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  • | birth_place = [[Dingle, Liverpool|Dingle]], [[Lancashire]], England ...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
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  • | birth_place = [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], England ...was an English [[jazz]] and [[blues]] singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973 he was a film and television critic for ''[[The Observer]]'';
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  • | birth_place = [[Morecambe|Morecambe]], Lancashire, England ...town, the [[seaside resort|seaside resort]] of [[Morecambe|Morecambe]] in Lancashire.
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  • ...[[w:Seaforth, Merseyside|Seaforth]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]]<!--It was Lancashire until 1 April 1974 and Merseyside thereafter-->, England Everett was dismissed from the BBC in 1970 after making remarks about a government minister's wife. He
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  • | birth_place = [[Rochdale]], [[Lancashire]], [[England]] ...ought therefore to be treated as an alien."], '' 'Our Gracie' risked fall from grace over wartime marriage to Italian'', 21 Dec, 2021</ref>
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  • | birth_place = [[Ashton-under-Lyne]], [[Lancashire]] | death_place = [[Warrington]], Lancashire
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  • | birth_place = [[Derker]], [[Lancashire]], England ...d-cribbins-obituary|url-status = live}}</ref> the latter cited a statement from his agent.<ref name=Rice/> Other journalistic sources reported that he died
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  • | birth_place = [[Wigan|Wigan]], [[Lancashire|Lancashire]] | death_place = [[Lytham St Annes|Lytham St Annes]], [[Lancashire|Lancashire]]
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  • ...ust men and twenty-nine criminals finds you guilty of hiding your bald nut from your wife until after you had married her.... Therefore – I sentence you ...dreaded lurgi. He also uses the accent as a workman in ''[[The Last Tram (from Clapham)]]'', and as the Manager of the East Acton Labour Exchange in ''Wor
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  • 'My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen. Back from the dead. We present half an hour of continuous radio fighting. In both cor ...round-breaking comedy shows. In the four series, the programme had evolved from disparate sketches into a single narrative - broken into three by music num
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  • ...Arthur Askey]], [[Robb Wilton]], [[Tommy Handley]] and the "cheeky chappy" from [[Brighton]], [[Max Miller (comedian)|Max Miller]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http ...]], who had appeared in his stage act, were often played by local children from stage schools, and were revealed never to have been paid. Dodd was also rev
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  • ...industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and e ...imelight]]'' (1952), ''[[A King in New York]]'' (1957), and ''[[A Countess from Hong Kong]]'' (1967).
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