• Issy Bonn
  ...://www.jewishlivesproject.com/profiles/issy-bonn "Issy Bonn 1893-1977", ''Jewish Lives Project'']. Retrieved 1 December 2020</ref> ...06 Biography, ''Allmusic.com'']. Retrieved 1 December 2020</ref><ref name=jewish/>
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• Davy Kaye
  ...lip Trust Fund, the Nightingale House home for elderly Jews and the Ealing Jewish Youth Club.<ref name=rats/> [[Category:English male film actors]]
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• Colin Crompton
  | notable_work = ''[[The Comedians (1971 TV series)|The Comedians]]'', ''[[The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club]]''}} '''George Colin Crompton''' (22 June 1931 – 24 August 1985) was an English [[stand-up comedian]].
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• Bernie Winters
  {{Use British English|date=November 2016}} ...&d=bmd_1649064119|title = FreeBMD Entry Info}}</ref> – 4 May 1991), was an English comedian, actor, musician & TV presenter, and the comic foil of the double
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• Bernard Manning
  ...ppers and Shunters Social Club]]'', ''[[The Comedians (1971 TV series)|The Comedians]]'', The Embassy Club '''Bernard John Manning''' (13 August 1930 – 18 June 2007) was an English comedian and nightclub owner.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pr-inside.com/c
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• Ron Moody
  {{short description|English actor, composer, singer and writer}} ...oody''' (born '''Ronald Moodnick'''; 8 January 1924 – 11 June 2015) was an English actor, composer, singer and writer. He was best known for his portrayal of
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• Ronald Frankau
  ...nald Hugh Wyndham Frankau''' (22 February 1894 – 11 September 1951) was an English comedian who started in cabaret and made his way to radio and films.<ref na ....<ref>Aryeh Newman, "From Exile to Exit: the Frankau Jewish Connection", ''Jewish Quarterly'' Vol. 34 no. 4 (128) 1987</ref> His mother's siblings included
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• Bernard Bresslaw
  ...ndependent]] |language= |date=13 June 1993}}</ref> was an [[English people|English]] actor. He is best known as a member of the ''[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry ...d the Big Fight (film)|Asterix and the Big Fight]]'' (1989) as [[Obelix]] (English version, voice)
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• Denis Norden
  ...s|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (6 February 1922 – 19 September 2018) was an English comedy writer and television presenter. After an early career working in ci ...(1922–2018) |year=2022 |last1=Mellor |first1=Roger Philip }}</ref> into a Jewish family in [[Hackney Central|Hackney]], in London's [[East End of London|Eas
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• Marty Feldman
  ...l Biography |date=September 2004 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8}}</ref> who was a Jewish immigrant from [[w:Kyiv|Kyiv]], [[w:Ukraine|Ukraine]]. He recalled his chil ...s.org/marty-feldman-versus-the-suits/ "Marty Feldman versus the Suits"], ''Jewish Currents,'' 29 June 2016</ref>
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• Barry Cryer
  ...stnom|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (23 March 1935 – 25 January 2022) was an English writer, comedian, and actor. As well as performing on stage, radio and tele ...described himself as a university dropout: "I was supposed to be studying English Literature at Leeds, but I was in the bar and chasing girls and my first-ye
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• Dick Emery
  {{Short description|English comedian and actor}} ...d Gilbert Emery''' (19 February 1915{{spaced ndash}}2 January 1983) was an English [[comedian]] and actor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9
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• Sid James
  ...lomon Joel Cohen on 8 May 1913, to [[w:History of the Jews in South Africa|Jewish]] parents in [[w:Union of South Africa|South Africa]], then a [[w:British E ...e might end his work with Tony Hancock, one of the most popular television comedians of the time.<ref>Cliff Goodwin ''Sid James: A Biography'', London: Virgin B
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• Freddie Starr
  ...ick Leslie Fowell'''; 9 January 1943 – 9 May 2019) was an [[English people|English]] [[stand up comedy|stand up]] comedian, impressionist, singer and actor. S ...May 2003 |access-date=10 May 2019 |quote=Me mam was from Germany. She was Jewish. I think most of her family got killed off in the Holocaust.}}{{subscriptio
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• Warren Mitchell
  ...ish Chronicle colour supplement "350 years"| pages=28–29| newspaper =[[The Jewish Chronicle]]| date =15 December 2006 }}</ref> (originally surnamed "Misell"< ...}</ref> Mitchell's real life persona was different from Alf Garnett, being Jewish, [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]-voting and a staunch supporter of [[Tottenham
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• Bud Flanagan
  ...ere booked by [[Val Parnell]] at the [[Holborn Empire]]. As [[music hall]] comedians they would often feature a mixture of comedy and music in their act and thi [[Category:British people of Polish-Jewish descent]]
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• Tommy Trinder
  ...[[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (24 March 1909 – 10 July 1989) was an English stage, screen and radio comedian whose catchphrase was "You lucky people!". ...e-story-of-the-theatre-and-its-stars-by-chris-woodward-1.8892 |website=The Jewish Chronicle |access-date=6 January 2022}}</ref><ref name="Towers">{{cite book
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• Bernard Cribbins
  ...s-doctor-who-star-dies-at-93-xvk7vnmjn|url-status = live}}</ref>}}) was an English actor and singer whose career spanned over eight decades. ...(1918)|General Service Medal]], with clasp "Palestine 1945–48", for his [[Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine|service in Palestine]] with 2/3 Battalion
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• Peter Ustinov
  ...mself.}}</ref> Ustinov's great-grandfather [[Moritz Hall|Moritz Hall]], a Jewish refugee from [[Kraków|Kraków]] and later a Christian convert and colleagu ...rcraft Is Missing]]'' (1942), in which he was required to deliver lines in English, Latin, and Dutch. In 1944, under the auspices of [[Entertainments National
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• Peter Cook
  ...s at 57|author= Mel Gussow|date= January 10, 1995|page= D20}}</ref> was an English actor, comedian, [[satirist]], playwright and screenwriter. He was the lead ...tps://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comedians/the-25-best-comedy-duos/peter-cook-and-dudley-moore/ |archive-date=12 Janua
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