| birth_place = [[Preston, Lancashire]], England ...BC drama ''[[All the Small Things (TV series)|All the Small Things]]'' and from 2012 to 2013 he played Maurice in ''[[Last Tango in Halifax]]''. In 2016, h

|birth_place = [[Ashton-on-Ribble]], [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]], [[Lancashire]], England ...8 October 1949 in [[Ashton-on-Ribble]], [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]], [[Lancashire]], England to Joseph and Margaret Ollerenshaw (née Daly).

| birth_place = [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]], England ...d?]]'', a [[British sitcom]] between 1972 and 1985, and was the only actor from that series to feature in the [[Are You Being Served? (Australian TV series

...ember 2001) was an English actress. As a child, she found acting an escape from an unhappy home life. After playing in amateur productions, she was taken o Mount occasionally performed in comedies from the classical repertoire, including works by [[William Shakespeare|Shakespe

| birth_place = [[Oldham|Oldham]], [[Lancashire|Lancashire]], England ...2011|quote=Mr Eric Sykes, comedian and writer, 88 }}</ref> in [[Oldham]], Lancashire; his mother died three weeks later, leaving him and his two-year-old brothe

...Reginald Perrin in the BBC's ''[[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]'' from 1976 to 1979.<ref name=obit/> ...wenty-seven year-old Leonard Rossiter, Reginald Salberg's latest 'find' at Preston, was an insurance inspector in Liverpool until about three months ago. For

| resting_place = St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, East Preston, Arun District, West Sussex, England ...an actor and reciter of comic monologues were soon recognised. Characters from his monologues such as Sam Small, invented by Holloway, and Albert Ramsbott

| birth_place = [[Wigan|Wigan]], [[Lancashire|Lancashire]] | death_place = [[Lytham St Annes|Lytham St Annes]], [[Lancashire|Lancashire]]

...Arthur Askey]], [[Robb Wilton]], [[Tommy Handley]] and the "cheeky chappy" from [[Brighton]], [[Max Miller (comedian)|Max Miller]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http ...]], who had appeared in his stage act, were often played by local children from stage schools, and were revealed never to have been paid. Dodd was also rev