British Actors and actors from the UK-who is your favorite?(s)

A great Actress she was. And WOW, I didn't know that Hume Cronyn had married someone from the UK? - I always thought she was an Ami :-D

Rachel Weisz is one I always liked from the first time I saw her-which was in: E.A.T.G.

Anyone here have a good (or any) pic of Bernadette O'Farrell?

How about these? Patrick Stewart and Colm Meaney? I know, I know-Meaney is Oirish ;-))

 

Other English actresses would be Deborah Kerr (one of my favourites), Olivia de Havilland, Vivian Leigh, Judi Dench, Lynn Redgrave, Elizabeth Taylor, Julie Andrews, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Emily Thompson, Maggie Smith, Greer Garson, Helen Miren, Hayley Mills, Joan Fontaine (younger sister of Olivia de Havilland

Irish - but no British list would be complete with out my other top favourite Maureen O'Hara.

Actors - I may be repeating: John Mills mentioned, Ronald Coleman, Cary Grant, Trevor Howard, Alec Guinness, Stewart Granger, Albert Finney

 

Double thumbs up for these Michelle-as well as that link in your other post.

Deborah Kerr was great-I loved seeing her opposite Robert Mitchum in: Heaven Known Mr. Allison.

I had not known that Elizabeth Taylor wasn'tAmi born ;-)) Im going to have to spend a day at IMDB looking up these things ;-))

Olivia de Havilland is my all-time most favorite. I fell in love with her the first time I saw her in anything-which was with Errol Flynn in: They Died With Their Boots On-or Seahawk-I forget which I saw her in first?

And no fan of John Wayne-could forget the still VERY beautiful Maureen O'Hara. Im glad that she's living her retirement in paradise these days--aka The Virgin Islands.

 

Kate Beckinsale. Her sister, Samantha, hasn't had the same starry career. They come from good acting stock. Their Dad, Richard, played Lennie Godber in Porridge - a 70s sitcom set in Her Majesty's Prison Slade. He died from a heart attack: he was only 32 - far too young. A great loss to the profession.

Steve W.

 

I've heard of Kate-but don't know if i've ever seen her in anything? Sad to hear the Father passed away at such a young age-really is a sad shame.

Another I forgot about but like is Ian McShane.I don't see him in anything these days-hope he hasn't passed away?

 

Here you go Carl:

Ian McShane Ian McShane - Bio Page and he is most definitely alive and doing well!

Kate Beckinsale was the love interest in Pearl Harbour; also starred in Serendipity with John Cusack, Underworld, Van Helsing Kate Beckinsale and there are quite a few photos of her on Wolfy's "girlie" thread

I always feel a connection to Olivia de Havilland, as my Uncle worked at de Havilland and was apparently friends with her brother - a test pilot - before he was killed in a testing accident.

 

Thank you for all of this Michelle-and that's great news Ian McShane is still doing well. He was one of those "faces" that I have seen in a lot of movies and Tv made in the late 60's and early 70's-then for some reason-seemed to dissappear off American Tv screens. There's another Irish actor who made the rounds h . ere at the sametime-but I cannot think of his name for the life of me. He appeared in a few Columbo episodes-one of which he was tryin to get a huge shipment of weapons sent to Ireland-but of course Columbo always caught his guy.

I heard that about de Havillands brother-darn shame too. I wonder if she still lives in France? I saw her on some news program some few to several years ago-and she as still as elegant as ever. Darn shame that she and Errol Flynn never married. Ive no salutes left to give for the day so will owe you ;-)) Reps soon as the site lets me give em.

Thank you again Michelle-and I wish you were made a Moderator here ;-)) hint tint.