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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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  • Hale was born in Liverpool. Her father, Robert Hale, and younger brother, [[Sonnie Hale]], were actors ...ruary 2015</ref> Her recording of the song "[[Spread a Little Happiness]]" from that musical is possibly her best remembered recording. ''Mr. Cinders'' was
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  • ...the [[Royal Navy]] during and immediately after the [[Second World War]], from 1944 to 1947. He joined [[RADA]] after the Navy, and worked in [[repertory [[Category:Musicians from Bristol]]
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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 = [[Knotty Ash]], [[Liverpool]], England | death_place = Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England
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  • Everett was dismissed from the BBC in 1970 after making remarks about a government minister's wife. He ...oped00lark/page/148}}</ref> {{cvt|5|mi|0}} north of Liverpool city centre. From a Catholic family, he attended [[Sacred Heart Catholic College|St Bede]]'s,
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  • [[image:Jack and Claude Hulbert cigarette card from Wills's album 'Radio Celebrities' circa 1934.JPG|thumb|Photo of card in Wil | [[Liverpool Empire]]
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  • | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> ...his career, and reruns of television programs featuring Harris were pulled from syndication.<ref>[http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/perth-rolf-
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  • ...Day's Night]]'', ''Help!'' sees the group struggle to protect Ringo Starr from a sinister [[thugee|eastern cult]] and a pair of mad scientists, all of who ...who is secretly aiding the Beatles. To stay safe, they ask for protection from Scotland Yard. They are hidden in Buckingham Palace, narrowly avoiding capt
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  • ...ne]] on the [[UK Singles Chart]] and earned Hill an [[Ivor Novello Award]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]] in 1972. ...cal show; for example, a March 1964 episode featured James Pond, 0017, in "From Moscow with Love" and his version of [[The Beatles]]. He played a number of
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  • ...in ''[[Monarch of the Glen (TV series)|Monarch of the Glen]]'' (2000–05). From the late 1980s, with [[Kenneth Branagh]] as director, he performed Shakespe ...red a relationship.<ref name=more/> The family occasionally received money from a wealthy relation, and Briers' maternal grandparents paid for his educatio
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  • ...04}} Formby also had a successful recording career and made the transition from music hall to [[revue]] in 1916. ...n|Formby was not alone in developing a chest complaint: the mortality rate from bronchitis was 20% higher in the north west than the rest of the country.{{
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  • ...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
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  • ...ing [[Kenneth Horne]], first transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The show was created by [[Barry Took]] and [[Marty Feldman ...who all became nationally familiar. The show encountered periodic scrutiny from the BBC management for its [[double entendre]]s, but consistently received
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  • ...s centre in a command bunker in London, where he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|prime minister]]. ...[[NAAFI]] entertainment night, during a dance routine, Wisdom stepped down from his position in the [[orchestra pit]], and started shadow boxing. Hearing h
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  • ...un, the cast were reluctant. And in mid-January, Spike was again suffering from anxiety neurosis and barely well enough to record the twelfth show, ''[[The ...of the country, Peter had a film commitment and Spike was still recovering from illness.
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  • ...arly acclaimed, the series received numerous awards, including recognition from [[BAFTA]], the [[National Television Awards]] and the [[Royal Television So ...[[Uncle Albert]], the boys' great uncle, played by [[Buster Merryfield]]. From 1988 onwards, the show features regular characters in Del Boy and Rodney's
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