• Peter Rogers
  ...ement in the making of the [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'']] series of films. ...edy films, beginning with ''[[Carry On Sergeant]]'' in 1958. There were 31 films in all. Rogers had also been linked with a further instalment, ''[[Carry On
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• Anthea Askey
  ...Rose Brown, whose father Bill was played by her father; while other TV and films include ''[[The Love Match|The Love Match]]'', ''[[Ramsbottom Rides Again|R [[Category:20th-century British businesspeople]]
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• Nothing but the Best (film)
  ...delicate art of being a cad."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Radio Times Guide to Films |publisher=[[Immediate Media Company]] |year=2017 |isbn=9780992936440 |edit * [https://www.reelstreets.com/films/nothing-but-the-best/ ''Nothing but the Best''] then-and-now location photo
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• Frank Launder
  ...eenonline.org.uk}}</ref><ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba17b8221|title=Frank Launder}}</ref> He began working as a screenwriter on British films in the 1930s, contributing the original story for the classic [[Will Hay]]
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• Amelia Bayntun
  ...sh stage and television actress.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bac4120b3|title=Amelia Bayntun|website=BFI}}</ref> ...ny major role. She played in a number of ''[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On films]]'' and on TV, including an episode of ''[[On the Buses]]'', usually as an
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• John Paddy Carstairs
  ...of light-hearted subject matter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba13473bc|title=John Paddy Carstairs|website=BFI}}</ref> He w ...tairs directed many British comedies including many of [[Norman Wisdom]]'s films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/590042/|title=
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• Betty Box
  ...other [[Sydney Box|Sydney]] and his wife [[Muriel Box|Muriel]] at [[Verity Films]], where she helped produce more than 200 wartime [[propaganda]] shorts.<re ...for him. He was running an organisation that made training and recruitment films. I went along as a general dogsbody, and as more men were called up, there
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• Brenda Cowling
  ...0 film)|Stage Fright]]'' (1950).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba29af34f|title=Brenda Cowling|website=BFI}}</ref> ...in repertory, before she began her television career. She also appeared in films, such as ''[[The Railway Children (1970 film)|The Railway Children]]'' (197
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• Barbara Murray
  ...Game]]'').<ref name="express"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b3a784a |title=The Punch and Judy Man (1963) |work=[[Britis ...s Nest 1978'' and ''The Bretts''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba1944c77|title=Barbara Murray |work=[[British Film Institute
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• Ann Lancaster
  ...television shows and in theatre.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba008f77c|title=Ann Lancaster}}</ref><ref name=avelyman>{{cit [[Category:20th-century British businesspeople]]
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• Avril Angers
  .... Her father, Harry Angers, was a music hall comedian who also appeared in films in the 1930s and 1940s. She was a dancer with the [[w:Tiller Girls|Tiller G [[Category:20th-century British businesspeople]]
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• Edward Black (producer)
  ...12-07-11|title=Edward Black|work=BFI}}</ref> He also produced such classic films as ''[[The Lady Vanishes]]'' (1938). Black has been called "one of the unsu ...used to come off as successful as his others."<ref>Round Table on British Films Cornelius, Henry; Dickinson, Thorold; Havelock-Allan, Anthony; John, Rosamu
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• Ralph Thomas
  ...remembered for directing the ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' series of films. He cast the actor [[James Robertson Justice]] in many of his films. Thomas often worked with the producer [[Betty Box|Betty E. Box]], who was
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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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• Doris Hare
  ...etwork)|ITV]] comedy. The series ran until 1973 and spawned three spin-off films ''[[On the Buses (film)|On the Buses]]'' (1971), ''[[Mutiny on the Buses]]' [[Category:20th-century British businesspeople]]
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• Lupino Lane
  ...oscoe Arbuckle]] was one of his directors, but Lane was soon directing the films himself under the pseudonym "Henry W. George" (his given names). These come In the 1930s, Lane directed and acted in mostly British feature films. With Sir [[Oswald Stoll|Oswald Stoll]], Lane co-produced ''[[Twenty to On
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• Dilys Laye
  ...True|Trottie True]]''.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f3eedd1|title=Dilys Laye|website=BFI}}</ref> ...ames Garner]].<ref name="thestage.co.uk"/> In 1957, she began appearing in films more regularly, including one of the schoolgirls in ''[[Blue Murder at St T
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• Diana Coupland
  ...tinued in the role until James died in 1976. She appeared in several other films, including ''[[The Millionairess|The Millionairess]]'' (1960), ''[[The Fami [[Category:20th-century British businesspeople]]
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• Charlotte Mitchell
  ===Films=== [[Category:20th-century British businesspeople]]
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• Ken Annakin
  ...ast]] comedies, [[Adventure films|Adventure films]], [[Action films|Action films]] ...60s he was noticed by critics with large-scale adventure epic and comedies films, like ''[[Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines]]'', ''[[Battle of
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