Like most people without easy access to the West End and Broadway, I did not get the full measure of Dame Maggie Smith's genius ... that missed out on World War II. And he will stop at nothing ...

Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain’s best-known actresses ... Shortly before the start of World War II the family moved to Oxford, where her father worked as a pathologist at Oxford University.

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s ...