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  • {{short description|Austrian-born British actor and radio comedian (1898–1964)}} | death_place = [[w:Johannesburg|Johannesburg]], [[w:Union of South Africa|South Africa]]
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  • ...alised British subject. Theirs was a comfortable middle-class life, with a German cook and housekeeper living in the family home.<ref>[https://www.ancestry.c ...appearances on stage, she played [[Lady Bracknell]] in ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'' in 1975, in a production directed by [[Jonathan Miller]].
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  • ...[:File:Andrew Sachs, audio description of London Zoo.ogg|audio description of London Zoo]] for [[VocalEyes]] }} ...s name on British television and found his greatest fame for his portrayal of the comical Spanish waiter [[Manuel (Fawlty Towers)|Manuel]] in ''[[Fawlty
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  • ...productions.<ref name="BFI">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ef5bd96 |title=Peter Vaughan |access-date=7 December 2016 |work=Briti ...ce and Fire characters#Maester Aemon|Maester Aemon]] in [[HBO]]'s ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' (2011–2015).
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  • ...dwill ambassador|goodwill ambassador]] for [[UNICEF|UNICEF]] and president of the [[World Federalist Movement|World Federalist Movement]]. ...a]], composer of the music for ''[[Quo Vadis (1951 film)|Quo Vadis]]'' and of numerous concert works, dedicated his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 22 (1950) t
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]] * {{marriage|[[w:Miranda, Countess of Stockton|Miranda Quarry]]|1970|1976|reason=divorced}}
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