Career: Stamp and his flatmate Michael Caine struggled to make ends meet for years. Then, in 1962, Stamp landed the title role in the film Billy Budd, for which he gained an Oscar nomination. He became one of the faces of the 1960s thanks to his roles in the likes of The Collector, Poor Cow, and Far from the Madding Crowd. He rarely worked during the 1970s, preferring to spend time in India. He returned to form playing the villainous General Zod in Superman and its sequel. Since then, Stamp has appeared in such movies as The Hit, Wall Street, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace, Bowfinger and The Limey. More recent work includes Get Smart, Valkyrie, The Adjustment Bureau and Song for Marion.

Career: Hurt made both his London stage debut (in the acclaimed Infanticide in the House of Fred Ginger) and his first film, The Wild and the Willing, in 1962. More theatre work and films such as A Man for All Seasons and 10 Rillington Place followed. In 1975, he won a Bafta for his portrayal of Quentin Crisp in TV drama The Naked Civil Servant, which made his name. He received Oscar nominations for Midnight Express and The Elephant Man. Other acclaimed projects included Nineteen Eighty-Four, Scandal, Alien and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. He also portrayed the Tory politician Alan Clark in The Alan Clark Diaries for the BBC. He reprised his role as Quentin Crisp in 2009 in An Englishman in New York. He went on to appear in the final two Harry Potter films, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Doctor Who. He died on January 27, 2017, at the age of 77.

Career: Roth made his screen debut in 1982 playing a 16-year-old skinhead in acclaimed drama Made In Britain, followed by a collaboration with Gary Oldman in Mike Leigh's TV movie Meantime two years later. A string of well-received films followed including The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. Roth moved to America in 1990 and hit the big time in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, reuniting with the director for his Oscar-winning 1994 drama Pulp Fiction. Roth picked up a Bafta for Rob Roy the following year and made his directing debut in 1999 with The War Zone. He stole the show in Tim Burton's revamp of Planet of the Apes in 2001 and his other films include Dark Water, Even Money, Funny Games and The Incredible Hulk. He played the lead role in American TV drama Lie to Me.