Career: Woodward made his West End debut in 1954 and continued to work on the stage throughout his career. His first film was 1955's Where There's a Will, and he had a recurring role in early ITV soap opera Emergency Ward 10 during the late 1950s. Productions such as Magnolia Street and Becket followed before spy series Callan made him a household name. It ended after a five-year run and a spin-off movie. Other memorable roles came in the movies The Wicker Man (1973), Breaker Morant (1980) and Who Dares Wins (1982) and the TV series The Equalizer and Common as Muck. In the last few years of his life, he appeared on the big screen in Hot Fuzz (2007) and on the small screen in The Bill and EastEnders. He died at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro on November 16, 2009, at the age of 79. He had been suffering from several illnesses, including pneumonia.

Career: Widmark was performing in a stage production in Chicago when 20th Century Fox signed him to a seven-year film contract. His first movie role was Kiss of Death (1947), a part that earned him a Golden Globe and his only Academy Award nomination. His early films were The Street with No Name (1948), Road House (1948) and Yellow Sky (1948) and he quickly developed a reputation for playing movie villains. After demanding more diverse roles, he went on play a wide range of parts in the likes of Panic in the Streets (1950), No Way Out (1950), Night and the City (1950), Broken Lance (1954), The Alamo (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and Madigan (1968). He made the transition to the small screen in 1971 with the TV movie Vanished, and he reprised his detective role from Madigan in six TV movies. After a career that had seen him star in more than 60 films, he retired from acting in 2001. After a long illness, he died in 2008 at the age of 93.

Career: Further theatre work followed, until TV and films beckoned. Duttine's early small screen appearances came in Softly Softly, Z Cars, A Pin to See the Peepshow and The Nine Tailors. In 1977, he featured in two Coronation Street episodes and the acclaimed Spend Spend Spend. Bigger parts came in Jesus of Nazareth and The Mallens, before To Serve Them All My Days made him a star on both sides of the Atlantic. The Day of the Triffids, A Woman of Substance and Lame Ducks were also hits. Since then he's appeared in Ain't Misbehavin', Touching Evil, Out of the Blue, The Jury and Jane Hall's Big Bad Bus Ride. His recent work includes Heartbeat, Doc Martin, and The Paradise.