Trivia: His father Andrew Timothy was a priest at a local church, but then became a well-known BBC announcer. Worked as a tailor for three years before applying to drama school. In the 1960s, was a member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company. Has done regular voice-over work, including for The Sun newspaper and Cornhill Insurance, since the 1970s. Played Jesus Christ in the York Mystery Plays in 1980. Was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2000 when Michael Aspel surprised him on the set of Doctors at the BBC's Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham. Footage of Timothy portraying Hamlet in 2003 was used in the instructional series Humanities Through The Arts. Along with footballer Joe Hart, he backed the We Love Shrewsbury campaign in 2012, which aimed to put the city on the tourism map. Played Father James Brown in The Living Room at the Jermyn Street Theatre in 2013. Supports National League football club Hartlepool United.

Trivia: Robert Hardy is legendary in his native England for his skill and versatility as an actor. As an interpreter of fictional characters and historical personages, Hardy has received critical acclaim for roles in scores of outstanding films, TV programs, and plays presented throughout the English-speaking world. British, North American, and Australian audiences may remember him best for his roles as Winston Churchill in War and Remembrance (1989), Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small (1990), Arthur Brooke in Middlemarch (1994), Sir Toby Belch in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1981), and the Earl of Leicester in the heralded Elizabeth R (1971). But Hardy has also distinguished himself in many motion pictures, including Mrs. Dalloway (1997), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), The Shooting Party (1984), Young Winston (1972), 10 Rillington Place (1971), and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Hardy brings to all of his roles an acting savvy honed to a fine edge by years of study and training at the best British institutions. Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, on October 29, 1925. At Oxford University, he studied under the great British author C.S. Lewis and graduated with honors, then joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1949. His experience there prepared him for roles in many Shakespeare productions, including A Midsummer Night's Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1959), a live-TV production of Henry V (1960), and Coriolanus (BBC, 1963). The rhetorical skills he developed in those roles served him well as a narrator or host of documentary productions such as Castle Ghosts of Ireland, Horses in Our Blood, and The Picardy Affair, about the Battle of Agincourt. His classical training has also enabled him to wear the mantle of historical personages such as Pontius Pilate in The People's Passion (1999), Prince Albert in Edward the King (1975), and Nazi foreign minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop in The Gathering Storm (1974). Hardy has a special interest in medieval history -- in particular, in the use of the longbow. Regarded as one of Britain's leading experts on that weapon, he has written a book about it, serves as a consultant on the longbow for organizations involved in history projects, and handcrafts longbows himself. Hardy, who first performed in stage plays in the late '40s, has always maintained a busy schedule. For example, between 1998 and 2001, he performed in ten film and TV productions. He is married to Sally Pearson, a costume designer.

Trivia: Supporting actress Carol Drinkwater first appeared onscreen in the early '70s.

Trivia: British actress Margaretta Scott made her first stage appearance at age 17 in 1929; five years later, she launched her lengthy film career. At first merely another of producer Alexander Korda's resident ingénues, she later carved a niche for herself in upper middle-class character roles. An early arrival on television (she was playing Shakespearean roles on the small screen as far back as 1937!), she was a fixture of the BBC historical miniseries of the 1960s and 1970s, notably as Catherine De Medici in the multipart Elizabeth R (1971). Among Margaretta Scott's handful of American film roles was Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez in the 1952 musical farce Where's Charley?