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Kotaro Daigo

Cast · Known for Weathering with You

Kotaro Daigo (醍醐 虎汰朗, Daigo Kotarō, September 1, 2000) is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He is affiliated with A-Light. In the audition for the feature-length animated movie Weathering with You, directed by Makoto Shinkai and released in 2019, he was selected as the main character, Hodaka Morishima, from among 2000 people. In 2020, he won the New Actor Award at the 14th Voice Actor Awards.

Nana Mori

Cast · Known for Weathering with You

Nana Mori is a Japanese actress known for the earthy naturalism and grounded vulnerability she brings to contemporary independent and mainstream cinema. Discovered in her home prefecture of Oita at age 15, she bypassed traditional idol career tracks in favor of selective collaborations with prominent Japanese auteurs. She gained widespread international recognition in 2019 for her voice acting breakthrough as Hina Amano in Makoto Shinkai’s climate-anxiety anime masterpiece Weathering with You. Recognizing her chameleonic ability to balance youthful innocence with an understated melancholy, legendary filmmaker Shunji Iwai cast her in his 2020 epistolary romance Last Letter. Playing a dual role across fragmented timelines, her performance earned her the Newcomer of the Year award at the 44th Japan Academy Film Prize. In the 2023 series The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House, Mori shines as Kiyo, a aspiring maiko who finds her true calling as a house cook. Her performance is the series’ emotional core, anchoring Hirokazu Kore-eda’s culinary world with a quiet, unforced warmth that eschews sentimentality for something genuinely lived-in.

Makoto Shinkai

Director · Known for Weathering with You, Your Name.

Makoto Niitsu (新津 誠, Niitsu Makoto; born February 9, 1973), known as Makoto Shinkai (新海 誠, Shinkai Makoto), is a Japanese filmmaker and novelist. A founder of CoMix Wave Films, he is known for his anime feature films enriched with visually-appealing animation and romantic stories depicting teenagers and high school students. Shinkai began his career as a video game animator with Nihon Falcom in 1996, and gained recognition as a filmmaker with the release of the original video animation (OVA) She and Her Cat in 1999. Shinkai then released the science fiction OVA Voices of a Distant Star in 2002 as his first feature with CoMix Wave, followed by his debut feature film The Place Promised in Our Early Days in 2004. Shinkai's films have consistently received highly positive reviews from both critics and audiences, and he is considered to be one of Japan's most commercially successful filmmakers. His three most recent films Your Name in 2016, Weathering with You in 2019, and Suzume in 2022, collectively known as "Disaster trilogy", are all among the highest-grossing Japanese films of all time, both in Japan and worldwide at the time of their release. Description above from the Wikipedia article Makoto Shinkai, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Vy Nguyen

Cast · Known for “Wuthering Heights”

Vy Nguyen is a British actress whose sole known screen credit to date is Young Nelly Dean in Wuthering Heights (2026), directed by Emerald Fennell. She was announced in March 2025 as one of three young cast members making their film debuts alongside Charlotte Mellington (Young Cathy) and Owen Cooper (Young Heathcliff), playing the childhood version of the role taken over by Hong Chau in the adult narrative. The film, a $80 million production by MRC, LuckyChap Entertainment, and Lie Still, was released on 13 February 2026 by Warner Bros. Pictures and grossed over $242 million worldwide. Beyond her casting in Wuthering Heights, very little biographical or career information is publicly available about her. She should not be confused with VyVy Nguyen (pronounced "vee-vee"), the Vietnamese-American actress from Young Sheldon and The Sympathizer, who is a different person with an established career in television, voice work, and audiobook narration.

Alison Oliver

Cast · Known for “Wuthering Heights”

Alison Oliver (born 3 June 1997, Ballintemple, Cork, Ireland) is an Irish actress, active since 2022. The youngest of three daughters, she was raised in Ballintemple and later Blackrock, Cork, before attending The Lir Academy at Trinity College Dublin, graduating with a BA in acting in 2020. She landed her debut television role as Frances Flynn in the BBC Three and Hulu miniseries Conversations with Friends (2022) the morning after graduating, and was named to Variety's "10 actors to watch" list in 2023. She is best known for Venetia Catton in Saltburn (2023), for which she won the IFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress – Film, Trooper Lizzie Stover in HBO's Task (2025, with Mark Ruffalo), for which she won the IFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress – Drama, and Isabella Linton in Wuthering Heights (2026, with Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie). On stage she starred in Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre (2023) and The Other Place at the Lyttelton Theatre (2024). She is dating English actor Josh O'Connor. Her filmography spans film, television, and stage across just a handful of years. Notable film credits include Saltburn (2023, with Barry Keoghan and Carey Mulligan), The Order (2024, with Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult), and Christy (2025, as Chloe). On television she has appeared in Conversations with Friends (2022, 12 episodes), Best Interests (2023, as Katie, 4 episodes, with Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen), and Task (2025, 6 episodes). Her in-development projects include Bad Bridgets (directed by Rich Peppiatt), Dennis, and To Make Ends Meat.

Barnaby Kay

Barnaby Kay (born 9 April 1969) is a British actor, noted for his roles in television, stage and film, and as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Kay is the son of the actor Richard Kay (1937 - 1985), and the grandson of entertainer Arthur Kay (died 1970). He is married to fellow actress Nicola Walker, with whom he has a son, Harry. Among other roles, Kay has appeared in Wuthering Heights (2009), Holby City (2008), Midsomer Murders (2005), Spooks (2004), Silent Witness (2002), Conspiracy (2001), Casualty (1999), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Croupier (1998),Jonathan Creek (1997) and Minder (1994). His theatre work includes A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar Warehouse (2009), Orlando in As You Like It at the Novello Theatre (2006), Closer at the National Theatre (1999 - 2000), Pierre Bezuhov in War And Peace at the Hampstead Theatre (2008), Steve Calhanm in Eric Larue at the Soho Theatre (2006), and Alexander Petrovich Kalabushkin in Dying For It at the Almeida Theatre (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Barnaby Kay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Millie Kent

Cast · Known for “Wuthering Heights”

Millie Francesca Kent (born 16 July 1998, England) is a British actress, standing at 1.67 m. She trained at the Arts Educational Schools (ArtsEd) in London, graduating in 2019 with a BA (Hons) in Acting. Her stage work at ArtsEd includes Tia in Sonny (2019) and Le Roux in Pravda (2018). She is represented by Yakety Yak in London. She has appeared in both of Emerald Fennell's most recent features — India in Saltburn (2023) and Jane in Wuthering Heights (2026) — and has also worked with Sam Mendes. Her filmography includes Saltburn (2023, as India, with Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi), The Shepherd (2023, as Lizzie, directed by Iain Softley), The Split (2020, as Innes, opposite Nicola Walker and Annabel Scholey), Doctor Who (2024, as Valerie Nook in "Dot and Bubble"), Geek Girl (2024, as Viola), The Good Ship Murder (2025, as Mia Grayling, with Shayne Ward), The Stained Stainlessman (2025, as Scarlett Trigg), Wuthering Heights (2026, as Jane), and God of Mischief (2026, as The Interviewer). Her earliest credit is Louisa Clarke in the ArtsEd short film Me Before You (2018).

Gabriel Bisset-Smith

Cast · Known for “Wuthering Heights”

Gabriel Bisset-Smith is a BAFTA-nominated British writer, actor, director, and comedian from London, raised on a council estate with a mixed-race mother from Jamaica and a father from Manchester. He trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Court, Young Vic, York Theatre Royal, and Lyric Hammersmith. He is best known for directing and co-creating the BBC's multi-platform murder mystery The Last Hours of Laura K, which earned him a BAFTA nomination for Digital Creativity, Best Visual Experience at SXSW, and a Gold and Audience Award at the Lovies. His debut short film Thrush won the 2010 Vimeo Best Narrative Award, and he was named a Dazed Visionary by Dazed & Confused magazine, which commissioned his award-winning film Toilets. His play The Charming Man was nominated for the Off West End Most Promising Playwright Award, and his latest play Whitewash (co-produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Vicky Jones's company Drywrite) opened to rave reviews and a sell-out run at the Soho Theatre. He was named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow in 2018, and his satirical online sketches have amassed over a million views, earning a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award nomination. His filmography spans acting, writing, directing, and producing across film, television, and digital media. Notable acting credits include Reg Starter in Saltburn (2023), Dave Colombo in I Came By (2022, 70% on Rotten Tomatoes), Rex (voice) in Sprite Fright (2024), L in Beta Male (2021), and George in Thrush (2010, which he also wrote and directed). As a writer and director he created The Last Hours of Laura K (2014–2019), directed Smoke (starring Jodie Whittaker), and is developing a debut feature film co-written with Matilda Ibini for BBC Films, as well as the TV series The Temps (based on Andrew DeYoung's novel) with the Los Angeles Media Fund. On television he appeared in Skins (as a regular story contributor), The Athena (2019), and McDonald & Dodds (2020). His comedy double act Guilt & Shame with Robert Cawsey has played sold-out shows at the Soho Theatre, Underbelly, Bestival, and Latitude, and their podcast (with Vicky Jones) has featured guests including Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jessie Cave, and Deborah Frances-White. His most recent credit is Hangman in Wuthering Heights (2026).

Gregg Toland

Cast · Known for Citizen Kane

From Wikipedia Gregg Toland, A.S.C. (May 29, 1904 – September 28, 1948) was an American cinematographer noted for his innovative use of lighting and techniques such as deep focus, an example of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. Toland was born in Charleston, Illinois on May 29, 1904. During the 1930s, Toland became the youngest cameraman in Hollywood but soon one of its most sought-after cinematographers. Over a seven-year span (1936–1942), he was nominated five times for the "Best Cinematography" Oscar, including a win in 1940 for his work on Wuthering Heights. He worked with many of the top directors of his era, including John Ford, Howard Hawks, Erich von Stroheim, King Vidor, Orson Welles, and William Wyler. Toland was the subject of an "Annals of Hollywood" article in The New Yorker, "The Cameraman," by Hilton Als (June 19, 2006, p. 46). Just before his death, he was concentrating on the "ultimate focus" lens, which makes both near and far objects equally distinct. He died in Los Angeles, California on September 26, 1948 of coronary thrombosis at age 44. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.

Geraldine Fitzgerald

Cast · Known for Great Performances, Robert Montgomery Presents

Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lady Lindsay-Hogg was an Irish-American actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. She was born south of Dublin, the daughter of Edith Catherine and Edward Martin FitzGerald. She studied painting at the Dublin School of Art. Inspired by her aunt, and began her acting career in at Dublin's Gate Theatre. After two seasons in Dublin, she moved to London, where she found success in films The Mill on the Floss, The Turn of the Tide, and Cafe Mascot. Fitzgerald's success led her to the Broadway stage in 1938. She made her American debut in the Mercury Theatre production of Heartbreak House. Producer Hal B. Wallis saw her in this production and subsequently signed her to a contract with Warner Bros, where she starred in Dark Victory and Wuthering Heights. Afterwards, appeared in Shining Victory, The Gay Sisters, and Watch on the Rhine, but her career was hampered by her frequent clashes with studio management. Although she continued to work throughout the 1940s, the quality of her roles began to diminish and her career lost momentum. In 1946, shortly after completing work on Three Strangers, she left Hollywood to return to New York City, where she married her second husband, Stuart Scheftel, a grandson of Isidor Straus. She returned to Britain to film So Evil My Love, receiving strong reviews, and The Late Edwina Black, before returning to the United States. She became a naturalized United States citizen on April 18, 1955. The 1950s provided her with few opportunities in film, but during the 1960s she asserted herself as a character actor and her career enjoyed a revival. Among her successful films of this period were Ten North Frederick, The Pawnbroker, and Rachel, Rachel. Her later films included The Mango Tree, for which she received an Australian Film Institute Best Actress nomination, and Harry and Tonto, in a scene opposite Art Carney. She also starred in Arthur 1 and 2, miniseries Kennedy, Do You Remember Love, Easy Money, Poltergeist 2, as in Circle of Violence, a television film about elder abuse. Fitzgerald returned to stage acting, and won acclaim for her performance in the 1971 revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night. In 1976, she performed as a cabaret singer with the show Streetsongs, recorded an album of the show for Ben Bagley's Painted Smiles label. She also achieved success as a theatre director; becoming one of the first women to receive a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Play. While in New York, Fitzgerald collaborated with playwright and Franciscan brother Jonathan Ringkamp to found the Everyman Theater of Brooklyn, a street theater company, that performed throughout the city. She appeared on television, in such series as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Robert Montgomery Presents, Naked City, St. Elsewhere, The Golden Girls, and Cagney and Lacey. As well, she starred in Our Private World, and Mabel and Max. She won a Daytime Emmy Award as best actress for her appearance in the NBC Special Treat episode "Rodeo Red and the Runaways". Description above from the Wikipedia article Geraldine Fitzgerald, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Oliver Milburn

Oliver Milburn (born February 25, 1973, in Dorset, England) is an English actor, producer, and restaurateur, 5′ 11″ (180 cm) tall. He attended the Dragon School and Eton College, where he was a member of the drama group Double Edge Drama, and began acting without formal training, debuting in the ITV soap opera Families (1992) as Matthew Bannerman. He is married to Katie Razzall (since 2004) and they have two children. His most notable film credits include Paul in The Descent (2005, directed by Neil Marshall), Mr. Linton in Wuthering Heights (2011, directed by Andrea Arnold), Roger in Ginger & Rosa (2012, directed by Sally Potter), Peter in Driving Lessons (2006, with Bill Nighy), and Nat in Me Without You (2001, with Anna Friel). On television he is best known as Ted Pryce in The Royals (2015–2016, 20 episodes, E!), Mark Hardy in Mistresses (2009–2010, 10 episodes), Michael Mont in The Forsyte Saga (2002, 4 episodes), Liam in Green Wing (2004, 4 episodes), and Chris Patten in The Crown (2020, Season 4, Netflix), with more recent credits in The Hack (2025, ITV, with David Tennant). He also voiced Bartholomew Roberts in the video game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013).

Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn (born Szmul Gelbfisz), also known as Samuel Goldfish, was a Polish American film producer. He was most well known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood. In 1916, Goldwyn partnered with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, using a combination of both names to call their movie-making enterprise Goldwyn Pictures. Seeing an opportunity, Samuel Gelbfisz then had his name legally changed to Samuel Goldwyn, which he used for the rest of his life. Goldwyn Pictures proved successful but it is their Leo the Lion trademark for which the organization is most famous. On April 10, 1924, Goldwyn Pictures was acquired by Marcus Loew and merged into his Metro Pictures Corporation. Despite the inclusion of his name, Goldwyn had no role in the management or production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Before the sale and merger of Goldwyn Pictures in April 1924, Goldwyn had established Samuel Goldwyn Productions in 1923 as a production-only operation (with no distribution arm). Their first feature was Potash and Perlmutter, released in September 1923 through First National Pictures. Some of the early productions bear the name Howard Productions, named for Goldwyn's wife Frances Howard. For 35 years, Goldwyn built a reputation in filmmaking and developed an eye for finding the talent for making films. William Wyler directed many of his most celebrated productions, and he hired writers such as Ben Hecht, Sidney Howard, Dorothy Parker, and Lillian Hellman. (According to legend, at a heated story conference Goldwyn scolded someone —in most accounts Mrs. Parker, who recalled he had once been a glove maker— with the retort: “Don't you point that finger at me. I knew it when it had a thimble on it!” During that time, Goldwyn made numerous films and reigned as the most successful independent producer in the US. Many of his films were forgettable; his collaboration with John Ford, however, resulted in Best Picture Oscar nomination for Arrowsmith (1931). William Wyler was responsible for most of Goldwyn's highly lauded films, with Best Picture Oscar nominations for Dodsworth (1936), Dead End (1937), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Little Foxes (1941) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1948). The leading actors in several of Goldwyn films, especially those directed by William Wyler, were also Oscar-nominated for their performances. Throughout the 1930s, Goldwyn released all his films through United Artists, but beginning in 1941, and continuing almost through the end of his career, Goldwyn released his films through RKO Radio Pictures. Goldwyn died at his home in Los Angeles in 1974 from natural causes, at the probable age of 94. He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. In the 1980s, Samuel Goldwyn Studio was sold to Warner Bros. There is a theater named after him in Beverly Hills and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1631 Vine Street.

Vicki Pepperdine

Cast · Known for Club Kid, Poor Things, “Wuthering Heights”

Vicki Pepperdine (born 24 July 1961, Roehampton, London, England) is an English comedy actress and writer, active since 1994. Both her parents worked in the NHS in south-west London — an experience that partly inspired her most celebrated project. She studied art history at the University of East Anglia, then worked for Help the Aged and in publishing before enrolling at the East 15 Acting School at age 27. She is best known for co-writing and starring as Dr Pippa Moore in the BBC Four sitcom Getting On (2009–2012, 15 episodes), alongside Jo Brand and Joanna Scanlan, for which she was nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards for Best Writing in a Comedy and a British Comedy Award, and which won two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards and a Royal Television Society Award. She also co-wrote and performed in the BBC Radio 4 sketch show The Hudson and Pepperdine Show (2000–2005) with Melanie Hudson, and has had a long-standing comedy collaboration with Julia Davis on Nighty Night (2004), Camping (2016), and Dear Joan and Jericha (2018–2025). Her filmography spans over 28 film and television credits. Notable film credits include Thunderpants (2002, as Reporter, directed by Peter Hewitt), My Cousin Rachel (2017, as Mrs. Pascoe, with Rachel Weisz), Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017, as Betty), Johnny English Strikes Again (2018, as Lydia Bough, with Rowan Atkinson), Poor Things (2023, as Mrs. Prim, with Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo), Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023, as Edna Eaglebauer), and Wuthering Heights (2026, as Sister Mercy). Her most recent credits include Club Kid (2026, as Lydia Chestworth), Savage House (2026, as Mrs. Bennett), and The Way of the Runner (2026, as Harriet). On television she is also known for Anna in the Sky Arts series A Young Doctor's Notebook (2012, 8 episodes), Gwen in Up the Women (2013, 9 episodes), DSI Susan Smart in We Hunt Together (2020, 12 episodes), and Princess Anne in The Windsors (2017, 4 episodes).

Ian Ogilvy

Ian Raymond Ogilvy (born 30 September 1943) is an English film and television actor. He is best known as the star of the TV series Return of the Saint (1978–79), in which he assumed the role of Simon Templar from Roger Moore (1962–69). The role led to his being considered a leading contender for the role of James Bond in the early 1980s, when Moore announced his intention to leave the role. He never played the part (in part due to Moore reconsidering his resignation on several occasions), although he did play a Bond-like character in a series of North American TV commercials broadcast in the early 1990s. At least once, in an episode of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, "Dragon's Wing II", he played a Bond-like British agent, complete with white dinner jacket. He was a friend of film-maker Michael Reeves and starred in all three of Reeves's films: Revenge of the Blood Beast (1966), The Sorcerers (1967), and Witchfinder General (also known as The Conqueror Worm, 1968). He guest-starred in The Avengers in the 1968 episode "They Keep Killing Steed" as Baron Von Curt, and on the BBC in Somerset Maugham's The Door of Opportunity, opposite Marianne Faithfull. He appeared in the films Stranger in the House (1967), and The Day the Fish Came Out (1967), and had a major role in the epic film Waterloo (1970). In 1976, he featured in the pilot episode of the television comedy series Ripping Yarns. He also appeared in I, Claudius (1976, as Drusus), and guest-starred in 6 episodes of Murder, She Wrote and 4 episodes of Diagnosis Murder. He appeared as Edgar Linton in a film version of Wuthering Heights (1970) and as Owen Gereth in BBC dramatization of The Spoils of Poynton (also 1970). In the 1990s, he guest-starred in the TV series Babylon 5 (1998). The series' star, Bruce Boxleitner, is the former husband of Ogilvy's second wife, actress Kathryn Holcomb. He also had a role in the short-lived 1990s American soap opera, Malibu Shores. He appeared as Lawrence Kirbridge in the series Upstairs, Downstairs. He's had roles in over 100 TV shows, often appearing as a guest star. He then co-starred with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn in Death Becomes Her (1992); and with Richard Dreyfuss and Nia Vardalos in My Life in Ruins (2009), among others. He has had an extensive career in the theatre playing leading roles in many London West End productions, including Design for Living, Happy Family, Three Sisters, Rookery Nook by Ben Travers, Run for Your Wife, The Millionaires by Shaw, The Waltz of the Toreadors, and others. He has also worked widely in the American theatre. He is a playwright and novelist, currently working on a series of children's books: Measle and the Wrathmonk, Measle and the Dragodon, Measle and the Mallockee, Measle and the Slitherghoul, and Measle and the Doompit. He has written and published two novels – Loose Chippings and The Polkerton Giant – and two plays: A Slight Hangover and Swap!. His memoir, Once a Saint, was published in May 2016. His book of film reviews 'Withering Slights', based on his Facebook page, was published in 2020.

Amy Morgan

Cast · Known for We Live in Time, “Wuthering Heights”

Amy Morgan (born 12 December 1988, Pencoed, Bridgend, Wales) is a Welsh actress, active since the early 2000s. She trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and was spotted by TV casting directors while playing the title role in Trelawny of the Wells at the Donmar Warehouse, which led to her recurring role as Grace Calthorpe Selfridge in ITV's Mr Selfridge (2013–2014, 30 episodes, opposite Jeremy Piven). On stage she has performed at the National Theatre (Dear Octopus, Exit the King, The Beaux' Stratagem), in the West End (Red Velvet, Hay Fever, Travesties as Gwendolen), and at the Royal Court (A Kind of People). In 2024 she received an Off West End Theatre Award nomination for a new adaptation of Hedda Gabler. Her filmography spans over 30 credits across film and television. Notable film credits include No Time to Die (2021, as Alison Smith, with Daniel Craig), Pan (2015, as Operator), We Live in Time (2024, as Leah, with Florence Pugh and Andrew Scott), and Wuthering Heights (2026, as Zillah, with Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie). On television she has appeared in Showtrial (2021, as Heidi McKinnon, 5 episodes), Steeltown Murders (2023, as Young Jean Hughes, 4 episodes), The Pembrokeshire Murders (2021, as Erin Davies), Call the Midwife (2022, as Pamela Heslop), Beyond Paradise (2025, as Stella Ellis), Death Valley (2025, as Sioned Grant), Playing Nice (2025, as Jen, 2 episodes), Ten Percent (2022, as Chloe Miller), Marriage (2022, as Louise), Baker Boys (2011, as Shelly, 6 episodes), and Father Brown (2013, as Ruby Adams).

David Susskind

Producer · Known for Alice

David Howard Susskind (December 19, 1920 – February 22, 1987) was an American producer of TV, movies, and stage plays and also a TV talk show host. His talk shows were innovative in the genre and addressed timely, controversial topics beyond the scope of others of the day. His first job after the war was as a press agent for Warner Brothers. Next, he was a talent agent for Century Artists, ultimately ending up in the Music Corporation of America's newly minted television programming department, managing Dinah Shore, Jerry Lewis, and others. In New York, Susskind formed Talent Associates, representing creators of material rather than performers. In 1954, Susskind became a producer of the NBC legal drama Justice, based on case files of the Legal Aid Society of New York. His program Open End began in 1958 on New York City's commercial independent station WNTA-TV and was so titled because the program continued until Susskind or his guests were too tired to continue. In 1961, Open End was constrained to two hours and went into national syndication. The show was retitled The David Susskind Show for its telecast on Sunday night, October 2, 1966. In the 1960s it was the first nationally broadcast television talk show to feature people speaking out against American involvement in the Vietnam War. In the 1970s it was the first nationally broadcast television talk show to feature people speaking out for gay rights. The show continued until its New York outlet canceled it in 1986. During his close to three-decade run, Susskind covered many controversial topics of the day, such as race relations, transsexualism, and the Vietnam War. His interview with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, which aired in October 1960, during the height of the Cold War, generated national attention. It is one of the very few talk show telecasts from the era that was preserved and can be viewed today. In a now notorious interview with then 25-year-old Muhammad Ali during a recently-unearthed 1968 appearance on the British program The Eamonn Andrews Show, Susskind displayed an intense antipathy and vitriol towards the famous boxer, whom he excoriated with withering criticism for refusing to be conscripted into the U.S. military for the Vietnam War. Some commentators have described this as a racist attack. Susskind was also a noted producer, with scores of movies, plays, and TV programs to his credit. His legacy is that of a producer of intelligent material at a time when TV had left its golden years behind and had firmly planted its feet in programming which had wide appeal, whether or not it was worth watching.

Ralph Dunn

Ralph Dunn was an American film, television, and stage actor. Dunn was born in Titusville, Pennsylvania and spent early years living with relatives in Canton, Illinois. Dunn's father was a veterinarian for the U.S. Army during WWI, and his mother was an actress. Dunn was enrolled briefly at the University of Pennsylvania, but left after one day to join a Vaudeville troupe. Ralph Dunn used his burly body and rich, theatrical voice to good effect in hundreds of minor feature-film roles and supporting appearances in two-reel comedies. He came to Hollywood during the early talkie era, beginning his film career with 1932's The Crowd Roars. A large man with a withering glare, Dunn was an ideal "opposite" for short, bumbling comedians. A frequent visitor to the Columbia short subjects unit, Dunn showed up in the Three Stooges comedies Mummy's Dummies, as well as Who Done It? and its remake, For Crimin' Out Loud Dunn kept busy into the 1960s, appearing in such TV series as Kitty Foyle, and Norby and such films as Black Like Me.

James Basevi

Production Design · Known for East of Eden

James Basevi (21 September 1890 – 27 March 1962) was a British-born art director and special effects expert. After his military service during World War I Basevi emigrated to Canada and later on to the United States. He began his career in 1924 with MGM, designing sets for silent films. After the advent of talkies, Basevi became the head of MGM's special effects department, helping to create the earthquake scene in San Francisco (1936). He also worked on the storm sequence in John Ford's The Hurricane for 20th Century Fox. In 1943, he shared an Oscar for art direction with William S. Darling for The Song of Bernadette. He was nominated for Oscars for Wuthering Heights (1939), The Westerner (1940), The Gang's All Here (1943) and The Keys of the Kingdom (1944). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. Late in his career, he had considerable success in television roles. His family had no theatrical connections, but Olivier's father, a clergyman, decided that his son should become an actor. After attending a drama school in London, Olivier learned his craft in a succession of acting jobs during the late 1920s. In 1930 he had his first important West End success in Noël Coward's Private Lives, and he appeared in his first film. In 1935 he played in a celebrated production of Romeo and Juliet alongside Gielgud and Ashcroft, and by the end of the decade he was an established star. In the 1940s, together with Richardson and John Burrell, Olivier was the co-director of the Old Vic, building it into a highly respected company. There his most celebrated roles included Shakespeare's Richard III and Sophocles's Oedipus. In the 1950s Olivier was an independent actor-manager, but his stage career was in the doldrums until he joined the avant garde English Stage Company in 1957 to play the title role in The Entertainer, a part he later played on film. From 1963 to 1973 he was the founding director of Britain's National Theatre, running a resident company that fostered many future stars. His own parts there included the title role in Othello (1965) and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (1970). Among Olivier's films are Wuthering Heights (1939), Rebecca (1940), and a trilogy of Shakespeare films as actor-director: Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1948), and Richard III (1955). His later films included The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), Sleuth (1972), Marathon Man (1976), and The Boys from Brazil (1978). His television appearances included an adaptation of The Moon and Sixpence (1960), Long Day's Journey into Night (1973), Love Among the Ruins (1975), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976), Brideshead Revisited (1981) and King Lear (1983). Olivier's honours included a knighthood (1947), a life peerage (1970) and the Order of Merit (1981). For his on-screen work he received four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, five Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. The National Theatre's largest auditorium is named in his honour, and he is commemorated in the Laurence Olivier Awards, given annually by the Society of London Theatre. He was married three times, to the actresses Jill Esmond from 1930 to 1940, Vivien Leigh from 1940 to 1960, and Joan Plowright from 1961 until his death.

Ken Hutchison

One of the most brilliant character actors of his generation, Hollywood's loss was British television's gain with Ken Hutchison. Born in Scotland, his handsome features and cheeky expression guaranteed him a career in character roles, but his dangerous streak led him early in his career into dark, villainous roles. He was cast by Sam Peckinpah as one of the sinister villagers of Straw Dogs (1971), raping Susan George and participating in the film's closing violent siege. Peckinpah took to the actor, and the pair indulged in their love of drinking throughout the shoot, often to the frustration of those around them. Hutchison was soon offered a role in the Robert Mitchum film The Wrath of God (1972) but this was his one and only shot at the big time. Quite what went wrong is open to debate. Some say he was wary of success and got cold feet. Whether that is true or not, what certainly didn't help was his unruly behaviour which made studio execs nervous of casting him again. He returned to Britain and continued his career as an anonymous but astounding character actor. He appeared in two of John Mackenzie's Play For Today films based on Peter McDougall scripts. In Play for Today: Just Another Saturday (1975) he played the head thug of the Orange Lodge, and in Play for Today: Just a Boys' Game (1979) he played Dancer Dunnichy, an irresponsible rogue who lived for drinking and dodging responsibility, a character that seemed to echo his offscreen persona. Hutchison was a stalwart of British TV crime series at this time, appearing in series such as Shoestring (1979), Target (1977) and Jemima Shore Investigates (1983) as well as The Sweeney (1974). In fact he also played the lead villain in the movie Sweeney 2 (1978), but the script allowed him precious little opportunity to shown off his skills as an actor. In 1978 the BBC cast him as Heathcliff in a serialisation of Wuthering Heights (1978) and he brilliantly captured the rough magic of the character. In the 80s he was seen less, although he had a regular role as the boss in children's series Murphy's Mob (1982). Since then he has appeared inevitably in shows like The Bill (1984). His great strength is an incredible ability with accents, and super comic timing, but he is also excellent at conveying menace. A riveting screen presence, Hutchison is long overdue for recognition as a treasure for British drama, a talent which his own country has rarely recognised.

Merle Oberon

Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson; 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was a British actress of Sri Lankan Burgher origin. Her career spanned the 1920s to the 1970s, and she was a major leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Born and raised in British India, she began her acting career in British cinema in the early 1930s, with a breakout role in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). She later moved to Hollywood, where she became an international star, earning acclaim for films such as The Dark Angel (1935), Wuthering Heights (1939), and That Uncertain Feeling (1941). Her performance as Kitty Vane in The Dark Angel earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Oberon's other notable roles included A Song to Remember (1945), Berlin Express (1948), and Désirée (1954). A traffic collision in 1937 caused facial injuries that nearly ended her career, but she recovered and remained active in film and television until 1973. Description above from the Wikipedia article Merle Oberon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Jessica Harris

Jessica Harris is an Actress who was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England to Miles and Jo Harris. She grew up in the nearby towns of Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall, and attended Calder High School in Mytholmroyd. She graduated from the Calderdale College in Halifax with a National Diploma in Performing Arts. She later attended the Arts Educational School in London on a scholarship. Harris made her television debut in the late 1980s when she appeared in the children's educational series How We Used to Live, produced by Yorkshire Television. She later appeared in other Yorkshire series, such as Heartbeat. She has had other major television roles in Linda Green (as Katy Green), Burn It (as Kelly) and Thieves Like Us (as Mel). On stage, she has appeared in Bottle Universe (October–November 2005, Bush Theatre), Wuthering Heights (York Theatre Royal, June 2007) and The Pornographer Diaries (Edinburgh, August 2007). In 2009, she played Desdemona in a national tour of Othello, opposite Lenny Henry. Her performance in Othello was praised by Kate Kellaway of The Observer, who described her as "charming". Harris has appeared in the ITV police drama The Bill three times. She first appeared in 2002 as Karen Best, the sister of cast regular PC Gary Best. The role was a recurring one and she appeared in a number of episodes for a year. She next appeared in 2007 as an inmate who has an affair with a prison officer. Harris's most recent role in the series came in 2009 when she appeared as Kathy Merrill, a sister of murder victim.

Hilary Dwyer

Hilary Dwyer (6 May 1945 – 30 March 2020), also known as Hilary Heath, was an English actress, businessperson, and film producer. She was best known for her acting roles in films such as Witchfinder General (1968) and Wuthering Heights (1970). She also performed on the London stage. In 1974, she married the talent agent Duncan Heath, with whom she had two children, and helped to found Duncan Heath Associates, which was later bought by ICM Partners. They divorced in 1989. Later in her career, under her married name, "Hilary Heath", she produced the feature film An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), as well as TV remakes of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1997) and Tennessee Williams's The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003). Her final producing role was the 2014 miniseries Jamaica Inn. From Wikipedia.

Moray Treadwell

Cast · Known for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Moray James Treadwell (born 1967, Kent, England) is a British character actor active since 1983. He is best known for his role as Bill in the 2024 Netflix thriller Don't Move, the Sunburned Sailor in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), and recurring work in British television including EastEnders (1996), My Family (2001), Downton Abbey (2010), and The Witcher: Blood Origin (2022). He is also a stage actor with extensive theatre credits across the UK and internationally, including The Beatles LOVE (Las Vegas), The Ruling Class (Frankfurt), The Importance of Being Earnest (Vienna), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Macedonia), and national tours of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, No Man's Land, and Arsenic and Old Lace. His screen filmography includes Round Ireland with a Fridge (2010), The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022), the TV films Wuthering Heights (1998), Whose Baby? (2004), and Planespotting (2005), as well as guest appearances in 2point4 Children (1991), Murder Most Horrid (1991), and Beck (1996). He has also done voice work for Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who audio dramas, voicing Book in ...ish and Will Butley in The Tao Connection.