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: Blackman's first professional job was as an understudy to the lead in West End play The Guinea Pig. Her film debut came in 1946's Fame Is the Spur. Further small movie roles and TV work followed, but it was playing Cathy Gale in The Avengers that made her a star. Blackman quit the show after two series in 1964 and, the same year, starred alongside Sean Connery as Pussy Galore in Bond movie Goldfinger. Films since include Shalako (re-teaming her with Connery), To the Devil a Daughter and Bridget Jones's Diary. She also starred in sitcom The Upper Hand and appeared in Coronation Street in 2004. She continues to work on stage and pop up in guest TV roles.

Career: Alexander quickly established himself as a character actor and went on to appear in more than 300 films, TV movies and series episodes. He mostly had bit parts and fame did not come to him until later in life when he landed the role of lovable rogue and would-be tycoon Charlie Hungerford in Bergerac in 1981. He played the part for 10 years and it made him a household name. After Bergerac, he starred alongside Rik Mayall in The New Statesman. He died on May 28, 2009 at the age of 86.