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==People== [[Calvin Dean]], the actor from the film [[Tormented (2009 British film)|Tormented]], grew up in Polruan.<ref name="liskeard-today">{{cite web|url=http://www.liskeard-today.co.uk/tn/featuresdetail.cfm?id=1202|title=Calvin's film role wreaking revenge on school's bullies|last=Garrad|first=Carrie|date=12 June 2009|publisher=liskeard-today.co.uk|access-date=29 September 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410012254/http://www.liskeard-today.co.uk/tn/featuresdetail.cfm?id=1202|archive-date=10 April 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="thisiscornwall">{{cite web|url=http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/news/Young-local-actor-s-set-stardom-stars-new-Brit-horror-flick-Tormented/article-1063467-detail/article.html|title=Young local actor gets set for stardom as he stars in new Brit horror flick "Tormented"|date=9 June 2009|publisher=thisiscornwall.co.uk|access-date=29 September 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505063746/http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/news/Young-local-actor-s-set-stardom-stars-new-Brit-horror-flick-Tormented/article-1063467-detail/article.html|archive-date=5 May 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Daphne du Maurier]] once stayed in the village and based her first novel, ''The Loving Spirit'', on the Slade family of shipbuilders and mariners.<ref>Helen Doe, ''Jane Slade of Polruan'' (Truro: Truran, 2002).</ref><ref name="telegraph"/> [[Peter Skellern]], the singer was resident in the village. Actor [[Patrick Malahide]], who amongst other roles, played Inspector Chisholm in the popular television series ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]'' is also another Polruan resident. The illustrator [[Mabel Lucie Attwell]] lived in the village,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foweyharbourheritage.org.uk/their-story.php?pid=7|title=Their Story|access-date=29 October 2020|archive-date=30 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030034450/https://www.foweyharbourheritage.org.uk/their-story.php?pid=7|url-status=live}}</ref> as did the absurdist English playwright [[Norman F. Simpson]].<ref>From 2005 until his death in 2011, living (according to his death certificate) in Townsend, Polruan</ref> [[Raynor Winn]], the author of ''The Salt Path'', used to live in Polruan, which is the mid- and end-point of the 630-mile walk described in the book.
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