• Charlie Chester
  | image = Charlie Chester, 1954.jpg ...io]] and television presenter and writer, broadcasting almost continuously from the 1940s to the 1990s. His style was similar to that of [[Max Miller (come
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• Hugh Lloyd
  | birth_place = [[w:Chester|Chester]], [[w:England|England]] ....uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/chester-born-comedy-star-hugh-5236325|title=Chester born comedy star Hugh Lloyd dies|website=www.cheshire-live.co.uk}}</ref>
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• Basil Radford
  | birth_place = [[Chester]], [[England]] ...2020.</ref> (25 June 1897{{spaced ndash}}20 October 1952) was an [[English people|English]] character actor who featured in many [[Cinema of the United Kingd
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• Arthur Haynes
  ...see below) gives 1957 as a start date for the series</ref> until his death from a heart attack in 1966. Haynes also appeared on radio and in films. ...ing with the [[Royal Engineers]] during the war. Fellow comedian [[Charlie Chester]] related a story where they were waiting outside [[Caen]] and Haynes point
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• Holiday Camp (film)
  *[[Patricia Roc|Patricia Roc]], Cheerful [[Charlie Chester]], and Gerry Wilmot as themselves and a young [[Diana Dors]] dances the [[J ...''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26363853 |title=PEOPLE AND PICTURES ON THE SET |newspaper=[[The Mercury (Hobart)|The Mercury]] |vo
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• Eddie Braben
  ...omedians that were appearing in Liverpool. His first was sold to [[Charlie Chester]] for 2s 6d<ref name="bbc.co.uk"/> (12½p), but his first major success was ...tertainment at the BBC, was looking for a writer following the duo's split from [[Dick Hills and Sid Green]]. The first Braben-penned ''[[The Morecambe & W
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• Monte Carlo or Bust!
  ...n epic car rally across Europe that involves a lot of eccentric characters from all over the world who will stop at nothing to win.<ref>[[Joe Brown (singer ...o starred in the similar period-piece comedy ''[[The Great Race]]'' (1965) from [[Warner Bros.]]
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• Jim Bowen
  ...ame show ''[[Bullseye (British game show)|Bullseye]]'', which he presented from its beginning in 1981 through to the end of its original run in 1995. ...r I]] veteran<ref name="LT"/> and his wife, Annie Whittaker; who were both from [[Clayton-le-Moors]], [[Lancashire]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Right Place, Ri
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• Bud Flanagan
  ...ogrom]]. Wolf and Yetta Weintrop intended to escape to the "[[New World]]" from Eastern Europe – they paid for a ticket to [[New York City|New York]], bu ...eg Connelly) had universal themes such as friendship, which, again, helped people relate to the subject matter. The music was usually melodic, following a bi
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• Kathy Staff
  ...she adopted the surname as her stage name, hence Kathy Staff. She retired from the stage at this point to raise her family, but started working as an extr ...81-67682/ |archive-date=12 May 2008 }}</ref> until 2008, the year she died from a brain tumour, totalling 245 episodes.
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• George Martin (comedian)
  ...n was born in [[w:Aldershot|Aldershot]], Hampshire, England, with [[Romani people|Romany]] blood on his mother's side. He was an accordion player and singer ...ry On'' films]]) but the format was not right for George and he swore that from then on, he would always write his own material. He quickly became a househ
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• Ken Dodd
  ...Arthur Askey]], [[Robb Wilton]], [[Tommy Handley]] and the "cheeky chappy" from [[Brighton]], [[Max Miller (comedian)|Max Miller]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http ...publisher=BBC|access-date=12 March 2018}}</ref> Although he enjoyed making people laugh, he was also a serious student of comedy and history, and was interes
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• Pat Coombs
  ...ooge in radio shows alongside [[Ted Ray (comedian)|Ted Ray]] and [[Charlie Chester]]. ...in ''Like They've Never Been Gone'' when she died on 25 May 2002, aged 75, from [[w:emphysema|emphysema]] in [[w:Denville Hall]] actors' home, a west Londo
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• Ballard Berkeley
  ...ef>{{cite book|last1=Mortimer|first1=Gavin|title=The Longest Night: Voices from the London Blitz|date=2011|publisher=Hachette|page=53}}</ref> For his servi ...Yard (film series)|Scotland Yard]]'': "Person Unknown" (1956), and "Bullet from the Past" (1957).
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• Richard Vernon
  ...ependent 13 Dec 1997"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7f5efab7|title=Fellows [26/06/1967] (1967)|website=BFI}}</ref> He also ...Service Sir James Greenley in ITV political drama ''[[The Sandbaggers]]'' from 1978 to 1980. In 1986 he appeared in ''[[Paradise Postponed]]'', and voiced
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• Raymond Huntley
  ...English people|English]] [[actor]] who appeared in dozens of British films from the 1930s to the 1970s.<ref name=BFI>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org. ...n 1989.<ref>David J Skal, ''Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of 'Dracula' from Novel to Stage to Screen'', WW Norton & Co 1990</ref>
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• Nineteen-Eighty-Five (Transcript)
  <div class="Sellers"><span class="Bold">Big Brother:</span> Attention people of England state. Thanks to derationing and the free market the price of te ...Bold">Big Brother:</span> STOP! Enough. Now here is a special announcement from Big Brother!</div>
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• Patricia Routledge
  ...ead-born actress Patricia Routledge marks return to home town with reading from classic children's book|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-n ...ch she portrayed every [[First Lady of the United States|U.S. First Lady]] from [[Abigail Adams]] to [[Eleanor Roosevelt]];<ref>{{cite news |last=Blekicki
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• Flatulence
  | image = Illustration of man suffering from wind. Wellcome L0005360.jpg | caption = Illustration of man suffering from "wind"
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• Lew Grade
  ...ive years old, his [[Jewish]] family escaped the [[pogrom]]s by emigrating from [[Odessa]] (Ukraine) via [[Berlin]] (Germany) to London (England) and reset ...ate]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bethnal Green: Building and Social Conditions from 1876 to 1914 &#124; British History Online |url=https://www.british-history
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