* April 25 – Celia Johnson, British actress ( b. 1908 )

Their characters — Fiona and Charles — were a pair of lovestruck, dated cinema idols engaging in stilted, extraordinarily polite dialogues, in scenes that were parodies of Sir Noël Coward's style, most particularly that of Dame Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter.

The film stars Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey.

Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard

* Celia Johnson as Laura Jesson

The film was a great success in the UK and such a hit in the US that Celia Johnson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

( The scene portrayed, with Posner playing Celia Johnson and Scripps as Cyril Raymond, is in the closing minutes of the film where Laura begins, " I really meant to do it.

The first play he saw was Cottage to Let and he once skipped school in order to see Laurence Olivier in Henry V. He frequently stood outside stage-doors to collect autographs, his first being the actress Celia Johnson.

The film also starred John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson and in his first screen role, Richard Attenborough.

* Celia Johnson as Alix Kinross

For many years he taught English and history at Millfield School and only became a full-time writer at the age of 33 when his play The Flowering Cherry was staged in London in 1958, with Celia Johnson and Ralph Richardson.

Ran on the West End starring Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson ( succeeded by Wendy Hiller ) to success but mixed reviews-many critics felt it too closely resembled Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman-and had a brief but unsuccessful run on Broadway starring Hiller and Eric Portman.

The most recent revival ran from December 3, 2011 to March 10, 2012 at the Old Vic Theatre, directed by Lindsay Posner and starring Jonathan Coy, Janie Dee, Robert Glenister, Jamie Glover, Celia Imrie, Karl Johnson, Aisling Loftus, Amy Nuttall and Paul Ready.

In 1967, one of his earliest successes was playing alongside Michael Hordern and Celia Johnson in the London production of Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking.

This was followed by The Way to the Stars ( 1945 ), which led to the role for which Howard is probably best remembered, the doctor in the 1945 film Brief Encounter, meeting and falling in love with a bored housewife played by Celia Johnson.

The decade ended with him reunited with Celia Johnson in Staying On ( 1980 ), an adaptation of Paul Scott's postscript to his Raj Quartet novels.

Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE ( 18 December 1908 – 25 April 1982 ) was an English actress.

Fleming is the author of Celia Johnson: A Biography ( 1991 )

In the ensuing years, John played many of his greatest stage roles on BBC Radio including Richard of Bordeaux, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Tempest, and Hamlet, one production of which featured Emlyn Williams as Claudius, Celia Johnson as Ophelia, and Martita Hunt as Gertrude ( the part she played in Gielgud's debut in the role at the Old Vic in 1930 ).

Celia Johnson replaced her.

Clarke-Smith as Iago and Celia Johnson as Desdemona.

* Celia Johnson as Nurse

* John Grimond, a foreign editor of The Economist who in 1973 married Kate Fleming ( b. 1946 ), elder daughter of the writer Peter Fleming and actress Celia Johnson, and has three children with her.

Following a tour of Billy Liar and repertory work in Dundee, she made her West End debut at the Haymarket, in N. C. Hunter's The Tulip Tree with Celia Johnson and John Clements.

His later author discoveries included Tanith Lee, Jennifer Roberson, Michael Shea, Ian Wallace, Tad Williams, Celia S. Friedman, and C. J. Cherryh, whose Downbelow Station ( 1982 ) was the first DAW book to win the Hugo Award for best novel.

During the winter of 1945 to 1946 Orwell made several hopeless and unwelcome marriage proposals to younger women, including Celia Kirwan ( who was later to become Arthur Koestler's sister-in-law ), Ann Popham who happened to live in the same block of flats and Sonia Brownell, one of Connolly's coterie at the Horizon office.

He was writing to many of his friends, including Jacintha Buddicom, who had " rediscovered " him, and in March 1949, was visited by Celia Kirwan.

The first book to recognize the scientific potential of lucid dreams was Celia Green's 1968 study Lucid Dreams.

Theodore Raimi was born in Detroit, Michigan, as a son of Celia Barbara ( née Abrams ), a lingerie store proprietor, and Leonard Ronald Raimi, a furniture store proprietor.

In 1987 went to the " Carnival Chicharrero " Cuban singer Celia Cruz with orchestra Billo's Caracas Boys, attended by 250, 000 people, was registered in the Guinness of Records as the largest gathering of people in an outdoor plaza to attend a concert, a record she holds today.

* In 2001, Wayne Butler was convicted for the murder of Celia Douty.

Betty Marsden played Dame Celia Molestrangler, and Hugh Paddick was ' ageing juvenile ' Binkie Huckaback ( named after theatrical impresario Binkie Beaumont ).

Marsden's vocal range was impressive and also included the husky Whitethigh, the strident stereotypical Aussie tones of the ultra feminist ( but conflicted ) Judy Coolibar, and the cut-glass received pronunciation of Dame Celia Molestrangler ( in a series of loose pastiches of the stilted dialogue in 1930s ' melodramas ).

Suggestions by Livy that the Romans banned the rites because women occupied leadership positions in the cult have been dismissed by Celia Schultz, thus: In light of view of female religious activity ... and despite the claims of Livy's narrative, it is unlikely that the gender of worshippers involved was the primary motivation behind the Senate's action.

In 1698 travel writer Celia Fiennes wrote of Carlisle as having most of the trappings of a military town and was rife with alcohol and prostitutes.

His father was Joaquín Balaguer Lespier, a Puerto Rican of Catalan ancestry, and his mother was Carmen Celia Ricardo, daughter of Manuel de Jesus Ricardo and Rosa Amelia Heureaux.

He was married three times: Celia Lovsky ( 1934 – 13 March 1945, divorced ); Kaaren Verne ( 25 May 1945 – 1950, divorced ) and Anne Marie Brenning ( 21 July 1953 – 23 March 1964, his death ).

Cole, hoping to get a lead on the new killer, goes to the home of Deverell's Russian translator Celia Roslov ( Susan Reno ), who was a victim of the killer.

Celia Cruz, who had a successful career in Cuba, was able to transition well to salsa in the United States.

His first wife was Celia Ann " Jo " Roberts, by whom he had three children ; they divorced in 1963.

Dramatist and poet Celia de Fréine was born in the town 1948 before moving to Dublin and later Galway.

Brown was born in Van Nuys, California, the daughter of Celia Jane ( née McCann ) and Leonard Francis Brown.