--- title: See These Portraits of Stars Before They Were Really Famous description: The photographs are part of an exhibition celebrating the 60th birthday of the U.K.'s TV Times canonical: https://time.com/4036090/see-early-celebrity-photos/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-16T15:23:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:39.531Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: See These Portraits of Stars Before They Were Really Famous og:description: The photographs are part of an exhibition celebrating the 60th birthday of the U.K.'s TV Times og:url: https://time.com/4036090/see-early-celebrity-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82f456cea5b9245a/698863c935ba6f0d2fc0f2ea/julie-andrews.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Julie Andrews og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See These Portraits of Stars Before They Were Really Famous twitter:description: The photographs are part of an exhibition celebrating the 60th birthday of the U.K.'s TV Times twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82f456cea5b9245a/698863c935ba6f0d2fc0f2ea/julie-andrews.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See These Portraits of Stars Before They Became Really Famous by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Sep 16, 2015 3:23 PM CUT  Julie AndrewsPhotographed for TV Times in 1977\. If you want to get ahead, get a hat, as the English rose demonstrated in the stage version of My Fair Lady and then on screen in Mary Poppins. Here, she was reflecting on her image after raiding a dressing-up box for this fancy titfer. Julie AndrewsPhotographed for TV Times in 1977\. If you want to get ahead, get a hat, as the English rose demonstrated in the stage version of My Fair Lady and then on screen in Mary Poppins. Here, she was reflecting on her image after raiding a dressing-up box for this fancy titfer.Time Inc. UK/TV Times by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Sep 16, 2015 3:23 PM CUT The [_TV Times_](http://www.whatsontv.co.uk/ "undefined") 60th birthday exhibition in association with the Merge is open at the Blue Fin Building, 110 Southwark St. London, SE1 0SU on Sept. 17th-18th  Julie AndrewsPhotographed for TV Times in 1977\. If you want to get ahead, get a hat, as the English rose demonstrated in the stage version of My Fair Lady and then on screen in Mary Poppins. Here, she was reflecting on her image after raiding a dressing-up box for this fancy titfer. Time Inc. UK/TV Times  Maggie SmithPhotographed for TV Times in 1965\. Downton’s acerbic Dowager Countess would surely have something to say about her real-life self being photographed on a beach. The following year, Dame Maggie received her first Oscar nomination for playing Desdemona in a film of Othello. Time Inc. UK/TV Times  Clive OwenPhotographed for TV Times in 1990\. Several years before becoming one of Hollywood’s leading men, the actor was snapped on the set of the ITV drama Chancer. The hit show charted the adventures of a wide-boy financial adviser. Time Inc. UK/TV Times  Roger MoorePhotographed for TV Times in 1968, just before the final series of The Saint. Time Inc. UK/TV Times  Ian McKellenPhotographed for TV Times in 1982, at his London riverside home. Time Inc. UK/TV Times  Paul NewmanPhotographed for TV Times in 1974\. The motorsport fanatic was snapped during an interview about his love of cars. He first took to the track for real after being cast in a 1969 racing film called Winning. A few years later, he came second in the famous Le Mans 24-Hour Race. Time Inc. UK/TV Times  Emma Thompson and Kenneth BrannaghPhotographed for TV Times in 1989\. The young couple, who married that year, were snapped for an ITV adaptation of Look Back in Anger. Time Inc. UK/TV Times  Tom Jones Photographed for TV Times in 1987\. The Welsh heart-throb was a consistent cover favorite for the magazine, happily posing here in swimming trunks in front of his Bel Air mansion. Time Inc. UK/TV Times  Karl Malden and Michael DouglasPhotographed for TV Times in 1974\. The crime-fighting duo from the classic U.S. series, The Streets of San Francisco. Time Inc. UK/TV Times  Rupert Everett Photographed for TV Times in 1987\. Looking mean, moody and magnificent, the former model posed for this shot by Patrick Lichfield to mark a screening of the film that made his name, Another Country. Time Inc. UK/TV Times  Joanna LumleyPhotographed for TV Times in 1976 Only months later, she’d instruct a hairdresser to cut and colour her hair ‘like a prep schoolboy’, thus creating The New Avengers blonde Purdey bob that would cause a copycat frenzy at salons nationwide. Time Inc. UK/TV Times  Joan CollinsPhotographed for TV Times in 1971\. The age-defying beauty invited the magazine for an exclusive look around her palatial home in the year she was divorced from second husband Tony Newley. Racy film romp The Stud and U.S. soap superstardom were still to come. Time Inc. UK/TV Times  Helen Mirren Photographed for TV Times in 2005, after winning the TV Times Award for its readers’ All-Time Favourite Actress. Time Inc. UK/TV Times  Elton John Photographed for TV Times in 1977\. Having already achieved superstardom on both sides of the Atlantic, Elton reaches the pinnacle of his career, appearing on The Muppet Show in Oct. 1977\. But Kermit still has to persuade the reluctant rocker to perform his hit 'Benny and the Jets'. Time Inc. UK/TV Times  The Rolling Stones Photographed for TV Times in 1965, at the ITV studios in London. This was the year of their huge hit 'Satisfaction'. Time Inc. UK/TV Times  The Avengers (Diana Rigg & Patrick Macnee) Photographed for TV Times in 1964\. An iconic shot taken when Diana Rigg took over from Honor Blackman in the ‘spy-fi’ classic. The name Emma Peel derived from the writers’ attempts to create a character with Man Appeal. Time Inc. 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