CHARLES DICKENS collection of images for forthcoming 200th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY

In preparation for the momentous 200th birth anniversary of Charles Dickens in 2012, AUTHOR PICTURES AT LEBRECHT has been amassing an exhaustive collection of images relating to the author, his life and the characters of his novels. To view a selection of portraits, illustrations and landmarks in the writer’s life, please click on the image below:

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ANNIVERSARY PICS from LEBRECHT: 100th birth anniversary of JEAN ANOUILH, French playwright, 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987

Portraits of Jean Anouilh. Photographer Horst Tappe.

Portraits of Jean Anouilh. Photographer Horst Tappe.

Portraits of Jean Anouilh

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Birthday Pictures for 5th January, 2010

Alfred Brendel, British pianist, 79th birthday. At home in Hampstead 2008 with bust of Liszt behind piano. Photographer Eamonn McCabe

Umberto Eco, Italian writer’s 78th birthday

Diane Keaton, American actress’ 64th birthday. Diane Keaton in Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, 4 October 1968. Photographer Kenn Duncan

Marilyn Manson, American industrial rock and alternative metal band singer, 41st birthday. Photographer Paule Saviano

Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist, 68th birthday. Playing the piano at the ‘Salle Pleyel’ 1988. Photographer Thierry Martinot

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Birthday Pictures for 4th January, 2010

Grace Bumbry, American opera singer, 73rd birthday. Performing in title role in George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess

John McLaughlin, blues and jazz guitarist, 68th birthday. Performing in Copenhagen in 1988. Photographer Jan Persson

Julia Ormond, British actress, 45th birthday. Appearing in the film Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow

Nicholas Payne, British opera director, 65th birthday. Photographer Laurie Lewis

Rich Stein, British chef and broadcaster, 63rd birthday. Photographer David McGill

Paul Watkins, British cellist and conductor, 40th birthday. Rehearsing for the the opening concert of the Proms Season 2007. Photographer Laurie Lewis

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Birthday Pictures for 21st December, 2009

Diana Athill, British writer, 92nd birthday

Jane Fonda, American actress, 72nd birthday. On the red carpet at the New York Metropolitan Opera’s opening night gala 2007. Photographer Caroline P. Digonis

Albert Lee, British guitarist, 66th birthday. Playing the guitar in 1988. Photographer Odile Noel

Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor, 65th birthday. Conducting the San Fransisco Symphony at the BBC Proms 2007. Photographer Chris Christodoulou

Samuel L. Jackson, American actor, 61st birthday. Waxwork at Madame Tussaud’s at 42nd Street, New York City. Photographer Caroline P. Digonis

Andras Schiff, Hungarian pianist, 56th birthday. Performing work by Joseph Haydn at the Lucerne Festival 2007 . Photographer G. Anderhub

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Birthday Pictures, for 10th December 2009

Kenneth Branagh, British actor and director ‘s 49th birthday. Photograph by Anne-Katrin Purkiss

Sarah Chang, American violinist, at the Royal Festival Hall. 29th birthday. Photograph by Toby Wales

Kathryn Stott, British concert Pianist, 51st birthday. Performing at the Aldeburgh Festival. Photograph by Nigel Luckhurst

Meg White, American drummer of The White Stripes performing at Alexandra Palace, London, 35th birthday. Photography by Tony Bartolo

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Birthdays pictures for 9th December 2009

Joan Armastrading, British singer 59th birthday. Photograph by Richard Haughton

Joshua Bell, American violinist, 43rd birthday. Playing Brahms’ Violin Concerto with BBC Symphony Chorus at Prom 51, Royal Albert Hall. Photograph by Chris Christodoulou

Susan Bullock, British soprano, 51st birthday. Singing with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performing Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3, ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’. Proms 2009. Photograph by Chris Christodoulou

Dame Judi Dench, British actress, 75th birthday. In role as Judith Bliss in Noel Coward ‘s play ‘Hay Fever’ in Sir Peter Hall’s production. Photograph by Tristram Kenton

Kirk Douglas, American film actor, 93 rd birthday. In role in Stanley Kubrick’s film Spartacus

Joanna Trollope, British writer, age 66 Photograph by Vicky Alhadeff

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Birthdays for 7th December 2009

Noam Chomsky, American linguist, philosopher 81st birthday. Photography Horst Tappe

Anne Fine, British children’s writer, 62 nd birthday. Photograph by Drew Farrell

Edmundo Ros, bandleader, 99th birthday

Eli Wallach, American actor, 94th birthday

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Birthday pictures for 5th December 2009

José Carreras, Spanish tenor, 63rd birthday. Carreras is conducted in Aida rehearsal by Herbert von Karajan, Photograph by Siegfried Lauterwasser

Hanif Kureishi, British novelist, 55th birthday. Photography by Laurie Lewis

Little Richard, American rock n’roll singer, 74th birthday. Photograph by L.McAfee

Adam Thorpe, British poet, 53rd birthday. Photograph by Guillem Lopez

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Birthday Pictures 26 June 09

Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor is 76 today. Claudio Abbado conducting the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 at the BBC Proms 2007 (photographer Chris Christodoulou)

Hugues Cuenod, the Swiss tenor in 1982, is 107 today . (photographer Nigel Luckhurst)

Chris Isaak ,American singer and songwriter, is 53 today. Performing at the Hammersmith Apollo, London, UK, 20 April 2007. (photographer Stephanie Methven)

Colin Wilson, English author, at his home in Cornwall, April 1963, is 78 today. (photographer Derek Bayes)

Lebrecht birthday pictures 25 June 2009

Sir Peter Blake, British painter and illustrator, is 77 today. (photographer Anne Katrin Purkiss)

George Michael, British singer, songwriter and producer, with Andrew Ridgeley, founder of the Wham band, is 46 today. (photographer Joe Bangay)

Nicholas Mosley, British author, in 2005, is 86 today. (photographer Drew Farrell)

Birthday pictures 24 June 2009

Jeff Beck, British rock and jazz guitarist, in 1999, is 65 today. (photographer Jon Stark)

Mick Fleetwood, British drummer and member of rock band Fleetwood Mac in Los Angeles, is 62 today. (photographer L. McAfee )

George Gruntz, Swiss jazz musician, at Montreux Jazz festival, June 1970, is 77 today. (photographer Jazzsign)

Birthday pictures 23 June 2009

Kim Begley, British tenor, is 57 today. Performing as Parsifal in Richard Wagner’s opera ‘Parsifal’ performed at English National Opera, 1999. Directed by Nikolaus Lehnhoff. (photographer Billy Rafferty)

Nicholas Cleobury, British conductor, at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, September 2006, is 59 today. (Graham Salter)

James Levine, American conductor and pianist, conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra 2007, is 66 today. (photographer Chris Christodoulou)

Birthday pictures 22nd June 2009

Part of The Da Vinci Code poster promoting book by Dan Brown, American writer, who is 45 today.(HH)

Kris Kristofferson in title roleas Billy the Kid and James Coburn as Pat Garrett in the western directed by Sam Peckinpah.Kris Kristofferson is 73 today. (RA)

Libor Pesek conducting in Prague, is 76 today. (photographer Zdenek Chrapek)

Esther Rantzen, tv presenter and producer, president of Childline in 2004, is 69 today (photographer Nigel Sutton)

Meryl Streep, American actress, in 1980, is 60 today. (photographer Joe Bangay)

Birthday pictures 21 June 2009

Ray Davies, English singer and songwriter and member of The Kinks in London, 2003, is 65 today. (photographer Tony Bartolo)

Juliette Lewis, British actress and musician, is 36 today. In role as May in Sam Shepard ‘s play ‘Fool For Love’ at the Apollo Theatre, London in 2006. Directed by Lindsay Posner.(photographer Tristram Kenton)

Ian McEwan, British writer, is 61 today. (photographer Eamonn McCabe)

Jane Russell , American actress, with Clark Gable in The Tall Man, directed by Raoul Walsh, is 89 today. 1955.

Birthday pictures 20 June 2009

Stephen Frears, English film director, February 2003 is 68 today. (photographer Vicky Alhadeff)

Paul Muldoonm British poet, in work at 1984, is 58 today. (photographer George Newson) 1984

Lionel Richie, American singer, performing at the LG Arena, Birmingham, 2009, is 60 today. (photographer Ian Yates)

Vikram Seth, Indian novelist and poet at the launch of his book ‘Two Lives’, August 2005, is 57 today. (photographer Vicky Alhadeff)

Claire Tomalin, British biographer, with her husband Michael Frayn in 2003, is 76 today.

Brian Wilson, American pop singer and musician in London, 2005, is 67 today (Tony Bartolo)

Birthday pictures 19 June, 2009

Thelma Barlow, British actress, is 75 today. Seen here starring in Arsenic and Old Lace, by Joseph Kesselring, with Thelma Barlow (Abby Brewster) and Marcia Warren (Martha Brewster) at the Strand Theatre, London, 2003. (photographer Tristram Kenton)

Professor Bryan Kneale, RA, is 79 today, in his London studio. (Photographer A-K Purkiss)

Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist, is 62 today.

Birthday pictures 18 June, 2009

Peter Donohoe, British pianist, playing the piano May 1993, is 56 today. (photographer Thierry Martinot)

Paul McCartney, British singer and songwriter, playing the guitar in a Melbourne hotel room on 22 June 1964, is 67 today.

Delia Smith, TV chef who is also a director of Norwich City Football Club, is 68 today. She is seen here at the division one play offs in the Millenium stadium cheering on the team during the match against Birmingham City. May 2002.

Birthday Pictures 17th June 2009

John Amis, classical music critic and broadcaster at Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk, June 2007, is 87 today. (photographer Nigel Luckhurst)

Sir Edward Downes, British conductor, is 85 today. Conductor Sir Edward Downes in discussion with Anthony Pappano, conductor and Music Director of The Royal Opera, after the dress rehearsal of ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ November 2003. (photographer Laurie Lewis)

Birthday pictures 16 June, 2009

Dame Eileen Atkins, British actress is 75 today. Appearing in ‘The Sea’ as ‘Louise Rafi’ at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 2008. Directed by Jonathan Kent , written by Edward Bond. (photographer Tristram Kenton)

Neil MacGregor, director of British Museum, is 63 today. In China, among the Terracotta Warriors of the First Emperor of China, Qin Shihuangdi (d. 221 BC), near Xi’An, The underground army of warriors, officials and entertainers that Qin created to accompany him into the afterlife was discovered by peasants of XiYang village, LingTong County on 29 March 1974.

Joyce Carol Oates, American writer, is 71 today. (photographer Eamonn McCabe)

Simon Williams, British actor, playing David Bliss and and Caroline Langrishe as Myra Arundel in ‘Hay Fever’ by Noel Coward, directed by Nikolai Foster. Chichester Festival Theatre April 2009 is 63 today (photographer Paul Doyle)