, 1971's The Persuaders, Moore was selected to replace Sean Connery in the James Bond films. His initial Bond effort was 1973's Live and Let Die, but the consensus (in which the actor heartily concurred) was that Moore didn't truly "grow" into the character until 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me. Few of Moore's non-Bond movie appearances of the 1970s and 1980s were notably successful, save for an amusing part as a Jewish mama's boy who thinks he's Bond in Burt Reynolds' Cannonball Run (1981). Moore's last 007 film was 1985's A View to a Kill. In 1991, he was made a special representative of UNICEF, an organization with which he'd been active since the 1960s. Relegated mainly to a series of flops through the 1990s, Moore appeared in such efforts as The Quest (1996) and Spice World (1997) and gained most of his exposure that decade as a television talk show and documentary host. In early May of 2003, fans were dismayed to hear that Moore collapsed onstage during a Broadway performance of The Play That I Wrote. Rushed to a nearby hospital afer insisting on finishing his performance in the small role, reports noted that Moore's subsequent recovery seemed to be coming along smoothly. He lent his distinctive voice to family films such as Here Comes Peter Cottontail and Cats & Dogs, The Revenge of Kitty Galore. Moore died in 2017, at age 89.

Trivia: To say that portraying screen "heavies" came naturally to Willoughby Goddard would be putting it mildly. His vast girth and his weight -- over 300 pounds at times -- and almost equally imposing height put him in a league with such rotund screen figures as Francis L. Sullivan, Sydney Greenstreet, Robert Emhardt, Ronald Long and Robert Middleton. He did occasionally play benevolent parts, and officious government types, but Goddard was most often seen as a villain. And for a certain generation of television viewer, Goddard was permanently etched in the memory for his portrayal of the corpulent, despotic Landburgher Gessler in the late 1950s series William Tell -- across 39 episodes (which were rerun on both sides of the Atlantic for years), his evil Austrian ruler menaced the Swiss patriot William Tell (Conrad Phillips, his family and friends, reveling in his villainy and on-screen gluttony (which was sometimes strikingly portrayed in close-up). But that role was only the tiniest tip of the iceberg in Goddard's nearly five decade career, which encompassed over 100 film and television portrayals, in everything from The Avengers TV series to the feature films The Wrong Box (1966) and Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), and innumerably more theater work. Born Willoughby Rittenham Reese Goddard in Bicester, Ovfordshire in 1926, he made his stage debut in a 1943 revival of Shaw's Saint Joan, and spent the next few seasons in repertory -- his performance in Donald Pleasence's 1952 play Ebb Tide elicited favorable comparisons with Robert Morley. He also did memorable turns as Woolsey in the original production of A Man For All Seasons, and as Mr. Bumble in the Broadway production of Lionel Bart's Oliver! But Goddard's defining role on stage, across several continents and a lot of years, was Sir Toby Belch in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night -- it was a part that he seemed almost to "own" in the minds of many critics for years, and made him a theatrical star. He might also have made a superb Sir John Falstaff, but it was Twelfth Night where Goddard planted his Shakespearean flag. And in between those and other theatrical productions, he busied himself on the big- and small-screens from 1950 until 1987. And even without the William Tell series, he was a ubiquitous figure on British television, turning up as a sadistic gang leader on The Invisible Man, as Mr. Bumble in a 13-part non-musical Oliver Twist serial adaptation (with Max Adrian as Fagin), and Sir Geoffrey Norton in The Man In Room 17 in the mid-1960s -- as well showing up simply as "large man" in Carry On Cruising, or as the president in The Millionairess on theater screens. Ironically, if he had not been quite so busy on the small-screen, and so closely associated with British television, he might well have ended up on the short-list of possible candidates for the role of corpulent villain Auric Goldfinger in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger. Goddard had been retired for 21 years when he passed away in 2008, at age 81.

Trivia: A native of Cyprus, actor Paul Stassino appeared in many British films of the '60s and early '70s. He also appeared on British television. He eventually left films to open a casino in Athens.

Trivia: Lead actress, onscreen from the early '80s.