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.

* 1951 – Ian McCartney, British politician

Ian Paisley, future British MP, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, and Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, who has referred to the Pope as a " Roman anti-Christ.

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.

As colonial rule was ending throughout the continent and as African-majority governments assumed control in neighbouring Northern Rhodesia and in Nyasaland, the white-minority Rhodesia government led by Ian Smith made a Unilateral Declaration of Independence ( UDI ) from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965, effectively repudiating the British plan that the country should become a multi-racial democracy.

* 1938 – Ian Brady, British serial killer

* 1853 – Gen Sir Ian Hamilton, British military commander ( d. 1947 )

* 2007 – Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist ( b. 1932 )

* Ian Monk ( born 1960 ), British writer and translator

* Nucleus ( band ), a British jazz-rock band led by Ian Carr

* 1947 – Ian Ashley, British racing driver

* 6-Lance Corporal Ian Malone, Dublin-born soldier in the Irish Guards regiment of the British Army, gunshot ( killed in Iraq )

A noteworthy Cold War spy is the heroic, upper-class James Bond, secret agent 007 of the British Secret Service, a mixture of assassin and counter-intelligence officer introduced in Casino Royale ( 1953 ) by Ian Fleming.

LA-based British screenwriting team Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais were brought in at Connery's request to rewrite his lines, but ended up altering much of the film's dialogue.

Some notable British talk radio presenters include Tommy Boyd, James Whale, Steve Allen, Jon Gaunt, Nick Abbot, James Stannage, George Galloway, Ian Collins, Brian Hayes, Scottie McClue, Nicky Campbell and Simon Mayo.

** Ian Fleming, British writer ( b. 1908 )

** Ian Holm, British actor

** Ian McKellen, British actor

* May 12 – Ian Dury, British musician ( d. 2000 )

* July 30 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb kills former British politician and former Member of Parliament Ian Gow outside his home in England.

* July 13 – Ian Hislop, British journalist and broadcaster

** British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Rhodesian Prime minister Ian Smith negotiate on the HMS Tiger in the Mediterranean.

** Ian Edmond, British swimmer

** Sgt Ian McKay, VC, British soldier ( Falklands War ) ( b. 1953 )

* October 28 – Ian Marter, British actor and writer ( b. 1944 )