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- Phyllis Hannah Bickle was born in Chelsea in 1915 and studied dancing at the Margaret Morris school of dance, until an injury forced her to give up dancing and turn instead to acting. Her 70 year film career began with a bit part in The Arcadians (1927) when she was just 12 years old. Along with over 40 movies, she had a successful stage career, spanning 1925 ('Crossings' with Ellen Terry) to 1994 ('Bed') - appearing in such works as 'Blithe Spirit', 'The Heiress' and 'Peter Pan', as the title role of the boy who never grew up.
Phyllis' film breakthrough came in 1941 in the adaptation of the HG Wells story, The Remarkable Mr. Kipps (1941) in which she was cast as the servant girl, a part which had originally been turned down by Margaret Lockwood. In her next film, she was starring opposite international star Robert Donat, a far cry from the music hall comedians (George Formby, Arthur Askey) she had been acting with only a few years earlier. The Man in Grey (1943) truly catapulted her to stardom and from then on there was no looking back. Phyllis Calvert became one of the names most associated with the Gainsborough costume melodramas of the 1940s, usually as the sweet heroine, or the steadfast non-nonsense leader.
After a small trip to Hollywood in the late 1940s, Phyllis returned to England and earned her one BAFTA nomination for the role of the mother of a deaf girl in Crash of Silence (1952) but after that her film career slowed down, with family taking precedence. While shooting Indiscreet (1958), Phyllis was struck a cruel blow when her husband of 16 years, Peter Murray-Hill, passed away. Her stage career picked up markedly in the 1960s when she began taking more and more roles to better raise their two children solely. She gracefully slid into a niche of character roles, usually the kindly mother or aunt, and in 1970, had her own TV series, Kate (1970). In the 1980s she concentrated more on television, only appearing twice on stage. Her final play was in 1994, film in 1997, and TV appearance in 2000. - Diana Connell was born on 11 February 1931 in Blanefield, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Double Confession (1950) and Old Mother Riley, Headmistress (1950). She died on 1 May 1992 in Cheam, Surrey, England, UK.
- Grigori Tokaty was born on 13 October 1909 in Stavtordt, Ossetia, Russia. He died on 23 November 2003 in Cheam, Surrey, England, UK.
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Fisher Morgan sang as an operatic bass-baritone, joining the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1951. He performed the roles of Bouncer in "Cox and Box", the Judge in "Trial by Jury", Sergeant of Police in "The Pirates of Penzance", Private Willis in "Iolanthe" (also recorded), Hildebrand in "Princess Ida" (also recorded), Pooh-Bah in "The Mikado", Sir Despard in "Ruddigore", Wilfred Shadbolt or Sir Richard Cholmondeley in "The Yeomen of the Guard", and Don Alhambra del Bolero in "The Gondoliers". He left the company in 1956.- Music Department
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James Blades was born on 9 September 1901 in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England, UK. He was a composer, known for The Pen of My Aunt (1960), The Little Sweep (1962) and Shapes and Forms (1950). He died on 19 May 1999 in Cheam, Surrey, England, UK.- Music Department
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Don Lusher was born on 5 November 1923 in Peterborough, England, UK. He was an actor, known for You're Driving Me Crazy (1978), Tubby Hayes: A Man in a Hurry (2015) and The Beiderbecke Affair (1985). He was married to Eileen Orchard and Diana Lusher. He died on 5 July 2006 in Cheam, Surrey, England, UK.