Known primarily in Britain for his many "matinée idol" roles during the 1950s, Anthony Steel was born in London on 21st May 1920 and was the son of an Indian army officer. He was educated at Cambridge and served in the army for England during World War II. It wasn't until after the war that he pursued acting, starring in such adventure-charged films as Malta Story (1953) for the J. Arthur Rank studio. His career was at its pinnacle and he was lauded as one of Britain's biggest movie stars when he married Anita Ekberg in 1956 and set out with her to break into Hollywood pictures, albeit with little success and finding Hollywood unsatisfactory and even hostile.

One of his first film appearances was in an uncredited role in 1949’s Helter Skelter.

Some of the other films that he appeared in include: Marry Me 1949, Don’t Ever Leave Me 1949, The Blue Lamp 1950, The Wooden Horse 1950, 1951's Laughter in Paradise (pictured), Malta Story 1953, Storm Over the Nile 1955, A Question of Adultery 1958, A Matter of Choice 1963, The Long Day of Inspector Blomfield 1968 and The Mirror Crack’d 1980.
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​The English bit-part actor Jim O'Brady was born on 13th May in 1907 as George Clifford Watkin. He was an actor, known for Midshipman Barney (1951) and Treasure Island (1950).

With over 150 credits to his name from the late 1940’s through to mid-1970’s he will be recognised to many film fans although many of his roles were uncredited.

A prime example is his appearance in 1949’s Ealing Studios classic Passport to Pimlico where he played the uncredited part of ‘the man in the pub’ (pictured).

Just a few of the films that he appeared in include Holiday Camp 1947, Brighton Rock 1948, The Lavender Hill Mob 1951, Doctor at Sea 1955, Blue Murder at St Trinian’s 1957, I’m Alright Jack 1959, The Pure Hell of St Trinian’s 1960, The Day the Earth Caught Fire 1961, A Hard day’s Night 1964, The Intelligence Men 1965, Where Eagles dare 1968, Best House in London 1969 and Carry On at Your Convenience 1971.

He died on 1st January 1991.
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The British character actor Wilfred Hyde-White was born 12th May 1903.  Of wry charm, he was equally at home in amused or strait-laced characters. With scores of films to his credit, he will always be remembered for one, My Fair Lady (1964), in which he played Colonel Pickering. Active into his ninth decade, Hyde-White died six days before his 88th birthday on 6th May 1991.

For fans of basil Radford and Naunton Wayne there are three films of particular note that he appeared in.  In 1948 he played the role of second club-man in the “Colonel’s Lady” segment in Quartet and in 1949 he played the part of Dr. B. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde (1st picture) in Helter Skelter – both films featured Radford and Wayne.  However in 1949 he played the part of Crabbin in Carol Reed’s classic The Third Man.  This particular role was the amalgamation of two roles specifically created for Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne – they were to play the parts of Captain Carter and Captain Tombs of the Cultural Re-education Section of G.H.Q.

Other notable films that Hyde-White appeared in include Murder by Rope 1936, Meet Mr Penny 1938, Night Boat to Dublin 1946, Meet Me at Dawn 1947, The Winslow Boy 1948, The Browning Version 1951, Outcast of the Islands 1951, Mr Potts Goes to Moscow 1952, Cash on Delivery 1954, Carry on Nurse 1959, Two Way Stretch 1960, Crooks Anonymous 1962, Ten Little Indians 1965, The Sandwich Man 1966, The Great Houdini 1976 and Sex Lies and Renaissance 1983.
His TV roles include appearances in 1960’s Ben Casey, Peyton Place 1967, Battlestar Galactica 1978, The Associates 1979, 1981’s Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Fantasy Island 1982 and 1983’s Filthy Rich.
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The actress Carol Marsh was born in London on May 10, 1926 as Norma Lilian Simpson. She was probably best known for her appearance as Rose in Brighton Rock (1948) – she beat over 2,000 applicants to land the starring role.

One of her other early film appearances was as the hiccupping lead character Susan Graham (pictured) in 1949’s Helter Skelter.
 
Her film appearances include Naughty Arlette 1949, as Scrooge’s sister Fan in 1951’s A Christmas Carol, Brighthaven Express 1952, The Runaway Slave 1954 and Horror of Dracula 1958.
 
Her TV career extended through to the mid 1970’s with appearances in Nom-de-Plume 1956, as Carol Miller in 1957’s The Royalty, as Augusta Fawn in 1959’s The Eustace Diamonds, Lord Raingo and as Mrs Clare in 1974’s Marked Personal.
She died on March 6, 2010 in Bloomsbury, London.

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'Let's go fly a kite, up to the highest height.'  The line is one of the famous lines made by the actor David Tomlinson in the film Mary Poppins.  He was an English stage, film and television actor and comedian born 7th May 1917.

Having been described as both a leading man and a character actor, he is primarily remembered for his roles as authority figure George Banks in Mary Poppins, fraudulent magician Professor Emelius Browne in Bedknobs and Broomsticks and as hapless antagonist Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug. In 2002, two years after his death on 24th June 2000, he was posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend.  
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He appeared in dozens of other films in addition to the above ones; some of which include: "Pimpernel" Smith (1941), I See a Dark Stranger (1946), School for Secrets (1946), Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948),  Here Come the Huggetts (1948), Vote for Huggett (1949), The Wooden Horse (1950), Three Men in a Boat (1956), Follow That Horse! (1960) and his final film role in 1980 as Sir Richard Avery in The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu.
 
For fans of Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne he starred in the 1949 film Helter Skelter where he played the part of Nick Martin (pictured).

The English actor Valentine Dyall was born 7th May 1908.  He was a character actor in many British film productions but his distinctive voice made him especially popular as a voice actor and he was known for many years as "The Man in Black", the narrator of the BBC Radio horror series Appointment with Fear.

It was as a BBC narrator (pictured) that he appeared in the mad-cap comedy film Helter Skelter in 1949.

One of his more memorable roles was in 1946, as the character Stephen Lynn in the romantic film drama Brief Encounter; Lynn is protagonist Alec Harvey's friend whose unexpected arrival spoils Alec's opportunity of consummating his romance.
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Some of the other notable films that he appeared in include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), The Silver Fleet (1943), Yellow canary (19430 – he played the role of a German U-Boat Commander while his father played the Captain of the ship that the U-Boat was pursuing.  Other films he appeared in include; I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945), Night Boat to Dublin (1946), My Brother’s keeper (1948), The Case of Charles Peace (1949),  Man in Black (1949),  Doctor Morelle (1949), Ivanhoe (1952),  Night Train for Inverness (1960) and Casino Royale (1967) where he voiced the character of Vesper Lynd's Assistant, the evil Dr. Noah.
His film acting career continued in to the 1970’s with appearances in Lust for a Vampire (1971), The Slipper and the Rose (1976), Come Play with Me (1977) and Arabian Adventure 1979.
He also had a productive TV career with appearances in Secret Army as Dr Pascal Keldermans, Blackadder (1983) and various roles in BBC’s Doctor Who.

He died 24th June 1985.