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  • | studio = Stanley Donen Films ...Staircase - Details |website=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]] |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=November 20, 2018 }}</ref>}}
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  • | studio = Noteworthy Films ...ng after the film was released. His ambition at the time, according to ''[[Films and Filming]]'' magazine, was to "play a role that does not involve killing
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  • ...e and the Showgirl]]'' (1957). He broke from this typecasting in his later films, such as his starring role in ''[[Games That Lovers Play (film)|Games That Wattis's other films included ''[[Hobson's Choice (1954 film)|Hobson's Choice]]'', ''[[The Inn o
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  • * [[Film4 Productions|Channel Four Films]] * [[Working Title Films]]
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  • ...in the 1960s birth of the British musical theatre scene after an era when American musicals had dominated the [[West End theatre|West End]].<ref name="nyt"/> ...imes]]|date=April 5, 1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fe1bdd1|title=Lionel Bart|website=Bfi.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{
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  • ...ppeared in two of the ''[[Carry On series on screen and stage|Carry On]]'' films before being cast as [[Alma Halliwell]] in [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] [[soap ...in two of the [[Carry On films]], a long-running series of British comedy films: she had a supporting part as a cab driver in ''[[Carry On Cabby]]'' (1963)
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  • ...carried it. By the early 1990s, it had gained such a loyal following that American viewers of the show formed fan clubs and were in large attendance wherever ...f>{{cite book|last1=Slide|first1=Anthony|title=Some Joe You Don't Know: An American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities|date=1996|publis
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  • ...d legal problems. He adopted the name "Everett" from a childhood hero, the American film comic actor [[Edward Everett Horton]].<ref name=Virgin/> ...n on air. Like most of the pirate stations, Radio London carried sponsored American evangelical shows and Everett's disparaging remarks about ''[[The World Tom
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  • ...Place: Camp Aesthetics and Children's Culture |journal=Canadian Review of American Studies |date=January 2005 |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=1–3 |url=https://ww ...so extreme as to amuse or have a perversely sophisticated appeal</ref> The American writer [[Susan Sontag]]'s essay ''[[Notes on "Camp"]]'' (1964) emphasized i
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  • {{short description|Series of comedy films}} | films = {{Collapsible list
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  • ...Blake Edwards]]' [[The Pink Panther (film series)|Pink Panther]] series of films. ...pur|Kuala Lumpur]], [w:[British Malaya|]], to a Swiss-French mother and an American father, and gained his early acting experience in British provincial [[w:re
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  • ...Two]] broadcast ''George Melly's Last Stand'' (produced by [[Walker George Films]]), an intimate portrayal of Melly's last months. His sister [[Andrée Mell * ''The Psychological Significance Of Animal Symbolism In American Negro Folk Music And All That Jazz'' (Columbia SEG 8093) (1961): "Monkey An
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  • ...[[Steptoe and Son (film)|two feature film spin-offs]], a stage show and an American incarnation titled ''[[Sanford and Son]]'', some episodes of which were alm ...from his role as the older Steptoe, Brambell achieved recognition in many films. His performance in 'The Terence Davies Trilogy' won him critical acclaim.<
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  • ...the [[The Colonel (Monty Python)|Colonel]] and the lead role in two Python films, ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|Holy Grail]]'' (1975) and ''[[Monty Py ...uently left Britain for Los Angeles, where he attempted to be a success on American television, speaking on the college circuit and producing the pirate film '
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  • ...international renown, and he also appeared in numerous stage productions, films, and television shows. Originally conceived as a dowdy [[Moonee Ponds, Vict ...at time, paving the way for the success of subsequent locally made feature films such as ''[[Alvin Purple]]'' and ''[[Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)|Picnic a
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