No other brave people out there willing to even guess ?

I hoped you would chime in with that clue John.  Didn't want to use it myself, in case anyone got the wrong idea.

G'day Sheba. I have worked out who he is but did not like the coward statement. I will add that Noel knows the answer.

Cheers.

You got him Sandy.  Who do you have for us. ?

I'm sure nothing derogatory was really meant in that clue Jack. 

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899  26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".^[1]

Coward attended a dance academy in London as a child, making his professional stage début at the age of eleven. As a teenager he was introduced into the high society in which most of his plays would be set. Coward achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays from his teens onwards. Many of his works, such as Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter and Blithe Spirit, have remained in the regular theatre repertoire. He composed hundreds of songs, in addition to well over a dozen musical theatre works (including the operetta Bitter Sweet and comic revues), screenplays, poetry, several volumes of short stories, the novel Pomp and Circumstance, and a three-volume autobiography. Coward's stage and film acting and directing career spanned six decades, during which he starred in many of his own works.

At the outbreak of the Second World War Coward volunteered for war work, running the British propaganda office in Paris. He also worked with the Secret Service, seeking to use his influence to persuade the American public and government to help Britain. Coward won an Academy Honorary Award in 1943 for his naval film drama, In Which We Serve, and was knighted in 1969. In the 1950s he achieved fresh success as a cabaret performer, performing his own songs, such as "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", "London Pride" and "I Went to a Marvellous Party".

Coward's plays and songs achieved new popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, and his work and style continue to influence popular culture. He did not publicly acknowledge his homosexuality, but it was discussed candidly after his death by biographers including Graham Payn, his long-time partner, and in Coward's diaries and letters, published posthumously. The former Albery Theatre (originally the New Theatre) in London was renamed the Noël Coward Theatre in his honour in 2006

I thought at first glance John McEnroe, but I don't really think that's right.  Think we need a clue Sandy.

Tricky all right.  Hope some-one else can get him.

Well there is a list of clues and you could joke that he was born in a Casino

Well not born in a Casino but born in Casino. Have you Googled John's clues?

You've got ot BG over to you. He is an internationally recognised Australian Author and has written many books including the ones in John's clues "Close your Eyes", "The Other Wife", "Watching You", "The Secrets She Keeps" and "Say You're Sorry".

Michael Robotham (born 9 November 1960) is an Australian-born, internationally published crime fiction writer. His eldest daughter is the ARIA and APRA Award winning songwriter, producer and musician Alex Hope.

Michael Robotham was born in Casino, New South Wales, and went to school in Gundagai and Coffs Harbour. In February 1979 he began a journalism cadetship on the Sydney afternoon newspaper The Sun and later worked for The Sydney Morning Herald as a court reporter and police roundsman.

In 1986, he left Australia and went to London, where he worked as a reporter and sub-editor for various UK national newspapers before becoming a staff feature writer on The Mail on Sunday in 1989. As a senior feature writer for the UKs Mail on Sunday As a feature writer, Michael was among the first people to view the letters and diaries of Czar Nicholas II and his wife Empress Alexandra, unearthed in the Moscow State Archives in 1991. He also gained access to Stalins Hitler files, which had been missing for nearly fifty years until a cleaner stumbled upon a cardboard box that had been misplaced and misfiled. The archives also revealed secrets about Rasputin and the nuclear accident at Chernobyl. Michael rose to become deputy features editor of The Mail on Sunday before resigning in May 1993 and accepting freelancing contracts with a number of British newspapers and magazines. In November 1993 he accepted his first ghostwriting commission, helping Nottingham social worker Margaret Humphreys to pen her autobiography, 'Empty Cradles'. Published in 1994, it told the story of how she uncovered the truth behind Britain's Child Migrant Program which saw more than 100,000 children sent abroad between 1850 and 1967 and established the Child Migrant Trust to reunite children with their families. In 2011 'Empty Cradles' became the basis of the film 'Oranges and Sunshine' directed by Jim Loach and starring Emily Watson as Margaret Humphreys and Hugo Weaving and David Wenham as two of the child migrants.

Michael went on to collaborate on fifteen "autobiographies" for people in the arts, politics, the military and sport. Twelve of these titles became Sunday Times bestsellers and sold more than 2 million copies. These books included the autobiographies of Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, British comedy actor Ricky Tomlinson and sixties musical legend Lulu.

In 1996 Michael returned to Australia with his family and continued writing full-time. In 2002, a partial manuscript of his first novel, The Suspect, became the subject of a bidding war at the London Book Fair. It was later translated into 24 languages and sold over a million copies around the world. His books have since won, or been shortlisted for, numerous awards including the UK Gold Dagger and US Edgar Award

Four of Michael's 'Joe O'Loughlin novels' have been turned into TV movies in Germany, and an English-language TV series is in development. His standalone novels 'Life or Death' and 'The Secret She Keeps' have also been optioned for film and TV projects in the US and UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Robotham

Sally Field. 

Thanks BG.  This will be easy.

Cheers,

Sheba.

OK Sandy.   If it's not gone at about 7PM, I'll put up another one.

Kirk Douglas

Thanks Sheba. Now who is this fella? I have a vague recollection that he survived being shot through the mouth (I think through his cheeks)