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Enn Reitel was born on 21 June 1950 in Forfar, Angus, Scotland, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Corpse Bride (2005), The Adventures of Tintin (2011) and Dead Silence (2007).- Writer
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James Matthew "J. M." Barrie was a Scottish novelist and playwright. He had a distinguished career, but is primarily remembered for creating Peter Pan and his supporting characters. He used the character of Pan in the novel "The Little White Bird" (1902), the stage play "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" (1904). the novel "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" (1906), the play "When Wendy Grew Up - An Afterthought" (1908), and the novel "Peter and Wendy" (1911).
In 1860,. Barrie was born in the burgh of Kirriemuir, in the county of Forfarshire. The county has since been renamed to "Angus". In the 19th century, Kirriemuir was center for the weaving industry, Barrie's father was David Barrie, a moderately prosperous weaver. Barrie's primary caregiver was his mother Margaret Ogilvy, who introduced him to English-language literature at an early age. Barrie was the 9th child born to the couple, out of ten children.
In 1866, Barrie's older brother David Barrie was killed in an ice-skating accident. David was Margaret's favorite son, and she was devastated by his death. Barrie started imitating his dead brother, in an effort to serve as a replacement for him. Barrie's mother reportedly found comfort in the fact that her dead son would remain a boy forever, never to grow up and leave her.
In 1868, Barrie started attending the Glasgow Academy, an independent day school located in Glasgow. At the time, two of his older siblings were among the school's teachers. In 1870, Barrie was transferred to the Forfar Academy. It was a comprehensive school located in Forfar, and it was closer to his parents' house. In 1874, Barrie was enrolled at the Dumfries Academy, a grammar school located in Dumfries.
As a teenager, Barrie was a bibliophile. He enjoyed reading penny dreadfuls, serial literature sold at a cheap price. He also enjoyed reading the juvenile fiction of Robert Michael Ballantyne ( 1825 - 1894), and the historical novels of James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851). Barrie was part of a group which liked to re-enact the adventures of pirates. He was also part of a drama club at Dumfries. While a teenager, he wrote and produced his first play: "Bandelero the Bandit". The play was denounced by a local clergyman for its supposed immorality.
Barrie aspired to become a professional writer, but his family insisted that he must attend university first. Barrie enrolled at the University of Edinburgh. While a college student, he started working at the newspaper "Edinburgh Evening Courant" as their drama reviewer. He graduated from university in 1882.
Following graduation, Barrie worked as a staff journalist for the newspaper "Nottingham Journal". Meanwhile he started working on short stories based on the life story of his grandfather. He eventually reworked this story into a trilogy of novels: "Auld Licht Idylls" (1888), "A Window in Thrums" (1890), and "The Little Minister "(1891). The stories depicted life within the "Auld Lichts", a religious sect which his grandfather had joined. These novels were popular at the time, though largely based on the industrialized Scotland's nostalgia for a bygone era.
In the 1890s, Barrie started working on theatrical works. An early success for him was "Ibsen's Ghost, or Toole Up-to-Date" (1891), a parody of the plays of Henrik Ibsen (1828 -1906). The play was largely based on two of Ibsen's plays, "Ghosts" (1881) and "Hedda Gabler" (1891) .
While working as a playwright, Barrie met and courted the actress Mary Ansell (1861 -1950). The two of them were married in 1894, though they reputedly never consummated their marriage. The marriage lasted until 1909, ending in a divorce. Barrie resented Ansell's extramarital affair with a younger man, the novelist Gilbert Cannan (1884 -1955). Following a second failed marriage of Ansell, Barrie voluntarily started financially supporting her. Until his death in 1937, Barrie gave her an annual allowance.
In 1901, Barrie published one of his most successful plays, "Quality Street". The protagonist Phoebe Throssel was a respectable school mistress, who started pretending to be a younger woman in older to reclaim the heart of her former suitor. The initial run of the play in London lasted for 459 performances. The play was frequently revived until the 1940s.
In 1902, Barrie had another hit with the survival-themed play "The Admirable Crichton". The play depicts an aristocratic family and their servants as shipwreck survivors. While living in a desert island, the butler Crichton turns out to be a far more effective leader than his employer. This satire on class relationships had an initial run of 828 performances.
In 1902, Barrie introduced the character of Peter Pan, which became his most popular creation. He liked contrasting the typical middle class life of the Edwardian era, with the adventurous life and ambivalent morality of the fictional Neverland. While most of the Pan stories were written for a child audience, their social commentary also attracted adults. Barrie was praised by fellow writer George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) for these stories.
In 1909, Barrie was part of a campaign by several playwrights to challenge the United Kingdom's strict censorship laws. In 1911, Barrie was part of the anti-censorship's campaign second wave. In 1910, he commented on marital relations with the play "The Twelve Pound Look". In the play, a married woman seeks a divorce. She has gained financial independence and no longer needs her husband. The play was considered controversial at the time.
In 1917, Barrie explored the concept of the alternate reality in the play "Dear Brutus". In the play, a group of adult characters feel that they have taken wrong turns in their lives. A magic users offers them glimpses into the lives of their alternate reality counterparts, which took different life decisions. Some of them are enlightened by the experience, others learn nothing of value. The play was a hit, running for 363 performances in its initial run. It was revived in 1922.
In 1920, Barrie wrote the mystery play "Mary Rose". It was the last notable hit in his career. The play's protagonist mysteriously vanishes twice. She first disappears as a child. She re-appears 21 days later, but she has no recollection of where she was. As an adult, Mary Rose vanishes again. She leaves a husband and a son behind. She re-appears decades later, with no recollection of where she was again. But she has not aged a single day, and she is now physically younger than her own son. The play offers no definite answers to its mystery. It has experienced several revivals.
In 1929, Barrie gave the copyright right to Peter Pan (and any royalties gained from it) to the children's hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital. The royalties have continued to financially support the hospital ever since. The copyright was extended indefinitely by a special provision in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Barrie continued producing new works into the 1930s, though none were particularly groundbreaking. His last play was the Bible-themed story "The Boy David" (1936). It concerned the relationship between the aging Saul, King of Israel and his youthful son-in-law and prospective heir David. The play was based on the "Books of Samuel". A play which Barrie wrote but never produced was "The Reconstruction of the Crime", published posthumously in 2017.
By 1937, had moved into a nursing home in London. In June 1937, he died there due to pneumonia. He was 77-years-old at the time of his death. He was buried in his native Kirriemuir, in the family grave previously used by his parents and some of his siblings. His will left provision for his ex-wife Mary Ansell and a number of Barrie's surrogate children from the Llewelyn Davies family. Barrie left the majority of his estate to his longtime secretary Lady Cynthia Asquith ( 1887 -1960). Barrie had no known descendants.
Several of Barrie's works have remained popular into the 21st century. Peter Pan has frequently been adapted into various media, and has inspired a number of unofficial sequels. Tourists continue visiting locations in Kirriemuir which are associated with him. Barrie's long-lasting fame has not faded.- Actor
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Ronald Belford Scott was born on July 9, 1946 in Kirriemuir, Scotland, UK. In 1952, the Scott family relocated to Australia. Bon's strong distaste for authority led him to quit his studies at the age of 15. Bon's earliest musical efforts were both on vocals and drums. His first "real" job in the music business was in a pop band called The Valentines, whose single "Every Day I Have To Cry" reached the top five of the local charts. On September 1969, however, The Valentines were arrested for dope possession which shattered their clean-cut image beyond repair, and the band officially called it quits a few months later. Within six months of The Valentine's dissolution, Bon joined a new blues-rock band called Fraternity; the efforts of the band to achieve some success in Europe were largely fruitless and they returned to Australia slightly disillusioned. After returning home, Bon was involved in a motorbike accident that left him in a coma for three days and in the hospital for several months, ending his association with Fraternity. Now based in Adelaide, Bon was reduced to taking on casual work until the day he was offered the chance to drive the bus for this new and really young rock band called AC/DC around. But Bon harboured ambitions to front the band. He persuaded the Young brothers that the band needed a better frontman and he suggested himself as the ideal replacement. And when former singer Dave Evans failed to turn up for a show, Bon seized his chance. With Bon Scott as a frontman, AC/DC got into sharp focus and the next five and a half years saw them getting more popular with each passing year, ultimately achieving world-wide success with their million-selling "Highway To Hell". The band's legendary status is believed to be largely due to the period spent with Bon Scott as the band's lead singer. Yet Bon Scott was also an excessive drinker and this would ultimately lead to tragedy. After a night of heavy drinking, Bon died in a car parked outside a friend's flat in South London sometime on February 19, 1980. He was prononced dead on arrival at Kings College Hospital. Bon Scott lies in the Fremantle Cemetery's Memorial Garden in Australia.- Director
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Ryan is a multi-skilled Scottish director who has created work for 7 feature films, television, A/V design and winning international awards for best film and best director.
Recently directing TV Movies 'From Paradise With Love', 'Sun, Rose & Romance', 'Christmas at the Castle' and thriller 'Labor, Lies and Murder' for US television Lifetime Channel.
In theatre and tours 90 plus productions in various capacities including; director and AV designer. Notable arena show 'The Steamie at the SSE Hydro', 'Keepig' The Heid', 'Confessional' and 'Neither God Nor Angel' at Oran Mor, 'A Bottle of Wine and Patsy Cline' and directing regularly Edinburgh King's Panto and Scottish broadcast legends, Grant Stott and the late Andy Gray in the Edinburgh Fringe and subsequent tours. Ryan is also director and producer for Dreamcastle Films and Interabang productions.
In other media, directing the live show 'The Dolls: Friday Night Kerry Oot!', 'Said the Dove To The Olive Tree', 'Mouthful of Monologues', 6 part online series Scene to Seen and BBC Shortstuff and The Social.
In additional credits and media work including 'Wicked', 'Paw Patrol' and 'Kinky Boots' UK Tours, 'Allan Stewarts Big Big Variety Show', 'The Steamie' tours and John Byrne's 'Cuttin a Rug'.
Ryan also created and directed the animated shorts 'When Stars Align' and 'The Boy and The Seahorse'.- Producer
- Writer
Lynda Myles was born on 2 May 1947 in Arbroath, Angus, Scotland, UK. She is a producer and writer, known for The Commitments (1991), Killing Me Softly (2002) and Flight to Berlin (1984).- Ian Williamson is a Scottish actor who was born in Dundee. Prior to acting Ian was a Scottish International 1500m track runner. To this day he is still a keen fitness enthusiast and Personal Trainer based now in the Cambridge area. He holds a degree in Criminology and has a masters degree in Criminal Justice.
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Stuart Hood was born on 17 February 1915 in Angus, Scotland, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971), Bird's-Eye View (1969) and The First Freedom (1967). He was married to Renee Goddard. He died on 31 January 2011 in the UK.- Stuart Mungall was born on 20 March 1940 in Forfar, Angus, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Campbells (1986), Churchill's People (1974) and The Guardians (1971). He was married to Joan Morrow. He died on 12 October 2016 in London, England, UK.
- Neila Stephens was born on 27 September 1994 in Montrose, Angus, Scotland, UK. She is an actress, known for The Rig (2023) and Dark Edge: Edge of Darkness (2017).
- Kenneth Strong was born on 9 September 1900 in Montrose, Angus, Scotland, UK. He died on 11 January 1982 in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UK.
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Malcolm Duncan was born on 24 August 1945 in Montrose, Angus, Scotland, UK. He died on 8 October 2019 in the UK.- Sheila Rennie was born on 2 July 1930 in Brechin, Angus, Scotland, UK. She is an actress, known for Keeping Up Appearances (1990) and Mackenzie (1980).
- Andrew Glen was born on 24 June 1983 in Forfar, Angus, Scotland, UK. He is an actor, known for Blind Fate (2012), Return (2004) and Bear Me Witness (2014).
- Matthew Tomlinson was born on 22 February 1991 in Montrose, Angus, Scotland, UK. He is an actor, known for Moon Dogs (2016).
- Pierre Bourgault was born on 23 January 1934 in East Angus, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Leolo (1992), La côte de sable (1960) and Jusqu'au cou (1964). He died on 16 June 2003 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
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Iain Macmillan was born on 20 October 1938 in Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland, UK. Iain is known for The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter (2009). Iain died on 8 May 2006 in Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland, UK.- Harry Douglas was born on 22 July 1907 in Brechin, Angus, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Last Adventurers (1937), The Frighteners (1972) and The Man in the Bowler Hat (1938). He died on 10 October 2008 in Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK.
- George W. Anson was born on 25 November 1847 in Montrose, Angus, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Builder of Bridges (1915), Desire (1920) and The President's Special (1914). He died on 2 August 1920 in London, England, UK.
- Fernand Robidoux was born in 1920 in East Angus, Québec, Canada. He was married to Jeanne Couet. He died on 20 September 1998 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- Alec Smith was born on 28 January 1874 in Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland, UK. He was married to Jessie Maiden. He died on 21 April 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- Make-Up Department
Alison Peters was born on 23 April 1997 in Dundee, Angus, Scotland, UK. She is known for Lost at Christmas (2020), Sundown (2018) and Stuk (2019).- Fred Martin was born on 13 May 1929 in Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland, UK. He died on 20 August 2013.
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Dennis Dick was born on 1 October 1934 in Dundee, Angus, Scotland, UK. Dennis is a producer and director, known for Meanwhile... Back at Base (1973), The Best of Movie Magic (1983) and The Forest of Dean (1980). Dennis has been married to Mary Wills since 8 October 1958. They have one child.- Composer
Robert Bruce was born on 17 August 1915 in Inverkeilor, Angus, Scotland, UK. Robert was a composer, known for Äiti (2017). Robert was married to Beatrice Tomboline. Robert died on 13 August 2012 in Llechryd, South Wales, UK.- Composer
- Actor
Michel Robidoux was born in 1943 in East Angus, Québec, Canada. He was a composer and actor, known for Kings and Desperate Men (1981), On est loin du soleil (1971) and Une journée en taxi (1982). He died on 31 October 2021 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.- Yvonne Rorie was born on 28 November 1907 in Monifieth, Angus, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for The New School (1944). She was married to Antoni Zaleski (agricultural researcher). She died on 1 February 1959 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
- Evelyn Foster was born on 30 May 1913 in Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for The Belles of St. Clements (1936), The Body Vanished (1939) and Cross Currents (1935). She died on 5 August 1977 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.
- John McGovern was born on 28 October 1949 in Montrose, Angus, Scotland, UK.
- Jock Sutherland was born on 21 March 1889 in Coupar Angus, Scotland, UK. He died on 11 April 1948 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.