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Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)
film director, theatrical director, playwright, actor, film producer, autobiographer, filmmaker, director
- Stockholm University, Palmgrenska samskolan
Lee Child (born 1954)
film actor, television producer
- University of Sheffield, King Edward's School
Ben Elton (born 1959)
actor, comedian, playwright, lyricist, stand-up comedian, film actor, film director, stage actor, television actor, director, film producer
- University of Manchester, Victoria University of Manchester
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
painter, poet, composer, playwright, essayist, philosopher, artist, lyricist, singer, film director, freedom fighter, Nobel Prize winner, librettist, actor
- University College London, St. Xavier's Collegiate School
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
painter, playwright, film director, poet, actor, illustrator, librettist, voice actor, postage stamp designer, designer, photographer, composer, jewelry designer, ceramicist, director
- Lycée Condorcet
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008)
actor, film director, audiobook narrator, literary critic, essayist, agricultural engineer, director
- Lycée Saint-Louis, Institut national agronomique
John le Carré (1931-2020)
film producer, actor, spy
- University of Oxford, Sherborne School
Michael Powell (1905-1990)
film director, actor, film producer, director
- Dulwich College