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  • [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:People from Clapham]]
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  • | death_place = [[Clapham]], [[London]], England ...] as a mechanic before enrolling in the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]], from which he was later expelled for responding to rock-and-roll.<ref>{{cite web
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  • ...r father having become borough engineer for Southwark. She was educated at Clapham high school before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1914–15 ...' (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
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  • ...English actor.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0638377|title=Geoffrey Bayldon}}</ref> After playing roles in many st ...1972 horror film)|''Asylum'']]'' and ''[[Tales from the Crypt (film)|Tales from the Crypt]]'' for [[Amicus Productions|Amicus]].<ref name=bfi/> In 2004, af
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  • | children = 6 (three with Blossom, three from extramarital affairs) ...Bygraves in the role of Archie's teacher. The idea for the programme came from record producer [[Wally Ridley]], who also produced Bygraves' records durin
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  • * Then there is daughter Stephanie, away from home at a [[Public School (United Kingdom)|Public School]] and thus being i ...a happy relationship with new love interest Jane Webster, a single mother from Stephanie's school, as well as romantic interests for all three staff, but
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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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  • '''''Waiting for God''''' is a [[British sitcom]] that ran on [[BBC1]] from 28 June 1990 to 27 October 1994 starring [[Graham Crowden]] as Tom and [[St ...rand-aunt-to-be reveals that much of her hostility towards the world stems from the fact that she is infertile; this incapability is one of her very few re
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  • ...[[Breakthrough role|big break]] was a lead in the radio comedy ''[[Take It from Here]]'', which aired on the [[BBC Light Programme|BBC Light Programme]] in ...)|Happy Ever After]]'' (1974–1979) and ''[[Terry and June]]'' (1979–1987). From 1992 to 2012, Whitfield played Edina Monsoon's mother in [[Jennifer Saunder
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  • ...ought therefore to be treated as an alien."], '' 'Our Gracie' risked fall from grace over wartime marriage to Italian'', 21 Dec, 2021</ref> ...BE)]] in 1979.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/451952/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Fields, Gracie (1898-1979) Bio
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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 ...ed 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 ''World War I
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  • ...attended Sunnyhill School, [[Streatham]], Henry Thornton Grammar School, [[Clapham]] (1955–62) and the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]].<ref name=i/> ...young beatnik.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b740cd528 |title=Il MARITO È MIO E L'AMMAZZO QUANDO MI PARE (1967) |pu
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  • ...[[Suffolk|Suffolk]].<ref>1891 UK census: RG12/1494 f.56 p.47 & p.48 – 192 Clapham Road, [[Lowestoft|]], Suffolk</ref><ref>GRO Register of Births: MAR 1889 10 ...ref name="stocktoncouncil">{{cite web |url=http://heritage.stockton.gov.uk/people/will-hay-3/ |title=Will Hay |publisher=Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council |ac
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  • ...dio|radio]] [[w:comedy|comedy]] series, originally produced by the [[BBC]] from 1951 to 1960 and broadcast on the [[w:BBC Home Service|BBC Home Service]]. ...he fourth series was preserved in the [[BBC Sound Archive]] (as a tape dub from an acetate disc).
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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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  • ...d States|France<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b885c5bbb|title=Love Actually (2003)|publisher=BFI|access-date=7 Decemb ...The story then switches between the interconnecting "love stories" of many people:
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