• Roy Rolland
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• Eric Longworth
  ...dvertiser]]|date=2008-10-02|last=Greer|first=Stuart}}</ref> He had decided from an early age to become an actor, but had his hopes dashed when his father d ...hem for 11 years.<ref name="Oldham"/> He rose to become theatre manager at Oldham, and later became the manager of the old [[w:Guildford|Guildford]] Theatre
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• Tommy Cannon
  | birth_place = [[w:Oldham|Oldham]], Lancashire, England ...s second wife Hazel,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/how-we-met-tommy-cannon-amp-bobby-ball-429515.html|title=How we me
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• Cannon and Ball
  ...Bobby Ball|Robert Harper (Ball)]]'''<br>{{birth date|df=yes|1944|1|28}}<br>Oldham, Lancashire, England ...all: Tommy and Bobby don't do blue any more. They say they're on a mission from God. What's so funny about that? Ask their fans |work=[[The Independent]] |
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• Peter Bayliss
  | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> ...arket Theatre|Royal Haymarket Theatre]] in [[London]]. His 20 films ranged from ''[[The Red Shoes (1948 film)|The Red Shoes]]'' (1948) to ''[[Darling (1965
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• Bill Waddington
  | birth_place = [[Oldham]], [[Lancashire]], England ...ember 2000) was an English actor, comedian and co-author who was born in [[Oldham]], [[Lancashire]]. In later life he achieved stardom as the [[pompous]] ex-
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• Roy Barraclough
  | resting_place = Hollinwood Cemetery, [[Oldham]], Greater Manchester, England ...de]], who later both became colleagues on ''Coronation Street''. Whilst at Oldham he made his first TV appearances for Granada Television, including ''[[Coro
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• Bobby Ball
  | birth_place = [[Oldham]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]], England ...[[Tommy Cannon]]).<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/how-we-met-tommy-cannon-amp-bobby-ball-429515.html |title= How we
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• Pauline Yates
  ...], [[Lancashire]], on 16 June 1929. She began her acting career by joining Oldham Rep straight after leaving [[Childwall]] Valley High School for Girls.<ref> ..., a comedy sketch show for radio, which was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 15 February 1971.) In 1970 she appeared as Mme Arnoux in ''[[Sentimental Ed
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• Helen Fraser (actress)
  | birth_place = [[Oldham]], [[Lancashire|Lancashire]], England ...V series)|Bad Girls]]''.<ref name=walesonline/> She appeared in the series from the first episode in 1999 until the last in 2006.<ref name=bfi/>
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• Dora Bryan
  ...lesman and she attended [[Hathershaw|Hathershaw County Primary School]] in Oldham, Lancashire. Her career began in [[pantomime]] before the Second World War, ...ild in a pantomime in Manchester, and encouraged by her mother, joined the Oldham Repertory while still a teenager. After spending six years honing her craft
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• Eric Sykes
  | birth_place = [[Oldham|Oldham]], [[Lancashire|Lancashire]], England ...and [[Johnny Speight]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1058088/ |title=Sykes, Eric (1923–2012) |publisher=BFI Screenonline}}<
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• Bill Maynard
  ...000, reprising the character in the spin-off ''[[w:The Royal|The Royal]]'' from 2002 to 2003. ...50s, under the stage name of Bill Maynard {{snd}} the surname was inspired from seeing a billboard for the popular British confectionery, [[Maynards|Maynar
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• Bernard Cribbins
  | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2022|07|27<!--Per People magazine: "Cribbins' agent confirmed he died on Wednesday [the 27th] in a s ...d-cribbins-obituary|url-status = live}}</ref> the latter cited a statement from his agent.<ref name=Rice/> Other journalistic sources reported that he died
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• First of the Summer Wine
  ...lynn]]<br>[[Joanne Heywood]]<br>[[Richard Lumsden]]<br>Paul McLain<br>Paul Oldham<br>[[Maggie Ollerenshaw]]<br>Helen Patrick<br>[[Peter Sallis]]<br>Gary Whit ...young, mostly unknown actors to play the characters, with only two actors from the original series making an appearance in the prequel.<ref name="Bright a
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• List of The Goon Show cast members and characters
  ...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 ...dreaded 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 ''Wor
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• Tommy Trinder
  ...<ref name="sweet">{{cite web |last1=Sweet |first1=Matthew |title=You lucky people: remembering Tommy Trinder |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/aug/1 ...], on 24 March 1909, the son of Thomas Henry Trinder, a London tram driver from [[Shilton, Oxfordshire|Shilton]], Oxfordshire, and his wife Jennie Georgina
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• Geoffrey Hughes (actor)
  ...in the sitcom ''[[The Royle Family|The Royle Family]]'', playing the part from 1998 to 2000, and reprising his role for the specials in 2006 and 2008. ...sh TV series)|Heartbeat]]'', taking over as the show's main loveable rogue from [[Bill Maynard]]'s Claude Greengrass, and returning to the show briefly in
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• Leslie Henson
  ...7). After briefly serving with the [[Royal Flying Corps]], he was released from active service by the British government to help run a concert party called ...y]]'' in 1955. Henson's film career was intermittent, and he made 14 films from 1916 to 1956. The most notable of these was ''[[Tons of Money (1924 film)|T
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• Gracie Fields
  ...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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