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John Williams was a tall, urbane Anglo-American actor best known for his role as Chief Inspector Hubbard in Dial M for Murder (1954), a role he played on Broadway, in Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1954 film, and on television in 1958. Playing Hubbard on the Great White Way brought him the 1953 Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Play. "Dial M for Murder" was the 27th Broadway play he had appeared in since making his New York debut in "The Fake" in 1924, which he had originally appeared in back in his native England.

Williams was born on April 15, 1903 in Buckinghamshire and attended Lancing College. He first trod the boards as a teenager in a 1916 production of Peter Pan (1924). He moved to America in the mid-1920s and was a busy and constantly employed stage actor for 30 years. After "Dial M for Murder" in the 1953-54 season, though, he appeared in only four more Broadway plays between 1955 and 1970 as he focused on movies and television.

In addition to "Dial M for Murder", he appeared in Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947) and in To Catch a Thief (1955) and in 10 episodes of the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955). For Billy Wilder, he appeared in Sabrina (1954) and Witness for the Prosecution (1957). Beginning in the 1960s, most of his work was in television, including a nine-episode stint on Family Affair (1966) taking over Sebastian Cabot's duties as Brian Keith's butler when Cabot was waylaid by health problems.

He retired in the late '70s, his last acting gig being an appearance on Battlestar Galactica (1978) in 1979. He was known by many in the last phase of his career for his work on one of the first TV infomercials, when he served as the pitchman for a classical music record collection called "120 Music Masterpieces."

John Williams died on May 5, 1983 in La Jolla, California from an aneurysm. He was 80 years old.

Alexandra Gilbreath was born on 28 March 1969 in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for Midnight Caller (2023), The Art of Love (2022) and Monarch of the Glen (2000).

John Read was born on 14 November 1920 in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He was a cinematographer and producer, known for Thunderbirds Are GO (1966), Stingray (1964) and Thunderbirds (1965). He died on 13 April 2006 in Surrey, England, UK.

Toby Simkin is a Broadway / West End / Theatre/ Film producer with over 4 decades of award-winning experience and a proven track record in all aspects of commercial entertainment production & operations globally. Toby Simkin resides in North America and Australasia.

On Broadway, the Tony® Award winning productions on Broadway of "I Am My Own Wife" (and London & US tour), "Long Day's Journey Into Night" starring Vanessa Redgrave & Brian Dennehy, "Death of a Salesman" starring Brian Dennehy (including London) and productions of "The Crucible" starring Liam Neeson and "Victor/Victoria" starring Julie Andrews. Also on Broadway he was Production Supervisor for the Liverpool / Toronto / Broadway transfer of "Blood Brothers", along with management or marketing for over 120 Broadway shows where he is also is credited with leading the Broadway theatre industry into cyberspace in the early 1990s.

Globally, Toby produced or managed many other shows including "The Female of the Species" starring Eileen Atkins (London), "The Rocky Horror Show" (South Korea and Singapore), "Jekyll and Hyde" (South Korea and Taiwan), "Jane Eyre" (China), "Elton John & Tim Rice's AIDA (China), FAME (China), various "Savion Glover" shows (Off Broadway & tours), "The Three Tenors" (Vancouver), Vaclav Havel's "Temptation" (London), The Shanghai Ballet's "White Haired Girl" (tour) Liza Minnelli concert (Vancouver), "The Promised Love" symphonic recording (Leningrad), "Relatively Speaking" (Washington DC), "The Long and the Short and the Tall" (Australia) plus many more shows in the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia.

Toby is also Producer of the award-winning motion pictures, "Three Grams of a Dream (2012)" & "Dong's Photo Exhibition (2012)" and the TV show "DJ's LollyGag Garden (2004)" as well as the upcoming movie "Sacrifice". Toby has extensive multi-cultural experience globally, and experience from design concept through final performance, with hands on experience with all facets of theatrical production and operations.

Clegg was educated at the private Caldicott School at Farnham Royal in South Buckinghamshire and, later, at the private Westminster School in London. As a 16-year-old exchange student in Munich, Germany, he was sentenced to a term of community service after he and a friend burned a collection of cacti belonging to a professor.

He spent a gap year as a skiing instructor in Austria, Clegg studied Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and was active in the student theatre; he acted alongside Helena Bonham Carter in a play about AIDS, and under director Sam Mendes.

Clegg spent summer 1989 as an office junior in a Postipankki bank in Helsinki. After university, he was awarded a scholarship to study for a year at the University of Minnesota, where he wrote a thesis on the political philosophy of the Deep Green movement. He then moved to New York City, where he worked as an intern under Christopher Hitchens at The Nation, a left-wing magazine.

In 1993, Clegg won the Financial Times' David Thomas Prize, in remembrance of an FT journalist killed on assignment in Kuwait in 1991. Clegg was the award's first recipient. He was later sent to Hungary, where he wrote articles about the mass privatisation of industries in the former communist bloc.

Chicane was born on 28 February 1971 in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He is a composer and actor, known for Six Feet Under (2001), Splendor (1999) and Peace One Day (2004).

Janet Gleeson was born on 27 May 1927 in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Seven Little Australians (1939). She died on 5 December 2012 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.