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  • | birth_place = [[Holborn]], [[London]], England ...ww.aveleyman.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba6a07cfc|title=Mario Fabrizi|publisher=}}</ref>
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  • | birth_place = [[Holborn|Holborn]], London, England ...grammes, stage shows and films. His self-titled television sketch show ran from 1956 to 1961.
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  • ...evue, and were booked by [[Val Parnell]] to appear at the [[Holborn Empire|Holborn Empire]] in 1929.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.turnipnet.com/crazygang/gan ...and during the Second World War they reflected the experiences of ordinary people during wartime. Songs such as "[[We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the
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  • ...ernard Weinstein, at the City of London Maternity Hospital, 102 City Road, Holborn, on 6 September 1930. His father was a bookmaker. Bernie served in the merc ...esented ''The Big Top Variety Show'', a television series of variety shows from a circus ring. In 1984 he presented the second series of the game show ''Wh
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  • ...r=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-861388-1|pages=215–216}}</ref> He came from humble beginnings and left school at the age of twelve. At the outbreak of Demobilised from the army, Miller found work to be in short supply, and he had lost his moth
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  • ...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 ...They established a reputation and were booked by [[Val Parnell]] at the [[Holborn Empire]]. As [[music hall]] comedians they would often feature a mixture of
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  • '''Jack Stanley Watling''' (13 January 1923 – 22 May 2001) was an [[English People|English]] [[actor]].<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/ ...stage debut in ''[[Where the Rainbow Ends]]'' at the [[Weston's Music Hall|Holborn Empire]] in 1936.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit
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  • ...ame=":0">{{Cite web|title=John Slater|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f6514a8|access-date=2021-07-05|website=BFI|language=en}}</ref> ...antiques dealer. After attending [[St Clement Danes School#Grammar school (Holborn & Hammersmith)|St Clement Danes Grammar School]] in Hammersmith, Slater beg
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  • ...ite web|title=Hulbert, Jack (1892-1978)|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/462536/index.html|website=screenonline.org.uk|publisher=BFI Screenonline [[image:Jack and Claude Hulbert cigarette card from Wills's album 'Radio Celebrities' circa 1934.JPG|thumb|Photo of card in Wil
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  • | children = 6 (three with Blossom, three from extramarital affairs) ...en became a messenger for W S Crawfords, an advertising agency at 233 High Holborn before serving as a fitter in the [[Royal Air Force]] in the [[Second World
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  • a [[BBC television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] shown on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from 1 January 1980 to 30 January 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk ...es of Jimmy Perry, one of the programme's writers. After being demobilised from the [[British Army|Army]], he was a [[Butlins Redcoats|Redcoat]] at [[Butli
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