| birth_place = [[w:Stockport|Stockport]], [[w:Cheshire|Cheshire]], England ...d 14 February 2021.</ref> was an English actor and writer for films and TV from the 1950s.

| birth_place = [[Sandbach|Sandbach]], [[Cheshire|Cheshire]], England * ''[[Man from Tangier|Man from Tangier]]'' (1957)

| birth_place = [[w:Stockport|Stockport]], [[w:Cheshire|Cheshire]], England [[Category:English male television actors]]

| birth_place = [[Wallasey|Wallasey]], [[Cheshire|Cheshire]], England<ref name="wirral-born-star">{{cite news|title=Tributes to Wirral ...in the sitcom ''[[The Royle Family|The Royle Family]]'', playing the part from 1998 to 2000, and reprising his role for the specials in 2006 and 2008.

| birth_place = [[Wallasey]], [[Cheshire]], England ...d joined the [[Royal Air Force Police|RAF Police]] but was later invalided from service, whereupon he joined [[Entertainments National Service Association]

...Stuart "Harry" Bates (1893–1985), son of Albert Bates, of [[Congleton]], [[Cheshire]],<ref name=kelly>Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Class ...moments-are-just-historical-truth.html|title=Banning It Ain't Half Hot Mum from TV is a 'shame', creator says, as non-PC moments are just 'historical truth

...ing "wasp-waist and swivel-hippy". Unwin claimed that the inspiration came from his mother, who once told him that on the way home she had "falolloped (fal ...n's Home|National Children's Home]] in [[Congleton|Congleton]], [[Cheshire|Cheshire]]. In the late 1920s, he studied radio, television and languages at [[Unive

| birth_place = [[Bramhall|Bramhall]], [[Stockport|Stockport]], [[Cheshire|Cheshire]], England ...the film. Within the same camp as Butterworth and Rothwell were the future actors [[Rupert Davies]] and John Casson, the son of [[Lewis Casson]] and [[Sybil

...gan his theatrical career in London in 1922, adopting the surname "Parker" from his mother's maiden name.<ref name=screenonline>{{Cite web|url=http://www.s ...el Anne Randell-Brown (born in [[Seacombe]], [[Cheshire]]),<ref name=who/> from September 1927 until his death in 1971, in [[Brighton]].<ref>{{Cite news |

| birth_place = [[Wallasey]], [[Cheshire]], England ...ctober 2013</ref> (part of [[Wallasey]]) in [[Wirral Peninsula|Wirral]], [[Cheshire]], England. He attended Wallasey Grammar School and made his professional s

...Master's Voice]] include "The Bee Song" (1938), a lasting part of his act. From the 1950s, Askey was a prominent television presence and made regular appea ...(née Bowden, d. 1949), originally from [[Knutsford|Knutsford]], [[Cheshire|Cheshire]] and Samuel Askey (d. 1958), company secretary of Sugar Products of Liverp

...isher = [[Bowdoin College|]] | title = Actor Burt Kwouk '53 Receives Honor from English Crown | date = 28 July 2011 | access-date = 24 May 2016}}</ref> The ...22337b08c32b08c5b609516963223|archive-date=14 July 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> From 2002 to the series's end in 2010, he had a [[regular character|regular role

...sister, Marjory. His parents were [[Scottish people|Scottish]], originally from [[Edinburgh]]. His father was an international in both rugby union and rugb ...d not know Kinnear's name, and told the casting director to get "the actor from ''That Was the Week That Was'' whose surname begins with K." [[David Kernan

...er and serving with [[No. 76 Squadron RAF]] under the command of [[Leonard Cheshire]].<ref>{{cite web| title=Encyclopædia Britannica| url=https://www.britanni ...interview as saying that [[Marc Sinden]] and he "are the only two British actors I am aware of who have ever worked with Winner more than once, and it certa

...apped'', Starr gives speech problems as the reason he spent two years away from home as a child.<ref>{{cite web |title=Freddie Starr reveals misery of chil Starr was encouraged by his mother to perform from the age of 12 working in clubs and pubs. For five years, he was a member of

...hildhood as "a happy time, marred by no ructions or family tensions, apart from the occasional wet sock."<ref>{{harvnb|McCabe|2005|p=14}}</ref> As a child, ...pted to take on the persona of "Charlie" so as not to be himself. He and a male nurse often entertained the patients with comedy routines. He found work at

...Tranmere, Merseyside|Tranmere]], Cheshire,<!-- Please do not change—it was Cheshire when O'Grady was born and remained so until 1974 when it became Merseyside. Born to a working-class Irish migrant family in [[Tranmere, Cheshire]], O'Grady moved to London in the late 1970s, initially working as a peripa

...e ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the la ...|George Formby]] (he is now known as George Formby Sr). Formby Sr suffered from a chest ailment, identified variously as [[bronchitis]], [[asthma]] or [[tu