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8.3

Sean Connery

b. 1930

Was appointed KBE for his services to drama in 2000.

Oscar nominee - The Untouchables.

BAFTA winner - The Name of the Rose; Fellowship (1998).

BAFTA nominee - The Untouchables; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; The Hunt for Red October.

8.1

Richard Harris

b. 1930

Oscar nominee - This Sporting Life; The Field.

BAFTA nominee - This Sporting Life.

Colin Blakely

b. 1930

BAFTA nominee - Screenplay; Equus; The Wednesday Play; The Way We Live Now.

6.9

Ian Holm

b. 1931

Was appointed CBE for his services to drama in 1990 and KBE in 1998.

Oscar nominee - Chariots of Fire.

BAFTA winner - The Bofors Gun; Chariots of Fire.

BAFTA nominee - The Lost Boys; Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes; Game, Set, and Match; The Madness of King George.

7.9

Virginia McKenna

b. 1931

Was appointed OBE for her services to wildlife and to the arts in 2004.

BAFTA winner - A Town Like Alice.

BAFTA nominee - Carve Her Name with Pride; Shades of Greene.

8.3

Diana Dors

b. 1931

8.3

Peter O'Toole

b. 1932

Oscar nominee - Lawrence of Arabia; Becket; The Lion in Winter; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; The Ruling Class; The Stunt Man; My Favorite Year; Venus; honorary award (2003).

BAFTA winner - Lawrence of Arabia.

BAFTA nominee - Becket; The Last Emperor; Venus.

[He allegedly declined a KBE for political reasons].

7.2

Billie Whitelaw

b. 1932

Was appointed CBE for her services to drama in 1991.

BAFTA winner - Charlie Bubbles; Twisted Nerve; The Sextet.

BAFTA nominee - Hell Is a City; Wessex Tales; The Omen; The Krays.

7.7

Geraldine McEwan

b. 1932

BAFTA winner - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.

[She allegedly declined both an OBE and a DBE.]

6.3

Prunella Scales

b. 1932

Was appointed CBE for her services to drama in 1992.

BAFTA nominee - A Question of Attribution

8.4

Michael Caine

b. 1933

Was appointed CBE for his services to drama in 1993.

Oscar winner - Hannah and Her Sisters; The Cider House Rules.

Oscar nominee - Alfie; Sleuth; Educating Rita; The Quiet American.

BAFTA winner - Educating Rita; Fellowship (2000).

BAFTA nominee - The Ipcress File; Alfie; The Honorary Consul; Hannah and Her Sisters; Little Voice; The Cider House Rules; The Quiet American.

Tom Bell

b. 1933

BAFTA nominee - Out; Prime Suspect.

8.6

Siân Phillips

b. 1933

Was appointed CBE for her services to drama in 2000.

BAFTA winner = I, Claudius, Special Award (2001)

Judi Dench

b. 1934

Was appointed OBE for her services to drama in 1970 and DBE in 1988.

Oscar winner - Shakespeare in Love.

Oscar nominee - Mrs Brown; Chocolat; Iris; Mrs Henderson Presents; Notes on a Scandal; Philomena.

BAFTA winner - Four in the Morning; Talking to a Stranger; BBC2 Playhouse; The Cherry Orchard; A Fine Romance; A Room with a View; A Handful of Dust; Mrs Brown; Shakespeare in Love; The Last of the Blonde Bombshells; Iris.

BAFTA nominee - ITV Playhouse; BBC2 Play of the Week; A Performance of Macbeth; Saigon: Year of the Cat; Wetherby; 84 Charing Cross Road; Behaving Badly; As Time Goes By; Chocolat; The Shipping News; Mrs Henderson Presents ; Notes on a Scandal; Cranford; My Week with Marilyn; Skyfall; Philomena.

8.2

Maggie Smith

b. 1934

Was appointed CBE for her services to drama in 1970 and DBE in 1990.

Oscar winner - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; California Suite.

Oscar nominee - Othello; Travels with my Aunt; A Room with a View; Gosford Park.

BAFTA winner - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; A Private Function; A Room with a View; The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne; Tea with Mussolini; Lifetime Achievement (1993); Fellowship (1996).

BAFTA nominee - Nowhere to Go; Young Cassidy; Death on the Nile; California Suite; Quartet; All for Love; Talking Heads; Screen Two; The Secret Garden; David CopperfieldGosford Park; Downton Abbey; The Lady in the Van.

7.4

Alan Bates

b. 1934

Was appointed CBE for his services to drama in 1995.

Oscar nominee - The Fixer.

BAFTA winner - An Englishman Abroad.

BAFTA nominee - A Kind of Loving; Women in Love; Play for Today; Hamlet; Unnatural Pursuits; Love in a Cold Climate.

7.9

Sylvia Syms

b. 1934

Was appointed OBE for her services to drama in 2007.

BAFTA nominee - Woman in a Dressing Gown; No Trees in the Street; The Tamarind Seed.

7.6

Richard Briers

b. 1934

Was appointed OBE for his services to drama in 1989 and CBE in 2003.

BAFTA nominee - The Good Life; One-Upmanship.

5.8

Timothy West

b. 1934

Was appointed CBE for his services to drama in 1984.

BAFTA nominee - Edward the Seventh; Crime and Punichment; The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight; Churchill and the Generals.

Ian Richardson

b. 1934

Was appointed CBE for his services to drama in 1989.

BAFTA winner - House of Cards.

BAFTA nominee - An Ungentlemanly Act; To Play the King; The Final Cut.

7.8

Wendy Craig

b. 1934

BAFTA winner - Not in Front of the Children.

BAFTA nominee - The Servant.

7.2

Roy Kinnear

b. 1934

7.6

Albert Finney

b. 1936

Oscar nominee - Tom Jones; Murder on the Orient Express; The Dresser; Under the Volcano; Erin Brockovich.

BAFTA winner - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; Big Fish; Fellowship (2003).

BAFTA nominee - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; Tom Jones; Gumshoe; Murder on the Orient Express; Shoot the Moon; The Dresser; The Green Man; Karaoke; Cold Lazarus; A Rather English Marriage; Erin Brockovich; The Gathering Storm.

[He allegedly declined a CBE and a KBE, calling the honours system 'snobbish'].

7.1

Brian Blessed

b. 1936

8.6

Anthony Hopkins

b. 1937

Was appointed KBE for his services to drama in 1992.

Oscar winner - The Silence of the Lambs.

Oscar nominee - The Remains of the Day; Nixon; Amistad.

BAFTA winner - War & Peace; The Silence of the Lambs; Shadowlands; Fellowship (2008).

BAFTA nominee - The Lion in Winter; BBC Play of the Month; The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens; Play for Today; Magic; The Remains of the Day.

7.7

Vanessa Redgrave

b. 1937

Was appointed CBE for her services to drama in 1967.

Oscar winner - Julia.

Oscar nominee - Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment; Isadora; Mary, Queen of Scots; The Bostonians; Howard's End.

BAFTA winner - Fellowship (2010).

BAFTA nominee - Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment; Prick Up Your Ears; The Gathering Storm.

6.7

Tom Courtenay

b. 1937

Was appointed KBE for his services to drama in 2001.

Oscar nominee - Doctor Zhivago; The Dresser.

BAFTA winner - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner; A Rather English Marriage.

BAFTA nominee - Billy Liar; King & Country; The Dresser.

7.2

Edward Fox

b. 1937

Was appointed OBE for his services to drama in 2003.

BAFTA winner - The Go-Between; A Bridge Too Far; Edward & Mrs. Simpson.

BAFTA nominee - Gandhi.

7.8

Oliver Reed

b. 1938

BAFTA nominee - Gladiator.

7.6

Terence Stamp

b. 1938

Oscar nominee - Billy Budd.

BAFTA nominee - Billy Budd; The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

6.9

Derek Jacobi

b. 1938

Was appointed CBE for his services to drama in 1985 and KBE in 1994. Also appointed Knight 1st class of the Order of the Dannebrog (Denmark) in 1989.

BAFTA winner - I, Claudius.

BAFTA nominee - Philby, Burgess and Maclean; Dead Again; Breaking the Code; Last Tango in Halifax.

8.2

Diana Rigg

b. 1938

Was appointed CBE for her services to drama in 1993.

BAFTA winner - Mother Love.

8.2

Ian McKellen

b. 1939

Was appointed KBE for his services to drama in 1979.

Oscar nominee - Gods and Monsters; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

BAFTA nominee - Richard III; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; The Dresser.

7.3

Susannah York

b. 1939

Oscar nominee - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.

BAFTA winner - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.

6.3

James Fox

b. 1939

BAFTA winner - The Servant.

BAFTA nominee - A Passage to India.

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Born five years either side of the 1930's and, therefore, arguably part of a truer generation:

Richard Burton (b. 1925)
Robert Hardy (b. 1925)
Roger Moore (b. 1927)
Robert Shaw (b. 1927)
Geoffrey Palmer (b. 1927)
Fenella Fielding (b. 1927)
Nigel Davenport (b. 1928)
Michael Gambon (b. 1940)
John Hurt (b. 1940)
Patrick Stewart (b. 1940)
David Jason (b. 1940)
Julie Christie (b. 1941)
Sarah Miles (b. 1941)
Simon Ward (b. 1941)
Bob Hoskins (b. 1942)
Ian McShane (b. 1942)
John Thaw (b. 1942)
Ben Kingsley (b. 1943)
Malcolm McDowell (b. 1943)
Lynn Redgrave (b. 1943)
Timothy Dalton (b. 1944)
Bernard Hill (b. 1944)
Roger Lloyd Pack (b. 1944)