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O'Brien, Maureen
Maureen O’Brien is an English actress and author from Merseyside, United Kingdom. She was born in Liverpool, where she later attended the Notre Dame School at Mount Pleasant, and she grew up in Kirkby. O’Brien is the sister of the actress Eileen O’Brien. In 1961, she moved to London where she attended the Central School of Speech and Drama and graduated with a teacher’s degree in 1964. The same ye...
Literary figures
Max (James) Maxted
Gender: Male
In 1919, he is a young war veteran and famed as a fighter pilot. He wants to start a school for pilots, but when his influential father dies in a strange accident, the handsome and charismatic James ‘Max’ Maxted is obliged to investigate the case – which he succeeds in doing. After which, author Robert Goddard lets him be a double agent in a couple of novels, in which he battles with the German ma...