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Old 12-09-2007, 06:16 PM
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Just looking at the profile for Laurence Harvey and was amazed he was Lithuanian,brought up in South Africa!
Thought i'd start a thread on other "British stalwarts" that were actually nothing of the sort,like....

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Sid James ... South African.
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Richard E Grant ... born in Swaziland.

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Born in London, but Leslie Howard was the child of Hungarian-born Frank Steiner and Lillian Blumberg...
Bit of a Bay Window, what??
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Dinah Sheridan, born in Hampstead of a Russian father and a German mother.
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Googie Withers born in Pakistan.

George Sanders born in St.Petersburg, Russia.

Vivien Leigh born in Darjeeling, India.

I think that many British stars were born overseas because of military and business connections their families had with the Commonwealth.

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Helen Mirren, or rather Ilyena Mironoff (she's half-Russian on her dad's side)
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How about one in reverse ... exotic 'Indian' beauty Anna Kashfi ... really Joan O'Callaghan from Cardiff.

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Olivia de Havilland & Joan Fontaine both born in Japan of British parents; Audrey Hepburn born in Belgium of a British father and a Dutch mother; Elizabeth Taylor born in England of American parents, and Bob Hope born in England of British parents. The problem of deciding what is a British film should be extended to what is a British performer.
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Merle Oberon......'born in Tasmania' (I don't think....)
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Merle Oberon......'born in Tasmania' (I don't think....)
Merle Oberon ..... born in India to an English father and an Anglo-Indian mother.

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Margaret Lockwood born in Karachi
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How about one in reverse ... exotic 'Indian' beauty Anna Kashfi ... really Joan O'Callaghan from Cardiff.

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Perennial 'nazi', Marius Goring - born and raised on the Isle of Wight
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