• Charles Chilton
  | birth_place = [[w:Bloomsbury|Bloomsbury]], [[w:London|London]], England, [[w:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ir Born in [[w:Bloomsbury|Bloomsbury]] in London, England, he never knew his father – who was killed during th
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• Gerald Campion
  | birth_place = [[Bloomsbury]], [[London]], [[England]] ...]] – married in 1920 in London.{{sfn|Robinson|1985}} Campion was born in [[Bloomsbury]], [[London]], an only child.{{sfn|Daily Telegraph|2002}}
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• Terence Frisby
  ...me an actor. He worked in repertory theatre under the name Terence Holland from 1957 to 1966.<ref name="Coveney">{{cite news|last=Coveney|first=Michael|url ...781408800584}}). It tells of his experiences as an evacuee as a 7-year-old from London to Cornwall during World War Two. It is based on the musical of the
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• Wee Georgie Wood
  | death_place = [[Bloomsbury]], London, England From the age of five, he started performing in [[Concert party (entertainment)|c
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• Kathleen Harrison
  ...' (both 1949), as well as a radio series, ''Meet the Huggetts'', which ran from 1953 to 1961.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radioechoes.com/?page=series&ge ...ws | last=Hayward | first=Anthony | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-kathleen-harrison-1524639.html | title=Obituary: Kathleen Harrison
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• Frank Randle
  ...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 ...y throwing his false teeth into the audience and once bombarding Blackpool from an aeroplane with toilet rolls (according to an episode of ''Rude Britannia
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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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• Violet Carson
  ...]]'' 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 ...orthandalmostev0000morl|url-access=registration|date=6 June 2013|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4088-3400-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/northa
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• Michael Mills (British producer)
  ...ion producer and director who served as the [[w:BBC|BBC]]'s Head of Comedy from 1967 until 1972. ..., and served in the [[w:Free French Navy|Free French Navy]] (on secondment from the [[w:Royal Navy|Royal Navy]]) during hostilities, where he undertook rev
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• Jack Smethurst
  ...Man About the House]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6afac5af|title=Man about the House (1974)|publisher=BFI}}</ref> He rep ...a Passione]]''.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f75508f|title=Jack Smethurst|publisher=BFI}}</ref>
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• Martita Hunt
  ...achine Wreckers'' at the [[Novelty Theatre|Kingsway Theatre]] in May 1923. From 1923 to 1929, she appeared as the Principessa della Cercola in [[W. Somerse ...most lauded.<ref name="imdb"/> As [[Miss Havisham]], she reprised her role from the 1939 stage adaptation by [[Alec Guinness]] which provided the inspirati
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• Edward Chapman (actor)
  ...comic foil to [[Norman Wisdom]]'s character of Pitkin in many of his films from the late 1950s and 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk ...uno and the Paycock]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6adc392f|title=Juno and the Paycock (1930)}}</ref> In the same year he
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• Alan Melville (writer)
  ...lan (William Melville Caverhill)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; on ...stories himself, his first professional engagement. He continued to write from the timber yard, his short stories, poems, manuscripts sometimes being acce
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• Betty Box
  ...s more men were called up, there were more opportunities for me. We worked from 7 a.m. until 10 or 11 at night. I learnt more in those two years than I wou ...ary of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/479395/ |title=BFI Screenonline: Box, Betty (1915-1999) Biography |publi
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• Dick Emery
  | birth_place = [[Bloomsbury]], [[London]], [[England]] ...eer began on radio in the 1950s, and his self-titled television series ran from 1963 to 1981.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandr
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• The Fast Lady
  ...book|title=Who Was Who 1916-28. |year=2014|publisher=Lists Howard's works. Bloomsbury|isbn=9781408193365}}</ref> [[Don Sharp|Don Sharp]] directed second unit.<re ...rity somewhere in south London. A shy young man, his main excitement comes from cycling. After he's forced off the road by an impatient car driver, he trac
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• Stanley Unwin (comedian)
  ...ing "wasp-waist and swivel-hippy". Unwin claimed that the inspiration came from his mother, who once told him that on the way home she had "falolloped (fal ...0-1914) and his wife Jessie Elizabeth ({{née}} Brand; 1883-1968) emigrated from England to the [[Union of South Africa]] in the early 1900s. Their son was
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• Kenneth Williams
  | birth_name = Kenneth Charles Williams<!-- only use if different from name --> | death_place = [[Bloomsbury]], London
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• Mervyn Johns
  ...played the Magistrate's Clerk in [[Walter Hackett]]'s ''Hyde Park Corner'' from 5 October 1934 to 11 April 1935 at the [[Apollo Theatre]] in London, the sa
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• The Magic Christian (film)
  ...], [[Richard Attenborough]] and [[Roman Polanski]]. It was loosely adapted from the 1959 comic novel ''[[The Magic Christian (novel)|The Magic Christian]]' ...ndtrack. The official soundtrack album had other music as well as dialogue from the film. Badfinger released an album, ''[[Magic Christian Music]]'', conta
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