Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Paul Freeman is a British film and television actor.
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Branagh trained at the Royal Ac...
Christopher Francis Villiers (born 7 September 1960) is an English actor, screenwriter and producer.
INFO FROM IMDB - For over six decades, Julian Holloway has enjoyed a long and varied career. He made his theatrical d...
Tom Chadbon was born on February 27, 1946 and is currently 78 years old.
Anne Reid, MBE is an English stage, film and television actress, known for her roles as Valerie Barlow in the soap op...
Born Donald Francis Henderson in Leystonstone, 1931, Don Henderson was an English actor of stage, television and scre...
Daphne Anne Angela Pleasence, better known as Angela Pleasence, is an English actress. Trained in theatre, Pleasence'...
Robert Peck was an English stage, television and film actor who was best known for his roles as Ronald Craven in the ...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dobtcheff was born in Nîmes, [[France] to a British mother (Vernon) and a fath...
Raymond Andrew Winstone (born February 19, 1957) is an English television, stage, film, and voice-over actor with a c...
Lynn Farleigh was born on January 1, 1942 and is currently 82 years old.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nicholas John Tate (born June 18, 1942) is an Australian actor best known for ...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Steven Berkoff (born 3 August 1937) is an English actor, writer and direct...
Michael Sheard (18 June 1938 – 31 August 2005) was a Scottish actor who featured in a large number of films and telev...
An English film, television and stage actor. He has had a distinguished career in theatre and television for around h...
Danny Webb is a British stage, film and television actor.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Christopher Benjamin is a British actor, born 27 December 1934 in Trowbridge,...
Christopher Ryan (né Papazoglou; born 25 January 1950) is a British actor best known for his roles as Mike TheCoolPer...
Donald Sumpter (born 13 February 1943) is an English actor. He has appeared in film and television since the mid-1960...
INFO FROM IMDB - For over six decades, Julian Holloway has enjoyed a long and varied career. He made his theatrical d...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Elisabeth Claira Heath Sladen (1 February 1946 - 19 April 2011) was an Englis...
Rupert James Hector Everett (born 29 May 1959) is an English actor, director and producer. Everett first came to publ...
Aubrey Morris was born on June 1, 1926 and passed away 9 years ago at the age of 89 on July 15, 2015.
Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades...
Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford U...
Brian Denis Cox, CBE (born 1 June 1946) is a Scottish actor. He is known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Com...
Charles Dance (born October 10, 1946) is an English actor, screenwriter and director. He typically plays assertive bu...
Dame Julia Mary Walters DBE (born 22 February 1950), known professionally as Julie Walters, is an English actress, au...
Frances Barber was born on May 13, 1958 and is currently 66 years old.
Timothy James Curry (born 19 April 1946) is an English actor and singer. He is known for working in a diverse range o...
Lesley Manville was born on March 12, 1956 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. She is a multi award-winning actress of...
Michael Carter (born 29 June 1947) is a Scottish actor of film, stage and television, known for portraying Gerald Bri...
Dame Helen Lydia Mirren DBE (née Mironoff; born 26 July 1945) is an English actor. The recipient of numerous accolade...
Graham Ashley was born on April 26, 1927 and passed away 45 years ago at the age of 52 on October 30, 1979.
James Greene was a Northern Irish actor of film, TV and stage
Ronald Lacey (28 September 1935 – 15 May 1991) was an English actor. He made numerous television and film appearances...
Annette Crosbie was born on February 12, 1934 and is currently 90 years old.
Kenneth Colley (born 7 December 1937) is an English actor. A long-time character actor, he came to wider prominence t...
Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (12 September 1931 – 19 June 2020) was an English actor. After beginning his career on the ...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Julian R. Sands (January 4, 1958 - January 13, 2023) was an English actor,...
Stephen Moore was born on December 11, 1937 and passed away 5 years ago at the age of 81 on October 4, 2019.
Jeremy Sinden was an English actor who specialised in playing eccentric military men and overgrown schoolboys.
William Morgan Sheppard (August 24, 1932 - January 6, 2019), sometimes credited as W. Morgan Sheppard, was a British ...
Penelope Wilton (b. 1946) is a common name in British Theatre for which she has been nominated for the Laurence Olive...
Rita Davies was born on February 24, 1933 and passed away 8 years ago at the age of 82 on January 19, 2016.
Frances Tomelty (born 6 Oct 1948 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish actress and the first wife of Stin...
He was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and educated at Saint Patrick's College, Ballymena Technica...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Denis Stamper Lawson (born 27 September 1947) is a Scottish actor and directo...
Jim Broadbent (born 24 May 1949) is an English actor. He won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his suppor...
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh actor, film director, and film producer. He is the...
Prolific British background actor.
Brian Pettifer was born on January 1, 1953 and is currently 71 years old.
Born in 1944, Bernard Hill is a British actor of film, stage and television. He is best known to British television v...
Simon Chandler was born on January 1, 1953 and is currently 71 years old.
Ian Gelder was born on June 3, 1949 and is currently 75 years old.
Michael Feast was born on November 25, 1946 and is currently 77 years old.
Welsh character actor of stage and screen. Since 1995, Elwyn has been the partner of the actress Alison Steadman.
David Bradley is an English character actor. He has recently become known for playing the caretaker of Hogwarts, Argu...
Philip Davis (born 30 July 1953) is an English actor, writer, director and narrator.
Roger Lloyd-Pack was an English stage screen and television actor . He attended Bedales School in Hampshire and went ...
Susan Tracy was born in 1945 in Marylebone, London, England as Susan Dawson-Goodey. She is an actress, known for "The...
Peter Eyre was born on March 11, 1942 and is currently 82 years old.
Rosalind Ayres was born on December 7, 1946 and is currently 77 years old.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Philip "Phil" Daniels (born 25 October 1958, Islington) is an English actor, ...
Martin Jarvis OBE is one of Britain's most versatile leading actors. His distinguished career continues to encompass ...
Miriam Margoyles is a British-Australian actress, writer, political activist and television personality, most promine...
Bill Paterson (born 3 June 1945) is a Scottish stage, film and television actor.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mavis Chin OBE (born January 1, 1931), known professionally as Mona Hammond is...
Elizabeth Jean Spriggs -Manson (née Williams) was an English character actress. Her roles with the Royal Shakespeare...
Barbara Flynn (born Barbara Joy McMurray, 5 August 1948) is an English actress.
Richard Wilson OBE (born Ian Carmichael Wilson; 9 July 1936) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster. H...
Hull born Garry Cooper is an actor who came to fame playing Peter, the flash boyfriend of Leslie Ash and rival to Phi...
Proud and passionate Angle, Pat Roach, was born and raised in Birmingham, England and grew to be a mountain of a man ...
Paola Dionisotti was born on January 1, 1946 and is currently 78 years old.
George William Harris (born 20 October 1949) is a British actor of film, stage, television, radio and musical theatre...
Joanna David was born on January 17, 1947 and is currently 77 years old.
David Suchet, OBE, CBE, (born 2 May 1946) is an English actor, known for his work on British television. He is recogn...
Ishaq Bux was an Indian actor. He is best remembered by his roles of Omar in Raiders of The Lost Ark and the fakir in...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Phyllis Logan (born 11 January 1956) is a Scottish actress, known for playing ...
George Roubicek was born on May 25, 1935 and is currently 89 years old.
William Francis Nighy (born 12 December 1949) is an English actor. Known for his work on screen and stage, he has rec...
Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE (16 May 1953) is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist who holds Irish and A...
Anthony Higgins (born 9 May 1947) is an English stage, film and television actor.
Gary Raymond was born on April 20, 1935 and is currently 89 years old.
Simon Dutton (born 1 January 1958) is an English actor, best known for playing the title role of Simon Templar (alias...
Jacob Witkin was born on May 12, 1938 and passed away 7 years ago at the age of 78 on December 31, 2016.