Curated category
BAFTA fellows
- Hideo KojimaHideo Kojima was born in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo on the 24th of August 1963. His father Kingo worked as a pharmacist and traveled frequently for business.
- Alfred HitchcockOn the 13th of August 1899, a boy named Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in the flat above his parents' greengrocer shop at 517 High Road in Leytonstone.
- Martin ScorseseMartin Scorsese was born on the 17th of November 1942 in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. He grew up in the Little Italy section of Manhattan where his…
- Woody AllenAllan Stewart Konigsberg was born on the 30th of November 1935 at Mount Eden Hospital in Bronx, New York City. He grew up in Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood…
- Steven SpielbergSteven Allan Spielberg was born on the 18th of December 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother Leah Adler ran a kosher dairy restaurant and played concert…
- 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…
- Stanley KubrickStanley Kubrick was born on the 26th of July 1928 in New York City's Manhattan borough. He grew up in the Bronx with his parents, Jack and Sadie Kubrick, who…
- Michael CaineMaurice Joseph Micklewhite was born on the 14th of March 1933 at St Olave's Hospital in the Rotherhithe district of London.
- Elizabeth TaylorElizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born on the 27th of February 1932 at Heathwood, her family's home at 8 Wildwood Road in Hampstead Garden Suburb.
- 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…
- Julie ChristieJulie Frances Christie entered the world on the 14th of April 1940 at Singlijan, a tea estate in Chabua, Assam. Her father Frank St John Christie managed the…
- Ingmar BergmanErnst Ingmar Bergman was born on the 14th of July 1918 in Uppsala, Sweden. He grew up as the son of a Lutheran minister named Erik Bergman and his wife Karin.
- 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…
- Kathleen Kennedy (producer)Kathleen Kennedy was born on the 5th of June 1953 in Berkeley, California. Her father Donald R. Kennedy served as a judge and attorney while her mother Dione…
- Judi DenchJudi Dench was born in the Heworth area of York on the 9th of December 1934. Her father, Reginald Arthur Dench, practiced medicine there while her mother…
- Lew GradeLev Isaakovich Winogradsky was born in Tokmak, a town within the Berdyansky Uyezd of the Russian Empire. His family fled pogroms in 1912 when he was five…
- Alec GuinnessAlec Guinness de Cuffe entered the world at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South in Maida Vale, London, on the 2nd of April 1914.
- David LeanDavid Lean was born on the 25th of March 1908 at 38 Blenheim Crescent in South Croydon, Surrey. His parents were Quakers who sent him to the Leighton Park…
- Ridley ScottRidley Scott was born on the 30th of November 1937 in South Shields. His father Francis Percy Scott served as a Colonel in the Royal Engineers during the…
- Shigeru MiyamotoShigeru Miyamoto was born on the 16th of November 1952 in Sonobe, a small town within Kyoto Prefecture. His family held modest means while his father taught…
- Peter MolyneuxPeter Molyneux began his career in 1982 by distributing and selling floppy disks which contained video games for Atari and the Commodore 64.
- Yoko ShimomuraYoko Shimomura was born on the 19th of October 1967 in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. She began playing piano lessons at the age of four or five years old.
- David AttenboroughDavid Frederick Attenborough was born on the 8th of May 1926 in Isleworth, Middlesex. He grew up in College House on the campus of University College…
- Tim SchaferTim Schafer was born on the 26th of July 1967 in Sonoma, California. He grew up as the youngest of five children with a father who worked as a doctor and a…
- John BoormanJohn Boorman was born on the 18th of January 1933 in Shepperton, Middlesex. His father George Boorman served as a captain in the British Indian Army during…
- Saul ZaentzSaul Zaentz was born on the 28th of February 1921 in Passaic, New Jersey. He grew up as the youngest of five children to Polish Jewish immigrants who had…