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Geoffrey Hutchings was born on 8 June 1939 in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Topsy-Turvy (1999), Henry V (1989) and Cor, Blimey! (2000). He was married to Andrea Godfrey and June Watts. He died on 1 July 2010 in London, England, UK.

Honor Davis-Pye is an award-winning actress known for her compelling performances as Young Margot in The Ghost Within (2023), Amara in The Surgeon (2022), and Young Beth in Decrypted (2021). She also voices Little Lily in the BAFTA-winning video game Disco Elysium - The Final Cut (2021)).

Renowned for her ability to bring emotional depth to both drama and comedy, Honor has won multiple Best Actress and Best Supporting Child Actor awards, along with a nomination for the prestigious 2024/25 Young Entertainer Awards in Los Angeles. She also filmed in LA in 2024, further cementing her growing international career.

With a youthful appearance and petite stature, Honor convincingly plays younger roles while also bringing intelligence and depth to teenage characters, capturing the emotional complexity of late adolescence with authenticity.

Outside of acting, she has competed at the international level in Tae Kwon Do and is passionate about environmental issues. She speaks naturally in British RP/Estuary and is trained in multiple American accents.

Born in Dorset on the South Coast of England, Honor continues to build an impressive career, earning recognition for her versatility and captivating performances.

A grand, robust, highly theatrical British classical actor, Maurice Evans was born on June 3, 1901, in Dorchester, England, the son of a justice of the peace who enjoyed amateur play writing on the side. In fact, his father adapted several adaptations of Thomas Hardy's novels and Evans would often appear in them. Early interest also came in London choirs as a boy tenor.

Making his professional stage debut in 1926, Evans made do during his struggling years by running a cleaning and dyeing store. He earned his first triumph three years later in the play "Journey's End." When his resulting attempts as an early 1930's romantic film lead and/or second lead in White Cargo (1929), Raise the Roof (1930), The Only Girl (1933), The Path of Glory (1934), Bypass to Happiness (1934) and Checkmate (1935) didn't pan out, he refocused on the stage.

Following a season with the Old Vic theatre company, he arrived in America and proceeded to conquer Broadway, establishing himself as one of the world's more illustrious interpreters of Shakespeare. His eloquent, florid portrayals of Romeo, Hamlet, Macbeth and Richard II are considered among the finest interps. He was also deemed a master of Shavian works which included superlative performances in "Major Barbara", "Man and Superman" and "The Devil's Disciple".

As a U.S. citizen (1941), Maurice was placed in charge of the Army Entertainment Section, Central Pacific Theater during WWII and left military service with the rank of major. His post-war career included a handful of character film roles, notably Kind Lady (1951), Androcles and the Lion (1952), Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) (as composer Sir Arthur Sullivan), The War Lord (1965), Rosemary's Baby (1968), and as "Dr. Zaius" in the Planet of the Apes (1968) series.

Films would never be Evans' strong suit, earning much more stature on TV. More importantly, he brought Shakespeare and Shaw to 1950's TV, adapting (and directing) a number of his stage classics including King Richard II (1954), The Taming of the Shrew (1956), Man and Superman (1956), Twelfth Night (1957), The Tempest (1960). He won an Emmy award in 1960 for his Macbeth (1960).

Interestingly, for all his legendary performances under the theatre lights and stirring TV classics, the ever-regal stage master is probably best known to generations for his delightful, Shakespeare-spouting appearances on the Bewitched (1964) TV series, as Elizabeth Montgomery's irascible warlock father. Following guest shots on such popular TV shows as "Medical Center," "The Big Valley," "Columbo," "Streets of San Francisco," "Fantasy Island" and "The Love Boat," he made his final on-camera appearance in the TV movie A Caribbean Mystery (1983).

Evans returned to England to live out his remaining years and died there on March 12, 1989, in a Sussex nursing home of heart failure as a result of a bronchial infection, aged 87.

Colson Smith was born on 13 August 1998 in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Coronation Street (1960), The Selfish Giant (2013) and Jailhouse Dog (2014).

Jamie Lee-Hill is an actor know for playing a wide range of characters, and being able to perform with emotional intensity or vulnerability.

Lee-Hill was born Jamie Lee Hill (Lee being his middle name) in Dorchester on 30 March 1972 to father Geoffrey Hill, an electrician and photographer, and mother Mirveen Hill (née Grainger) a nurse. The third of four sons, he grew up in the Dorset villages of Corfe Mullen, Child Okeford, and Shroton, and then moved to the area where his parents honeymooned, the tiny village of Rhydymain in Gwynedd, North Wales. The family lived in caravans on site whilst Geoffrey self-built the family houses in Shroton and Rhydymain. Jamie learnt Welsh and encountered his first experienced of drama in the small Snowdonia village. His acting career had an unpromising start when he was playing an angel in a nativity play. Spotting his mother in the audience, he slipped out of character and called out "Hello Mum" instead of focusing on the baby Jesus.

Jamie enjoyed watching his father perform at Dolgellau Amateur Dramatics Society (DADS) and remembers a local production of The Pied Piper of Hamelin in which he was disappointed at not being one of the lucky children brought up on stage from the audience to enter a magical world. Not deterred, he would persuade his younger brother to join him and put on shows to his parents based upon the fairy tales he would read.

In 1982 the family moved across the border to Chester. The only brush he had with a professional production as a child was at an open audition at The Gateway Theatre in Chester for Jungle Book. Unfortunately, his younger brother insisted on coming and made him late. Denied the chance to audition, Jamie was certain that his commitment would make him the most convincing monkey ever, but the producers would not relent at his persistence, taking his number, and saying they would get back to him. He is still waiting for the call and has never been late for an audition since.

The light bulb moment when Jamie fell in love with acting happened in an English lesson at Queens Park High School, Chester. The teacher casually distributed texts of a play to some of the pupils. One hit his desk, and immediately on being asked to read the part of a hooligan, an unquenchable fire was lit. The shy boy found great freedom in playing someone completely different without suffering any of the consequences. He still feels a thrill and tingle of excitement every time he begins reading a new script.

At high school Jamie had a small role in The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, and then got the lead role of Ernie in Ernie and His Incredible Hallucinations. There was a televised version at the time, and Jame first set his sights on being a television actor when he believed he could have played the part much better. A teachers' strike resulted in the play being cancelled and that was the limit of his acting experience at school With no G.C.S.E. drama course, or any advice on a career path in this field, no path to acting opened up at that time in his life.

Jamie's parents moved to Bournemouth when he was fifteen. Jamie hated Winton boys' school, so after less than two weeks, left his parents and moved back to Chester staying with some family friends to finish his schooling at Queens Park High, before eventually moving back to Bournemouth in 1988.

Jamie joined a small local drama group, St. Lukes players, which has since been disbanded. The older ladies in particular drilled the development of character into the performers, and three of the young intake went on to become professional actors, including Jamie. Not bad for a small church hall group that would perform to tiny audiences of fewer than a hundred people. He also went on to perform at All Saints Dramatic Society in many plays, musicals and pantomimes.

Settling down at a relatively young age, Jamie married and has a son, Elliott Hill. Jamie worked in insurance and construction, obtaining an upper second class honours degree in Quantity Surveying. He maintained steady jobs to maintain the financial security of his family, but Jamie's burning ambition to be an actor refused to go away. This desire was fueled by his television debut, a one off professional performance, when he worked with John Sessions for a week playing the poet William Wordsworth in Splendour in the Grass. This was aired by HTV at prime time on a Sunday evening in 1998.

After separating from his wife in 2009, Jamie decided that it was the time to pursue his life long ambition. He had to overcome barriers; a director refused to audition him because he was untrained, but Jamie persuaded her she had nothing to lose by auditioning him. Jamie then landed the role despite her initial prejudice and the competition. This gave him encouragement and brought him repeat work in professional fringe theatre around the Bournemouth area.

Jamie made a swift transition from theatre to film, adoring the intimacy of acting up close to the camera. He first gained experience in local student film productions, and was then cast by Suki Singh in his first feature film, working alongside Sam Heughan and Claudia Bassols in Emulsion.

Jamie was cast by Dramatic Productions as Steve Hubble in A Streetcar Named Desire which was staged at Poole Lighthouse. This lead on to him being taken on to their agency books which gave him the opportunity to audition for Far From the Madding Crowd. He received the audition request whilst holidaying in his old home village of Rhydymain, so he got his son to tape his audition as a shepherd whilst in a field surrounded by sheep. Thomas Vinterberg, known for the Oscar nominated film The Hunt, saw the tape and hand picked him for the supporting role of Laban Tall.

Jamie was thrilled to work for such a wonderful director alongside Carey Mulligan, Michael Sheen, Matthias Schoennearts, and Tom Sturridge, the latter of whom he has worked with since together with Benedict Cumberbatch in The Hollow Crown.

Always keen to master his craft, and a great admirer of Stanislavski, Jamie even made the pilgrimage to his Moscow home. Jamie has also extended his skills by training late in life with Dorset School of Acting, and has particularly found the work around imagination and breaking down of texts to have been helpful in improving his performances.

Jamie has gone on to work on several other films. He signed with DQ Manament in 2015 and his burning ambition remains as undiminished as ever.

Trevor Neal was born in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK. He is known for Off Their Rockers (2013), Let's Play (2012) and Get Well Soon (2012).

Frederick Treves was a famous pioneer in abdominal surgery. Today he is mostly remembered as the physician to the Elephant Man. On May 4, 1901, Treves was knighted by King Edward VII on whom he had performed an appendicectomy.

Joseph Marshall was born on 10 October 1994 in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK. He is an editor, known for Casualty (1986), Hollyoaks (1995) and Doctor Who (2005).

Fran has worked on many exciting missions, including Voyager, the Juno mission to Jupiter and New Horizons, the first mission to explore Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

Originally from Dorchester, England, but grew up in the flatlands near Cambridge, England. She was an Apollo kid, as a teenager in rural England, stayed up through the middle of the night to watch the Apollo astronauts walk on the Moon. Also, every week watched BBC's "Horizons" documentaries, which showed current scientific topics. Becoming most interested in plate tectonics and space exploration.

Fran studied physics/geophysics at Lancaster University, thinking about a career as an exploration geophysicist, but keeping an eye on the U.S. space program. Taking a summer job at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At that time, the two Voyager spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, were just being launched, Fran worked with the Voyager Plasma Science team. So, the choice was obvious to stay and work on data from Voyager at Jupiter.

Inspired by Carl Sagan who she heard speak about the Mariner 9 exploration of Mars, impressed by the way he addressed the questioning from the (rather stuffy) Cambridge academics with honest discussion of the science and intellectual challenges.

Dr. Bagenal professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, a co-investigator on the New Horizons mission. Deeply involvement in space missions, Voyager, Galileo, Deep Space 1, New Horizons, and Juno. Usually on the science team as a plasma scientist, studying the magnetic fields of planets, the ionized gases trapped in those magnetic fields and the interactions of plasma with the atmospheres of moons, comets.

Steve Parish was born on 23 November 1979 in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Elysium (2013), Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007).

Anne Atkins was born in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK. She is known for Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1991), Sky Midnight News (2010) and Sky World News (1989). She is married to Shaun Atkins.

Charlie Coombes was born in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK. Charlie is a producer, known for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), Tamara Drewe (2010) and Baseline (2010).

Tim Heald was born on 28 January 1944 in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Bognor (1981), Princes of the Palace (2016) and Queen Elizabeth II: The Diamond Celebration (2012). He was married to Byrne, Penny and Leslie, Alison. He died on 20 November 2016 in the UK.

Peter Wilson was born on 15 September 1986 in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK.

Jack Allum is a new actor from the south west of England. He studied at the Plymouth Conservatoire and graduated in September 2018. His first professional film role was in a short film called Beard Envy. He is looking to further his work in all three crafts. (Theatre, FIlm and TV)

Bernard Brien was born in 1914 in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK. Bernard is known for Behind the Mask (1958). Bernard died in 1959 in Barnet, Middlesex, England, UK.

He was born and lived his first seventeen years in Dorchester a delightful town in the County of Dorset.

A short lived excursion into film happened in 1963 when he was a pupil at Hardyes' School. In that year a former pupil who then worked for Woodfall Film Productions returned searching for extras to appear in an upcoming film Tom Jones (1963) starring Albert Finney which was due to use various locations in Dorset for the exterior scenes. At that time Mark was the lead drummer in the Combined Cadet Force Corps of Drums. To his delight he was chosen to appear as one of the four drummers who led Tom Jones to his execution. Three days of filming just outside Bridport were among the most exciting days of his childhood. If you watch the film the sound of drumming as Tom passes through the streets of London on route to his doom is down to the extra half day spent with the film's sound department.

This was the start (and unfortunately end) of his film career until he was able to assist in a very small way with funding for the short film Songbird (2018) starring the very talented singer Janet Devlin

Now at the age of seventy who knows where his movie career may lead.

Paul Overy was born on 15 February 1940 in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for The Visual Scene (1969) and Mondrian: Mister Boogie Woogie Man (1995). He was married to Tag Gronberg. He died on 7 August 2008.

C. à Becket Williams was born in 1890 in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK. C. à Becket was a composer and writer, known for A Yell of a Night (1932) and Kamet Conquered (1933). C. à Becket died in 1956 in England, UK.

Matt Dean was born on 26 November 1990 in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK.