The actor Peter Haddon was born 31st March 1898 in Rawtenstall, Lancashire as Peter Tildsley.

He was a Moustachioed English character actor of the 1930's, the son of a vicar. Initially a medical student at Cambridge University, he became a member of Footlights, acting on stage from 1920. In films, he usually appeared as top-hatted 'silly ass' types.

Some of his more notable films include Alf’'s Button 1930, Death at Broadcasting House 1934, The Silent Passenger 1935, The House of the Spaniard 1936, Over the Moon 1939, Moulin Rouge 1952 (pictured) and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray 1952.
For fans of Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne he appeared in 1949’s Helter Skelter in the role of Major Basil Beagle.

He was married to Rosaline Courtneidge and the Brother-in-law of actress, Cicely Courtneidge.

​He died 7th September 1962.

Patricia Raine was born on March 29, 1929 in London. As an actress she appeared in films from the late 1940’s including Vice Versa 1948, It Happened in Soho 1948, Fools Rush In 1949; her final film in the 1940’s was in the mad-cap film Helter Skelter 1949 where she played the role of Amber.

Other films that she went on to appear in include Madeleine 1950, Encore 1951 (pictured), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 1951, Love’s a Luxury 1952, The Beggar's Opera 1953 and a Day to Remember 1953.

She also appeared in a small number of TV movies and series throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s.

She was married to the actor Basil Henson.
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She died on July 19, 1993 in Kent, England.
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​William Walton, born 29th March 1902 in Oldham Lancashire, came from a musical family. He entered Christ Church, Oxford at the early age of sixteen but left without a degree in 1920. A fine musician, he was essentially self-taught as a composer.  In addition to his own genius for harmonies and texturing, he was influenced by the works of Stravinsky, Sibelius, and jazz. The use of the latter brought some early snubbing as a modernist among conservative music critics. But during some lean years of the 1920s, Walton helped support himself playing piano at jazz clubs.

His first ventures into film music were in association with the Hungarian director/producer Paul Czinner. Walton did four scores for him, including Walton's first Shakespearean effort, As You Like It (1936) which starred Laurence Olivier. With the outbreak of World War II, Walton entered military service but was given leave to compose music for propaganda films based. One of these film tasks put him back in acquaintance with Olivier on Shakespeare's Henry V (1944). Having scored five war period films so far, this would be the first of three scores for Olivier's filmed Shakespeare plays. The score was nominated for an Oscar, and it remains perhaps the best known of Walton's film music.

After the war Walton continued to be a public favourite; once again Olivier wanted a score, now for his Hamlet (1948). The film was a landmark for the time and garnered four Oscars with Walton again being nominated for the score. He continued work on an opera (Troilus and Cressida, 1954) and his general musical output, which comprised over 75 works. Walton did no more film work until Olivier requested him for the third and final time for a score for Shakespeare’s Richard III (1955). Although the film proved to be the most popular and perhaps influential of Olivier's trilogy, it received only one nomination as best picture.

He scored the music for Battle of Britain (1969), but it was replaced only two weeks before the film was released. Walton composed his last big screen score-again for Olivier-this time for Three Sisters (1970).

Walton was knighted in 1951 and received the Order of Merit in 1968.
For fans of Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne, he made one acting appearance – this was in 1942’s Next of Kin where he played the uncredited part of a Soldier at the Security Briefing.
He died 8th March 1983.