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  • ...sh actor whose trademark rotund figure was well known on television and in films for more than 40 years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9 ...16 hour-long episodes with first season 1969 and second season 1971 based on short stories by [[Edgar Wallace]].<ref name="Gdn20080416" /><ref>{{cite ne
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  • | name = Oliver! | image = Oliver! (1968 movie poster).jpg
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  • ...res]]'' as Leyland Van Helsing.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba2bd4a67|title=Robin Stewart|website=BFI}}</ref> ...dy feature film ''[[Pacific Banana]]'' (1981), and an appearance in prison based soap opera ''[[Punishment (TV series)|Punishment]]''. He was also one of th
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  • ...y fantasy about a beautiful and playful [[mermaid]] Miranda and her effect on the men and women she meets, as she outrageously flirts with and flatters e ...all]] coast without her. There, Miranda, a mermaid, catches him by pulling on his fishing line and making him fall in the water. She drags him down to he
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  • | based_on = <!-- {{based on|title of the original work|writer of the original work}} --> ...and [[James Robertson Justice]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b280548|title=A Pair of Briefs (1962)|website=BFI}}</ref> T
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  • ...]]" and was the sole creator of the musical ''[[Oliver!]]'' (1960). With ''Oliver!'' and his work alongside theatre director [[Joan Littlewood]] at [[Theatre ...won the [[Tony Award for Best Original Score]] for ''Oliver!'', and the [[Oliver! (film)|1968 film version]] of the musical won a total of 6 Academy Awards
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  • ...'[[Flight of the Doves]]'' (1971), in which Moody shared the screen with ''Oliver!'' co-star [[Jack Wild]]. Moody was born on 8 January 1924 in [[Tottenham]], [[Middlesex]],<!-- Tottenham was part of M
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  • ...24 July 2002) was an English [[character actor]] who appeared in over 100 films and television programmes in his long career. Denham was born on 23 December 1909 in [[Beckenham]], [[Kent]], the son of Eleanor Winifred (n
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  • ...films – notably as [[Bumble (Oliver Twist)|Bumble]] in ''[[Oliver! (film)|Oliver!]]'' (1968) – and, in his later years, was a presenter of television show He made his first radio broadcast in May 1944 on a variety show aimed at the services. Following the end of fighting in the
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  • ...appearances in fourteen [[Carry On series on screen and stage|''Carry On'' films]] and for her professional partnership with [[Eric Sykes]].{{sfn|Gray|2004} ...''Late Joys'',{{sfn|Merriman|2007|p=222}} a performance that she repeated on television in 1946.{{sfn|Merriman|2007|p=224}} From there she became a regu
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  • ...a list of actors who have appeared in [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' films]]. ...tp://www.thewhippitinn.com/carry_on_people/|title=The Whippit Inn : Carry On People|website=Thewhippitinn.com|accessdate=24 October 2018}}</ref> Survivi
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  • ...he is best known as a regular of the [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'']] films, where she typically played strict, no-nonsense characters, but was also a ...playing various roles including the formidable hospital [[matron|matron]]. On television she had a long professional partnership with [[Eric Sykes]], wit
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  • ...ties reportedly held at her house. Later, she showed talent as a performer on TV, in recordings, and in [[cabaret|cabaret]], and gained new public popula ...could have been Sybil Fawlty...|author=Thomson, David|work=The Independent on Sunday|location=London (UK)|date=16 May 2004|page=13}}</ref>
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  • ...sion play ''[[Traitor (TV drama)|Traitor]]'', of a character loosely based on [[Kim Philby]], which earned him the [[British Academy Television Award for ...e played the character Jack Mottram. He went on to appear in over 100&nbsp;films, including ''[[Private's Progress]]'' (1955), ''[[I'm All Right Jack]]'' (1
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  • ...[[author]] and [[satirist]]. He is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos [[Dame Edna Everage]] and [[Sir Les Patters ...international renown, and he also appeared in numerous stage productions, films, and television shows. Originally conceived as a dowdy [[Moonee Ponds, Vict
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