Adam Godley is a British-American film, television and theatre actor. He has been nominated for numerous SAG, Tony and Olivier Awards. He began his professional acting career in the UK at the age of 9. He is best known for his roles in Breaking Bad, Suits, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and most recently as Archie in The Great. Also, The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway and in The West End. He lives in the USA with his partner the writer Jon Hartmere.

Bill Pertwee was born on 21 July 1926 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Dad's Army (1968), Dad's Army (1971) and Chance in a Million (1984). He was married to Marion Pertwee. He died on 27 May 2013 in Truro, Cornwall, England, UK.

For the last fifty years, Jill Frappier has acted in more than 100 plays on stages across Canada including those at the Shaw and Straford Festivals and at the Royal Alex, the Phoenix Theatre and Berkeley Street Theatre.in Toronto. Some of the many TV shows she has appeared in are: Murdoch Mysteries, Frankie Drake, Titans, Killjoys, Night Heat, Street Legal, Beyond Reality, Cradle to Grave,The Strain, Friday's Curse, Man Seeking Woman, Northern Rescue, Hudson and Rex, Mary Kills People, Schitt's Creek, Kim's Convenience and Nurses. TV mini series: Spearfield's Daughter (She was Christopher Plummer's wife) Chasing Rainbows and Samuel et la Mer. Movies: Elisa Quatre, Strauss Master of ¾ Time, Strange Brew, Une Nuit en Amérique, Indian Horse, and Polar. Jill has played many varied cartoon characters. She voiced Keroppi in Keroppi, Fifi in Hello Kitty, Mrs Prysellius in Pippi Longstocking, Little Mo in Animal Shelf, Auntie Yorkshire in Pecola, Missie in Braceface, Sherry Lewis in Totally Spiez, Miss Lark in Birds, Jane's mom in Jane and the Dragon, Doucette in Anatole, Mary Anne Disraeli in the video game Assasin's Creed: Syndicate and most famously Luna, the black cat, in Sailor Moon

Jill had her own drama school for young people for 20 years (Dragontrails Drama) and has written 8 plays for children. In her spare time (!) Jill loves to play with clay. She sells her creations at various locations. More information can be found at jillsobjets.

Charlie Palmer is a producer and director. He most recently series produced two series of Sid Gentle's BAFTA nominated comedy Extraordinary for Disney. Before that he was series producer on Company Picture's murder-mystery comedy Agatha Raisin for Acorn TV. Previously, he directed over 50 hours of prime time television, including Poldark, Lark Rise To Candleford and Doctor Who, for which he received a Hugo nomination. Other directorial work includes Death In Paradise, Poirot, Marple, Lewis and Doc Martin

Alex Smith was born on 22 November 1967 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He is a writer and director, known for Walking Out (2017), The Slaughter Rule (2002) and Winter in the Blood (2013). He has been married to Dana Wheeler-Nicholson since 22 March 2011.

A prolific lyricist and librettist, Tim Rice was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Aldwickbury School in Hertfordshire, St Albans School and finally Lancing College. He briefly attended Sorbonne Université. He was considering a legal career around the time that he met Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1965. Three years later, the two young men composed a 20-minute pop oratorio that would eventually become "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat". The piece was premiered on 1st March 1968 at the Colet Court School in the City of London. During the following months, Rice and Webber lengthened the oratorio to 30 minutes, and a record album of "Joseph" (with Rice singing the role of "Pharaoh") was made at the end of 1968.

Remaining in partnership with Webber, his next project was "Jesus Christ Superstar". Introduced to the public as a concept album in 1970, the opera propelled Rice and Webber to international stardom. Staged versions appeared the following year, and their popularity led to the film Jesus Christ Superstar (1973).

Following "Superstar", Rice and Webber returned to their previous project and expanded it into (more or less) its finalised form. The concept album for "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" was released in 1974.

Inexplicably eclipsed by his collaborator, Rice may never have received the acclaim that he deserved for his contributions to the partnership. The death-throws of the Rice-Webber collaboration produced a third opera, called "Evita". Its concept album was released in 1976.

Rice continued on with a piece called "Blondel", which appeared in 1983. Set to music by Stephen Oliver, "Blondel" was arguably the most comic and witty of Rice's major works. The opera "Chess" followed, with its concept album arriving in 1984. Former ABBA songwriters Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson provided the music for "Chess", and the concept album was an international hit. "Chess" was staged in London in 1986 with great success, but the 1988 Broadway production was radically revised without Rice's knowledge or permission, and it was quickly shut down.

In 1987 Rice was asked by Freddie Mercury and Mike Moran to write lyrics for Freddie's album with Montserrat Caballé "Barcelona", released in 1988, one entitled "The Fallen Priest" and the other "The Golden Boy".

In 1991, he was hired to finish the lyrics for the Walt Disney film Aladdin (1992). Disney subsequently teamed him with Elton John for The Lion King (1994). Rice also composed additional lyrics for the stage version of Disney's film Beauty and the Beast (1991), which opened on Broadway in 1994. A stage version of The Lion King (1994) opened on Broadway in 1997, as he was working with Elton John on two new projects - "Aida", which opened on Broadway in 2000, and the Dreamworks film The Road to El Dorado (2000).

The 1991 to 2000 period also saw a flurry of activity for Tim Rice's earlier works. Major revival productions of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" were staged in many parts of the world. Additionally, there was the film Evita (1996), as well as the video-films Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (1991), and Jesus Christ Superstar (2000).

Apart from theatre and film, Rice has written recurring columns for UK newspapers, as well as having shown up regularly on BBC Radio and Television. In 1973, he founded a cricket side - The Heartaches - for which he serves as a manager as well as a player. He also makes regular contributions to various cricket magazines. He continues to have projects in development for the theatre and for film. Most anxiously awaited - especially by audiences in Canada and the United States - is, perhaps, a revival of the authentic 1986 London version of "Chess".

Susie Brann was born on 5 August 1959 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Alice (2000), Alice: Madness Returns (2011) and You Rang, M'Lord? (1988). She has been married to Maxwell Simon Wiltshire since 1997. They have two children.

Robin Ince was born on 20 February 1969 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He is a writer and actor, known for Razzle Dazzle (2007), The Morning After Show (2005) and Big Impression (1999).

Simon Langton was born on 5 November 1941 in Amersham, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for The Whistle Blower (1986), Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Mother Love (1989).

Julian White was born in July 1966 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He is known for The Martian (2015), Crazy Rich Asians (2018) and Cinderella (2015).

Janine Modder was born on 14 June 1963 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She is a production manager and producer, known for Infinite (2021), Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) and Casino Royale (2006).

Simon Lamont was born on 25 February 1967 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He is an art director and production designer, known for Casino Royale (2006), The Dark Knight (2008) and Batman Begins (2005).

Venetia Maxwell was born in 1941 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Doomwatch (1970), Brideshead Revisited (1981) and The Duchess of Duke Street (1976). She was previously married to Richard Kay.

Jonathan Miller, is one of the entertainment industry's most acclaimed and prolific sound editors. His unique talents have been know to set the auditory mood that define a film. Best known for his work on Independence Day and Trainspotting as well as his longtime collaboration with the late Michael Jackson.

Jonathan learned early that sound can tell a story and convey emotion. This has been the driving force behind his impressive body of work in all genres of filmmaking. His intricate design stirs the senses and can be both heard and felt, and this work has been acknowledged in a number of sound design achievements.

Originally hailing from England and educated at Haileybury, Jonathan comes from a long line of leading industry professionals, His father, writer Peter Miller and his grandfather Harry Miller, legendary Hitchcock sound editor, who inspired his love of sound design.

Jeremy Burnage was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. Jeremy is a producer and production manager, known for Last Night in Soho (2021), The Brothers Grimsby (2016) and What's Love Got to Do with It? (2022). Jeremy has been married to Harriet Burnage since 3 June 2006.

George Curzon was born on 18 October 1898 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Sexton Blake and the Bearded Doctor (1935), Lorna Doone (1934) and Clouds Over Europe (1939). He was married to Jane Fergus and Louise Merrill Stone. He died on 10 May 1976 in London, England, UK.

Tessa Churchard was born in 1965 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for EastEnders (1985), The Coroner (2015) and Casualty (1986). She has been married to Alexander Merrifield since August 1998.

Joanna Dickens was born on 16 May 1938 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Willow (1988), Never Say Never Again (1983) and Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982). She died on 12 March 2011 in Camden, London, England, UK.

Paula Milne, one of Britain's leading screenwriters, left school when she was fifteen years old with no academic qualifications. She studied Fine Art at the Central School of Art and Design as well as film-making at the Royal College of Art. Her career in television began as a script reader at ATV, followed by two years at the BBC as script editor in the series department where she created the ground breaking hit show Angels.

Movies

In the 90s Paula was part of a cultural delegation which visited Central America, in particular Nicaragua and Honduras. Later she spent some time in the Brazilian rain forests researching a feature film Terra Roxa. Paula also spent time in Minnesota, researching a feature film Blue Earth about Aids and has extensively traveled in the United States researching her other feature films.

Paula's first feature film in Hollywood was made - Mad Love, a road movie starring Drew Barrymore and Chris O'Donnell. It was followed by the critically successful Hollow Reed which led Variety to comment, "One cannot be unmoved by sensitive portrayal the terrible pain at the story's center, especially when it's caused by good intentions." The film scooped the Prix de Publique at the Dinard Film Festival. Loosely based on a true story it portrays a gay custody case. When a young boy is being physically abused by his step father, his gay father fights for custody and comes up against institutionalized homophobia in the justice system.

Paula also wrote I Dreamed of Africa, which was shot in Africa and stars Kim Basinger, directed by Hugh Hudson about a husband and wife attempting to build a new life for themselves in the Rift Valley. Once again, Paula spent extensive time researching the film in Kenya with Kuki Gallman on whose life the movie is based.

She also wrote a script for Tom Cruise, a Cruise/Wagner/Paramount production, entitled BoltFlash, based on a doctor who suffered a devastating stroke and later became an acclaimed artist. Other Hollywood projects include her adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel for Fox 2000.

She also wrote a feature film in Hollywood, based on her highly acclaimed mini series Second Sight, to star Clive Owen.

Her award winning movie screenplay Endgame is a dramatized account of the secret highly charged negotiations in the UK between the ANC in exile and leading Afrikaaners which contributed to the fall of Apartheid in South Africa. Paula spent time in South Africa meeting key players in the negotiations, including the then President Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma (the current President) and others. This film, directed by Pete Travis, was shown in the Premier division at Sundance in January 2009 to unanimous critical acclaim. The Hollywood Reporter said of it... "This is a hypnotically gripping account of secret talks held in the secluded English countryside that laid much of the groundwork for negotiations that brought racial warfare to an end. Writer Paula Milne meticulously selects the vital personalities and scenes to movingly recount this episode." It was produced by David Aukin/Hal Vogel for Daybreak/Mentorn Productions. It stars William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jonny Lee Miller, Mark Strong, Derek Jacobi and Timothy West. It aired on PBS in the U.S. in the autumn of 2009 and received cinema distribution in the U.S. that year also. Chewetel Ejiofor was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as Thabo Mbeki. Endgame was nominated for an RTS Award, a prime time EMMY and won the Grierson Award for Best Factual Drama as well as the George Foster Peabody Award.

Paula also has a vampire movie script in development - a contemporary Gothic reworking of Jane Eyre called The Red Room.

Paula recently won the UK Film Council and Women in Film and Television award for her "outstanding contribution to screenwriting".

Television

Among her numerous original dramas is the critically lauded Die Kinder a six part political thriller for the BBC about the Baader Meinhofs which starred Frederic Forrest and Miranda Richardson and her 9 hour feminist serial Driving Ambition and Swalk her six part serial for C4. Her numerous television plays include A Sudden Wrench, John David, Queen of Hearts and CQ for Channel Four. Her films for the BBC include Frankie and Johnnie directed by Martin Campbell which was followed by her highly popular detective series Chandler & Co which the Daily Telegraph declared was, "...a splendidly irresistible drama series."

Her work with Channel Four Television in the UK has been phenomenally successful. The Politician's Wife, her three-part drama series starring Juliet Stevenson and Trevor Eve, won her an enviable clutch of awards including an Emmy award, the BAFTA award for Best Drama Serial, the Annual Writers' Guild Award for Best Original Serial, the Original Creativity Award from Women in Film and Television, the Best Independent Production award and the prestigious George Peabody Award in the United States. She then went on to write the highly acclaimed The Fragile Heart, a powerful serial tackling medical ethics starring Nigel Hawthorne. It too received many nominations and scooped prestigious BAFTA and BANFF awards.

In 2000/1 Paula created and wrote Second Sight, starring Clive Owen as a detective progressively going blind, who uses his disturbing hallucinations to help solve a homicide case. The mini series aired on Sunday nights on BBC 1 and a six hour series was produced based on Paula's concept and was transmitted on BBC 1. It was voted Best Mini series by the Los Angeles Times in 2002 and led PBS winter schedules in America to huge critical acclaim and helped launch Clive Owen's Hollywood career. It has recently been commissioned by CBS to be made as a pilot directed by Michael Questa (Homeland).

Paula has also written a four hour political thriller mystery for ITV called Thursday 12th. This serial was transmitted in the United States to excellent notices. Her two part thriller State of Mind was transmitted on ITV in January 2003.

She has written a screenplay based Anne Robinson's autobiography Memoirs of An Unfit Mother for Tiger Aspect/BBC with Paul Greengrass (Bourne Supremacy) producing.

Her 4 x hr epic serial The Virgin Queen based on Elizabeth 1st for BBC 1 was made on location and at Shepperton Studios. It stars Ann Marie Duff and was transmitted on PBS in November 2005 and on BBC 1 in January 2006 - once again to critical acclaim. It received an Emmy nomination for outstanding Mini Series of 2006 and was nominated for a BAFTA.

Paula's TV film Whatever it Takes, a contemporary morality tale about our celebrity obsessed culture and phone hacking that was transmitted on ITV in the summer of 2009.

Her critically acclaimed adaptation of the epic Orange winning novel Small Island about the first wave of "Windrush" immigrants was the centerpiece of the BBC 1 Autumn schedule in 2009. It starred Naomi Harris, David Oyelowo, Ashley Walters and Ruth Wilson. It aired on PBS in the U.S. in April 2010 and won the Broadcast Award, an RTS nomination and an International EMMY for Best Mini-series.

In 2010 Paula's adaptation of Sarah Waters The Night Watch was transmitted on BBC 2 to universal acclaim.

In 2012 her original six part serial for BBC TWO entitled White Heat which traces a group of people through the political maelstrom of the sixties until the present day was transmitted in 2012 and The Politician's Huband (Emily Watson, David Tennant) was transmitted in the spring of 2013 to further critical acclaim.

Her most recent credit was one off the film Legacy in November of 2013 on BBC2 - her screenplay attracted another stellar British cast, including Simon Russell Beale, Andrew Scott and Romala Garai, with Pete Travis directing, based on the book by Alan Judd about Cold War espionage.

She is also the creator and writer for a 6 part drama serial The Same Sky, about spies and a family divided by the Berlin Wall, set in 1973 which starts filming in August 2015, Oliver Hirshbeigal directing.

The BBC have also commissioned Paula to write an original 3 part Gothic drama based on the famous love story of Elizabeth Barratt and Robert Browning called Love Among the Ruins.

The BBC are also currently negotiating the rights on Pat Barkers award winning first world war trilogy Regeneration for Paula to dramatize.

Her three part horror drama Him, a teenage male version of Carrie, has been green lit by ITV and goes into pre-production in November 2015.

She is currently (as of November 2015) writing the pilot for another original series Palace of Dreams a family saga based around a London musical theatre in the 19th century and the Shakespearean power struggle between estranged identical twins.

Trained at LAMDA

Theatre Actor in UK regional theatre, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury Actor in West End, The Dame of Sark with Celia Johnson and Tony Britton (1974) Assistant Director to Alan Ayckbourn, Eric Thompson, Freddie Carpenter, David Kelsey, Frank Hauser, Philip Grout and Michael Blakemore Resident Director at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester; the Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead, and the Old Vic Theatre, London Director of more than 60 productions in London and throughout the UK Artistic Director and CEO of The Jolly Good Production Company producing plays and TV programmes Director of international tours of Jesus Christ Superstar and The Rocky Horror Show as well as national tours of plays by Noel Coward, Daphne du Maurier and Dylan Thomas.

TV Writer An Evening with Alan Jay Lerner (1982) TVS Writer An Evening with Liz Robertson (1982) TVS Researcher No 72 (1982) TVS Writer and Creative Consultant Challenge Anneka (1987) BBC TV Director and writer An Evening with Alan Jay Lerner (1989) PBS USA from Lincoln Center, New York Director and writer A Gala Concert for Hal Prince (1992) Bayerischer Rundfunk and Eurovision, Munich Director and writer Who Could Ask For Anything More? - the centenary celebration of Ira Gershwin at the Royal Albert Hall, London (1996) Thames HD/BBC TV Director and co-adapter with Tim Rice Chess in Concert (2008) PBS USA from Royal Albert Hall, London Director and writer The Songs of Tim Rice (2017) PBS Maryland - nominated for 3 local Emmy Awards - Best Artistic Program, Best Lighting and Best Direction. It won the Emmy for Best Lighting.

Andrew J. Smith was born on 22 November 1967 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for Walking Out (2017), The Slaughter Rule (2002) and Winter in the Blood (2013).

Russell Lodge was born in 1957 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He is a production manager and assistant director, known for Fury (2014), Allied (2016) and Outland (1981).

Ty Jeffries was born in 1959 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for This Is Your Life (1955) and When Comedy Goes Horribly Wrong (2018).

Arthur Graley was born in Amersham, England, UK. Arthur is known for Baby Driver (2017), Ghost of Tsushima (2020) and Last Night in Soho (2021).

Kenneth F. Rowles was born in 1945 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He is an editor and producer, known for Tribute to Her Majesty (1987), Go Girl (1972) and Take an Easy Ride (1976).