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Sam Roland Heughan was born April 30, 1980 in Balmaclellan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. When he was 5 years old, he and his brother and mother moved to the area of the city-New Galloway. Sam grew nearby Kenmure castle, where he and his brother played as children. An accomplished stage and screen actor best known for his leading roles in Starz TV Series Outlander (2014-2021), A Princess for Christmas (2011), and A Very British Sex Scandal (2007). He attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) located in Glasgow, Scotland. He is an active patron of Youth Theatre Arts Scotland and Bloodwise (formerly Leukemia and Lymphoma Research) as President of Bloodwise Scotland (2015). In 2015, he co-founded My Peak Challenge with personal trainer John Valbonesi of Every Day Athlete; a global, community-based organization that raises money for charitable causes such as Bloodwise and Marie Curie as well as encourages members to succeed in fitness and personal challenges. Sam has received 3 honorary Degrees. 2019 from University of Stirling 2019 from University of Glasgow 2022 from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS)- John Laurie was a Scotsman who would play many character roles in his long career - a lot of Scotsmen to be sure - but an enthusiastic and skilled actor in nearly 120 screen roles. He was the son of a mill worker, and studied for a career in architecture which he indeed began. But with World War I he left his position to join the British army. After the war he set his sights in a different direction, training to become an actor by attending the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. His first stage play was in 1921. He honed his skills thereafter (from 1922 to 1939) principally as a Shakespearian actor at the Old Vic in London or at Stratford-upon-Avon - and later the Open Air in Regent's Park. But by 1930 he was giving time to films as well. His first movie was the Sean O'Casey play Juno and the Paycock (1929), one of Alfred Hitchcock's early sound efforts. With his craggy profile and arcing bulbous nose, and rather stern visage (though it could as quickly break into a broad smile), he was right for many a memorable character. Hitchcock made sure of that first off by calling on him again to play the dour, suspicious, and miserly farmer, John Crofter, in The 39 Steps (1935). Laurie became a good friend of another Shakespearean, Laurence Olivier, and the two, Olivier as a lead, were in Hungarian director/producer Paul Czinner's As You Like It (1936). The year 1937 was a busy one, with six films, the most important giving him one of his few leading roles. This was director/screen writer Michael Powell's intriguing The Edge of the World (1937), doubly important in that it was the film that sold Powell to producers like Alexander Korda. The film was shot on location on the remote Shetland isle of Foula, the furthest point of Britain. It dealt with the impact of the modern world on the lives of the inhabitants of an economically decaying island. Into 1938 and 1939 Laurie was involved in British experimental TV movies, that medium to be revisit later frequently. In 1939 he was taped by Alexander Korda for his classic film production of The Four Feathers (1939) in which Laurie, who could fit his Scots voice to any part, played the zealous Mahdi (the Khalifa). He is hardly to be recognized in character.
During the war Olivier was planning one of the important morale movies of World War II; his Henry V (1944), and Laurie was asked to play a memorable Capt. Jamie. Olivier also called on him for his two other Shakespeare ventures: Hamlet (1948) and Richard III (1955). As any good character actor, Laurie could play comedy as well and set a number of roles to that end into the 1940s. He and Roger Livesey were cast in Emeric Pressburger and Powell's first color film, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). And Laurie was a jubilant John Campbell in the Powell/Pressburger wonderful and thoughtful comedy of more insular Scots life, I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) with a delightful young Wendy Hiller and worldly-wise Livesey.
Through the remainder of the decade and into the 1950s, Laurie's face showed up in a variety of films - with greater frequency as assorted Scotsmen-comedic and otherwise - and further down the credits list of supporting actors. He was familiar in the decade invasion to the UK of American co-productions, such as Disney's Treasure Island (1950) and Kidnapped (1960). And he even trod the uncertain path of a few sci-fi films - that shall remain nameless here. But he was certainly always busy - when all told - the actor's foremost blessing. Television drama and series gave him better opportunities for a veteran actor, beginning with a Henry V (1953) where he played the comic role of Pistol. Along with some BBC TV theater (more Shakespeare and some American playhouse as well) and sporadic serials, he had a stint on the long-running BBC children's reading program "Jackanory". And he is probably best remembered as the dour James Frazer on the popular "Dad's Army" series (1968-1977). But one of his last and most touching performance was simply being his good-natured self - 80 years old but still a vibrant man with his Scots burr - when he accompanied Powell back to dramatically isolated Foula for the director's short documentary Return to the Edge of the World (1978) (included with the 2003 DVD release of the 1937 movie). There was a bit of staging by Powell. But Laurie's animated face was a picture of profound humanity, as - with a shade of theatrics when appropriate - he remembered the shoot and with sincere joy renewed acquaintances with the inhabitants, as if he himself had returned once more to his native heath. A bonnie old actor indeed! - William Shea was born on 6 October 1856 in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Davy Jones' Parrot (1910), Davy Jones and Captain Bragg (1910) and Davy Jones' Domestic Troubles (1910). He died on 5 November 1918 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
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Ryan McHenry was born on 12 November 1987 in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Zombie Musical (2011), Anna and the Apocalypse (2017) and Toast (2015). He died on 2 May 2015 in Dumfries, Scotland, UK.- Writer
- Actress
Gizzi Erskine was born on 20 August 1979 in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK. She is a writer and actress, known for Smothered (2023), Sex, Lies & DM Slides (2020) and Distraction Pieces Podcast (2014).- Allan McNish was born on 29 December 1969 in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire [now Dumfries & Galloway], Scotland, United Kingdom. He is married to Kelly. They have two children.
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Denis Forman was born on 13 October 1917 in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK. He was a producer and writer, known for The Jewel in the Crown (1984), The Odd Man (1960) and My Life So Far (1999). He was married to Moni Cameron and Helen de Mouilpied. He died on 24 February 2013 in London, England, UK.- Music Department
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Ian Carr was born on 21 April 1933 in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK. He is known for Comedy Playhouse (1961), Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (1969) and Miles Gloriosus (2001). He died on 25 February 2009 in London, England, UK.- Thomas Carlyle was born on 4 December 1795 in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK. Thomas was a writer, known for A Tale of Two Cities (1935) and Historians of Genius (2004). Thomas was married to Jane Baillie Welsh. Thomas died on 5 February 1881 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.
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John R. Sloan was born on 9 September 1912 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK. He was a producer and assistant director, known for The Odessa File (1974), To Sir, with Love (1967) and Sea Devils (1953). He died in 2001 in Ayrshire, Scotland, UK.- Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, GCB, GCVO, CMG (24 April 1882 - 15 February 1970) was an officer in the Royal Air Force. He was Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and is generally credited with playing a crucial role in Britain's defense, and hence, the defeat of Adolf Hitler's plan to invade Britain.
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Angus Wilson was born on 11 August 1913 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK. He was a writer, known for Armchair Theatre (1956), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and The Old Men at the Zoo (1983). He died on 31 May 1991.- Lynsey Sharp was born on 11 July 1990 in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK.
- Lewis Keenan was born on 23 February 1983 in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK. He is an actor, known for One Last Chance (2004) and The Students of Springfield Street (2015).