Career: Roles in films such as Doctor in Love, The Mouse on the Moon, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Charlie Bubbles followed. BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine made him a household name. He featured in all 295 episodes as Norman Clegg between 1973 and 2010. He also played his character's father in short-lived prequel First of the Summer Wine. He was also the voice of Wallace of Wallace & Gromit fame in the acclaimed A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and A Matter of Loaf and Death. He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours list for services to drama. He died on June 2, 2017 at the age of 96.

Career: After the Second World War, Owen went on to appear in a number of films, including The Way to the Stars (1945), School for Secrets (1946), When the Bough Breaks (1947), and Once a Jolly Swagman (1949). His film career would also see him appear in a number of early Carry On films and several Lindsay Anderson movies, including O Lucky Man! (1973) and In Celebration (1974). On the stage, he starred alongside Katherine Hepburn in As You Like It, and with Spike Milligan in Son of Oblomov. Owen wrote the lyrics for the musical The Matchgirls. TV came knocking in 1973 when he landed the role of Compo Simmonite in Roy Clarke's Last of the Summer Wine. Owen played a central role in the success of the sitcom and appeared in the show for 26 years until his death in 1999. Away from acting, he was a strong supporter of the Labour Party.

Career: After a stage summer season, Wisdom was snapped up by the Rank Organisation, where he created his Gump character, Norman Pitkin, an accident-prone man with an ill-fitting suit and cloth cap. After his movie debut in 1948's Date with a Dream, he went on to have a string of big-screen successes, including Trouble in Store, which earned him a Bafta and introduced the self-penned song that would become his signature tune, Don't Laugh at Me (Cause I'm a Fool). In 1966, Wisdom was nominated for a Tony award for his performance in musical comedy Walking Happy on Broadway. Further success in America was denied him after he returned to London in the late 1960s to look after his children after his second wife Freda left him. His subsequent career was largely confined to TV work and touring the world with his cabaret act. He won critical acclaim in 1981 for his dramatic role in the TV play Going Gently. He also had a recurring role as Billy Ingleton in BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine. He was knighted in 2000 for services to entertainment. Wisdom was a cult figure in Albania, where he was one of the few actors from the West whose films were permitted to be aired during the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha. Wisdom died on October 4th, 2010, at a nursing home on the Isle of Man at the age of 95.

Career: Hird made her film debut in The Black Sheep of Whitehall in 1942 with Will Hay and a string of small roles followed. She had a memorable role as a sharp-tongued mother in A Kind of Loving (1962). Her biggest roles were on TV in sitcoms, including Meet the Wife, In Loving Memory, Hallelujah! and for nearly 20 years in Last of the Summer Wine. Her most acclaimed performances came later in life in straight roles. She won Bafta Best Actress awards for two of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologues and the drama Lost for Words. Away from acting, she hosted the religious programme Praise Be! for many years. She died on March 15, 2003 at the age of 91.