Career: A late starter, Finlay didn't appear in the West End until he was 31. After making a series of acclaimed performances in various plays, he was invited to join Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company. He starred opposite the legendary actor in Othello, and then reprised the role on the big screen in 1965, bagging an Oscar nomination in the process. Other major projects included Dennis Potter's version of Casanova, The Three Musketeers, and controversial TV drama Bouquet of Barbed Wire. He also featured in Common as Muck, Longitude, The Sins, Station Jim, Johnny and the Bomb, The Pianist and Life Begins. He died on January 30, 2016, from heart failure after a long illness. He was 89.

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: Warner gained acclaim with the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Wars of the Roses TV show before landing a major role in the movie Tom Jones in 1963. It paved the way for his first leading part, Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment, in 1965, the same year he won plaudits for his West End performance as Hamlet. Since then, he's made more than 150 TV and film appearances, most notably in Straw Dogs, The Omen, Time Bandits, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Man with Two Brains, Tron, two Star Trek movies and The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse. He returned to Shakespeare in 2005, playing the title role in King Lear at the Chichester Festival Theatre. His later work includes roles in TV film In Love with Barbara, and the dramas Wallander and Mad Dogs.