Trivia: British actress Maxine Audley was better known for her stage work than her screen appearances. Nonetheless, she showed up in choice supporting roles in several films, starting with 1954's The Sleeping Tiger. Many of these parts were played in English-based films produced with American funding. Notable films in this vein include The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957), The Vikings (1958) (seventh-billed, as Enid), and Our Man in Havana (1960). The one film featuring Maxine Audley that seems to be getting the most play on TV in recent years is a grim, low-budget British crime melodrama, Hell Is A City (1960).

Trivia: British actress Dawn Addams launched her career in Hollywood, after completing her education in England, India, and the United States. She was briefly under contract to MGM, where she played supporting parts in such films as Night Unto Morning (1951) and Plymouth Adventure (1952), as well as a bit in Singin' in the Rain (1952). Even as a freelance actress, her roles were more decorous than substantial: she gets good billing in The Robe (1953) as one of Richard Burton's castaway lady friends, but disappears from the film before reel two. Dawn's stock in trade was the conveyence of icy, unobtainable beauty, a quality that Charles Chaplin utilized to the utmost in A King in New York (1957), wherein Dawn had her best role as an American commercial actress. Thanks to her lofty family lineage, Ms. Addams moved in the best English and European social circles during the 1950s and 1960s; from 1954 through 1971, she was married to Italian prince Vittorio Massimo. When American producer Sheldon Reynolds needed European bluebloods to appear in small roles in his TV series "Foreign Intrigue" and "Sherlock Holmes," Dawn acted as liason in rounding up upper-class talent -- hich may explain why she was a frequent guest star in Reynolds' various series. As her film career petered out in the 1960s, Dawn could be seen on television with increasing frequency: She was a semi-regular on the instructional series "En France" (1962) and the campy sci-fi serial "Star Maidens" (1977), and she was a ubiquitous leading lady in several episodes of "The Saint" (1963-67). Dawn Addams retired from films in the early 1980s, dividing her remaining years between Europe and United States.

Trivia: American character Alan Gifford lived and acted in England; he first appeared onscreen in the '50s.

Trivia: British actor George Woodbridge both looked and sounded like a rural tavern patron, thus was cast accordingly in many of his films. Woodbridge's red-faced characters in movies like Green for Danger (1946), The October Man (1947), and An Alligator Named Daisy (1955) always looked as though they'd just stopped in for a drink after selling their crops and poultry at market. He was also a regular in the Hammer Dracula films of the '50s and '60s, which featured incongruously provincial English in a Transylvania soundstage, as he related tales of "aunts" and "spooks" to his fellow pubgoers. Woodbridge had a weekly job on the '50s TV series Stryker of Scotland Yard, in which he portrayed a hearty police sergeant, just as he had so often before on the big screen. George Woodbridge was also prominently cast in the international TV success The Forsyte Saga (1967), playing Swithin.