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* 1888 – Clemence Dane,
British novelist
and playwright ( d
. 1965 )

A secret
British society called
the " Order
of Chaeronea " campaigned for
the legalisation
of homosexuality,
and counted
playwright Oscar Wilde among its members
in the last decades
of the 19th century
.

* 1896 – Arnold Ridley,
British playwright and actor ( d
. 1984 )

* 1886 – Ben Travers,
British playwright ( d
. 1980 )

* Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber
of Fleet Street ( 1973 ),
a play by
the British playwright Christopher Bond
.

** Diana Morgan,
British playwright and screenwriter ( b
. 1908 )

* May 14 – Denis Cannan,
British dramatist,
playwright and scriptwriter

* January 9 – Bill Naughton,
British playwright ( b
. 1910 )

* September 6 – Guy Bolton,
British playwright ( b
. 1884 )

* November 18 – W
. S
. Gilbert,
British playwright and librettist best known for
his collaborations with Arthur Sullivan ( d
. 1911 )

* " Chicken Soup with Barley " is
a 1956 play by
British playwright Arnold Wesker
.

* Peter Coke ( 1913 – 2008 ),
a British actor,
playwright and artist
British playwright Howard Barker has argued strenuously for
the rebirth
of tragedy
in the contemporary theatre, most notably
in his volume Arguments for
a Theatre
.

* Christopher Hampton —
British playwright

* Chloe Moss ( 1976 -),
British playwright

Alan Bennett ( born 9 May 1934 ) is
a British playwright, screenwriter, actor
and author
.

* Wolf Mankowitz,
British playwright and screenwriter

Fanon appears as
a character
in British playwright Caryl Churchill's The Hospital at
the Time
of the Revolution
.

* Sheila Dewey,
British playwright

* Lucy Kirkwood ( b
. 1984 ),
British playwright

Educating Rita is
a stage comedy by
British playwright Willy Russell
.

* William Douglas-Home ( 1912 – 1992 ),
British playwright

George Linnaeus Banks ( 2 March 1821 – 3 May 1881 ), husband
of author Isabella Banks, was
a British journalist, editor, poet,
playwright, amateur actor, orator,
and Methodist
.

Roderick " Rory " Keith Ogilvy Bremner, FKC ( born 6 April 1961 ) is
a Scottish impressionist,
playwright and comedian, noted for
his work
in political satire
and impressions
of prominent
British politicians
.
British and Tom

Northern (
and British ) readers recoiled
in anger at
the horrors
of slavery through
the novel
and play Uncle
Tom ’ s Cabin ( 1852 ) by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe
.

In March 2005,
the British network Sky TV reported that
Tom Hanks was planning to produce
a biopic on
the life
of Bill Haley, with production tentatively scheduled to begin
in 2006
.

*
Tom MacKay Creek Cone,
a subglacial mound
in northwestern
British Columbia, Canada

The family's chauffeur,
Tom Branson, is an Irish republican
and socialist whose cousin was killed by
British soldiers during
the Easter Rising under
the suspicion that he was " probably
a rebel
.

Other contemporary
British film directors include Paul W
. S
. Anderson, Andrea Arnold, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Terence Davies, Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam,
Tom Hooper, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes, Alan Parker, Sally Potter, Lynne Ramsay, Guy Ritchie, Michael Winterbottom, Edgar Wright, Joe Wright
and Matthew Vaughn
.

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
.

* 1964 – Paul Hanley,
British musician ( The Fall
and Tom Hingley
and the Lovers )

In Munster,
the IRA carried out
a significant number
of successful actions against
British troops, for instance
the ambushing
and killing
of 17
of 18 Auxiliaries by
Tom Barry's column at Kilmicheal
in West Cork
in November 1920, or Liam Lynch's men killing 13
British soldiers near Millstreet early
in the next year
.

* 1911 –
Tom Delaney,
British racing driver ( d
. 2006 )

With writer
Tom Pocock he was among
the first
British civilians to witness
the horrors
of the Nazi concentration camp at Belsen, where
the remaining prisoners, too sick to be moved, were dying before
his very eyes
.

* 2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by
British forces
in Baghdad after 118 days
of captivity
and the murder
of their colleague, American
Tom Fox
.

* 1941 –
Tom Conti,
British actor

Support for Peary came again
in 2005, however, when
British explorer
Tom Avery
and four companions recreated
the outward portion
of Peary's journey with replica wooden sleds
and Canadian Eskimo Dog teams, reaching
the North Pole
in 36 days, 22 hours – nearly five hours faster than Peary
.

* Out ( miniseries ),
a 1978
British television crime drama starring
Tom Bell

* 1939 –
Tom O ' Connor,
British comedian

In January 2012,
British MP
Tom Watson discovered that
a public relations firm Portland Communications, hired by Stella Artois had been removing this fact from Wikipedia
.
British weekly magazine Punch ( magazine ) | Punch August 1891 article disparaging
British physician Sir Morell Mackenzie efforts to assert England as
the originating country
of the Tom Collins cocktail
.

In August 1891,
British physician Sir Morell Mackenzie
wrote an article
in the 19th century influential magazines Fortnightly Review to establish England as
the originating country for
the Tom Collins cocktail
and a person named John Collins as its creator
.

* March 5 –
Tom Pryce,
British Formula race car driver ( b
. 1949 )

* November 28 – Kilmichael Ambush: The Third Cork Brigade Flying Column under
Tom Barry successfully ambushes 2 lorries
of British soldiers at Kilmichael, County Cork,

* June 24 – First published review
of The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain,
in a British magazine ;
the book's first edition had appeared earlier
in June
in England
.

** The
British postal workers ' strike, led by UPW General Secretary
Tom Jackson, ends after 47 days
.
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