Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando in a publicity shot for the 1953 film, "The Wild One".



Original B&W photo.

Bill Shankly

Bill Shankly, most famous as the manager who rebuilt Liverpool Football Club into a major force in English football, pictured here in 1937, while he was a player for Preston North End.


Original B&W photo.

William Russell as Sir Lancelot

William Russell, best known for being part of the original cast of Doctor Who, in his first big television role, the lead in "The Adventures of Sir Lancelot", in 1956.
Although made for a British audience, the series was shown on NBC, one of the major broadcast networks in the USA, a very rare occurrence, and the last fourteen of the thirty half-hour episodes were shot in colour, though they were only seen in black and white in Britain.

Consequently, there were enough colour pictures for reference for me to colour this informal "between takes" shot.


Original B&W photo.

Karel Hynek Mácha

When I saw this drawing of the Czech romantic poet Karel Hynek Mácha, I was struck by how much it looked like a photograph, apart from the pencil lines. The artist, Jan Vilímek, wasn't even born until nearly a quarter of a century after Mácha died, so how accurate it is I don't know. Even so, it's a superb and natural looking portrait. Doubtless some purists will object to my reworking of this drawing, but I think it only emphasises how good the original was, and the original still exists, so nothing is lost.



Original drawing.

John Wayne

When Marion Mitchell Morrison was young, he had a dog called Duke, and was given the nickname "Little Duke". When he started acting in movies, he used the name Duke Morrison until he got his first leading role in "The Big Trail" in 1930, the year this photo was taken, and he became known as John Wayne.


Original B&W photo.

Lucille Ball

When she started her acting career, in the 1930s, Lucille Ball bleached her naturally brown hair blonde, as in this photo. She later dyed it red to stand out from the many other blonde actresses in Hollywood.

Original B&W photo.

Quagga

Equus quagga quagga was a sub-species of the plains zebra of South Africa that went extinct in the wild by 1878, and completely extinct in 1883, when the last captive Quagga died in Amsterdam Zoo. This 1870 photo shows the only Quagga, a mare at London Zoo, to be photographed.

 


Original B&W photo.