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.

* 1974 – Edgar Wright, British director

* 1981 – Amy Leach, British director

* 2003 – David Greene, British director ( b. 1921 )

Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest ( born February 5, 1948 ), better known as Christopher Guest, is a British and American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian.

* 1968 – Justin Chadwick, British actor and director

The writer / director / producer team of twin brothers John and Roy Boulting also produced a series of successful satires on British life and institutions, beginning with Private's Progress ( 1956 ), and continuing with Brothers in Law ( 1957 ), Carlton-Browne of the F. O.

He refers to British director Christopher Nolan ’ s The Dark Knight and Inception as British rather than as American films, and yet " when a movie which looks quintessentially ‘ British ’, such as The King's Speech, achieves equivalent success, everyone suddenly starts writing articles about the state of our national cinema as if it somehow exists in isolation.

* 1944 – Alan Parker, British film director and writer

* 1994 – Derek Jarman, British film director ( b. 1942 )

* 1921 – David Greene, British director ( d. 2003 )

* 1915 – Michael Relph, British film producer and director ( d. 2004 )

" At the event ceremony, director John Ford announced that Capra had also received the Order of British Empire ( OBE ) on the recommendation of Winston Churchill.

Ludwig Erhard ( 1897 – 1977 ) was in charge of economic policy as economics director for the British and American occupation zones and was Adenauer's long-time economics minister.

British born director Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ), was the first " slasher " movie, while in the same director's The Birds ( 1963 ) menace stems from nature gone mad.

After the war he was director of the University of Kiel for six months, before being dismissed by the British occupation forces.

The British director Mike Leigh makes extensive use of improvisation in the creation of his films, including improvising important moments in the characters lives that will not even appear in the film.

Other luminaries include Keith Johnstone, the British teacher and writer – author of Impro, who founded the Theatre Machine and whose teachings form the foundation of the popular shortform Theatresports format, Dick Chudnow, founder of ComedySportz which evolved its family-friendly show format from Johnstone's Theatersports, Stan Wells, creator of the " Clap-In " longform style and founder of The Empty Stage Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, and Bill Johnson, creator / director of The Magic Meathands, who pioneered the concept of " Commun-edy Outreach " by tailoring performances to non-traditional audiences, such as the homeless and foster children.

* 1920 – John Box, British film production designer and art director ( d. 2005 )

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

* 1879 – Charles Bryant, British actor and film director ( d. 1948 )

* 1932 – Richard Lester, British director

* 1960 – Gurinder Chadha, British film director