Harold Pinter, was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years.

A.J.P. Taylor was an English historian who specialised in 19th and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his television lectures. His combination of academic rigour and popular appeal led the historian Richard Overy to describe him as "the Macaulay of our age".

Clive James (1939-2019) was an Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist, best known for his autobiographical series Unreliable Memoirs, for his chat shows and documentaries on British television and for his prolific journalism. He lived and worked in the United Kingdom from the early 1960s.

With Camera Press stamps and caption on reverse: British Film Directors; Mike Leigh. OPS the British dramatist and film and theatre director, Mike Leigh, whose 1988 film High Hopes won the Venice Film Festival's Critic's Prize for its blend of comedy and social observation. Born in 1943, his other feature films include Bleak Moments, and The Short and the Curlies. His theatre work includes Abigail's Party, Ecstasy and Smelling a Rat, while TV films include Four Days in July and…

Germaine Greer, an Australian theorist, academic and journalist, is regarded as having been a major feminist voice of the mid-20th century. She was professor of English and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick from 1998 to 2003.

With Camera Press stamp and caption on reverse: Historic Portraits: Paul Scofield. Leading British actor of films, TV and stage, photographed in 1948. Born in 1922; joined Croydon Repertory Company in 1939. Toured with ENSA 1941-1945. Member of the Royal Shakespeare Company since 1962, his best-known plays include: "Ring Around The Moon", "Time Remembered", "Hamlet" (in Moscow), "A Man For All Seasons", and "The Hotel in Amsterdam". Please acknowledge: Photograph by CECIL BEATON,…

Billie Honor Whitelaw, was an English actress. She worked in close collaboration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and was regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works. He was born on 6 Jun 1932 and died on 21 Dec 2014. Close up, contemplating, thinking, sitting.