Bakewell of much of the town in the 19th century. Bakewell is in the valley of the River Wye in central Derbyshire. The town centre is sited near the river at about above sea-level, with the highest parts of the town at about on the valley sides. The town is in the Derbyshire Dales district and is about southwest of Sheffield, southeast of Manchester, and north of Derby. Nearby towns include Matlock to the south east, Chesterfield to the east and Buxton to the west northwest. Villages near Bakewell include Ashford-in-the-Water, Elton, Great Longstone, Monyash, Over Haddon, Sheldon, Rowsley, Pilsley, Youlgreave
William Bakewell opened a successful real estate company. For four decades, Bakewell served on the board of Motion Picture and Television Fund. Bakewell's autobiography, "Hollywood Be Thy Name--Random Recollections of a Movie Veteran From Silents to Talkies to TV", was published in 1991. On April 15, 1993, Bakewell died of leukemia in Los Angeles at the age of 84. William Bakewell William Bakewell (May 2, 1908 – April 15, 1993) was an American actor who achieved his greatest fame as one of the leading juvenile performers of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Bakewell was a Los Angeles native who attended Harvard