Actors and Actresses who have been awarded by the Queen

Ranks that are Honourary (STARTING AT LOWER RANKING)
1. MBE
2. OBE
3. CBE
4. Sir/Dame
5. Lord/Lady

1. Marius Goring CBE - Theodore Maxtible (Evil of the Daleks - 1967)
2. Maurice Denham OBE - Azmael (The Twin Dilemma - 1984)
3. Hugh Lolyd MBE - Goronway (Delta and the Bannerman - 1987)
4. Peggy Mount OBE - Stallslady (The Greatest Show in the Galaxy - 1988)
5. Nicholas Parsons OBE - The Rev. Mr Wainwright (The Curse of the Fenric - 1988)
6. Sylvia Sims OBE - Mrs Pritchard (Ghost Light - 1988)
7. Zoe Wannamaker CBE - Lady Cassandra (The End of the World - 2005, New Earth - 2006)
8. Simon Callow CBE - Charles Dickens (The Unquiet Dead - 2005, The Wedding of River Song - 2011)
9. Penelope Wilson OBE - Harriet Jones (Aliens of London - 2005, The Christmas Invasion - 2005, Stolen     Earth - 2008)
8.  Pauline Collins OBE - Queen Victoria (Tooth and Claw - 2006)
9. Don Warrington MBE - The President (Rise of the Cybermen - 2006)
10. Maureen Lipman CBE - The Wire (Idoit's Lantern - 2006)
11. Barbara Windsor MBE - Herself (Army of Ghosts - 2006)
12. Sir Derek Jacobi - The Master (Utopia - 2007)
13. Kylie Minogue OBE -Astrid Peth (Voyage of the Damned - 2007)
14. Geoffrey Palmer OBE - Captain Hardakar (Voyage of the Damned - 2007)
15. Felicity Kenndal CBE  - Lady Clemency Elton (Unicorn and the Wasp - 2008)
16. Brian Cox CBE - Ood Elder (End of Time - 2009)
17. Julie Whitfield CBE - Minnie Hooper (End of Time - 2009)
18.  Annette Crosbie OBE - Mrs Angelo (The Eleventh Hour - 2010)
19. Sir Patrick Moore - Himself (The Eleventh Hour - 2010)
20. Meera Syall MBE - Nita Chandra (The Hungary Earth - 2010)
21. Sir Michael Gambon - Kazran Sedwick (Christmas Carol - 2010)
22. Michael Sheen OBE - The House (The Doctor's Wife - 2011)
23. Lord Alan Sugar - Himself (The Power of Three - 2012)
24. Sir Ian McKellan - The Great Intelligence (The Snowmen - 2012)
25. Dame Diana Rigg - Mrs Gillyflower (The Chrimson Horror - 2013)
26.Sir John Hurt - The War Doctor (Name of the Doctor - 2013, The Day of the Doctor - 2013)

Television shows back in 2015

Following the return of TFI Friday here is a list of all the shows that have or will return this year.

• Sparticle Mystery - CBBC, 3 series (2011, 2013, 2015)
• Stars in their Eyes - ITV, 16 series (1990-2005, 2015)
• Horrible Histories - CBBC, 6 series (2009-2013, 2015)
• Mr Bean: The Animated Series - ITV (2002-2004) CITV (2015), 4 series (2002-2004, 2015)
• Love Island - ITV (2005-2006) ITV 2 (2015), 3 series (2005-2006, 2015)
• TFI Friday - Channel 4, 7 series (1996-2000, 2015)
• Clangers - BBC One (1969-1972), CBeebies (2015), 3 series (1969-1972, 2015)
• Teletubbies - BBC One (1997-2001), CBeebies (2015), 2 series (1997-2001, 2015)
• Fimbles - CBeebies, 3 series (2002-2004, 2009, 2015)
• Danger Mouse - ITV (1981-1992), CBBC (2015), 11 series (1981-1992, 2015)
• Bob the Builder - BBC One (1999-2001), CBeebies (2002-2012), Channel 5 (2015), 19 series (1999-2012, 2015)
• The Big Breakfast - Channel 4 (1992-2002), Channel 5 (2015), 

Queen's birthday honours

I don't know a lot of the people who have been honoured with the various titles but I do know a few.

Steven Moaffat - Doctor Who writer = OBE

Benedict Cumberbach - Actor (Sherlock, Star Trek, The Hobbit) = CBE

Lenry Henry - Comedian = Sir

Honoury titles include:

Lord - very rare
Sir
CBE
OBE
MBE

Sir Christopher Lee Memorial

Sir Christopher Lee CBE 1922-2015

He has been in James Bond, Middle Earth, Star Wars and countless Dracula films before his death last thursday. Here are same facts about his life.

1. Here is in the Guinness Book of Records for the most screen credits: 259

2. Christopher Lee is part Finnish and Italian and is a direct descendant  of the Holy Roman Emperor


3. He was knighted in 2009 and was friends with fellow scary actor Peter Cushing.

4. Christopher Lee is the only member of the middle earth cast to actually meet JRR Tolkein

5. Christopher Lee was a huge fan of the Lord of the Rings reading it about 3 times a year.

6. Aged 17 he saw the last ever person to be killed by Guillotine in France.

7. Lee was a intelligence officer serving in North Africa against the Nazis.

8. After World War 2 Lee went on to hunt down Nazis and war criminals.

9. Whilst filming a fight sequence in the film The Dark Avengers (1955) Lee nearly lost his hand.

10. Christopher Lee was step cousin to Ian Fleming,the author of James Bond and they were best friends.

11. He has not just played Dracula but Frankenstein's monster and the Mummy

12. He has played Sherlock Holmes and his brother Mycroft Holmes

13. Lee married Henriette Von Rosen. Her father didn't like Lee and said that he could only marry her if he got the blessing of the King of Sweden. Lee got it.

14. When Lee found out that the Lords of the Rings trilogy was to be made into films he made sure he playe a wizard in many films so that Peter Jackson would choose him for a part of Gandolf. He got the part of Saruman (he was aged 79)

15. Christopher Lee was able to recite everyone who was publicly executed in England from the 15th Century onwards.

17. Lee was a Opera singer, golfer and could speak 6 languages.