1 - George Arliss as the Duke of Wellington in The Iron Duke
2 - Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind in As You Like It
3 - Douglas Byng as Queen Elizabeth in cabaret
4 - Edward Chapman as Jess Oakroyd in The Good Companions
5 - Mary Clare as Jane Marryot in Cavalcade
6 - Fay Compton as Ophelia in Hamlet
7 - Cicely Courtneidge in a scene from The House that Jack Built
8 - Laura Cowie as Anna Vraka in Ride a Cock Horse
9 - Florence Desmond as Elisabeth Bergner
10 - Edith Evans as the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet
11 - Maurice Evans as King Richard in Richard II
12 - Barbara Everest as Queen Anne in Viceroy Sarah
13 - Gracie Fields as a charwoman in music-hall sketch
14 - W.C. Fields as Wilkins Macawber in David Copperfield
15 - Jean Forbes-Robertson as Peter Pan
16 - Carol Goodner as Sophy Raffety in He Was Born Gay
17 - Martyn Green as The Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe
18 - Louise Hampton as Madame Wang in Lady Precious Stream
19 - Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Garrick (in the part of Shylock) in Peg of Old Drury
20 - Robertson Hare as Herbert Holly in Aren't Men Beasts?
21 - Gordon Harker as Ernie in My Old Dutch
22 - Sir John Martin-Harvey as Sydney Carton in The Only Way
23 - Richard Hearne as Jimmy Forbes in Millions
24 - Leslie Henson as Maxie Mumm in Swing Along
25 - Sir Seymour Hicks as Scrooge in Scrooge
26 - Jack Hulbert in Sunshine Susie
27 - Boris Karloff as The Mummy in The Mummy
28 - Keneth Kent as Napoleon in Saint Helena
29 - Elsa Lanchester as Hendrickje Stoffels in Rembrandt
30 - Matheson Lang as Matathias in The Wandering Jew
31 - Charles Laughton as Rembrandt Van Ryn in Rembrandt
32 - Gertrude Lawrence as Doris Gow in Fumed Oak
33 - Evelyn Laye as Princess Anna Elisa in Paganini
34 - Olga Lindo as Colley in Wise Tomorrow
35 - Ralph Lynn as Major Dyke in For Valour
36 - Lucie Mannheim as a Butcher's Wife in a Classic German Comedy
37 - Jessie Matthews as Harriet Green in Evergreen
38 - Ivor Novello as Lord George Hell in The Happy Hypocrite
39 - Merle Oberon as The Japanese Admiral's Wife in The Battle
40 - Laurence Olivier as Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night
41 - Nancy Price as the Grandmother in Whiteoaks
42 - Elsie Randolph as Joy Dean in That's a Good Girl
43 - Ralph Richardson as Emile Delbar in Promise
44 - George Robey as Sir John Falstaff in King Henry IV (Part One)
45 - Flora Robson as Mary Read in Mary Read
46 - Pamela Stanley as Queen Victoria in Victoria Regina
47 - Dame Marie Tempest as Empress Elizabeth in Little Catherine
48 - Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Marshall in A Sleeping Clergyman
49 - Dame Sybil Thorndike as Joan of Arc in Saint Joan
50 - Tom Walls as Doubleday in For Valour