Actors Collection (page 4)

Gracie Fields (1898-1979) in Shipyard Sally'. Date: 1939

Actor Conrad Veidt
German actor Conrad Veidt, shortly to appear as Diasar the Magician in the film The Thief of Baghdad'. Date: circa 1939

Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
Sketch depicting a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. Date: 1939

Loretta Young and Jimmie Stewart
Holloywood stars Loretta Young (1913-2000) and James Jimmie Stewart (1908-1997) at Cafe Victor Hugo. Date: 1939

Dorothy Lamour
Hollywood actress and singer Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996), perhaps best known for her roles in the Road to... movies. Date: circa 1939

Ann Sheridan (1915-1967) was an American actress and singer, born Clara Sheridan. Here she is being celebrated for her first starring role in Winter Carnival

Actress Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo (1905-1990) sporting her long bob hairstyle. Date: circa 1939

The cast of Weep For Spring
Actors Stephen Haggard (1911-1943), Athene Seyler (1889-1990), Peggy Ashcroft (1907-1991)and Nicholas Hannen (1881-1972) in a publicity photograph for the play Weep For Spring

Cary Grant and Lucile Fairbanks
Hollywood stars Cary Grant (1904-1986) and Lucile Fairbanks (1917-1999) at the Clover Club. Date: 1939

Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) the American actress, wearing what was viewed at the time as relatively masculine clothing. Date: 1939

John Gielgud
British actor John Gielgud (1904-2000), before his knighthood. Here he is departing to play Hamlet the Dane, in Denmark. Date: 1939

British actress Anna Neagle (1904-1986), later made a Dame, and born Florence Wilcox. This publicity photograph is from her first Hollywood outing

Ginger Rogers
American actress, singer and dancer Ginger Rogers (1911-1995). At this period of her career she was developing her reputation as a nonmusical actor. Date: circa 1939

Fred Astaire golfing
Fred Astaire (1899-1987) the American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer. His film The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle has recently been released

Maria Luisa Castaneda, or Movita
American actress Maria Luisa Castaneda (1916-2015), also known as Movita. She appeared in films such as Flying Down to Rio and Mutiny on the Bounty At the time, she is Mrs Jack Doyle

British actors at a microphone
British actors Greer Garson (1904-1996), Leslie Howard (1893-1943), Vivien Leigh (1913-1967), Brian Aherne (1902-1986), Ronald Coleman (1891-1958) and Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) in Hollywood

Annie Vernay and Jean Paqui in Les Otages
Actors Annie Vernay (1921-1941) and Jean Paqui (1921-2006) in a still from the French film Les Otages ('The Hostages')

Actress Valli Valli
Born Valli Knust in Berlin, Valli Valli (1882-1927) spent most of her life in England. She was a musical comedy actress who later made a transition into silent films. Date: circa 1910

Cecile Sorel, French actress
Cecile Sorel (1873-1966) was a French comic actress, noted for her extravagant costumes, and here being feted as the best dressed woman in Europe. Date: circa 1910

Marie -Louise Derval, actress
Marie-Louise Derval was a French actress, who went on to have a career in silent film. Here she is depicted in a Russian costume she wore when being presented to the Czar. Date: circa 1910

Fred Terry and his daughter Phillida Terson
Fred Terry (1863-1933) was an English actor and theatrical manager. Here he is seen with his daughter Phyllis Neilson-Terry (1892-1977) who was then performing under the name of Phillida Terson

Sir Herbert Tree and Miss Evelyn Millard
Sir Herbert Tree (1852-1917) as Mark Antony and Miss Evelyn Millard (1869-1941) as Portia, in publicity for a production of Julius Caesar at His Majesty's Theatre in London. Date: 1910

Gabrielle Rejane, French actress
Publicity photograph for Madame Gabrielle Rejane (1856-1920), a French actress, visiting London to perform in the play Lolotte at the Hippodrome. Date: circa 1910

Gaby Deslys, variety star
Gaby Deslys (1881-1920), a French singer, actress and variety star. These photographs are being used to publicize her appearance in Les Caprices de Suzette at the Alhambra Theatre in London

Charles Laughton, Tetsu Komai, actors, theatrical portraits. Captioned, This is Charles Laughton, in "If I had a Million", and this is Tetsu Komai, the Japanese actor

Two actors reading a wartime ??The Bystander?? between sho
Two actors in First World War costumes, reading a wartime issue of The Bystander between shows, theatrical portrait. Captioned, A Quiet Decko'

Alec Guinness (1914 - 2000) portraying G. K. Chesterton's sleuth Father Brown in the 1954 film of the same name. In the United States the film was marketed under the title "The

Noel Coward's Cavalcade was a thirty-year retrospect of England in peace and war. It ran at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane between October 1931 and September 1932 and had a cast

Charles Wyndham and Mary Moore
Charles Wyndham, actor and theatre manager, and Mary Moore, actress Date: circa 1900

Herbert Beerbohm Tree, actor, as Antony
Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor and theatre manager, as Antony in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Date: 1907

Herbert Beerbohm Tree, as Shakespeare's Richard II
Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor and theatre manager, in the title role of Shakespeare's Richard II. Date: 1907

Herbert Beerbohm Tree, actor, as Malvolio
Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor and theatre manager, as Malvolio in Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night. Date: 1907

Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor manager
Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor and theatre manager. Date: 1907

A White Man - play at The Lyric Theatre, London, featuring (from left) Mr A G Poulton as Sir John Applegate, Mr Charles Allan as Malcolm Petrie, Miss Nora Lancaster as Countess of Kerhill

Toshusai Sharaku image. He was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, known for his portraits of kabuki actors. Neither his true name nor the dates of his birth or death are known

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Members of British Equity campaigning with banner
Members of British Equity campaigning with a banner outside the Spanish Embassy in London, 4 August 1978. They include (left to right) John Barron (union President), Robert Morley, Paul Eddington

Celebrities at Mandela birthday concert
Stars who took part in the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday tribute concert in Wembley stadium, London. They include American actress Daryl Hannah. Date: 11th June 1988

Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd, British comedy actors
Owen John "Terry" Scott (1927-1994), English actor and comedian. Seen here (left) with Hugh Lloyd (1923-2008), probably when they were both appearing in the TV comedy series, Hugh and I

Vanessa and Corin Redgrave, actors and political activists
Vanessa Redgrave (b 1937), with her brother Corin Redgrave (1939-2010) in the middle. Date: circa 1980s

Laurence Olivier and Dorothy Tutin
Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) and Dorothy Tutin (1930-2001), British actors, during rehearsals for John Osborne's play The Entertainer. Date: 10 April 1957

Scene from O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars
Three actors in the pub scene from Sean O'Casey's play, The Plough and the Stars (first performed 1926). From left to right, Carmel McSharry (b circa 1930) as Mrs Gogan

Ken Livingstone with Adrian Edmonson and Rik Mayall
Ken Livingstone (Kenneth Robert Livingstone, b 1945), British Labour politician (centre). Seen here Adrian Edmondson (Adrian Charles "Ade" Edmondson)

Ken Livingstone with The Flying Pickets
Ken Livingstone (Kenneth Robert Livingstone, b 1945), British Labour politician. Seen here in front of the GLC premises at County Hall, London, with the Flying Pickets

Some of the principals at Covent Garden
This stylised illustration by Nerman shows the actors who appeared in the production of Mozart's Die Entfhrung aus dem Serail ('The Abduction from the Seraglio)

ORPHEUS POSTCARD 2 OF 5
The story of Orpheus and Eurydice performed by actors for a set of postcards : 2 - she dies : he is sad Date: 1914

A royal programme signed by performers and management at the London Hippodromes Warriors Day charity performance attended by the Prince of Wales

William Terriss and W L Abingdon in The Fatal Card
William Terriss as Gerald Austen and W L Abingdon as James Dixon, in The Fatal Card Date: 1890s

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