Debbie Linden
Debbie Linden( 22 February 1961 – 6 October 1997) was a Scottish- born glamour model and actress best known for her career in England, especially her role as old Mr Grace's secretary in the sitcom" Are You Being Served?"( 1981).
Born in Glasgow, she played roles in various other TV series, such as" The Professionals Just Good Friends Bergerac", and" The Bill"; she appeared in several feature films, among them" Home Before Midnight" and" The Wildcats of St Trinian's".
Linden was plagued with a drug problem for years.
On the night of 5 October 1997, she died of a heroin overdose at home at the age of 36.
Her boyfriend, Russell Ainsworth, was acquitted of manslaughter charges but sentenced to two- and- a- half years for supplying the drug.
Blue Murder at St Trinian's
Blue Murder at St Trinian's( 1957) is British comedy film set in the fictional St Trinian's School.
Directed by Frank Launder and written by him and Sidney Gilliat, it was the second of the series of four films.
and stars Terry- Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Lionel Jeffries and Richard Wattis.
The plot is based around a secret marriage agency for the sixth- form girls, that has caught the attention of an Italian prince, based in Rome.
The girls break into the Ministry of Education and replace the official( disastrous) school record with a glowing version that qualifies them for a UNESCO tour of Europe, ending in Rome.
In line with St Trinian's tradition, chaos reigns as the girls run amok in Europe.
The Belles of St. Trinian's
The Belles of St Trinian's is a British comedy film set in the fictional St Trinian's school, released in 1954.
It and its sequels were inspired by British cartoonist Ronald Searle.
Directed by Frank Launder and written by Launder and Sidney Gilliat, it was the first of a series of four films.
Alastair Sim stars in a dual role as the headmistress Miss Millicent Fritton and her twin brother Clarence Fritton.
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's is a 1960 British comedy film set in the fictional St Trinian's School.
Directed by Frank Launder and written by him and Sidney Gilliat, it was the third in a series of four films.
Bernadette O'Farrell
Bernadette O' Farrell( 30 January 1924 – 26 September 1999) was an Irish actress.
She was born in Birr, County Offaly, Irish Free State.
She was married to the film writer, director and producer Frank Launder from 1950 until his death in 1997.
They had two daughters together.
She is best known for playing Maid Marian in the 1950s TV version of" The Adventures of Robin Hood".
She left the show in 1957, after 78 episodes, to avoid type- casting, and was replaced by Patricia Driscoll.
She played an English mistress, Miss Harper, in" The Happiest Days of Your Life"( 1949), Jessie Bond in" The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan"( 1953) and Peg Curtis in the boxing film" The Square Ring"( 1953).
She retired from acting in 1959 to live on a farm in Buckinghamshire, England.
Later, O' Farrell and Launder moved to Monaco.
Her last film appearance was in" The Wildcats of St. Trinian's"( 1980).
The Wildcats of St Trinian's
The Wildcats of St. Trinian's is the fifth British comedy film set in the fictional St Trinian's School.
Directed by Frank Launder, it was released in 1980.
The film pokes fun at the British trade union movement which had been responsible for the recent wave of strikes that culminated in the Winter of Discontent.
The film was not a critical or commercial success.
It has yet to be released on DVD except in the US.
Sarah-Jane Varley
Sarah- Jane Varley is a British actress, best known for playing Sarah Foster in the 1980s BBC drama" Howards' Way".
She played Little Nell in the 1975 musical film," Mister Quilp", and also appeared in the films" The Wildcats of St Trinian's"( 1980)," And the Ship Sails On"( 1983) and" Double Impact"( 1991).
She also played Estella in the 1981 BBC adaptation of" Great Expectations", and Sally Harte in the 1986 miniseries" Hold the Dream".
St Trinian's (film)
St Trinian's is a 2007 British comedy film and the sixth in a long- running series of British films based on the works of cartoonist Ronald Searle set in St Trinian's School.
The first five films form a series, starting with" The Belles of St Trinian's" in 1954, with sequels in 1957, 1960, 1966 and 1980.
The release of 2007, 27 years after the last entry, and 53 years after the first film, is a rebooting of the franchise, rather than a direct sequel, with certain plot elements borrowed from the first film.
Whereas the earlier films concentrated on the adults, this film gives the school pupils greater prominence.
St Trinian's is an anarchic school for uncontrollable girls run by eccentric headmistress Camilla Dagey Fritton( the reboot continues the tradition, established by Alastair Sim in the original film, of casting a male actor to play the female headmistress, with Rupert Everett inheriting the role).
" St Trinian's" received mixed reviews but remains one of the highest- grossing British independent films of the last thirty years.
Frank Launder
Frank Launder (28 January 1906 – 23 February 1997) was a British writer, film director and producer, who made more than 40 films, many of them in collaboration with Sidney Gilliat.
He was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England and worked briefly as a clerk before becoming an actor and then a playwright.
He began working as a screenwriter on British films in the 1930s, contributing the original story for the classic Will Hay comedy "
Oh, Mr Porter!"
(1937).
After writing a number of screenplays with Gilliat, including "The Lady Vanishes" (1938) for Alfred Hitchcock, and "Night Train to Munich" for Carol Reed; the two men wrote and directed the wartime drama "Millions Like Us" (1943).
After founding their own production company Individual Pictures, they produced a number of memorable dramas and thrillers including
"I See a Dark Stranger" (1945) and "Green for Danger" (1946), but were best known for their comedies including "The Happiest Days of Your Life" (1950) and most famously, the St Trinians series, based on Ronald Searle's cartoons set in an anarchic girls school.
He was married to actress Bernadette O'Farrell from 1950 until his death in Monaco.
The couple had two children.
Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.

Question: Where was the director of film The Wildcats Of St Trinian'S born?
Answer: Hitchin