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20th-century English male actors

  • David BowieDavid Robert Jones was born on the 8th of January 1947 in Brixton, London. His mother worked as a waitress at a cinema while his father managed promotions…
  • Jude LawDavid Jude Heyworth Law arrived in the London borough of Lewisham on the 29th of December 1972. His parents were both teachers who had married five years…
  • John LennonJohn Winston Lennon was born on the 9th of October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital. His father Alfred worked as a merchant seaman and was away during…
  • Charlie ChaplinLondon, 1897. A seven-year-old boy named Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. sat at the Central London District School for paupers, his head cocked slightly to one…
  • Ian McKellenIan Murray McKellen was born on the 25th of May 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire. His family moved to Wigan when he was four months old, just before the Second…
  • Michael CaineMaurice Joseph Micklewhite was born on the 14th of March 1933 at St Olave's Hospital in the Rotherhithe district of London.
  • Tom HardyEdward Thomas Hardy was born in Hammersmith, London, on the 15th of September 1977. He grew up as the only child of Anne Barrett and Edward Chips Hardy.
  • John GielgudOn the 14th of April 1904, Sir Arthur John Gielgud was born in a house on Cromwell Road in South Kensington. He entered the world as the third child of Frank…
  • Peter O'ToolePeter James O'Toole was born on the 2nd of August 1932 at St James's University Hospital in Leeds, Yorkshire. His father Patrick Joseph O'Toole worked as an…
  • Sacha Baron CohenSacha Noam Baron Cohen entered the world on the 13th of October 1971 within the Hammersmith area of London. He was born into an English Ashkenazi Jewish…
  • Laurence OlivierLaurence Kerr Olivier was born on the 22nd of May 1907 in Dorking, Surrey. He entered the world as the youngest child of Reverend Gerard Kerr Olivier and…
  • Daniel Day-LewisOn a gray afternoon in 1971, fourteen-year-old Daniel Day-Lewis walked past the church parked cars in Greenwich. He held a can of spray paint and felt a…
  • Anthony DanielsAnthony Daniels was born on the 21st of February 1946 in Salisbury, Wiltshire. His father worked as an executive for a plastics company.
  • Ringo StarrRichard Starkey arrived at 9 Madryn Street in Dingle, Liverpool on the 7th of July 1940. His early years were defined by poverty and severe health crises…
  • Alan RickmanAlan Sidney Patrick Rickman was born on the 21st of February 1946 in Brentford, London. He grew up in Acton, a district to the west of Wormwood Scrubs Prison.
  • Alec GuinnessAlec Guinness de Cuffe entered the world at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South in Maida Vale, London, on the 2nd of April 1914.
  • Michael FlandersMichael Henry Flanders was born on the 1st of March 1922 in Hampstead, London. He grew up as the third child and only son to Percy Henry Flanders and his…
  • Ben KingsleyOn the 31st of December 1943, a boy named Krishna Pandit Bhanji entered the world in Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Idris ElbaIdrissa Akuna Elba was born on the 6th of September 1972 in the London Borough of Hackney. He grew up as the only child to Winston Elba, a Sierra Leonean man…
  • Patrick StewartPatrick Stewart was born on the 13th of July 1940 in Mirfield, West Riding of Yorkshire. His childhood home was a poor household where he experienced…
  • Andy SerkisAndrew Clement Serkis arrived in the world on the 20th of April 1964 within the quiet suburb of Ruislip Manor. His childhood unfolded across two distinct…
  • Simon CallowOn the 15th of June 1949, a boy named Simon Phillip Hugh Callow entered the world in Streatham, South London. His father was Neil Francis Callow, a…