Rudolph Walker has 11 credits at Criticker, including: King Ralph, The Thin Blue Line, Love Thy Neighbour, Spaghetti House and Universal Soldier

Thomas Baptiste has 12 credits at Criticker, including: The Ipcress File, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Wild Geese, Black Snake and Rise and Fall of Idi Amin

John Akomfrah has 8 credits at Criticker, including: Handsworth Songs, Scala!!!, The Nine Muses and The Stuart Hall Project

Carmen Munroe has 9 credits at Criticker, including: Desmond's, Ear for Eye, Great Moments in Aviation, Black Christmas and The Fosters

In British films of the 1930s and 1940s, American-born singer Elisabeth Welch made several memorable guest appearances in cabaret sequences, and starred opposite Paul Robeson in two features. Sophisticated, glamorous and charming, her appearances were a refreshing departure from the stereotype of black women perpetuated by Hollywood films of that time. One of her best screen roles was Beulah, the nightclub owner and hostess, in Ealing's Dead of Night (1945). After a long and distinguished career

In the early 1970s, Beaton began to perform in plays in London's West End. In 1970 he played the role of Ariel in Shakespeare's The Tempest, which he described in his autobiography as "the most important role of my acting career". In 1975, he helped to establish the Black Theatre of Brixton. In 1975 Beaton played Nanki-Poo in The Black Mikado, a modern version of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. In 1976, Beaton broke into television in the series The Fosters, which also featured a young Lenny

He came to Britain in 1960 to study painting, photography and interior design. After working as a film extra in Rome, he returned to London to study at the London School of Film Technique. He began work on Man Out, a surreal film about a West Indian novelist who has a mental breakdown. The project was never completed, but in 1966 Ové directed The Art of the Needle, a short film for the Acupuncture Association. This was followed by another short, Baldwin's Nigger (1969), in which novelist James B

Michael Abbensetts has 5 credits at Criticker, including: Black Christmas, Happy Birthday BBC Two, Empire Road, Big George Is Dead and Black and White in Colour

Stuart Hall has 6 credits at Criticker, including: The Stuart Hall Project, Harmony Heaven, L'Object D'Art A L'Age Electronique and Tyger Tyger

Cleo Sylvestre has 9 credits at Criticker, including: Kidulthood, Trog, Till Death Us Do Part, The Punk and School for Unclaimed Girls

Pearl Connor has just 1 credit at Criticker: Black and White in Colour

Brenda Emmanus has just 1 credit at Criticker: Black and White in Colour