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  • {{Short description|British radio and television comedy scriptwriter}} | nationality = British
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  • ...ork=The Telegraph|date=23 April 2021|access-date=2 June 2021}}</ref> was a British playwright, screenwriter and actor. ...ony Marriott at the Film Reference website]</ref> A [[No Sex Please, We're British (film)|film version]] starring [[Ronnie Corbett]] was released in 1973.
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  • | genre = Television ...r)|Alan Simpson]]. Together they devised and wrote 1950s and 60s [[BBC]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]]s including ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'' (1954–1961), the
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  • {{short description|British television, radio, and comic strip author}} ...creenwriter)|Hazel Adair]], he co-created the soap opera ''[[w:Crossroads (British TV series)|Crossroads]]''.
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  • ...nis Ian Goodwin''' (19 July 1929 &ndash; 26 February 1975) was a radio and television comedy [[w:scriptwriter|scriptwriter]] and actor, best known for his writin ...>{{Cite web |url=http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/bobmonkhouse.htm |title=Television Heaven |access-date=2011-01-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/200
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  • ...rs]] and [[Johnny Dorelli]]), and Hollywood as well as working for British television and continuing to contribute to ''Punch''. His success writing for the television series ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series)|The Adventures of Robin
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  • | nationality = British | genre = Television
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  • {{Short description|British actor, director and screenwriter (1923–2002)}} ....bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba4b1f175 Filmography of Alexander Doré] [[British Film Institute]] Database</ref>
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  • ...School]] in [[London]]. In the mid-1970s, while still a teacher, he won a British TV talent contest, [[New Faces]], with a comedy double act called "Mr Carli ...4/mike-walling-rip/|title=Actor & writer Mike Walling dies at 69|publisher=British Comedy Guide|date=4 July 2020|accessdate=4 July 2020}}</ref>
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  • '''Talbot Nelson Conn “Tolly” Rothwell''', [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (12 November 1916 &ndash; 28 February 1981) was an English [[s ...'') was voted the greatest one-liner in movie history by a thousand comedy writers, actors, impresarios and members of the public for the launch of Sky Movies
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  • [[Category:English male comedians]] [[Category:English male film actors]]
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  • ...12 December 1970, in London) was a British [[film director]] (1933–62) and television director (1962–64), usually of light-hearted subject matter.<ref>{{cite w ...ollywood film and British series of ''The Saint''. Carstairs directed many British comedies including many of [[Norman Wisdom]]'s films.<ref>{{cite web|url=ht
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  • | nationality = British ...sh actor and [[Screenwriter|scriptwriter]] who had a long career in radio, television and film, specialising in comedy.
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  • | genre = Television, cinema, radio ...=2012-07-21|title=Sid Colin|work=BFI}}</ref> He is best remembered for the television comedies ''[[The Army Game]]'' (1957–59), ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'' (1969–197
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  • {{short description|British writer}} {{Use British English|date=October 2015}}
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  • ...ntinue his acting by joining the [[w:British Commonwealth Occupation Force|British Commonwealth Occupation Force]] (BCOF). After graduating from drama school ===Television===
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  • ...i.org.uk/sift/series/32481 | title=Bremner, Bird and Fortune | publisher=[[British Film Institute]] | work=Film & TV Database | access-date=31 December 2013 | ...air with a tree. He appeared with [[Peter Sellers]] in a [[Barclays Bank]] television commercial in 1980, shortly before Sellers' death.
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] | nationality = [[w:British people|British]]
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  • '''Neil Hodgson Shand''' (3 March 1934 – 14 April 2018) was a British television comedy writer.<ref name="BBC15042018">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk ...f-british-comedy-1-8410149|title=Neil Shand: My life with the old guard of British comedy|work=The Yorkshire Post|date=26 February 2017|accessdate=18 April 20
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  • ...vejoy]]'' (1991) and comedy shows like ''[[Yes Minister]]'', he also wrote television scripts and screenplays, such as ''[[Princess Caraboo (film)|Princess Carab ...est End hit, toured the UK and was [[Anyone for Denis? (video)|adapted for television]]. Wells also played Denis Thatcher in the Bond movie ''[[For Your Eyes Onl
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