• Dick Katz
  {{short description|American jazz musician}} ...Ben|last=Ratliff|date=November 12, 2009|website=Nytimes.com}}</ref> was an American [[jazz]] pianist, arranger and record producer. He freelanced throughout mu
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• Ray Ellington
  ...sodes, often as a parodic [[Indigenous peoples of Africa|African]], Native American or [[Arab|Arab]] [[Tribal chief|chieftain]] (but also often, with no attemp ...ur children. His father was Harry Pitts Brown (c.1877–1920), an [[African American]] [[Music hall|music-hall]] comedian and entertainer, his mother was Eva St
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• Stanley Black
  ...ter]] during the 1930s, he moved into arranging and recording in the Latin American music style and also won awards for his classical conducting. ...f name="Larkin"/> He had also broadcast and recorded with several American musicians, including jazz saxophonists [[Coleman Hawkins|Coleman Hawkins]] and [[Benn
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• Max Harris (composer)
  ...Stapleton BBC Show Band.<ref name="Times2004" /> An arranger for visiting American singers such as [[Ella Fitzgerald]] and [[Frank Sinatra]], he wrote jingles [[Category:British male film score composers]]
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• Dave King (actor)
  ...Cerney]] in Gloucestershire. His hobbies included [[model railway]]s and [[American folklore]]. [[Category:English pop musicians]]
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• Lionel Bart
  ...in the 1960s birth of the British musical theatre scene after an era when American musicals had dominated the [[West End theatre|West End]].<ref name="nyt"/> ...through his pop songwriting, penning numerous hits for the stable of young male singers promoted by artist manager and music publisher [[Larry Parnes]]. Ba
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• Arthur Askey
  ...e book|author=Adrian Wright|title=West End Broadway: The Golden Age of the American Musical in London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6-TvZ0O5NHQC&pg=PA2 [[Category:Male actors from Liverpool]]
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• Dudley Moore
  ...nd became an accomplished jazz pianist and composer. He began working with musicians such as [[John Dankworth]] and [[Cleo Laine]]. In 1960 he left Dankworth's Moore and Cook eventually reunited for the annual American benefit for the homeless, ''[[Comic Relief USA|Comic Relief]]'', in 1987, a
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• George Melly
  ...was strongly influenced by his idol, [[Bessie Smith]]. While many British musicians of the time treated jazz and blues with almost religious solemnity, Melly r * ''The Psychological Significance Of Animal Symbolism In American Negro Folk Music And All That Jazz'' (Columbia SEG 8093) (1961): "Monkey An
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• Betty Box
  ...e="aww">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44553170 |title=American is big British movie man. |newspaper=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] | da *''[[Deadlier Than the Male]]'' (1967)
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• Kenny Everett
  ...d legal problems. He adopted the name "Everett" from a childhood hero, the American film comic actor [[Edward Everett Horton]].<ref name=Virgin/> ...n on air. Like most of the pirate stations, Radio London carried sponsored American evangelical shows and Everett's disparaging remarks about ''[[The World Tom
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• George Grossmith Jr.
  ..., Leon. "Grossmith, George Jr.", ''[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]'', Oxford University Press (2nd edition, 2001)</ref> This was followed by ...ps://www.gsarchive.net/AMT/tonight/index.html "''To-Night's the Night''"], American Musical Theatre pages at the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, 15 April 2017, r
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• Benny Hill
  ...arolla]] claimed that he was a fan of Hill and that he considered Hill "as American as [[The Beatles]]". During an episode of ''[[The Man Show]]'', Carolla per [[Category:20th-century English comedians]]
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• Eric Morecambe
  ...and Canada. It was taped in colour and starred international guests, often American. Prior to its British run, it was broadcast in North America by the ABC net After the show had ended and Morecambe had first left the stage, the musicians returned and picked up their instruments. He rushed back onto the stage to
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• Neil Innes
  ...in turn led Innes and Stanshall to a union with [[The Scaffold]] and other musicians, poets and performers later that year as [[Grimms|GRIMMS]]. While Stanshall ...ing an appearance as guest host, and the favourable response led to a 1978 American-made spin-off TV movie, ''[[All You Need Is Cash]]'', with Innes and Idle a
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• Terry Jones
  ...ridge graduates [[Graham Chapman]], [[John Cleese]], and [[Eric Idle]] and American animator-filmmaker [[Terry Gilliam]]. Jones was largely responsible for the === Work with musicians ===
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• George Formby Sr
  ...his name to [[George Formby]]; Formby Jr went on to become the top British male star in box office takings between 1937 and 1943. ...n|Bret|1999|pp=11 & 14}} Formby Jr later went on to become the top British male star in box office takings between 1937 and 1943, and the highest-paid ente
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• Norman Wisdom
  ...,p,b,v&results_pp=25&start=1|title=Works Written by Wisdom Norman|work=The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|access-date=11 October 2010}}< [[Category:20th-century English comedians]]
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• Max Miller (comedian)
  ...ast of these, he was annoyed that he was only given six minutes, while the American comedian [[Jack Benny]] got twenty minutes, so he abandoned his script and [[Category:20th-century English comedians]]
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• Rolf Harris
  ...ngle. The song was successful in the UK. Harris offered four local backing musicians 10% of the royalties from the song, but they decided to take a recording fe ...st success in terms of record sales was in 1969, with his rendering of the American Civil War song "[[Two Little Boys]]", originally written in 1902. Harris la
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