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  • ...ebsite=theatricalia.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ab8fe3d|title=The Green Man (1956)|website=BFI}}</ref> ...ns' assistant McKechnie who, as nobody is next door, hides the body there (in a grand piano).
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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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  • ...Ghost Train''''' is a stage comedy-[[thriller (genre)|thriller]], written in 1923 by the English actor and playwright [[Arnold Ridley]]. ...a railway scenario in constrained circumstances" thrillers, leading to the films such as ''[[The Lady Vanishes (1938 film)|The Lady Vanishes]]'' (1938), ''[
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  • ...The Fast Lady (1963)|publisher=British Film Institute}}</ref> based on the 1925 novel of the same name by [[Keble Howard|Keble Howard]].<ref>{{cite book|ti ...1962, Page 2</ref> A loose sequel, ''[[Father Came Too!]]'', was released in February 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/film/father
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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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  • ...iously imitating Danvers-Walker's "perky tone" in a cod "newsreel" segment in his 2000 film ''[[w:Love's Labour's Lost (film)|Love's Labour's Lost]]''.<r ...e]], in 1925, moving on briefly to [[w:ABC Radio National|2FC]] in Sydney, in 1932, before returning to the United Kingdom the same year.<ref name="ODNB"
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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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  • | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1925|06|19}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2006|12|23|1925|06|19}}
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  • ...has done for 14 years. In the city he sits as one of many identical clerks in a dull office. Each worker wears a [[bowler hat]] and carries an umbrella. Back at his lodgings, in a mid-terraced brick Victorian house, somewhere in outer London, Tony dons his artist's smock, and resumes work on his masterp
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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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  • ...way to radio and films.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f4db93a|title=Ronald Frankau|website=BFI}}</ref> ...stage-famous '[[Charles Wyndham (actor)|Wyndham]]' onto the 'Ronald Hugh'" in Frankau's name.<ref>Gilbert Frankau, ''Self-Portrait'', Hutchinson 1940 p.
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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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  • | birth_date = {{Birth date |1925|11|11|df=yes}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|12|29|1925|11|11|df=yes}}
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  • | caption=Morecambe (left) & Wise in their classic "skip dance" pose, performed to the song "[[Bring Me Sunshine ...[[Morecambe]], [[Lancashire]], England|'''Ernest Wiseman''': {{Birth date|1925|11|27|df=y}}, [[Bramley, Leeds|Bramley]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], Eng
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  • |caption=Laurie as [[Private Frazer]] in ''[[Dad's Army]]'' |spouse={{marriage|Florence May Saunders|1925|1926|end=died}}, {{marriage|Oonah Veronica Todd-Naylor|1928}}
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  • ...h-produced film-comedy, and in 1938 he was the third highest-grossing star in the UK. Many comedians have acknowledged him as a major influence. Hay was ...CKTON – William Thomson Hay</ref> By his late teens, Hay had become fluent in Italian, French and German and secured employment as an interpreter.<ref na
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  • | caption = Hawtrey in ''[[Carry On at Your Convenience]]'' (1971) ...ost of St. Michael's]]''), through the [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' films]], and television.
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  • | years_active = 1925–67 ...ire|Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in 1961 and a Dame Commander (DBE) in 1967.
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  • ...) and Nina Norre ({{nee}} Mildred Noaks), whose marriage was registered in 1925, according to the General Register Index of England and Wales.<ref>Accordin ...Carr''' when she appeared as a [[chorus girl]] in the [[Windmill Theatre]] in London from which she was fired by [[Vivian Van Damm]].<ref name="jean"/>
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  • ...wisohn |first1=Mark |title=The Beatles – All These Years, Volume One: Tune In |date=2013 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |isbn=978-1-4000-8305-3 |ur ...was a major success, receiving critical acclaim and reaching number three in the [[UK Albums Chart|UK Albums Chart]].
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