...films ''[[w:If....|If....]]'' (1968), ''[[w:The Blood on Satan's Claw|The Blood on Satan's Claw]]'' (1971) and ''[[w:Britannia Hospital|Britannia Hospital] ...rwich]], [[w:Norfolk|Norfolk]] on 22 February 2010 of [[w:lung cancer|lung cancer]],<ref name=thestage/> and was interred at St Peter's Church, [[w:Walsingha

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...in the sitcom ''[[The Royle Family|The Royle Family]]'', playing the part from 1998 to 2000, and reprising his role for the specials in 2006 and 2008. ...sh TV series)|Heartbeat]]'', taking over as the show's main loveable rogue from [[Bill Maynard]]'s Claude Greengrass, and returning to the show briefly in

...arlotte Mitchell was married to the actor [[w:Philip Guard|Philip Guard]], from whom she separated in 1968, and was the mother of three children: actors [[ ...ged 85 from pneumonia. She had previously battled [[w:breast cancer|breast cancer]] and [[w:myeloma|myeloma]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com

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...of [[w:George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon]]; his mother was descended from [[Earl Talbot]]. His aristocratic ancestry was often reflected in casting, Villiers died on 18 January 1998 in [[Arundel]], [[Sussex]], of cancer.<ref name ="Independent"/>

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...the quiz show ''[[w:Blankety Blank|Blankety Blank]]'', which he presented from 1984 until its cancellation in 1990. Dawson starred in ''[[Listen to Les]]' ...ack]], in which he sang a comic rendition of "I Got You Babe" with a woman from the audience who wanted to sing with him. The episode was aired shortly aft

From 2012, she appeared as Marj Brennig in the British TV series ''[[Stella (Bri She died of [[ovarian cancer]] on 21 December 2016, aged 78.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.c

...date=30 April 2022}}</ref> In 1935, his father died at 44, having suffered from a weak heart and [[oedema]] brought on by the "filthy, sulphurous" air of t ...tion]] accent, and later declared that "the biggest elocution lessons came from mixing with people who sounded right, people in theatrical circles and in t

...small private school, Selwood House. She enjoyed the cinema; her heroines from the age of eight onwards were [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] act Dors often played characters suffering from unrequited love, and by the mid-1950s, she was known as "the English [[Mari

...lumes of memoirs, six novels, and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''. ...tor of ''[[The Times]]''. Margaret Niven was [[Scottish people|Scottish]], from [[Glasgow]], and was a former actress.

...e ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the la ...|George Formby]] (he is now known as George Formby Sr). Formby Sr suffered from a chest ailment, identified variously as [[bronchitis]], [[asthma]] or [[tu