• Davy Kaye
  From 1954 to 1968 Kaye presented a new show each month at London's Embassy Club, ...Flanagan]] [[Leukaemia]] Fund, [[The Duke of Edinburgh's Award|The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme]], the Prince Philip Trust Fund, the Nightingale House home
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• Bernard Holley
  ...ing [[Redgrave Theatre, Farnham|Farnham]], [[Brighton]], [[Manchester]], [[Edinburgh]], [[Derby]] and [[Norwich]]. One of his last stage roles was in [[Allan Mo [[Category:English male stage actors]]
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• Simon Cadell
  | resting_place = [[Dean Cemetery]]<br>[[Edinburgh]], Scotland ...ell, Dean Cemetery.jpg|thumb|The Cadell family grave in [[Dean Cemetery]], Edinburgh]]
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• Jimmy Logan
  | caption = BBC promo from 1955 ...420.stm |date=13 April 2001 |access-date=7 November 2010}}</ref> His aunt, from whom he took his stage surname, was [[w:Broadway theatre|Broadway]] perform
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• Graham Crowden
  | birth_place = [[Edinburgh]], Scotland | death_place = Edinburgh, Scotland
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• Neil McCarthy (actor)
  ...r training, McCarthy appeared in repertory theatre in [[Oxford]], at the [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe]] and in the [[West End theatre|West End]].<ref name=WhosWh [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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• Sam Kelly
  ...mini-series ''[[Martin Chuzzlewit (1994 TV series)|Martin Chuzzlewit]]''. From 1999 to 2003, he played Barbara's husband Ted in the British sitcom ''[[Bar ...h Opera]] at the 1997 Edinburgh Festival.<ref>Raymond Monelle. Report from Edinburgh Festival Theatre, August 20, 1997. ''[[Opera (British magazine)|Opera]]'',
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• Bruce Seton
  ...ve-date = 24 September 2015|url-status = dead}}</ref> He was educated at [[Edinburgh Academy]] and then trained at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]. He fenced and boxed in the Army and was a founder member with other actors of the [[Lord's Taverners]], a charity which raises funds to support partic
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• Mel Smith
  ...thernecho.co.uk/2001/7/22/164851.html |title=Newcastle one, Hollywood nil (From ''The Northern Echo'') |publisher=Archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk |date=22 Ju ...uced ''[[The Tempest]]'', and performed at the [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe|Edinburgh Fringe]] with the [[Oxford University Dramatic Society]]. One year they sha
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• Ron Moody
  ...Queen [[Elizabeth II]] and the [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Duke of Edinburgh]].<ref>[http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Ron-Moody-Fagin-Oliver-dies-ag ...le in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', following the departure of [[Patrick Troughton]] from the part.<ref name="Stevens">{{cite book
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• John Bardon
  ...], in the [[BBC One|BBC]] [[soap opera]], ''[[EastEnders]]'', for 13 years from 1996 to 2011. ...Security for a supermarket in an episode of ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'' from series five called "[[The Longest Night (Only Fools and Horses)|The Longest
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• Alan Melville (writer)
  ...stories himself, his first professional engagement. He continued to write from the timber yard, his short stories, poems, manuscripts sometimes being acce ...ville play)|Full Circle]]'' (1952, previously ''Dear Charles'' and adapted from ''Les Enfants d'Edouard'' by [[Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon]] and [[Frederick J. J
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• John Clegg (actor)
  ...and Pugh many were sceptical as to whether the marriage would last, apart from Jimmy Perry and his wife Gillian. After the wedding there was a whip-round ...yn, the Meldrum family solicitor; in the series he featured alongside many actors who he had previously worked with on ''[[It Ain't Half Hot Mum]]'' includin
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• Fulton Mackay
  ...[[w:Clydebank|Clydebank]] by a widowed aunt after the death of his mother from [[w:diabetes|diabetes]]. His father was employed by the [[w:NAAFI|NAAFI]].< ...asons between 1949 and 1958. He also worked at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, [[Edinburgh]] before gaining notice at the Arts Theatre Club, London, where in 1960, he
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• Alastair Sim
  | alma_mater = [[University of Edinburgh|University of Edinburgh]] | birth_place = [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingd
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• Ian Lavender
  ...re School|Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]], with the assistance of a grant from the City of Birmingham. Following his graduation in 1967 he appeared on sta ...gave him the great advantage of working alongside a number of experienced actors during his formative years, helping him to hone his acting skills. <ref>{{c
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• Ronnie Corbett
  | birth_place = [[Edinburgh]], Scotland ...BBC five years later. ''[[The Two Ronnies]]'' ran as a comedy sketch show from 1971 to 1987, and became Corbett and Barker's most famous work; Corbett bec
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• Roy Kinnear
  ...Marjory. His parents were [[Scottish people|Scottish]], originally from [[Edinburgh]]. His father was an international in both rugby union and rugby league, ha Kinnear was educated at [[George Heriot's School]] in Edinburgh. At the age of 17, he enrolled in the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]], bu
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• Nicholas Parsons
  ...0b7bd1.flac |title = Nicholas Parsons' voice |type = speech |description = from the BBC programme ''[[Great Lives]]'', 13 May 2008.<ref>{{Cite episode |tit ...[[The Daily Telegraph]], 24 September 2013, page 11</ref> He also suffered from [[migraine]]s but nevertheless excelled at school.<ref name = "DID 9 Nov 20
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• James Robertson Justice
  ...[[Scottish Television]] (STV) and serving as Rector of the [[University of Edinburgh]]. ...rapnel shell|shrapnel]] from a German shell), he was honourably discharged from the service with a pension.
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