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Richard Attenborough ( &#; ) English actor and director. His most famous roles include The Great Escape, Brighton Rock and Jurassic Park. As a director, he won two Academy Awards for the film Gandhi ().

Richard Burton ( – ) Welsh actor.

Burton was nominated seven times for an Academy Award as best actor in films, such as Beckett () and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold ().

Michael Caine ( &#; ) English actor.

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Caine was raised in London, and his hallmark was a strong Cockney accent. He featured in many gritty post-war films such as Zulu () The Italian Job () and Battle of Britain ().

Charlie Chaplin ( – ) English actor.

Chaplin was an iconic film actor whose career spanned the birth of movies in the silent era to mainstream colour films. His many influential films The Kid () and The Great Dictator ().

Daniel Day-Lewis ( – ) English/Irish actor.

Born into a Jewish family,  Day-Lewis is one of the most successful and selective actors of his generation. He has wo