• Myra Taylor (scriptwriter)
  ...arly extensive, she did play a significant role in two of the more popular British TV comedies of the 1970s. ...nd series. She was one of a team of scriptwriters on ''[[Bless This House (British TV series)|Bless This House]]'' and wrote her own short lived series ''Divi
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• Frank Launder
  {{Short description|British film creator}} '''Frank Launder''' (28 January 1906 – 23 February 1997) was a British writer, film director and producer, who made more than 40 films, many of th
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• Barry Took
  ...Force he met his first wife, Dorothy "Dot" Bird, who was serving in the [[Women's Royal Air Force]].<ref name=Martin /> They married in 1950<ref name="Tele * {{British Comedy Guide|people|barry_took}}
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• Edward Black (producer)
  ...Black "the one good production executive" that [[J. Arthur Rank]] had.<ref>BRITISH FILM IDOL CASTS ORAL BRICKS: James Mason Says Rank Is Leading the English M ...al films used to come off as successful as his others."<ref>Round Table on British Films Cornelius, Henry; Dickinson, Thorold; Havelock-Allan, Anthony; John,
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• Phyllida Law
  ...dmintonschool.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/phyllida-law-got-have-funeral-afternoon-curtain-230pm-people/|title=Ph Law was appointed an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the [[2014 Birthday Honours]] by The Queen for services t
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• Les Dawson
  ...]], Manchester, on 2 February 1931,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Les Dawson {{!}} British comedian |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Les-Dawson |url-status=d ...cks (UK TV series)|Opportunity Knocks]]'' in 1967 and worked as a comic on British television for the rest of his life.
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• Caroline Aherne
  ...as funny. The series ran in various formats from 1994 to 1997, winning a [[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA for Best Talk Show]] in 1997.<ref name="Gua ...or Best Sitcom]] in 2000 and 2007,<ref name="Guardian"/> and she won the [[British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance|BAFTA for Best Comedy
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• Jo Kendall
  ...dall''' ({{née}} '''Robinson''', 17 February 1940 – 29 January 2022) was a British actress and writer. She was known for her work on the BBC radio comedy show [[Category:20th-century English actresses]]
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• Irene Handl
  ...er 1987) was a British [[character actress]] who appeared in more than 100 British films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f4c4272|archive-u ...n wife, Maria ''née'' Schiepp (1875&ndash;before 1924), also a naturalised British subject. Theirs was a comfortable middle-class life, with a German cook and
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• Marty Feldman
  ...cademy Television Awards|British Academy Television Awards]] including [[w:British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance|Best Entertainm ...TmrBgAAQBAJ&q=guinness+book+of+box+office+hits+swern+childs&pg=PA268|title=British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure: The Boundaries of Pl
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• Blake Edwards
  ...d the hugely successful [[The Pink Panther|Pink Panther]] film series with British actor [[Peter Sellers]]. Often thought of as primarily a director of comedi ...ement from the Writers Guild as well as the Special Edgar from The Mystery Writers of America for career achievement.
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• Fanny Cradock
  ...ise]]'' to ''[[service à la russe]]'' and hailed Escoffier as a saviour of British cooking. ...t show you now." Fanny advocated bringing Escoffier-standard food into the British home and gave every recipe a French name. Her food looked extravagant, but
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• Ken Annakin
  | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] '''Kenneth Cooper Annakin''', [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (10 August 1914 – 22 April 2009)<ref name=NYTObit>{{cite new
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• Herbert Lom
  | nationality = {{hlist|British|Czech}} ...professionally as '''Herbert Lom''' ({{IPA-cs|ɦɛrbɛrt lom}}), was a Czech-British actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939. In a career lasting more tha
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• Ronnie Corbett
  ...on't]]'', and [[No Sex Please, We're British (film)|''No Sex Please, We're British'']]. He first worked with Ronnie Barker in the BBC TV series ''[[The Frost ...Air Force]], during which he was the shortest commissioned officer in the British Forces.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/
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• Joyce Grenfell
  |honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] '''Joyce Irene Grenfell''' [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (''{{nee}}'' '''Phipps'''; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 19
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• Boulting brothers
  ...Earth |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69d70b54 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> about the village of [[Tha ...cFarlane1997">{{cite book|author=Brian McFarlane|title=An Autobiography of British Cinema: As Told by the Filmmakers and Actors who Made it|url=https://books.
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• Alfie (1966 film)
  ...=''Alfie'' (X)|url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/alfie-1970-3|publisher=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|date=7 January 1966|access-date=14 March 201 '''''Alfie''''' is a 1966 British [[comedy-drama]] film directed by [[Lewis Gilbert]] and starring [[Michael
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• Anna Karen
  ...1936 – 22 February 2022), professionally known as '''Anna Karen''', was a British actress best known for playing Olive Rudge in the [[w:ITV (TV network)|ITV] ...|url=https://www.womentalking.co.uk/anna-karen-still-on-the-buses/|website=Women Talking|date=12 December 2011|access-date=1 March 2021}}</ref>
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• Benny Hill
  ...Variety Series#1980s|Outstanding Variety]]. In 2006, Hill was voted by the British public number 17 in [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]'s poll of [[TV's 50 Greatest S ...[[UK Singles Chart]] and earned Hill an [[Ivor Novello Award]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]] in 1972.
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