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

* 1981 – Kit Lambert, British record producer and manager ( b. 1935 )

British Steel PLC was a major British steel producer.

The film was produced by independent British producer Jeremy Thomas.

* 1943 – Peter Sinfield, British lyricist and producer

* 1946 – Janet Street-Porter, British journalist, producer and presenter

* 1888 – J. Arthur Rank, British film producer ( d. 1972 )

* 1948 – Alan Parsons, British music producer and artist

From 1898 American producer Charles Urban expanded the London-based Warwick Trading Company to produce British films, mostly documentary and news.

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.

* 1940 – Alan Caddy, British musician ( The Tornados ), arranger and record producer ( d. 2000 )

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

Walkers, a Leicester-based British producer of snack foods, temporarily named their salt and vinegar crisps after Lineker in the late 1990s — they were labelled ' Salt-n-Lineker '.

The British historian / television producer Laurence Rees noted for his 1997 series The Nazis: A Warning from History that every single person interviewed for the series who knew Ribbentrop expressed a passionate hatred for him.

* 1933 – Gerry Bron, British record producer

* 1931 – Gerald Potterton, British / Canadian director, producer and animator

* 2008 – Neil Aspinall, British record producer ( b. 1941 )

* 1978 – Adam Jennings, British actor, producer, and director

* 1925 – Peter Brook, British stage director and producer

* 1969 – Giles Martin, British record producer

A major figure in the development of British psychedelia was the American promoter and record producer Joe Boyd, who moved to London in 1966.

Around this time, the Pixies struck up a relationship with the British producer Gil Norton.

* 30-Mickie Most, 64, British music producer.

Rupert Parkes ( born 1972, St Albans, England ), known as Photek, is a Los Angeles-based British record producer and DJ.

* December 13 – Lew Grade, British impresario ( b. 1906 )

Lew Grade, head of the British commercial station ATV, offered a deal to Henson that would see his show produced at the ATV studios in Elstree, England.

* Lew Grade ( 1906 – 1998 ), a British impresario

Production was cancelled by ITC owner Lew Grade before the pilot episode aired ; the 13 completed episodes aired sporadically on ATV and other British broadcasters beginning in 1969.

Due to his battle with the Swedish tax authorities at the time, Ingmar Bergman produced Autumn Sonata through his West German company, Personafilm GmbH, with main financing from Lew Grade's British ITC Film, and shot the film in an old film studio outside Oslo in Norway.

In an effort to appeal to the American television market, perhaps to sell the series to one of the major networks, Landau and Bain were cast at the insistence of Lew Grade against the objections of Sylvia Anderson, who wanted British actors.

The former British National Studios off Clarendon Road referred to locally as " The Douglas Fairbanks studios " ( which were later owned by Lew Grade's ATV ) are now the BBC Elstree Studios.

UFO is a 1970 British television science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth, created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson with Reg Hill, and produced by the Andersons and Lew Grade's Century 21 Productions for Grade's ITC Entertainment company.

In his end-of-year rankings, the British tennis expert Lance Tingay ranked Rosewall and Lew Hoad, his equally youthful doubles partner, jointly as the tenth best amateur players in the world.

In 1987 Sir Lew Grade brought back the Gainsborough name for a series of British made for television movies.

Then, in 1976, British media mogul Lew Grade approached Jim Henson to produce a weekly show based in England, which became The Muppet Show broadcast on ATV.

The Champions is a British espionage / science fiction / occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968 – 1969, produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company.

Lew Adams ( born 1940 ) is a British former trade unionist.

With the backing of European media tycoon Sir Lew Grade ( the head of the British broadcast network ATV ) and Italian film producer Carlo Ponti, the international all-star cast was expected to attract a widespread audience, with rights sold prior to filming, to both British and American distributors.

Anthropology in France has a less clear genealogy than the British and American traditions, in part because many French writers influential in anthropology have been trained or held faculty positions in sociology, philosophy, or other fields rather than in anthropology.

Carnegie's charm aided by his great wealth meant that he had many British friends, including Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

For instance member nations of the Commonwealth where English is not spoken natively, such as India, often closely follow British English forms, while many American English usages are followed in other countries which have been historically influenced by the United States, such as the Philippines.

Nonetheless Canadian English also features many British English items and is often described as a unique blend of the two larger varieties alongside several distinctive Canadianisms.

While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two die from the British / Indian troops.

Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.

The province consisted of the districts of Ajmer and Merwara, which were physically separated from the rest of British India by the many princely states of Rajputana.

To one who had been a man of war from his youth, who had won and lost many fights, the rout of a detachment and the forcible seizure of some debatable frontier lands was an untoward incident ; but it was not a sufficient reason for calling upon the British, although they had guaranteed his territory's integrity, to vindicate his rights by hostilities which would certainly bring upon him a Russian invasion from the north, and would compel his British allies to throw an army into Afghanistan from the southeast.

Elwes had been closely identified with English wartime morale, having given six benefit performances of The Dream of Gerontius on consecutive nights in 1916, and many concerts in France in 1917 for British soldiers.

The Coast Mountains and the Inside Passage's many inlets provide some of British Columbia's renowned and spectacular scenery, which forms the backdrop and context for a growing outdoor adventure and ecotourism industry.

Much of the province is wild or semi-wild, so that populations of many mammalian species that have become rare in much of the United States still flourish in British Columbia.

Bears ( grizzly, black, and the Kermode bear or spirit bear — found only in British Columbia ) live here, as do deer, elk, moose, caribou, big-horn sheep, mountain goats, marmots, beavers, muskrat, coyotes, wolves, mustelids ( such as wolverines, badgers and fishers ), Cougar, eagles, ospreys, herons, Canada geese, swans, loons, hawks, owls, ravens, Harlequin Ducks, and many other sorts of ducks.

After so many years in the ' stagnant backwaters ' of British politics, this seemed most appealing.

For many years he was the British postmaster for the colonies, which enabled him to set up the first national communications network.

Because of his widespread correspondence with others throughout the British Isles, and due to the fact that many of the letters imply that Bede had met his correspondents, it is likely that Bede travelled to some other places, although nothing further about timing or locations can be guessed.

Although each series is set in a different era, all follow the " misfortunes " of Edmund Blackadder ( played by Atkinson ), who in each is a member of a British family dynasty present at many significant periods and places in British history.

With many traditional domestic Liberal policies now regarded as irrelevant, he focused the party on opposition to both the rise of Fascism in Europe and the appeasement foreign policy of the British government, arguing that intervention was needed, in contrast to the Labour calls for pacifism.

Due to the need for so many sailors to work onshore, Brueys had not deployed any of his lighter warships as scouts, which left him unable to swiftly react to the sudden appearance of the British.

Writing many years later, Bonaparte commented that if the French Navy had adopted the same tactical principles as the British:

By contrast, the British press were jubilant ; many newspapers sought to portray the battle as a victory for Britain over anarchy, and the success was used to attack the supposedly pro-republican Whig politicians Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Together these four " foundation collections " included many of the most treasured books now in the British Library including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the sole surviving copy of Beowulf.

However, Boxing Day is still celebrated the day following Christmas Day for many British people.

As of October 2007, the U. S. dollar weakened against the euro, British pound, and many other currencies.