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- Sian Brooke is a British actress, known for portraying Laura in All About George, Lori in Cape Wrath, and Eurus Holmes in Sherlock. Sian Elizabeth Phillips was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England and is the youngest of three siblings. She took on a stage name to avoid confusion with fellow actress Siân Phillips, choosing Brooke after an English Civil War general who served at Lichfield. She is the daughter of a police officer and a teacher.Her parents are Welsh. Brooke's early education was at The Friary School in Lichfield. She initially joined the Lichfield Youth Theatre at the age of 11 before becoming a member of the National Youth Theatre and subsequently training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from where she graduated in 2002.
Her acting debut was as Krista in television series Dinotopia in 2002. Brooke's television credits include A Touch of Frost, Hotel Babylon, Foyle's War and The Fixer. As a child, she was featured in Strangers in Utah with Adrian Dunbar and Phyllida Law. She also played the lead roles of Laura in All About George and Lori Marcuse in Cape Wrath. Brooke has lent her voice to the radio dramas Murder on the Homefront, A Pin to See the Peepshow and Dreaming in Africa.
Brooke's theatre work includes Harvest, Dying City, Dido Queen of Carthage, In The Club, The Birthday Party and Absolutely Perhaps. She has also appeared in productions of Poor Beck, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet, with the Royal Shakespeare Company. From July to August 2008, Brooke played Dorothy Gale in the musical The Wizard of Oz at the Southbank Centre. The production was directed by Jude Kelly. During 2011 at the Almeida Theatre, London, she appeared in Stephen Poliakoff's My City and Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Pretty. From August to October 2015, Brooke played Ophelia alongside Benedict Cumberbatch in the Barbican's production of Hamlet.
In 2017, Brooke starred in the fourth season of television crime drama Sherlock as Sherlock Holmes' secret sister Eurus. She initially auditioned for multiple characters in the show before the show runners told Brooke that all the characters were one, Eurus, who would be a master of disguise. Michael Hogan writing for The Daily Telegraph in his review of the third episode of the season commented that the role was "a star-making turn from Sian Brooke". Later in the year, she appeared with Sheridan Smith and Gemma Whelan in the BBC miniseries The Moorside based on the Kidnapping of Shannon Matthews. - Belinda Davison was born in 1964 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Casualty (1986), The Knock (1994) and Out of Order (1987). She has been married to Ralph Arliss since 1993. They have three children.
- Sound Department
- Editorial Department
Richard Hymns has journeyed from film studio tea-boy to Academy Award-winning Supervising Sound Editor. He got his start as a 16-year-old at Elstree Studios in London running tea service to film editing crew members on their breaks, becoming an apprentice editor soon after.
He rose through the ranks and found his niche in motion picture sound editing, primarily at Skywalker Sound in Northern California. As Supervising Sound Editor of such films as Saving Private Ryan, Fight Club, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Backdraft, A River Runs Through It, Jumanji, War Horse, Lincoln and All is Lost among others, Hymns established and continues a formidable career predicated on building authenticity and subtlety of sound in service of a director's storytelling vision. From the roar of weaponry to the quiet splash of a fly-fishing lure upon rushing water, a commitment to creative quality is a hallmark of his work.
Hymns has worked with directors Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, David Fincher, Ang Lee, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Roman Polanski, Ron Howard, George Lucas, Chris Columbus, J.C. Chandor, Robert Townsend, Tony Richardson, Alan Parker, Joe Johnston, Brad Silberling, Philip Kaufman and Kevin Smith among others.
He has won three Academy Awards from a total of nine nominations, six Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards and a BAFTA Award.- Writer
- Actor
Arthur who was known as AJ and would later become known as Stan Laurel's father, arrived in Bishop Auckland in 1889 with running a tent theatre but in Bishop he revived the Eden Theatre and developed a chain of theatres while writing his own plays and touring with his own company. He did well enough to be able to move from rented rooms in High Tenters St to a double fronted house in Waldron St where his wife had a son, Arthur Stanley Jefferson who would later become to be known world wide as Stan Laurel. July 1896 AJ left Bishop and moved his family to North Shields to concentrate on his Northern theatres and converted the attic in the family home into a mini theatre for his son and his friends. but during a mock fight a parrafin lamp, used for footlights was knocked over causing a fire which AJ managed to put out, That was the first and only production of the Stanley Jefferson Amateur Dramatic Society. In August 1901 AJ took over the Glasgow Metropole Theatre and took his family North but Stan was sent to King James 1 Grammar School in Bishop Auckland as a boarder. Stan recalled that a teacher named Bates, after the kids had gone to bed, would take him to his private quarters where some other masters were relaxing and have Stan entertain them, so earning numerous privileges and a blind eye to his lack of educational progress causing his father to have him moved to Gainford Academy near Darlington with no improvement so at 13 it was back to Glasgow to study theatre management under his father. Stan made his professional debut aged 16 and before he was 20 had signed up with Fred Karno's company of comedians. Soon he was in America as Charlie Chaplin's understudy. AJ mean while had in 1923 become the manager of the Eden Theatre having been asked by the owners to take it over after all previous managers had failed to make it work. AJ, now remarried after the death of Stan's mother claimed to be 60 but local opticians soon worked out that he was 67, Sadly not enough people attended the Eden and it eventually closed in February 1925 with a debacle involving Mrs Patrick Campbell. 30 years earlier she had been the greatest West End actress of her day making her name in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play The Second Mrs Tanqueray. She was the first Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion.- Pamela Binns was born on 20 January 1931 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Love's Kitchen (2011), Fredric March Presents Tales from Dickens (1959) and Pride and Prejudice (1958).
- He initially worked in a shipping company before, thanks to various scholarships, he was able to begin studying medicine at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington in 1901. In 1906 Fleming completed his final exams. He then qualified as a surgeon. From 1908 Fleming began to work scientifically, initially in the hospital's vaccination laboratory with the microbiologist Sir Almroth Edward Wright. In 1921 Fleming became deputy head of the institute. In the same year he was able to identify and isolate lysozyme, an enzyme that has strong antibacterial properties. In 1928 he received the chair of bacteriology at the University of London. In September 1928, the discovery that made him world famous was blown directly onto his laboratory workstation: the air was used to transfer a mold spore to one of Fleming's culture dishes in which he was cultivating staphylococci. Actually an annoying event, because the bacterial colony was no longer usable for further investigations.
But Fleming found that the bacteria had, so to speak, dissolved near the mold. He had thus observed the bacteria-destroying power of penicillin. Fleming first used the name "Penicillin" on March 7, 1929. It goes back to the mold that belongs to the genus Penicillium. However, Fleming was not the first to make this significant observation. A number of scientists had previously found that Penicillium fungi inhibit the growth of bacteria. However, no one has investigated the causes of the observed effect or investigated the phenomenon further. Fleming submitted a report on his discovery to the British Journal of Experimental Pathology on May 10, 1929, which was published the following June. Although Fleming had recognized that the bacteria-killing effect of penicillin could effectively combat a number of infections such as suppuration, pneumonia or meningitis, the cure was initially denied a final breakthrough.
The problem was obtaining sufficient quantities to treat patients beyond the experimental phase. In addition, Fleming probably could not fully appreciate the significance of his discovery at the time. It was only shortly before the start of the Second World War that science remembered Fleming's work. From 1940 onwards, attempts were made to produce penicillin in larger quantities on the initiative of the researchers Sir Ernest Boris Chain and Lord Howard Walter Florey. The two traveled to the USA in 1941 to initiate everything necessary there. In 1944, highly concentrated penicillin was finally produced on an industrial scale. Fleming was knighted in 1944, and in 1945 he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine together with Chain and Florey. In 1946, Fleming became director of the Vaccination Institute at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, which was renamed the Wright-Fleming Institute two years later. He retired in 1948.
Sir Alexander Fleming died on March 11, 1955 in Chelsea (London). - Tim Haunton was born on 29 November 1945 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Zigger Zagger (1967) and Troilus and Cressida (1966).
- Dominic Fellows was born on 14 April 1984 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for To the End of the Road (2012), The House of Screaming Death (2017) and Assassin (2013). He has been married to Nicola Fellows since 9 August 2007. They have two children.
- Composer
- Music Department
Nicholas Paul is a Film Composer and 3rd-year Music Technology student. He has always had a love for film, television and game soundtracks, being inspired by the likes of Hans Zimmer, Thomas Newman and Martin O'Donnell. Whilst Nicholas is a principle study Music Technology student, he strives to work alongside the other composers and showcase the best of both worlds. Nicholas has written music for various student short films, such as 'Passing' (2023), 'Ah!' (2023) and 'Old Leaf' (2023), as well as having two (so far) commissioned compositions performed at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Nicholas is also set to have another two original compositions, performed by 'The Sitwell Singers' and 'House of Brass' in the coming year.
Nicholas was surrounded by a musical family. His father, Richard Paul, taught singing and drums and his mother, Jane Paul, is a renowned pianist for various ballet schools around the UK. His older siblings, Elisabeth Paul and Edward Paul, both regularly perform as a choir singer and bass player respectively. Originally a pianist, Nicholas fell in love with composing during his GCSE studies, starting out writing notated works on his iPad.- John Porter was born on 15 August 1950 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Da Game of Life (1998).
- Clinton Ffrench was born on 4 May 1908 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Hancock's Half Hour (1956), I Spy (1958) and No Shepherds Watched (1957). He died in 1989 in Hounslow, London, England, UK.