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  • {{Short description|English actress (1925–2011)}} ...ominals|Country=GBR|OBE}} (23 June 1925{{Spaced ndash}}3 June 2011) was an English actress whose career lasted for more than 60 years. She was known for her r
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  • |language = English ...to fight, where they are mistaken by a reporter for [[Fathers 4 Justice]] activists. Peter fires a spider plant at him, followed by Batman throwing his Bataran
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  • | language = English ...litical themes of the trade union movement, crucially portraying the union activists as idle, pedantic buffoons which, apparently, alienated the traditional wor
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  • ...tration district, July 1987, Vol. 11 Page 205</ref> – 16 July 1987) was an English actor. He was born in [[Bethnal Green|Bethnal Green]], [[London|London]], t ...ok part in the [[Battle of Cable Street|Battle of Cable Street]], in which activists attempted to prevent a march through the East End by the [[British Union of
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  • ...ith suggested that he drop the "s" from his surname so it would sound less English.<ref name="IndpObit">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obi ...eturned to see his grandparents in Tenby, who, at his request, gave him an English translation of Hitler's book, ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' so he could better underst
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  • [[Category:English activists]] [[Category:English male film actors]]
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  • ...nals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRAS}} (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian who wrote and acted in a [[schoolmaster]] sketch that later transf ...Hay's films has been described as subversive and similar to that of fellow English comedian [[Frank Randle]]. His films are often characterised as exhibiting
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  • ...Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was an English [[w:Theatre director|theatre and opera director]], actor, author, televisio ...bourne]], followed by a new production of ''The Marriage of Figaro'' for [[English National Opera]] in 1978. Miller's other turns as an opera director include
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  • ...t the 1998 Aspen Comedy Arts festival, the urn, brought onstage by a stiff English butler, was "accidentally" knocked over by Terry Gilliam, spilling the "ash [[Category:20th-century English medical doctors]]
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  • ...rcraft Is Missing]]'' (1942), in which he was required to deliver lines in English, Latin, and Dutch. In 1944, under the auspices of [[Entertainments National ...rot roles being undertaken by three actors). However, he provided only his English and German voices for [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney]]'s ''[[Robin
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  • | language = English ...ast as Ted, but expressed concerns about the show's religious themes: "The English have a very robust history of being unkind about religion. We don't have th
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  • ...GBR|size=100%|commas=on|CBE|DL}} (27 January 1924 – 20 August 2016) was an English actor-manager, who produced a record-breaking sequence of long-running farc [[Category:English male stage actors]]
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  • '''Douglas Noel Adams''' (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, screenwriter, essayist, humourist, satirist and dramatist. Adams wa ...s in three years — he graduated in 1974 with a 2:2 in [[English literature|English literature]].<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/re
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  • ...in the worst conflict between Parliament and the Royal family since the [[English Civil War]]. After the naïvely honest Piers lets slip to Georgina the oil' ...for animal testing. Subsequently, Alan becomes the target of animal rights activists, whose methods quickly escalate from protests to death threats and a drive-
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  • {{Use British English|date=November 2016}} ...of "The Bean Party". He makes fun of the ruthless campaigning used by some activists and forces his way into peoples' homes or buys their votes by offering them
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  • | language = English ...wison reveals that the film was to have begun with a set of sketches at an English public school. Much of this material was first printed in the ''[[Monty Pyt
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