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  • | birth_date = {{birth date|1921|09|25|df=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1981|04|08|1921|09|25|df=y}}
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  • ...2 |url-access=registration}} Note: Figures are for [[distributor rentals]] in the United States and Canada.</ref> ...plagues were dropped, new ones added and they are ordered differently from in the Bible.
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  • ...moguls, Balcon emerged as a key figure, and an obdurately British one too, in his benevolent, somewhat headmasterly approach to the running of a creative ...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
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  • ...920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s. ...tnership with the comic actor [[Leslie Henson]]. They had an early success in the West End with a long-running farce, ''[[Tons of Money (play)|Tons of Mo
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  • | birth_date = {{birth date|1921|02|01|df=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|06|02|1921|02|01|df=y}}
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  • | caption = Marriott in his "old man" character ...n he used the character in his "The fourth form at St. Michael's" sketches in the 1920s.
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  • | birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|06|29|df=y}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|11|30|1921|06|29|df=y}}
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  • | caption = Finlayson in 1923 ...ayson''' (27 August 1887 – 9 October 1953) was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a [[fake moustache]],<ref name=m
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  • |caption=Laurie as [[Private Frazer]] in ''[[Dad's Army]]'' ...r supporting roles rather than leading ones. As a stage actor, he was cast in Shakespearean roles and was a speaker of verse, especially of [[Robert Burn
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  • ...ire|Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in 1961 and a Dame Commander (DBE) in 1967. ....jpg|thumb|right|Margaret Rutherford's early home, her aunt Bessie's house in [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]], 1895–1920]]
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  • | spouse = {{marriage|Kathleen Marsh|1921}} ...w|variety]], [[revues]] and by the early 1930s reached the top of the bill in the large [[music hall|music halls]] including the [[London Palladium]].
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  • | birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|03|28|df=yes}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|5|8|1921|03|28|df=yes}}
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  • |caption = Ustinov in 1986, photographed by [[Allan Warren|Allan Warren]] |birth_date = {{birth date|1921|04|16|df=yes}}
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  • {{about|the ukulele player, singer and comedian|his father (1875–1921)|George Formby Sr}} ...ngwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, [[Novelt
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  • | caption = Chaplin in the early 1920s ...5 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.
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  • | image = Terry-Thomas in Where Were You When the Lights Went Out.jpg | caption = Terry-Thomas in ''[[Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?]]'' (1968)
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  • | alt = A group of performers in 1940s clothes, dressed warmly for a visit to northern Scotland ...for twelve series from 1939 to 1949. The shows featured [[Tommy Handley]] in the central role, a fast-talking figure, around whom all the other characte
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