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- ...ography |website=Screenonline.org.uk |access-date=2016-09-10}}</ref> was a Welsh screenwriter and novelist. Especially known for his work in [[British telev ...e 1950s, Nation worked with [[John Junkin]] and [[Johnny Speight]] for the writers' agency [[Associated London Scripts]],<ref name="screenonline.org.uk"/> whe20 KB (2,802 words) - 13:56, 11 March 2023
- {{short description|Welsh actor and theatre director}} .... WalesOnline (15 September 2010). Retrieved 3 September 2013.</ref> was a Welsh<ref name=obit/> actor, author, poet, and raconteur. He appeared in dozens o23 KB (3,472 words) - 11:25, 11 January 2023
- Askey served in the [[Royal Welsh Fusiliers|Royal Welsh Fusiliers]] in the [[First World War|First World War]] and performed in arm ...nch night programme for [[Granada Television|Granada Television]]. In 1957 writers [[Sid Colin]] and [[Talbot Rothwell]] revived the ''Band Waggon'' format fo15 KB (2,289 words) - 22:24, 28 March 2023
- ...July 1967|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>}} (8 April 1944 – 24 July 2017) was a Welsh film and television actor. He had a lead role in ''[[The Family Way]]'' (1 ...earnt to speak [[English language|English]] in an accent he called "London-Welsh" after the family moved to south London when he was four.<ref name="aberdee25 KB (3,678 words) - 11:57, 18 February 2023
- ...fe of Brian director dies, aged 77|newspaper=The Independent}}</ref> was a Welsh comedian, director, historian, actor, writer and member of the [[Monty Pyth ...eb |title=Terry Jones |url=http://welshwriters.co.uk/terry-jones/ |website=Writers of Wales |access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="Fantastic Fiction">56 KB (7,720 words) - 19:07, 4 September 2024
- ...first worked with [[Ronnie Barker]] in ''The Frost Report'' (1966–67). The writers and cast were mostly [[w:Oxbridge|Oxbridge]] graduates from the [[w:Footlig ...in ''[[No – That's Me Over Here!]]'', a sitcom written by ''Frost Report'' writers [[Barry Cryer]], [[Graham Chapman]] and [[w:Eric Idle|Eric Idle]] ([[ITV (T30 KB (4,195 words) - 15:14, 23 December 2022
- ...Britain had taken place at [[Alexandra Palace]]. The event included [[Alex Welsh]], [[Diz Disley]], [[Acker Bilk]], [[Chris Barber]], [[Kenny Ball]], [[Ken George Melly With Alex Welsh and his Dixielanders22 KB (3,201 words) - 23:42, 19 February 2023
- ...don, the only child of publisher John Atherton Rushton (1908-1958) and his Welsh wife Veronica (née James, 1910-1977). He was educated at [[Shrewsbury Scho [[Category:20th-century British Army personnel]]34 KB (5,049 words) - 19:26, 4 September 2024
- | genre = [[w:Easy listening|Easy listening]], [[w:20th-century classical music|classical]], [[w:jazz|jazz]], [[w:big band|big band]], [[w: ...of Eden" in 1957.<ref name=":6" /> In 1958, she began an association with Welsh singer [[w:Shirley Bassey|Shirley Bassey]], including work for Bassey's rec46 KB (6,817 words) - 09:03, 6 February 2023
- ...grounds; neither had attended university, while many of the other cast and writers on ''The Frost Report'' had.<ref name=C13/> Each episode of the show, which ...s which had the "good lines".<ref name=timesobit/> One of the show's other writers, [[Barry Cryer]], said: "You could write almost anything knowing these two70 KB (10,654 words) - 16:58, 14 December 2022
- ...dic element common to drag queens of his generation.<ref>{{cite news |last=Welsh |first=Daniel |title=Alan Carr Backtracks After Claiming Paul O'Grady Would [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]110 KB (14,760 words) - 19:34, 27 September 2024
- ...[[BBC radio]] from 1924. By the end of the 1920s he was, according to the writers Andy Foster and [[Steve Furst]], a household name in Britain; his popularit ...sh regions there were the Scottish Tattie Mackintosh (and her mother); the Welsh Sam Fairfechan ("Hello, how are you? As if I cared") and his family;{{sfn|F98 KB (14,826 words) - 00:03, 10 February 2023