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  • '''Anthea Shirley Askey''' (2 March 1933 – 28 February 1999) was an English [[actress]], particularly prominent on television in the 1950s. [[Category:English television actresses]]
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  • * ''[[The Truth About Women]]'' (1957) - Lady Tavistock [[Category:20th-century British actresses]]
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  • {{Short description|English actress (1922–1991)}} '''Betty Alberge''' (22 January 1922 – 18 May 1991) was an English theatre, radio and television actress, with an extensive career which ran f
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  • '''Florence Avril Angers''' (18 April 1918 &ndash; 9 November 2005) was an English stand-up comedian and actress.<ref name="Avril Angers">{{cite web|url=https * ''[[w:Women Without Men (1956 film)|Women Without Men]]'' (1956) – Bessie
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  • In the nearly four-minute number, which she sang in English, French and Spanish, Darvey wore a total of four costumes, including as a [ [[Category:English female dancers]]
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  • '''Elisabeth Anne Gebhardt''' (12 April 1945 – 10 August 1995) was an English actress, best known for playing the part of form 5C pupil Maureen Bullock i ...te/rage_report_0107.pdf|format=PDF|accessdate=2009-05-16|title=Yesterday's Women/The Story of R.A.G.E.|first1=Bec|last1=Hanley|first2=Kristina|last2=Staley|
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  • * ''[[Two Thousand Women]]'' (1944) writer/director [[Category:English expatriates in Monaco]]
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  • ...''' (born '''Mary Spenton'''; 21 July 1923 &nbsp;– 25 January 1980) was an English actress of film and television, as well as an occasional singer.<ref name=" [[Category:English film actresses]]
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  • '''Jill Adams''' (22 July 1930 – 13 May 2008) was an English actress, artist and fashion model. She featured or starred in over 25 films ...elling career, which included a flag-hoisting recruitment poster for the [[Women's Royal Naval Service]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/fil
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  • {{Use British English|date=August 2011}} [[Category:English film actresses]]
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  • {{Short description|English film actress (1919–1970)}} ...boy]] in pantos, she became a favourite. She established a reputation as "English [[pantomime]]'s most distinguished post war principal boy". For years she w
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  • ...'' (17 July 1931 – 15 April 2014), born '''Edith April Oelrichs''', was an English ballerina and actress, born in [[Zanzibar]], now part of Tanzania. She also appeared in many films including ''[[Women Without Men (1956 film)|Women without Men]]'' (1956), ''[[The Battle of the River Plate (film)|Battle of
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  • {{short description|English comedian}} '''Barry Took''' (19 June 1928{{snd}}31 March 2002) was an English writer, television presenter and comedian. His decade-and-a-half writing pa
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  • ...-03-21}}</ref> – 10 November 2006), billed as '''Diana Coupland''', was an English actress, best remembered for her role in the sitcom ''[[Bless This House (B [[Category:English film actresses]]
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  • ...e "Binnie" Mary Hale-Monro''' (22 May 1899 &ndash; 10 January 1984) was an English actress, singer and dancer. She was one of the most successful musical thea ...th 1924).<ref name=AllmusicBio/><ref name=Green/> In 1924, she married the English actor [[Jack Raine]],<ref>"Miss Binnie Hale: Quiet Marriage of Popular Revu
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  • ...ieved 23 May 2013)</ref> known professionally as '''Jimmy Jewel''', was an English comedian and actor whose long career in stage, radio, television and film p ...bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6afe13a5 |title=The Man Who Had Power over Women (1970) |publisher=BFI |accessdate=2017-03-19}}</ref> Jewel then starred in
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  • ...lle Heath]], a former [[South African Air Force]] captain who murdered two women in London only months later.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.tele [[Category:20th-century British actresses]]
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  • ...y 1993), better known by her [[stage name]] '''Florence Desmond''', was an English actress, [[comedian]] and [[impersonator]]. [[Category:English women comedians]]
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  • ...ews]] |access-date=16 November 2008 | date=16 November 2008}}</ref> was an English actor, entertainer and comedian. He is best remembered for having played th ...character Stan, who lived with his mother and often tried to attract young women, was implied to be aged around 35. Varney was only eleven years younger tha
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  • {{Short description|English actor}} * ''[[Prehistoric Women (1967 film)|Prehistoric Women]]'' (1967) - Colonel Hammond
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