• Fred Ferris (actor)
  ...s/|title=Famous Blackpool Entertainers - Famous Blackpool Entertainers - - Blackpool Postcards|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk ...y West and Crooked]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bab104b6f|title=Fred Ferris|website=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http
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• Harry Korris
  | death_place = [[Blackpool]], [[Lancashire]], England ...(born '''Henry Lowe Corris'''; 8 October 1891 – 3 June 1971) was a [[Manx people|Manx]]-British comedian and actor.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/2009011
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• Syd Little
  | birth_place = [[w:Blackpool|Blackpool]], Lancashire, England Born in [[Blackpool]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/911812/come
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• Dave Morris (comedian)
  | death_place = [[w:Blackpool|Blackpool]], England ...laying matinees and transferred to a long run at the [[Alhambra, Blackpool|Blackpool Palace]] for [[George Black (producer)|George and Alfred Black]]. He worked
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• Keith Marsh
  | birth_place = [[Blackpool]], [[Lancashire]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom]] ...numerous television productions over a 50-year period. Born in [[Blackpool|Blackpool]], Lancashire, he is perhaps best known for playing Jacko in the [[Thames T
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• Ted Lune
  ...ers, Lynne and Anne. He turned professional in 1947, taking his stage name from the [[River Lune|River Lune]] that flows through Lancashire, and his older ...pub to take over Randle's pantomime commitment, and later, his [[Blackpool|Blackpool]] season. That gave his career the boost it needed, leading to his role of
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• Frank Randle
  | death_place = [[w:Blackpool|Blackpool]], England ...was an English comedian.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f230a15|title=Frank Randle}}</ref> A contemporary of fellow [[w:Lanca
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• Jimmy Clitheroe
  | death_place = [[w:Blackpool|Blackpool]], Lancashire, England ...[[w:Carleton Crematorium and Cemetery|Carleton Crematorium and Cemetery]], Blackpool, Lancashire, England
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• Violet Carson
  | death_place = [[w:Blackpool|Blackpool]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]], England ...]]'' on the [[BBC Home Service]] and was the star of ''Nursery Sing Song'' from Manchester, in which she frequently sang with producer Trevor Hill, many ye
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• Frank Carson
  | death_place = [[Blackpool]], [[Lancashire]], England ...t. He was best known for being a regular face on television for many years from the 1970s onwards, appearing in series such as ''[[The Comedians (1971 TV s
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• Roy Rolland
  | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> ...itty in a recreation of the Lucan and McShane sketch "Bridget's Night Out" from the 1930s.<ref name=Obit/> Rolland appeared as himself in the television do
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• John Comer
  | death_place = [[Blackpool]], [[Lancashire]], England ...was finalised; in 2013 the Comer family donated £245,000 to the hospice in Blackpool where John Comer was treated before his death.<ref name=messenger>{{cite ne
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• Al Read
  ...ghton was part of the County Borough of Salford (1844–1974 — "City" status from 1926)</ref> [[Lancashire]]. On leaving school he worked at the family [[m ...a local theatre producer to let him perform in a show on the [[South Pier, Blackpool|South Pier]], but the performance was unsuccessful due to Read's [[stage fr
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• Wee Georgie Wood
  From the age of five, he started performing in [[Concert party (entertainment)|c ...gave away some of the organisation's secrets, and as a result was expelled from it, only being readmitted in 1970.<ref name=baker/>
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• Tony Melody
  | death_place = [[Bispham, Blackpool|Bispham]], [[Blackpool]], [[Lancashire]], England ...] and attended [[Sacred Heart Church, Blackpool|Sacred Heart Church]] in [[Blackpool]].<ref name="telegraph2307669">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/
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• Dave King (actor)
  ...eatre Programme, "The Dave King Show", published by Ayre & Senior Limited, Blackpool, c1957.</ref> In 1958, King moved to ITV with ''The Dave King Show''<ref na ...(TV series)|Hazell]]'' (1978), ''[[Pennies from Heaven (TV series)|Pennies From Heaven]]'' (1978), ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]'' (episode: "Gunfight at
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• Eddie Large
  ...Gray |first1=Sarra |title=Eddie Large: Little and Large star made millions from impressive 50 year career |url=https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/12 ...as such as ''[[The Brief (ITV)|The Brief]]'' and ''[[Blackpool (TV serial)|Blackpool]]''.<ref name="BBCN" /> His autobiography, entitled ''Larger than Life'',
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• Nat Jackley
  ...[[comedian|comic actor]] who starred in revue, variety, film and pantomime from the 1920s to the mid-1980s. His trademark rubber-neck dance, skeletal frame ...//www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/57/a6336957.shtml |title=WW2 People's War: Una Bracey Remembers |publisher=BBC |url-status=dead |archiveurl=htt
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• Hylda Baker
  ...g, producing and performing her own shows. Her stage act included a gossip from the [[w:Northern England|North of England]], with a silent, sullen companio ...dy|British comedy]] film ''[[She Knows Y'Know]]'' (1962). Taking its title from her catch-phrase,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/She-Knows-YKn
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• Diddy Men
  ...s home area of Knotty Ash in Liverpool and popularised a miniature race of people who inhabited it. Diddy is an informal British word for "little".<ref>{{cit ...maliser was the ten-year-old daughter of Little Jimmy, who appeared at the Blackpool Tower Circus with [[Charlie Cairoli]] and Paul.
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