When I answered it a voice too dignified and British to be real said, `` Is this Mr. Dale Nelson, the actor ''??

* Albert Austin ( 1881 – 1953 ), British / American actor

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

* 1967 – Jonathan Firth, British actor

* 1980 – Bryan Fisher, British actor

* Adrian Lester ( born 1968 ), British actor

* Adrian Lukis ( born 1958 ), British actor

* 1934 – Brian Glover, British actor and wrestler ( d. 1997 )

* 1977 – Aiden Turner, British actor

* 1976 – Sean Maguire, British actor

* 1949 – Chris Langham, British actor, writer, producer, director

* 1961 – Robert Carlyle, British actor

* 1942 – David Bradley, British actor

In the 2003 film Hitler: The Rise of Evil, British actor Robert Glenister plays Drexler, although Drexler is portrayed without his trademark spectacles and moustache.

* 1946 – Tim Curry, British actor

* 1920 – Ronald Magill, British actor ( d. 2007 )

* 1927 – Gerald Flood, British actor ( d. 1989 )

* 1969 – Toby Stephens, British actor

* 1941 – Gorden Kaye, British actor

* 1981 – Alex Lanipekun, British actor

An example is the cult status of British comedic actor Norman Wisdom's films in Albania.

On television, the actor Freddie Jones portrayed Claudius in the 1968 British television series The Caesars while the 1985 made-for-television miniseries A. D. features actor Richard Kiley as Claudius.

* Cyril Delevanti ( 1889 – 1975 ), British actor

" Roache was the only remaining member of the original cast until Dennis Tanner ( Philip Lowrie ) returned on 12 May 2011, and is currently the longest-serving actor in Coronation Street and in British and global soap overall.

* 1979 – Anthony Davidson, British race car driver

Roughly contemporary with the construction of the new building was the career of a man sometimes called the " second founder " of the British Museum, the Italian librarian Anthony Panizzi.

* Anthony Crank, British television presenter

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

* 1977 – Anthony Crosland, British politician ( b. 1918 )

* 1946 – Anthony Daniels, British actor

* 1937 – Anthony Haden-Guest British American writer

In 1983, British journalist Anthony Grey published a controversial book in which he claimed that Holt had been an agent for the People's Republic of China and that he had been picked up by a Chinese submarine off Portsea and taken to China.

Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary noted: " Marshal Stalin as a negotiator was the toughest proposition of all.

* 1954 – Anthony Minghella, British film director ( d. 2008 )

In November 1937, Ribbentrop was placed in a highly embarrassing situation when his forceful advocacy of the return of the former German colonies led to the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and the French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos offering to open talks on returning the former German colonies, in return for which the Germans would make binding commitments to respect their borders in Central and Eastern Europe.

Before the sale was announced, Anthony Bamford, chairman of British excavators manufacturer JCB, had expressed interest in purchasing Jaguar Cars in August, the year previously ; only to back out when told the sale would also involve Land Rover, which he did not wish to buy.

* 1925 – Anthony Quinton, British philosopher ( d. 2010 )

* 1902 – Anthony Asquith, British film director ( d. 1968 )

* 1975 – Anthony McPartlin, British actor, television presenter

British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden called for Arab unity during the 1940s, and this was followed by specific proposals from pro-British leaders, including King Abdullah of Transjordan and Prime Minister Nuri al-Said of Iraq, but Egyptian proposals for a broader grouping of independent Arab states prevailed with the establishment of the League of Arab States, a regional international organization, in 1945.

This term was shortened to " quango " by Anthony Barker, a British participant during a follow-up conference on the subject.

British Petroleum, privatised in 1987, was officially nationalised in 1951, and there was further government intervention during the 1974 – 79 Labour Government Anthony Crosland said that in 1956, 25 per cent of British industry was nationalised, and that public employees, including those in nationalised industries, constituted a similar percentage of the country's total employed population.

Trinity alumni include six British prime ministers ( all Tory or Whig / Liberal ), British King George VI, several heads of other nations, physicists Isaac Newton and Niels Bohr, philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell ( whom it expelled before reaccepting ), and Soviet spies Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt.

* Richard Brown and Barry Anthony, A Victorian Film Enterprise: The History of the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company ( Flicks Books, UK, 1997 )

* February 19 – Anthony Crosland, British author and politician ( b. 1918 )

* October 12 – Sir Anthony Berry, British politician ( bombing ) ( b. 1925 )

* January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns.