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  • ...n who served as a Captain in the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]],<ref>British Medical Journal, 4 January 1969, no. 1, p. 59</ref> Newell was educated at [[Taunto * ''Doctors' Daughters'' (1981) – Archdeacon Bellwether <!-- spelling per https://boo
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  • {{Short description|English actress (1926–2002)}} '''Patricia Doreen Coombs''' (27 August 1926&nbsp;– 25 May 2002) was an English actress. She specialised in the portrayal of the eternal downtrodden female
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  • ...da Barrie ''' (born '''Shirley Anne Broadbent'''; 14 September 1935) is an English actress. She appeared in two of the ''[[Carry On series on screen and stage ...ps in the long-running BBC medical soap opera ''[[Doctors (2000 TV series)|Doctors]]'' for nine episodes, and in the popular [[ITV1]] prison series ''[[Bad Gi
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  • ...Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (7 January 1896 – 12 March 1984) was an English [[playwright]] and actor, earlier in his career known for writing the play After his medical discharge from the army in 1916, Ridley commenced a career as a professiona
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  • ...br />[[St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College|St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College]] ...and [[St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College|St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College]], he turned down a career as a doctor to be a comedian instead. Ch
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  • {{Short description|English actress (1921–2016)}} ...me '''Liz Smith''', was an <!--awards and nominations don't belong here--> English [[character actress]], known for her roles in [[BBC]] sitcoms, including as
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  • {{short description|English actor}} ...ls|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor whose five-decade career encompassed film, [[radio]], [[Stage combat|
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  • {{Short description|English actor (1920–1987)}} ...1986 interview with Troughton.</ref> 25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor. He was classically trained for the stage but became most widely know
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  • ...rn '''James Lawler Booth'''; 4 October 1875&nbsp;– 8 February 1921) was an English comedian and singer in musical theatre, known as one of the greatest [[musi ...broke out in August that year, he tried to enlist, but was turned down on medical grounds; instead he, like many music hall stars, was active in the recruiti
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  • ...ish Empire#Current classes|CBE]] (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was an English film and stage actor. ...ather died, and he applied to join the [[Royal Air Force]], but failed the medical test for [[Equilibrioception|equilibrium]]. He then travelled to Canada, in
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  • | nationality = [[English people|English]] ...aspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde'''; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter. Initially a [[matinée idol]] in films su
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  • {{short description|English actor and stand-up comedian (1958–2014)}} '''Richard Michael Mayall''' (7 March 1958&nbsp;– 9 June 2014) was an English actor, stand-up comedian and writer. He formed a close partnership with [[w
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  • ...{{post-nominals|country=GBR|MBE|DL}} (14 June 1955 – 28 March 2023) was an English comedian, broadcaster, [[drag queen]], actor, and writer. He achieved notab In April 2002, O'Grady had a heart attack, which doctors attributed to a combination of a [[congenital heart defect|congenital famil
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  • ...BE}} (born '''George Hoy Booth'''; 26 May 1904&nbsp;– 6 March 1961) was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audie ...mart|Bothway Howard|2011|p=51}} Later in 1915, and with the closure of the English racing season because of the [[First World War]], Formby moved to Ireland w
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