Career: Hampshire turned down a chance to go to Hollywood when told she would have to change her hair colour and straighten her teeth. Instead, she built a career mainly on British TV and stage. Her film debut came in 1947's The Woman in the Hall, but she didn't appear on screen again until 1959's Upstairs and Downstairs. Notable success on the small screen came in the late 1960s when she played Fleur in the original version of The Forsyte Saga. She has worked continuously ever since in such projects as Monte Carlo or Bust, Living Free, The Pallisers, Nancherrow, The Grand and Monarch of the Glen. She has also written several books on gardening and an autobiography, Susan's Story.

Career: Attenborough's film debut was 1942's In Which We Serve, playing a cowardly sailor; in real life, he served with the RAF's Film Unit, sustaining permanent ear damage in the process. He became a post-war star thanks to hits such as Brighton Rock (1947),The Great Escape (1963), and I'm All Right Jack (1959). He and Bryan Forbes formed a production company in the early 1960s, which made films including The Angry Silence (1960) and Whistle Down the Wind (1961). Attenborough directed his first film, Oh! What a Lovely War, in 1969, won an Oscar for Gandhi in 1982, and also directed the acclaimed movies A Bridge Too Far (1977), Chaplin (1992) and Shadowlands (1993). He returned to acting in the 1990s to appear in Jurassic Park (1993), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), and Elizabeth (1998). He was knighted in 1976 and made a life peer in 1993. He died on August 24, 2014, at the age of 90.