Arthur Hambling
Arthur Hambling( 14 March 1888 – 6 December 1952) was a British actor, on stage from 1912, and best known for appearances in the films" Henry V"( 1944) and" The Lavender Hill Mob"( 1951).
William Kellner
William Kellner( 30 July 1900 – May, 1996) was an Austrian- born art director who worked primarily on British films in the 1940s and 1950s.
He began his career as a draughtsman working for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger on their films" A Canterbury Tale"( 1944) and" I Know Where I'm Going!"( 1945) and on David Lean's" Brief Encounter" in 1946.
He was also art director on two Ealing Comedies," Kind Hearts and Coronets"( 1949) and" the Lavender Hill Mob"( 1951).
Kellner was nominated for two Oscars, in 1949 for Basil Dearden's" Saraband for Dead Lovers" and in 1959 for Joseph L. Mankiewicz's adaptation of Tennessee Williams'" Suddenly Last Summer".
He worked on two Anthony Asquith all- star productions," The V.I.P.s" and" The Yellow Rolls- Royce", both in 1964, before retiring in 1965.
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T. E. B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass.
The title refers to Lavender Hill, a street in Battersea, a district of South London, in the postcode district SW11, near to Clapham Junction railway station.
The British Film Institute ranked "The Lavender Hill Mob" the 17th greatest British film of all time.
The original film was digitally restored and re-released to UK cinemas on 29 July 2011 to celebrate its 60th anniversary.
Marty Robinson (gay activist)
Martin" Marty" Robinson( November 25, 1942 – March 19, 1992) was an American gay activist, founder of the Lavender Hill Mob.
Robinson had been a hippie and had dropped out of Brooklyn College and worked in construction.
In late June 1969 he was a participant in the Stonewall Riot, which focused his activism on gay rights; on July 27 he led the first Christopher Street Liberation March.
He was a member of the Mattachine Action Committee and co-founded the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance later that year, and subsequently ACT- UP, the National Gay Task Force and GLAAD.
On June 24, 1970, with his partner Tom Doerr and three others, he was arrested at a GAA sit- in at the Republican State Committee; they became known as the Rockefeller Five.
In 1986 he left GLAAD and founded the Lavender Hill Mob because he felt existing pressure groups were not sufficiently radical to effect policy change required by the AIDS crisis.
He is credited with developing political" zaps", chaotic and theatrical interventions intended to attract the attention of the press.
Robinson died of AIDS in March 1992.
An archive of his papers is held by the New York City GLBT Center.
Patricia Garwood
Patricia Garwood( 28 January 1941 – 24 February 2019) was an English television, film and stage actress who first appeared on film aged 9 in" The Lavender Hill Mob" and is best known as playing Beryl Crabtree in five series of the BBC situation comedy" No Place Like Home" between 1983 and 1987.
Garwood was born in Paignton, Devon, on 28 January 1941.
She was trained at the Arts Educational School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Garwood married in 1960 and had four daughters.
Garwood died from non-Hodgkin lymphoma in February 2019 at the age of 78.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Charles Crichton
Charles Ainslie Crichton (6 August 1910 – 14 September 1999) was an English film director and editor.
Born in Wallasey, Cheshire, he became best known for directing many comedies produced at Ealing Studios and had a 40-year career editing and directing many films and television programmes.
For the acclaimed comedy "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988), Crichton was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (along with the film's star John Cleese).
T. E. B. Clarke
Thomas Ernest Bennett" Tibby" Clarke( 7 June 1907 – 11 February 1989) was a movie scriptwriter who wrote several of the Ealing Studios comedies.
His scripts always feature careful logical development from a slightly absurd premise to a farcical conclusion.
In 1952 he was awarded a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for his script for" The Lavender Hill Mob", making him one of just a handful of Britons to receive this award.
He continued to work as a scriptwriter after Ealing ceased production in the mid-1950s, his later contributions including" Sons and Lovers" and the Disney film" The Horse Without a Head".
Clarke was also a novelist and writer of non-fiction, and was not above presenting his fictions as fact – most notably the 1981 book" Murder at Buckingham Palace", which purports to tell the story of a hushed- up murder in the Royal residence in 1935.
Despite its including' documentary' photographs, there is no external evidence that the book is anything but pure fiction.
For" The Blue Lamp"( 1950) he drew on his experience as a wartime reserve constable.
Clarke was the younger brother of military deception pioneer Dudley Clarke.
He was the subject of" This Is Your Life" in 1960 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Paul Demel
Paul Demel( 4 May 1903–31 August 1951) was an actor born in Brno, then in the Austro- Hungarian Empire.
He is most notable for his cameo appearances in films, particularly the British Ealing comedies" Hue and Cry"( 1947)," Passport to Pimlico"( 1949)," The Lavender Hill Mob"( 1951) and" His Excellency"( 1952).
His other film appearances include" English Without Tears"( 1944) for Two Cities Films.
His stage work included West End roles in" The Doctor's Dilemma" at the Haymarket with Vivien Leigh in 1942, and" Madame Louise" at the Garrick in 1945.
He died in Munich.

Question: What is the place of birth of the director of film The Lavender Hill Mob?
Answer: Wallasey