HUMPHREY LESTOCQ

Supporting player who was most prominent in the 1950's and 60's. He was probably best known for playing the stooge to the puppet Mr Turnip on the TV show Whirligig.

He was born in 1919 and died in 1984.

1949: Fake's Progress, Stop Press Girl,
1950: Once A Sinner
1951: Two on the Tiles
1952: Angels One Five, Come Back Peter,
1953: The Good Beginning, Meet Mr Lucifer
1954: Conflict of Wings
1958: Son of Robin Hood
1959: Life in Danger
1960: Not a Hope in Hell, The Long Shadow, The Unstoppable Man,
1961: Two Wives at One Wedding, The Third Alibi, Pit of Darkness, Court Martial of Major Keller, Bomb in the High Street
1962: The Golden Rabbit, Design For Living, Waltz of the Toreadors

ELLIOTT MASON

Scottish born character actress who was mostly active in the thirties and forties. Long on stage experience but with appearances in some prominent films of the day too. Born in 1897, she died in 1949.

1936: Born That Way, Gaolbreak, The Ghost Goes West
1937: Break The News
1938: The Citadel, The Ware Case
1939: Blind Folly, 21 Days
1940: Charley's Aunt, Return to Yesterday,
1941: The Ghost of St Michaels, Turned Out Nice Again
1942: The Big Blockade
1943: The Gentle Sex
1944: On Approval
1945: The Agitator, Perfect Strangers
1946: The Captive Heart

PATRICK McALINNEY

Jobbing character actor of Irish extraction, most prominent in the fifties and lots of TV work in the sixties in shows like The Sentimental Agent, The Saint, King of the River and even Some Mothers Do Ave Em. Often played priests or doctors.

1953: Time Gentlemen Please, The Oracle,
1954: Happy Ever After
1958: She Didn't Say No, Alive and Kicking, A Night To Remember
1959: Shake Hands With The Devil
1961: Tarnished Heroes
1962: The Pot Carriers, The Gentle Terror, Return of a Stranger,
1968: God Is Where You Find It
1971: Revenge, Danger Point
1972: The Boy Who Turned Yellow
1973: Diamonds on Wheels

ROSAMUND JOHN

Well liked beautiful leading lady who had many lead roles during the 1940's but when roles dried up in the fifties she retired quick smart. Following her film debut in 1934 she concentrated on stage work and didn't make another movie for 8 years.

Born in London in 1913 she died in 1998. Her real name was Nora Rosamund Jones.

1934: Secret of the Loch
1942: First of the Few
1943: The Gentle Sex, The Lamp Still Burns
1944: Tawny Pipit
1945: Soldier Sailor, The Way to the Stars
1946: Green For Danger
1947: The Upturned Glass, Fame is the Spur, When the Bough Breaks
1949: No Place For Jennifer
1950: She Shall Have Murder
1952: Never Look Back, Sports Page Number 6 - Football, Here's To The Memory
1953: Street Corner
1956: Operation Murder

MAX MILLER

Max Miller was a hugely popular (down south anyway) music hall comedian known as The Cheeky Chappie because of his, for the time, very risque material. This former circus performer made quite a few movies during the 1930's but was never a major player.

Born in 1895 he died in 1963.

1933: Friday the Thirteenth, The Good Companions
1934: Princess Charming
1935: Things Are Looking Up, Get Off My Foot
1936: Educated Evans
1937: Don't Get Me Wrong,
1938: Thank Evans, Everything Happens to Me
1939: The Good Old Days, Hoots Mon
1943: Asking For Trouble

WINFRED OUGHTON

Character actress whose forte was comedy in the 30's and drama in the forties.

Born in 1890 she died in 1964.

1930: Such is the Law
1931: The Woman Between
1932: There Goes the Bride
1933: Call Me Mame, Enemy of the Police, Mayfair Girl, The Thirteenth Candle, The Bermondsey Kid
1934: A Glimpse of Paradise, Spring in the Air, What's In A Name
1935: school For Stars, Jubilee Window
1936: The Three Maxims,
1937: The Windmill
1939: Dead Men Are Dangerous
1940: Night Train to Munich
1943: The Yellow Canary
1945: They Knew Mr Knight
1948: Bond Street

LINDEN TRAVERS

This under used beautiful brunette should have been a bigger star than the one or two leading roles she garnered allowed her to be. Started out as an ingenue under Carol Reed and also during the forties was the female foil in several comedies starring the likes of Tommy Trinder and George Formby. Also made a great villainess on occasion.

Born Florence Lindon Travers in 1913 she died 23 October 2001, her younger brother Bill Travers became a popular leading man of the fifties.

1935: Children of the Fog
1936: Wednesday's Luck
1937: Double Alibi, Against The Tide, Brief Ecstacy, The Last Adventurers
1938: Bank Holiday, Almost A Honeymoon, The Terror, The Lady Vanishes
1939: Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday, The Stars Look Down
1941: The Ghost Train, The Seventh Survivor
1941: South American George,
1942: The Missing Million
1946: Beware of Pity
1947: The Master of Bankdam, Jassy,
1948: Quartet, No Orchids For Miss Blandish
1949: The Bad Lord Byron, Don't Ever Leave Me, Christopher Columbus
1950: Trio
1955: The Schemer

GODFREY WINN

Best known as a radio actor, presenter and was also a journalist (he had a popular column for the Daily Mirror during the late 1930's).

Was rumoured to have had a fling with Somerset Maugham who wrote him into his book Strictly Personal, Winn himself also wrote several novels. His film roles were of the supporting actor kind.

1927: Blighty
1956: Eyewitness
1961: Very Important Person
1963: Billy Liar
1964: The Bargee
1966: The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
1971: Up The Chastity Belt

CAROL MARSH

Very pretty Leading lady contracted to Rank who looked, for a brief spell in the late 1940's, like she would become a major name but faded somewhat throughout the 1950's.
Most prominent roles were her first two Brighton Rock for the Boultings alongside Richard Attenborough and the lead in Alice in Wonderland.

Her real name was Norma Simpson

1947: Brighton Rock
1948: Alice in Wonderland
1949: Marry Me, Helter Skelter, The Romantic Age
1951: Scrooge
1952: Salute The Toff, Private Information
1954: A Line in the Snow
1955: Mysterious Bullet
1958: Dracula
1959: Man Accused

MARGARET HALSTAN

Dignified character actress whose main focus was on the stage where she was pretty popular and played the lead in most of the major plays and only occasionally appeared on film.

1916: A Bunch of Violets
1917: Profit and the Loss
1920: The Worldlings
1922: Tell Your Children, Brown Sugar
1930: The Middle Watch
1931: The Beggar Student
1934: Little Friend
1935: Drake of England
1940: Old Mother Riley in Society
1941: Quiet Wedding, The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1952: The Holly and the Ivy
1953: Blood Orange
1954: The Blakes Slept Here
1955: Touch and Go

ANGELA GLYNNE

This character player was mainly active on stage but appeared in a few movies in the 1940's and 50's.

1937: Bank Holiday
1941: Penn of Pensylvania
1942: Hard Steel, Those Kids From Town, Gert and Daisy Clean Up, Rose of Tralee
1944: Demobbed, Tom's Ride, Give Me The Stars
1947: Fortune Lane
1948: The Last Load
1950: The Happiest Days of Your Life
1951: One Good Turn
1954: The House Across The Lake, 36 Hours

STRINGER DAVIS

Mild mannered character player who is probably best known for being married to Margaret Rutherford. In fact most of his film roles were in Rutherford movies.

Born 1896 / Died 1973

1948: Miranda
1950: The Happiest Days of Your Life
1952: Castle in the Air
1953: Innocents in Paris, Curtain Up, Trouble in Store,
1954: The Runaway Bus
1956: The March Hare, Reach For The Sky
1957: Just My Luck, The Smallest Show on Earth
1959: I'm Alright Jack
1962: Murder She Said
1963: Murder at the Gallop, The VIPs, Mouse on the Moon
1964: Murder Ahoy
1965: Murder Most Foul
1966: The Alphabet Murders

DEREK BLOMFIELD

This character actor started out playing in juvenile roles during the 1930's. Mostly on stage but appeared in several well known movies.

Born in 1920 he died in 1964.

ROLES
1935: Emil and the Detectives, Turn of the Tide
1936: Shipmates O'Mine
1940: John Smith Wakes Up
1941: The Ghost of St Michaels
1942: Alibi
1950: Night and the City
1953: The Flying Dutchman
1954: Hobson's Choice
1956: It's Great to Be Young, It's A Wonderful World
1957: Carry on Admiral
1960: Escort For Hire
1964: East of Sudan