The actress Olwen Brookes was born on November 26, 1901 in London as Olwen Edna Jones. She appeared in over 50 film and TV productions; her long acting career spanned from the 1940’s through to the 1970’s shortly before her death in 1976.  In the 1940’s and 1950’s she appeared in dozens of films whilst the second part of her career was mainly in television productions.

Initially appearing in uncredited roles in her early career including the role of The Receptionist (pictured) in Stop Press Girl which was released in 1949.  Other notable films that she appeared in include the role of Mrs Parry in The Happiest Days of Your Life (2nd photo) 1950, Something Money Can’t Buy 1952, the part of Miss Francis in An Inspector Calls and that of Lady Ontzlake in The Black Knight – both 1954, The Gentle Touch 1956, Women Without Men 1956, Jack The Ripper 1959, Left Right and Centre 1959, Twice Round the Daffodils 1962, Young and Willing 1962, Devils of Darkness 1965 and as Edith Lyttleton in The First Night of Pygmalion in 1969.
 
Her many TV appearances include roles in Dancers in Mourning 1959, several episodes of Dixon of Dock Green, as Bilson in The Forsyte Saga and as Miss Cranber in 1968’s Sexton Blake.

She died on September 17, 1976.

Peter Hammond was an English actor and TV director born 15th November 1923 making his film debut in Waterloo Road in 1945.  He subsequently went on to appear in several more films throughout the late 1940’s and early 1950’s.  One of his more memorable roles was as Peter Hawtrey (pictured) in The Huggetts trilogy films as well as the prequel Holiday Camp in 1947 – but as Harry Huggett.

Other notable films that he appeared in include Helter Skelter 1949 – he played the part of Spencer Stone, Morning Departure 1950, The Reluctant Widow 1950, Come Back Peter 1950 – this was a reprisal of his role in Fly Away Peter in 1948, Alf’s baby 1953, Flannelfoot 1953, Soho Incident 1956 and Model For Murder 1959. 

He appeared in a small number of TV productions including William Tell as Hofmanstahl, Joe Miller in Something in the City and Lester in The World of Tim Frazer.   His TV directing outputs include Count of Monte Cristo 1964, Contract to Kill 1965, The Three Musketeers 1966, Follyfoot 1972, Our Mutual Friend 1976, Wuthering Heights 1978, Round and Round 1984 and The Case Book/Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 1994.

He died 12th October 2011.

The glamorous actress Greta Gynt was born 15th November 1916 in Oslo Norway as Margrethe Woxholt; she moved to Britain at a young age for a few years when her father’s work took the family there.  At the age of 12 she started as a dancer at the Chat Noir shows in Oslo and subsequently moved back to Britain in 1935 and almost immediately made regular appearances in films as a femme fatale, British style, bringing sex and glamour into unsexy unglamorous films.

She famously put her arms around General Montgomery at the 8th Army Alamein reunion at the Royal Albert Hall, and gave him a big kiss; the photograph went round the world.  Her picture was also widely seen when she turned up to meet the Queen, at the Royal Film Performance, wearing a silver lamé strapless gown, with silver hair, silver osprey feathers and a silver fox coat.

Her first British appearance was in an uncredited role in 1935’s It Happened in Paris – she then went on to playing leading roles including her appearance in the 1941 film Crook’s Tour – this was the third film outing for the Charters and Caldicott characters played by Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne; Greta played the part of a British double agent (pictured) with the character names of La Palermo or Miss Deering.

 Other films that she had significant roles in include Boys Will Be Girls 1937, The Last Curtain 1937, The Dark Eyes of London 1939, The Arsenal Stadium Mystery 1939, Two for Danger 1940, The Common Touch 1941, Tomorrow We Live 1943, London Town 1946, Shadow of the Eagle 1950, The Ringer 1952, Three Steps in the Dark 1953, Forbidden Cargo 1954, See How They Run 1955, Morning Call 1957 and Fortune is a Woman 1957.  Her final film appearance was in 1963 in Runaway.

She died age 83 in London in 2000.

The German born actor Victor Beaumont was born 7th November 1912 in Berlin as Peter Wolff.  After emigrating to Britain during the 1930’s he started a long acting career usually typecast as German military officers.  His first film was in the WW2 ‘propoaganda’ film Next of Kin where portrayed the part of the German Army Colonel (pictured)
 
Other similar type-casting roles swiftly followed including as Von Crantz in First of the Few 1942, as Hans in Thunder Rock 1943, as a German Doctor in Reach for the Sky 1956, as Gottmann in I Was Monty’s Double 1956.  Other appearances were made in Carve Her Name With Pride 1958, Sink the Bismarck! 1960, The Guns of Navarone 1961, The Password is Courage 1962, A Shot in the Dark 1964, The Heroes of Telemark 1965 and Where Eagles Dare 1968. 
 
He died 21st March 1977.