• Puckoon
  ...on]], passes directly through the village, with most of the village placed in the independent [[Irish Free State]], but with a significant portion to [[N ...e small role of Mrs. Madigan. The film was cast by [[Jo Gilbert]] and shot in [[Belfast]], Northern Ireland.
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• Educated Evans (film)
  ...a BBC television series ''[[Educated Evans (TV series)|Educated Evans]]'' in 1957. ...inually threaten to reveal to the horse's owners the ramshackle conditions in which the animal is kept.
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• School for Scoundrels (1960 film)
  ...Corporation|Associated British Picture Corporation]] (ABPC)<br />Guardsman Films<ref name="Brooke" /> ...lywood]] under the title ''[[Chhoti Si Baat|Chhoti Si Baat]]'' (1975), and in Hollywood as ''[[School for Scoundrels (2006 film)|School for Scoundrels]]'
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• Moore Marriott
  | 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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• Michael Balcon
  | spouse = {{marriage|Aileen Freda Leatherman|1924}} ...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
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• Follow That Camel
  ...an market; [[Phil Silvers]] (in his only ''Carry On'') is heavily featured in a [[Sergeant Bilko]]-esque role.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/19 ...ombatants at [[Sidi Bel Abbès]], the pair eventually enlist and are helped in surviving Legion life by Sergeant Nocker, although only after they discover
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• The Last Remake of Beau Geste
  ...Beau Geste]]'', a frequently-filmed story of brothers and their adventures in the [[French Foreign Legion]]. The humor is based heavily upon wordplay and ...e film directorial debut of Feldman. He subsequently went on to direct ''[[In God We Tru$t]]'' (1980).
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• Tom Walls
  ...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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• James Finlayson (actor)
  | 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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• Benny Hill
  | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1924|1|21}}<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite news |newspaper=New York Times |date=21 Ap | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1992|4|20|1924|1|21}}
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• Ted Kavanagh
  | caption = Kavanagh in 1949 ...adio scriptwriter and producer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bacf61e28|title=Ted Kavanagh|website=2.bfi.org.uk|access-date
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• Tony Hancock
  | birth_date = {{birth date|1924|05|12|df=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1968|06|25|1924|05|12|df=y}}
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• Max Miller (comedian)
  ...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]]. ...kes often led to difficulties with the censors. He made his last recording in January 1963 and died four months later.
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• Brian Rix
  | birth_date = {{birth date|1924|01|27|df=yes}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2016|08|20|1924|01|27|df=yes}}
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• Mervyn Johns
  | caption = Johns in ''[[The Halfway House]]'' (1944) ...sh stage, film and television character actor who became a star of British films during the Second World War.
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• Gracie Fields
  ...e British Empire|Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)]] in 1979.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id ...historyoffamilyo00stan|title=History of the Stansfeld Family of Stansfield in the Parish of Halifax and its numerous branches|year=1885|location=Leeds|pa
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• Dirk Bogarde
  ...rs, six novels, and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''. ...ander of the Order of Arts and Letters]] in 1990 and a [[Knight Bachelor]] in 1992.
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• George Formby
  | spouse = {{Marriage|Beryl Ingham|13 September 1924|1961|end=d.}} ...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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• The Goon Show series 9
  ...Desert Statue]]'', which doesn't mean a thing, for – after all – it's all in the mind, you know…' ==Tension in the ranks==
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• Charlie Chaplin
  | caption = Chaplin in the early 1920s | {{marriage|[[Lita Grey]]|1924|1927|reason=divorced}}
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