Suzy Mandel (born March 6, 1953) is the stage name of an ex-actress and model best known for her roles in such 1970s British sex comedies as Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976), Come Play with Me (1977), and The Playbirds (1978), and for her appearances on the Benny Hill Show.

Born in London, Mandel grew up on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent and later in Epping, Essex and Woodford, Essex and Buckhurst Hill, Essex. She began her career as a coat model. Later, she worked modeling lingerie, winning such awards as ‘Miss Teenage London’, ‘Miss Benson and Hedges’, and ‘Miss TV Times’ (broadcast on UK television on 14 June 1974 and presented by Hughie Green). Mandel's acting career in British sex comedies began in 1976, with her first film, Intimate Games.

Benny Hill saw Intimate Games, and this led him to cast Mandel on his eponymous show. She appears in multiple roles on two 1977 episodes of the series (broadcast in the UK 26/01/1977 and 23/03/1977)[1] [2][3]. Of Hill and Jackie Wright's famous ‘head slapping’ routine, she said "Jackie Wright was a chain smoker and he would often hide his cigarette in his mouth or behind his back during scenes. In fact, you could often see a little plume of smoke rising behind him if you looked close enough. Benny would slap his head to fan the smoke away.".

Richard Gilbert "Dick" Emery (19 February 1915 – 2 January 1983) was an English comedian and actor. Beginning on radio in the 1950s, an eponymous television series ran from 1963 to 1981. He was the brother of Ann Emery.

Richard Gilbert Emery was born in University College Hospital, Bloomsbury, London in 1915. His parents were the comedy double act Callan and Emery. They took him on tour when he was only 3 weeks old and gave him the occasional turn on the stage throughout his childhood, which was always on the move and disrupted, creating problems for the future, but at least setting the scene for eventually going into show business. His parents split up when he was 8 years old and he chose to stay with his mother, who gave up 'showbiz'. He tried a variety of jobs before the stage: mechanic, office boy, farm hand and driving instructor.

During World War II he was called up to the RAF and rose to the rank of corporal.

However, due to family problems, he deserted and returned to London joining the chorus line of The Merry Widow at the Majestic Theatre, London. He was arrested and subsequently imprisoned for desertion.

Saul Mandel (January 21, 1926 – August 14, 2011) was an Illustrator, artist, animator and graphic designer in the advertising field. He was most known for designing the Jolly Green Giant and The 1986 Puppy Love postage stamp.

Mandel's work in advertising had covered many types of products, such as: automobiles, airlines, milk, candy and alcohol. He had worked companies such as, CBS, AT&T, General Motors and Life and a variety of nonprofit groups, such as the Boy Scouts of America and the Advertising Council.

One of Mandel's famous characters, he described this as his favorite project: "I had the most fun with it. Nobody inhibited me in what I did, what I tried to do and how I did it."

Created for United States Postal Service, the stamp had been described as 'too cute' for adult to use. Yet its popularity led to the creation of merchandise, which still be purchased at the post office.

Mary Millington (born 30 November 1945–19 August 1979) was a British model and pornographic actress. She has been described as one of the "two hottest British sex film stars of the seventies", the other being Fiona Richmond.

Mary Ruth Quilter was born out of wedlock, and grew up without her father (whose name was John Klein). She was bullied at school due to being born illegitimately, and suffered from low self esteem throughout her childhood and teenage years. After marrying at a young age she took the surname Maxted, and lived in Dorking. She had to nurse her terminally ill mother for more than ten years, and began her porn career to pay for her care. She became a glamour model in the late 1960s.

Soon after this she met the pornographer John Jesnor Lindsay, and began appearing in 8 mm hardcore porn loops which sold well in Europe. One of her first films was Miss Bohrloch in 1970.Miss Bohrloch won the Golden Phallus Award at the Wet Dream Festival held in November 1970 in Amsterdam. Maxted starred in around twenty short hardcore films for John Lindsay, although only five (Miss Bohrloch, Oral Connection, Betrayed, Oh Nurse and Special Assignment) have so far resurfaced. She then returned to modelling for British pornographic magazines such as Knave and Men Only. She also appeared in softcore short films by Russell Gay (Response, 1974), Mountain Films (Love Games, Wild Lovers) and Harrison Marks (Sex is My Business, c. 1974).

Rose English is a British actress, writer and director whose television and film work dates back to the late 1970s.

She has appeared in Mauvaise passe, Our Mutual Friend, Surviving Picasso, Cracker (UK TV series)The Brooch Pin And The Sinful Clasp and The Witches.

She was also involved in the writing, editing, costumes and directing of The Gold Diggers in 1983. This is a feminist adventure tale about a beautiful blond movie star who's saved from a life of being passed from man to man by a Black Frenchwoman on horseback. Under her rescuer's questioning, she comes to understand herself as a woman and as a movie queen, sending her off on an extraordinary journey into her own past.