• The Pevensey Bay Disaster
  '''''The Pevensey Bay Disaster''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It was originally scheduled to be the tenth show in the ...element and was broadcast as the series six, episode fifteen show, ''[[The Hastings Flyer — Robbed]]''.
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• Harold Bennett
  | birth_place = [[w:Hastings|Hastings]], [[Sussex]], England | years_active = 1910–1980 - stage from 1950, screen 1964-1980
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• Jonathan Cecil
  ...ni]]'s ''[[And the Ship Sails On]]'' (1983), and [[Arthur Hastings|Captain Hastings]] (to Peter Ustinov's [[Hercule Poirot]]) in ''[[Thirteen at Dinner (film)| ...d Gaiters]],'' which ran for twenty episodes. In the series of adaptations from P. G. Wodehouse ''[[What Ho! Jeeves]]'' (1973–81) he played the recurring
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• Peter Ling
  |death_place = [[w:Hastings|Hastings]], [[w:East Sussex|East Sussex]], England ...y Pay Corps due to ill-health.<ref name="auto"/> After the war, recovering from [[w:tuberculosis|tuberculosis]] in a British Legion Sanatorium, he publishe
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• Cecil Parker
  | birth_place = [[Hastings]], [[Sussex]], England ...name.<ref name=screenonline>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/448873/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Parker, Cecil (1897-1971) Biog
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• Douglas Byng
  ...unless the exact date is already widely published, as per [[WP:DOB]]. For people who have died, use . --> ...aside concert party and made his first appearance on stage at [[w:Hastings|Hastings]]. At the age of 21, playing a middle-aged diplomat, he toured more than a
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• Harry H. Corbett
  | death_place = {{nowrap|[[Hastings|Hastings]], [[East Sussex|East Sussex]], England}} ...iew |url=http://www.steptoe-and-son.com/societymedia/maureencorbett2.html |people=Dave Cosgrove (presenter); Maureen Corbett (interviewee); [[Galton and Simp
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• Marriott Edgar
  ...via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]|access-date=25 November 2020}}</ref> but from 1907 until his death, he was known to the public as a comedian who played [ ...which was the name of the first African lion to be bred in Britain, living from 1812 until 1838, and his name became a popular one for lions.<ref name=taxi
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• The Telegoons
  ...helan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://roxburgh.org/telegoons/people.htm|title=People|website=roxburgh.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://annperrin.wordpress ...Telly Addicts|Telly Addicts]]''. However DVD compilations of all episodes (from unknown sources) are available on [[eBay|eBay]] and other outlets.<ref>{{ci
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• Basil Radford
  ...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 ...[[Naunton Wayne]] as two [[cricket]]-obsessed Englishmen in several films from 1938 to 1949.
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• Gerald Campion
  | colspan=2 style="text-align:center;" | '''Translated from the Danish by''' * ''[[The Six Napoleons]]'' from ''[[Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series)|The Return of Sherlock Holmes]]'' (198
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• John Barrett (actor)
  ...September 1946 |location=Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex |page=3}}</ref> and [[Hastings]]<ref name="Calls3702">{{cite journal |title=Calls for next week |journal=T ...directors like [[William Gaskill]],<ref name="Hastings">{{cite news |last1=Hastings |first1=Ronald |title=Twelfth Night Rock |work=The Daily Telegraph |issue=3
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• John Gregson
  ...ed film roles.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ee347b3 |title=John Gregson }}</ref> He was best known for his crime He was credited in 40 films between 1948 and 1971, and on television from 1960 until his death. He was often cast as a police inspector or as a navy
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• Thorley Walters
  ...est End]] in the 1942 naval play ''[[Escort (play)|Escort]]'' by [[Patrick Hastings]] and the 1949 musical ''[[Her Excellency (musical)|Her Excellency]]'' at t From the 1960s onwards he also appeared in several [[Hammer horror]] films, incl
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• A Bit of a Do
  ...evision]] for two series and aired on the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] network from 13 January to 1 December 1989. ...nny; an event at which Ted and Liz begin an affair. The subsequent fallout from this affair forms the basis for most of the first series.
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• Hughie Green
  ...th their mother, who took frequent lovers, while their father did business from the [[w:Savoy Hotel|Savoy Hotel]], and often stayed there. Green attended [ ...ft industry as a [[w:Ferry flying|ferry]] transport pilot and stunt pilot. From 1947, when he returned to London, he was involved in business activities th
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• Anthony Sharp
  ...t the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea. Repertory engagements in Wigan, Hastings, Peterborough and Liverpool were followed by war service, after which he re ...1915 and was an insurance policy draughtsman before training as an actor. From 1940 to 1946 he served with the [[Royal Corps of Signals]] and the [[Royal
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• Blackadder Goes Forth
  ...he misguided command of [[General Melchett]]. The series references famous people of the time and criticises the [[British Army]]'s leadership during the cam ...up, they generally said "Yes, we know, sod off Baldrick". ({{Cite episode |people=M. Fletcher |series=Blackadder the Third |number=1 |title=Dish and Dishones
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• Robert Morley
  ...pporting roles.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba192a594|title=Robert Morley}}</ref> In 1939 he received an [[Academy ...ollowed by [[RADA]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/passedfailed-sheridan-morley-1262749.html|title=PASSED/FAILED: She
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• Norman Wisdom
  ...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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