Actors that have performed at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre include: Benedict Cumberbatch, Anna Neagle, Robert Helpmann, Vivian Leigh, Eileen Atkins, Leslie French, Bill Kenwright, Felicity Kendal, Anthony Andrews, Wayne Sleep, Ricky Tomlinson, Jeremy Irons, Zoë Wanamaker, Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Lesley Garrett, Douglas Hodge, Richard E Grant, Natasha Richardson, Ralph Fiennes, Christopher Biggins, Jenny Galloway, Joanna Riding, Samantha Spiro, Jenna Russell, Liz Robertson, Toyah Willcox, Bernard Bresslaw ( who died in his dressing room at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, while performing the part of Grumio in the 1993 production of The Taming of the Shrew ), Nigel Planer, Nigel Harman, Su Pollard, Milton Jones, John Malkovich, Scarlett Strallen, Sheridan Smith, Summer Strallen, Topol, Millicent Martin, Janie Dee, Clive Rowe, Martha Wainwright, Hannah Waddingham and Helen Dallimore.

* Bernard Bresslaw, Carry on Star

Bernard Bresslaw was born into a Jewish family in Stepney, London, on 25 February 1934.

Bresslaw and Margoyles played Gerald and Dolly, a nervous couple who drop in unannounced on Lipman's character Beattie and her husband Harry.

She returned as a Bond-girl parody in Carry On Spying ( 1964 ), a hospital patient who falls in love with Bernard Bresslaw in Carry On Doctor ( 1967 ) and as his permanently car-sick companion, on holiday with Sid James and Sims in Carry On Camping ( 1969 ), her fourth and last in the series.

Bernard Bresslaw ( 25 February 1934 – 11 June 1993 ) was an English actor.

Among them the henpecked and love-starved Stanley Blunt ( Kenneth Connor ) and his prudish, overbearing wife, Evelyn ( June Whitfield ); a drunken, bowler-hatted mummy's boy, Eustace Tuttle ( Charles Hawtrey ); brash Scotsman, Bert Conway ( Jimmy Logan ); young and beautiful friends Marge and Lily ( Sally Geeson and Carol Hawkins respectively ); and Brother Bernard ( Bernard Bresslaw ), a timid young monk who has difficultly fitting into his new path of life.

Williams was fond of fellow Carry On regulars Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Connor, Hattie Jacques, Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw.

Rogers and Thomas cast a regular group of actors-known as " The Carry On team " who included Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth, Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor and Jim Dale.

* " Murder at Tea Time "-with French as Bunty Bresslaw, presenter of children's TV show Write Away.

Even though all the actors playing the aliens were over six feet tall, Bresslaw towered over them.

Sonny Caldinez, who played an Ice Warrior in the story, stated in a 2004 interview that Bresslaw " was the only man that could make me feel small.

Although officially starring in 14 Carry On films, Bresslaw did appear in one other: Carry On Nurse.

Bresslaw, at exactly 6 ft 7 in ( 2. 01 m ), was the tallest of the Carry On cast, head and shoulders over fellow Carry On regular, Barbara Windsor, who is.

Bresslaw later made a comedy version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for Hammer titled The Ugly Duckling ( 1959 ).

Bresslaw performed with the Young Vic Theatre Company, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.

Bresslaw, together with Miriam Margolyes, appeared with English comedienne Maureen Lipman in a series of British Telecom advertisements in the late 1980s.

Bresslaw was married to dancer Betty Wright from 1959 until his death.

Bresslaw was the author of a privately published volume of poetry, Ode to the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The film stars David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave and Robert Stephens with Irene Handl and Bernard Bresslaw.

Many soon-to-be-famous faces pop up, including: Lionel Jeffries (" Murder Ahoy " and " Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ", Leslie Philips, Jane Asher, Anne Reid ( Coronation Street and Dinnerladies ), Edward Mulhare ( The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and Knight Rider ), Patrick Troughton ( the Second Doctor ), Irene Handl, Desmond Llewelyn ( Q in the Bond films ), Sam Kydd, Sid James, Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw ( Carry On films ), Leo McKern ( Rumpole of the Bailey ), Alfie Bass ( The Army Game ), Sylvia Kay ( Just Good Friends ), Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell ( Steptoe and Son ), Barbara Mullen ( Dr Finlay's Casebook ), Richard O ' Sullivan ( Man About the House ), Geoffrey Bayldon ( Catweazle ), Billie Whitelaw, Ronald Allen, Gordon Jackson.

* Bernard Bresslaw, actor, best known for his part in the Carry On Films, used to live in Redhill.

In 1968 he appeared in a short-lived British sitcom, Mum's Boys, opposite Bernard Bresslaw and Irene Handl.

Arthur Upmore ( Bernard Bresslaw ) and his wife Linda ( Patsy Rowlands ) are saddled with her mother Daphne ( Joan Sims ) and her vulgar mynah bird.

On February 1, 1999, Barış Manço died of a sudden heart attack before the release of his just finished last work Mançoloji ( Mançology or Manchology ) ( 1999 ), a double album containing the new recordings of his hit songs along with an unfinished instrumental song " 40.

Carol died in 1993 from the sudden onset of a brain tumor – glioblastoma multiforme – when their children were five and two.

Erasmus died of a sudden attack of dysentery in 1536 in Basel.

Only a few years into his service as a federal judge, Hopkinson died in Philadelphia at the age of 53 from a sudden epileptic seizure.

On 2 March 1835, 43 years and a day after his father's death, Francis died in Vienna of a sudden fever aged 67, in the presence of many of his family and with all the religious comforts.

He died of sudden heart failure at the age of 79, on 5 December 2007 at his home in Kürten, Germany.

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

During this time, the Ayyubid sultan died, and a sudden power shift took place, as the sultan's wife Shajar al-Durr set events in motion which were to make her Queen, and eventually place the Egyptian army of the Mamluks in power.

Kim Il-sung died from a sudden heart attack on July 8, 1994, three weeks after the Carter visit.

The era of the New Liberals, as Estigarribia's supporters were called, came to a sudden end in September 1940, when the president died in an airplane crash.

***" For since she had not died through fate, or by a well-earned death, but wretchedly, before her time, inflamed with sudden madness, Proserpine had not yet taken a lock of golden hair from her head, or condemned her soul to Stygian Orcus.

In June 1714, Sophia was walking in the gardens of Herrenhausen when she ran to shelter from a sudden downpour of rain and collapsed and died, aged 83.

On a nostalgic trip to Washington in 1902 he had a sudden heart attack and died ; Henry Cabot Lodge eulogized him as " a good hater, who detested shams, humbugs and pretense above all else.

Fulvia fled with her children and is exiled to Sicyon, where she died of a sudden illness.

Three years after Curly's death, Shemp died of a sudden heart attack at age 60 on November 22, 1955.

While marching to reclaim the city in 1002, however, Otto III suffered a sudden fever and died in a castle near Civita Castellana at the age of 21.

On 13 October 2008, his son Guillaume died at the age of 37 from complications linked to a sudden case of pneumonia.

Hugh Gaitskell died in January 1963, aged 56, after a sudden flare of Lupus erythematosus, an autoimmune disease, just as the Labour Party had begun to unite and appeared to have a good chance of being elected to government, with the Macmillan government running into trouble.

He has a younger sister, Lucinda, and had another brother, Garrett, who died of sudden infant death syndrome in 1948.

After Cochereau's sudden death in 1984, four new titular organists were appointed at Notre Dame in 1985: Jean-Pierre Leguay Olivier Latry, Yves Devernay ( who died in 1990 ), and Philippe Lefebvre This was reminiscent of the 18th-century practice of the cathedral having four titular organists, each one playing for three months of the year.

Carloman died on 4 December 771, at the Villa of Samoussy ; the death, sudden and convenient though it was, was set down to natural causes ( a severe nosebleed is sometimes claimed as being at fault ).

He died on 2 March 1922 at the age of only 29, victim of a sudden attack of typhus.

She was shot by Artemis ( that is, died a sudden, instant death ) one day when she was weaving.

Hartman's death is addressed in the first episode of the fifth season, where his character is revealed to have died of a sudden heart attack.

He died of a sudden cardiac arrest at Cromwell Hospital, London, on Saturday, August 16, 1997, aged 48.