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  • ...o the music hall actress Doreen Monte. Yule died in [[Southend-on-Sea]], [[Essex]], on 11 December 1982, aged 89.<ref name=":0" /> [[Category:English male radio actors]]
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  • | death_place = [[Essex|Essex]], UK ...s}}</ref> They had a son and a daughter. After the death of his first wife from a barbiturate overdose in 1963, he remarried in 1965, to Gwynneth Wycherley
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  • ...e=29 June 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a regular on British screens from the 1970s onwards. ...en trained as an actor at the [[East 15 Acting School]] in [[Loughton]], [[Essex]].<ref name=obituary/>
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Essex, England|Essex]] ...n|The League of Gentlemen]]'' was named after him. He was born in Romford, Essex, to Arthur F. Chinnery and his wife Dorothy ({{née}} Mills).
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  • ...1973. He also performed on stage, film, television and radio, taking over from [[Peter Jones (actor)|Peter Jones]] as "The Book" (the narrator) in the thi ...]]. He later trialled as a [[fast bowler]] for [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]], and opened the bowling for the Stage Cricket Club. He also became a [[le
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  • | birth_place = [[Leytonstone|Leytonstone]], [[Essex|Essex]], England ...rst ''Star Wars'' film]] (1977). This last role also brought him attention from science fiction fans, and he later appeared in cult science fiction televis
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  • | birth_place = [[Chingford]], [[Essex]], England ...actors' union, [[Equity (trade union)|Equity]]. He chose the surname Blake from the telephone directory.
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Danbury, Essex|Danbury]], [[w:England|England]], UK ...med had seen him as a failure.<ref name=guardian/> His father withdrew him from a private [[w:Preparatory school (United Kingdom)|preparatory school]] in 1
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  • | birth_place = [[Chingford]], [[Essex]], England | death_place = [[Chelmsford]], Essex, England
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  • | birth_place = [[Goodmayes|Goodmayes]], Essex, England Born in [[Goodmayes|Goodmayes]], [[Essex|Essex]], Robinson was educated at [[Harrow County School for Boys|Harrow County S
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  • ...|Forest Gate]], Essex<!-- Do not change to London, Forest Gate was part of Essex in 1949 -->, England, UK | death_place = [[w:Braintree, Essex|Braintree]], Essex, England, UK
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  • ...his own semi-professional dance-band. He also worked as a song-plugger for Essex Music Publishers. Wishing to return to the stage full-time he joined the Pr ...]'' (1944). His other radio series included ''Top Ten'' (1944) and ''Music from the Movies'' (1946).<ref name="Gifford"/>
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  • ...place = [[w:Seven Kings|Seven Kings]], [[w:Ilford|Ilford]], [[w:Essex|Essex]], England ...at the age of 15 and served in the [[w:Second World War|Second World War]] from 1943 until its end and was [[w:Military discharge|medically discharged]] in
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  • ...other. He was educated at [[Brentwood School (Essex)|Brentwood School]], [[Essex]] and the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]], [[London]].<ref name="thepeera ...nning part was that of "No 1" in ''[[The Navy Lark]]'' in which he starred from 1960 to 1977.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://navylark.0catch.com/navy/cast.html|
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  • ...r months after his death Mark's daughter - and Reid's granddaughter - died from cot death. He coped by ploughing himself into work, but Reid said years lat |title = Supplementary Memorandum from the National Secular Society
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  • ...red as Baron Hardup in the pantomime Cinderella in ''[[Bournemouth]]'', UK from 10th December 1992 to 17th January 1993. [[Category:20th-century British male actors]]
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  • Varney was born in Canning Town, London <!--Essex is correct. Canning Town became part of London in 1965-->, to Sidney Thomas ...and for publicity purposes he was photographed making the first withdrawal from the machine on Tuesday 27 June 1967.<ref>{{cite news |last=Milligan |first=
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  • | death_place = [[Essex]], England ...g a substantial amount of weight, but this did not prevent his early death from a heart attack. He was married and had two children.
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  • ...he ran a small sweetshop and tobacconists at Ilford Lane in [[Ilford]], [[Essex]].<ref name="telegraph" /> He died from [[emphysema]] in [[Bushey]], [[Hertfordshire]], aged 79, leaving a widow, t
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  • ...heir Aunt Betty, who was looking after them, were killed by a bomb dropped from a [[Germany|German]] [[Zeppelin]] which also destroyed their house.<ref nam ...d 37, their mother married Harry Wallace, and they all moved to a pub in [[Essex]].<ref>An Audience with Max Wall - BBC Radio 4 - first broadcast 3 December
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