Claire Bloom

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Also Known As	Claire Blume
Born	February 15, 1931 (age 94) • London • England
Title / Office	The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2013)

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John Gielgud

British actor and director

Ian Bannen

Scottish actor

Mark Rylance

British actor and director

Patrick Stewart

British actor

Laurence Olivier

British actor, director, writer, and producer

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

British actor and manager

Junius Brutus Booth

American actor

David Garrick

English actor, poet, and producer

William Charles Macready

English actor

Peter Brook

English producer-director

William Kempe

British actor

Robert Armin

English actor

George Anne Bellamy

English actress

Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies

British actress

William Poel

British actor

Julia Marlowe

American actress

Charles Hart

British actor

Charles Lamb

British author

Mary Ann Lamb

British author

Friedrich Ludwig Schröder

German actor and theatrical manager

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