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Equity
Founded1930
CountryUnited Kingdom
AffiliationTUC, STUC
Key peopleChristine Payne, general secretary
Harry Landis, president
Office locationLondon
Websitewww.equity.org.uk
Equity (formerly the British Actors' Equity Association) is the actors' trade union in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1930 by a group of West End performers. The members of the union have the greatest range of fees of any union in the UK.

Equity was the last of the closed shop types. As this was made illegal in 1981[1], however, it is no longer a requirement for every paid British professional actor to be a member of Equity. [2] [3]

Equity is the British counterpart of several American unions, including Actors' Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

General Secretaries

  • 1932:
  • 1930s: David Henley
  • 1940: Llewellyn Rees
  • 1946:
  • Gordon Sandison
  • Gerald Croasdell
  • 1970s: Peter Plouviez
  • 1991: Ian McGarry
  • 2005: Christine Payne

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1900s  1910s  1920s  - 1930s -  1940s  1950s  1960s
1927 1928 1929 - 1930 - 1931 1932 1933

Year 1930 (MCMXXX
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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" [2]   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" [3]
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Trades Union Congress

Trades Union Congress
Founded 1868
Members Approx 6.5 million (2006)
Country United Kingdom
Affiliation ITUC
Key people Alison Shepherd, President
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STUC

Scottish Trades Union Congress
Founded 1897
Members 630,000
Country Scotland
Key people Grahame Smith, General Secretary
Office location Glasgow
Website www.stuc.org.
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Harry Landis ( born in Stepney, London, England in 1929) is a British actor. He has had a long career in British television and film and is known for playing cockney-Jewish roles.

He began acting with London's politically-minded Unity Theatre.
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London
Canary Wharf is the centre of London's modern office towers
London shown within England
Coordinates:
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Constituent country England
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actor, actress, or player (see terminology) is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity.
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A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members ("rank and file" members) and negotiates labor contracts with employers.
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West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, England, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of London's "Theatreland".
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In North America a closed shop is a business or industrial factory in which union membership (often of a specific union and no other) is a precondition to employment.
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Actors' Equity

Founded 1913
Members 45,000 actors and stage managers
Country United States
Affiliation AFL-CIO
Key people Mark Zimmerman, president
Office location New York City, New York
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SAG

Screen Actors Guild
Founded 1933
Members 120,000
Country United States
Affiliation AFL-CIO
Key people Alan Rosenberg, President
Connie Stevens, Secretary-Treasurer
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AFTRA

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
Members 80,000
Country United States
Affiliation AFL-CIO, IFJ
Office location New York, New York
Website www.aftra.
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Sir Godfrey Tearle (October 12 1884 - June 9 1953) was an American-born actor who portrayed the quintissential Englishman on stage and in films in both England and the United States.
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Sir Lewis Thomas Casson MC (26 October 1875–16 May 1969) was an English actor and theatre director and the husband of Dame Sybil Thorndike.

Lewis Casson was the son of banker and musician, Thomas Casson and was educated at Ruthin School. He was knighted in 1945.
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Sir Felix Aylmer OBE, (February 21, 1889–September 2, 1979), born Felix Edward Aylmer Jones, was a distinguished English stage actor who also appeared in the cinema and on television.

Aylmer was born in Corsham, Wiltshire, England.
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André Morell

André Morell in Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59)
Birth name Cecil André Mesritz
Born August 20 1909
London, England, UK
Died November 28 1978
London, England, UK

Other name(s)
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Derek William Douglas Bond MC (born January 26, 1920, Glasgow, Scotland, died October 15 2006, London, England) was a popular British actor.

He enjoyed a varied film, stage and television career, which began in 1938 with experience with the Finchley Amateur Dramatic Society.
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Harry Landis ( born in Stepney, London, England in 1929) is a British actor. He has had a long career in British television and film and is known for playing cockney-Jewish roles.

He began acting with London's politically-minded Unity Theatre.
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