British Cinema Greats - The films, movies, cinema, theatre, reviews and actors, actresses of British Cinema

I’m not saying they’re not great actors, they’re just not comparable FOR ME with some of the actors I have listed. Remember cinema is art and art is subjective. I have focused on the actors I really enjoy watching.
I should also say here that there are some 'good' british actors who I strongly dislike and they will never appear.

I felt it was important to create a resource that would provide information on some of our less famous actors. In some of these cases I have pulled together research from the internet and obviously conducted my own secondary research.

They are excellent actors but I took a deliberate decision to limit the actors to people mainly born before 1950, the two exceptions were Ralph Fiennes and Kenneth Branagh who were simply too important to leave out. Also Kenneth was born in Northern Ireland!

So they have made some excellent films and many of the actors included here are not simply in for the amount of US or British Academy Awards. Many of these actors are heroes in their own right and fought in one / other or both of the world wars. Their generation were certainly more honourable than much of the current trash we see today. Some actors also made significant contributions to theatre such as Anthony Quayle.

Well they didn’t just do those movies…but lets assume they did. Those movies ran for 20 years with massive success and became iconic in terms of British culture. I would loved to have included more of these ‘Carry On’ actors but time constraints would just not allow it. In their own right Sid and Kenneth made massive contributions to both British cinema revenue and cultural development in their own right.

That’s right but they became British citizen. South Africa was still a colony then and, as something that was once said of the Rhodesians, can equaled be applied to South Africans at that time - ‘They’re more British than the British’

Ok so I couldn’t do them all. Unfortunately I have a demanding and busy life and so the site will be developed to include a wider range of classic British films. So my list currently reflects the important ones to me, even if they don’t (and some don’t) match the technical and subjective criteria that could be applied to the films above.

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I deliberately took a decision not to steal from other sites. If you find a graphic taken from your site (firstly I’ll be VERY surprised) then I’ll take it off and you will have my abject apologies.

I conducted fairly extensive research. I have many of the biographies and autobiographies. I decide not to include awards and a comprehensive list of the films that these actors were in. IMDB is good at this and I wanted to add something new to the internet rather than re-create a wheel.

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British actors by my definition are those born inside Great Britain and Northern Ireland (The United Kingdom). I have made a few exceptions (notably Peter O'Toole) because I like him and he's too important to leave out.

I felt it necessary to disclude some actors because (although born here) moved to somewhere else and really took no interest in British film or theatre from that point. For example Cary Grant.

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