• Gasbags
  ...] as well as [[Moore Marriott]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aad71e8|title=Gasbags (1941)}}</ref> The film was a morale- ...h National Films Company|British National]] where they made a further four films over the next few years.
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• The Goose Steps Out
  ...German spy who the British have just captured. Potts is flown into [[Nazi Germany]] to impersonate the spy and instructed to seek out and bring back details ...itting that he is a British agent. Luckily, some members of his class of [[Nazi]] youths turn out to be sympathetic [[Austria]]ns and they help him obtain
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• Hannibal Brooks
  The film follows a [[prisoner of war]]'s attempt to escape from [[Nazi Germany]] to [[Switzerland]] during the [[Second World War]], accompanied by a fema ...oposes the three go together to Switzerland as he intends to defect due to Germany's deteriorating military position. They are joined by Packy and his partisa
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• The Black Sheep of Whitehall
  ...chive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310022732/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a55be4c/|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2016|title=' ...Aylmer]]), a member of a group of [[fifth column]]ists working for [[Nazi Germany]].
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• Very Important Person (film)
  ...Navy]] [[public relations]] officer. The bomber is hit over [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] and, ignoring a crewman's warning, Pease is sucked out through a hole in [[Category:1960s war comedy films]]
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• Mavis Villiers
  ...role before her death.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba52e1c84|title=Mavis Villiers|website=BFI}}</ref> She had appeared in films from 1927 to 1975. Some of her more prominent film roles were in:<span clas
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• Privilege (film)
  ...h the band members wearing costumes and assuming poses reminiscent of Nazi Germany. Disabled citizens are given preferential seating to the stage, in the hope ...de|Flipside]] imprint. The disc included two of [[Peter Watkins]]'s short films: ''[[The Forgotten Faces]]'' (1961) and ''[[The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
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• Michael Balcon
  ...a production company known as Ealing Films, and later headed British Lion Films. He served as chairman of the [[British Film Institute]] production board t ...as described in his obituary in ''[[The Times]]'' as a "pioneer of British films" who "had courage, energy and flair for showmanship".<ref name=":1">{{Cite
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• Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
  {{about|the book|the film|Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (film)}} ...ngdom declaration of war on Germany (1939)|Britain's declaration of war on Germany]] to when Milligan lands in [[Algeria]] as a part of the [[Allied_invasion_
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• James Robertson Justice
  ...rtraying pompous authority figures in comedies including each of the seven films in the ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' series. He also co-starred with ...Nations mandate originating in the [[Treaty of Versailles]]). After the [[Nazi]]s came to power, he fought in the [[Spanish Civil War]] on the [[Second Sp
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• Sam Kydd
  ...lisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780719091391}}</ref> He made over 290 films, more than any other British actor, including 119 between 1946 and 1952. ...an of 240 films|via=www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk}}</ref> He felt so strongly about his work there that, when he was offered repatriation after three years, he
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• Herbert Lom
  ...Lom emigrated to Britain in 1939. He made numerous appearances in British films throughout the 1940s, usually in villainous roles, although he later appear ...961 film)|Mysterious Island]]'' (also 1961), as Captain Nemo; and [[Hammer Films]]' remake of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (1962 film)|The Phantom of the Op
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• Andrew Sachs
  | birth_place = [[Berlin]], Germany ...nd radio. He was successful well into his eighties, with roles in numerous films such as ''[[Quartet (2012 film)|Quartet]]'', and as [[Ramsay Clegg]] in ''[
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• Dad's Army
  ...PRESENT TENSE IS USED. --> a British television [[British sitcom|sitcom]] about the UK's [[Home Guard (United Kingdom)|Home Guard]] during the [[World War ...?id=Bck6oHB6_AwC&q=%22Jeffrey+Richards%22+%22robb+wilton%22&pg=PA356|title=Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad's Army|date=15 September
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• Thora Hird
  ...e is shown wielding a rifle to defend a house from [[Fallschirmjäger (Nazi Germany)|German paratroopers]]. She worked with the British film comedian [[Will Ha ...Ridley in the sitcom ''[[Hallelujah! (TV series)|Hallelujah!]]'' (1983–84) about the [[Salvation Army]], a movement for which she had a soft spot throughout
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• Dirk Bogarde
  ...4) for the [[Rank Organisation]], he later acted in [[Art film|art-house]] films. In a second career, he wrote seven best-selling volumes of memoirs, six no Bogarde came to prominence in films including ''[[The Blue Lamp]]'' in the early 1950s, before starring in the
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• Monty Python's Life of Brian
  * [[HandMade Films]] ...cing for ''Life of Brian'' through the formation of his company [[HandMade Films]].<ref name="rolling stone">{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/mus
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• Terry-Thomas
  ...haracter actor]] and comedian who became internationally known through his films during the 1950s and 1960s. He often portrayed disreputable members of the ...various [[BBC Radio]] shows, and made a successful transition into British films. He appeared in ''[[Private's Progress]]'' (1956), ''[[The Green Man (film)
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• Spike Milligan
  ...[conscription|called up]] for military service in the fight against [[Nazi Germany]], but even then he wrote and performed comedy sketches as part of concerts ...ding Italian campaign. Milligan was appointed [[lance bombardier]] and was about to be promoted to bombardier, when he was wounded in action in the Italian
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• Charlie Chaplin
  ...oped the Tramp persona and attracted a large fan base. He directed his own films and continued to hone his craft as he moved to the [[Essanay Studios|Essana ...ve the U.S. and settle in Switzerland. He abandoned the Tramp in his later films, which include ''[[Monsieur Verdoux]]'' (1947), ''[[Limelight (1952 film)|L
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