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Margaret Withers

28/6/2019

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Margaret Withers was born 6th July 1893 in West Bromwich, West Midlands as Doris Margaret Withers.

For fans of Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne, the actress appeared alongside them in 1949’s It’s Not Cricket where she played the part of Mrs Falcon (pictured). 

The first film that she appeared in was Car of Dreams in 1935.  She generally appeared in minor roles in films during the 1940’s and 1950’s such as; Don't Take It to Heart (1944), Great Day (1945), The Upturned Glass (1947), Dual Alibi (1947), Blanche Fury (1948), Esther Waters (1948), That Dangerous Age (1949), Encore (1951), Home at Seven (1952), It Started in Paradise (1952), Conflict of Wings (1954), Beau Brummell (1954), The Flying Scot (1957) and Ferry to Hong Kong (1959).
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She died 26th October 1977 in London.
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G.H. Mulcaster

24/6/2019

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G.H. Mulcaster was born on 27th June 1889 in Stanwix, Cumbria as George Blake Bell. The actor was married initially to Diana Napier from whom he divorced in 1932 and subsequently married Lily Lola De Laredo.

He was generally type-cast in stiff-upper-lip or pompous roles.  A few of the films that he appeared in include; Man in the Valley (1923), Mist in the Valley (1923), Purse Strings (1933), The River House Mystery (1935), The Lion Hasngs (1939), Sailors Don’t Care (1940), This Man is Dangerous (1941), Let the People Sing (1942), My Learned Friend (1943), Under New Management (1946), English Criminal Justice (146) – pictured, Spring in Park Lane (1948), The Naked Heart (1950) and Lady of Vengeance (1957).

For fans of Charters and Caldicott he appeared alongside them in 1940’s Night Train to Munich in an uncredited role.

He died 19th January 1964 in London.

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Albert Lieven

13/6/2019

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The German born actor Albert Lieven was born on 23rd June 1906 in Hohenstein, as Albert Fritz Liévin-Liévin.

He started his acting career on stage in 1928, who fled the Nazis during the war years, only to portray Nazi menaces in British films.  Owing to the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and his wife Tatjana being Jewish, he moved to Britain in 1937.  In Britain during WW2 he continued his acting career but he was often portrayed mainly in roles depicting Nazis in British films.  During this period he also featured in BBC Foreign Service radio broadcasts. From 1939 to 1952, he was affiliated with the Rank Organisation as a character actor.  He returned to German film and TV in 1952.
 
He appeared in many cinema productions, and in the year 1940, he was credited in seven, in all of which he played the role of a German.  A typical example is the role he played in the 1940 production of Night Train to Munich where he played the role of a Concentration Camp Guard (pictured).

Some of the other British films that he appeared in include; Victoria the Great (1937), Spy for a Day (1940), Let George do It (1940), Mr Proudfoot Shows a Light (1941), The Big Blockade (1942), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), English Without Tears (1944), The Seventh Veil (1945), Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948), Marry Me! (1949), The Dark Light (1951), Loser Takes All (1956), Subway in the Sky (1959), Conspiracy of Hearts (1960), Foxhole in Cairo (1960), The Guns of Naverone (1961), Mystery Submarine (1963), The Victors (1963) and Death Drums Along the River (1963).
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He died on 22nd December 1971 in London.
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    Yorkshire born Peter Storey is the author of Charters and Caldicott: As War begins

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