• Talfryn Thomas
  ...Talfryn Thomas''' (31 October 1922 &ndash; 4 November 1982) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[character actor|character actor]], best known for supporting role ...).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/people/talfryn_thomas.shtml|title=BBC - Doctor Who Classic Series Episode Guide -
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• Victoria Wood (1989 TV series)
  ...ia Hodge|Patricia Hodge]] and [[w:Jim Broadbent|Jim Broadbent]] in a still from the episode 'Staying In' | creator = [[w:Victoria Wood|Victoria Wood]]
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• Paul Eddington
  | birth_place = [[w:St John's Wood|St John's Wood]], London, England ...t family values. His father had been "emotionally shattered" on his return from the [[w:First World War|First World War]], which led to Eddington being a l
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• David Croft (TV producer)
  ...ardian|access-date=3 May 2020}}</ref> The boys attended Sunday services at St. Aldhelm's Church, and Croft later gave that name to the church in Dad's Ar ...oft writing scripts such as ''Aladdin'', ''Cinderella'' and ''Babes in the Wood''. Through his lifelong friend, composer/conductor [[Cyril Ornadel|Cyril Or
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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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• The Bed Sitting Room (film)
  | screenplay = [[w:Charles Wood (playwright)|Charles Wood]] (adaption) ...sitting room. When Martin confirms it, Lord Fortnum gets a second opinion from the "[[w:National Health Service|National Health Service]]", a male nurse o
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• John Antrobus
  ...m 1952 to 1955,<ref name="auto">Contemporary Dramatists, ed. James Vinson, St James Press, 1973, p. 36</ref> but rebelled and dropped out of the Army.<re ...llaborated on the 1986 sitcom ''Room at the Bottom'' and ''Get Well Soon'' from 1997) unveiled their play ''[[Steptoe and Son]] – Murder at Oil Drum Lane
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• John Inman
  ...d?]]'', a [[British sitcom]] between 1972 and 1985, and was the only actor from that series to feature in the [[Are You Being Served? (Australian TV series ...l=https://web.archive.org/web/20070605095826/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2341312.ece |date= 5 June 2007 }}, ''[[The Independent]]'
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• Sid Field
  ...id Field {{!}} British actor (1904–50) |url=https://www.silversirens.co.uk/people/sid-field/ |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=Silver Sirens |language=en-GB}} ...id Field {{!}} British actor (1904–50) |url=https://www.silversirens.co.uk/people/sid-field/ |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=Silver Sirens |language=en-GB}}
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• Mel Smith
  ...thernecho.co.uk/2001/7/22/164851.html |title=Newcastle one, Hollywood nil (From ''The Northern Echo'') |publisher=Archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk |date=22 Ju ...}}</ref><ref name="bfi_bio">{{cite web| url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/526237/ |title=Smith, Mel |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] | access
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• Cyril Chamberlain
  ...y On (franchise)|Carry On]]'', ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' and ''[[St. Trinian's]]'' films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.carryon.org.uk/irregula *''[[Portrait from Life]]'' (1949) as Supervisor
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• Jerry Desmonde
  ...w.sclews.me.uk/desmonde.htm |title=Jerry Desmonde (1908-1967) |work=Famous People: The North-East |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2 ...tps://web.archive.org/web/20121111162332/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-roberta-huby-1584200.html |archive-date=11 November 2012 |url-stat
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• Bill Waddington
  ...ealing two bananas from the harvest festival display. Having been expelled from his first school for being unruly, he finished his education, age 14, at gr Away from the stage, he developed a career as a butcher, and worked delivering meat f
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• Hughie Green
  ...school (United Kingdom)|prep school]], in the [[w:St John's Wood|St John's Wood]] district of [[w:Westminster|Westminster]], Greater London.<ref>{{cite boo ...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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• Jonathan Miller
  | birth_place = [[St John's Wood]], London, England | alma_mater = [[St John's College, Cambridge|St John's College]] ([[MB BChir]], 1959)
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• Frank Muir
  ...for most of their careers. Together they wrote [[BBC Radio]]'s ''[[Take It from Here]]'' for over 10 years, and then appeared on BBC radio quizzes ''[[My W ...Muir was a schoolboy. Margaret Muir ran a small sweet-shop across the road from the Derby Arms.<ref>Muir, Frank ''A Kentish Lad''. Corgi Books, 1998, p. 17
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• Julian Holloway
  | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> |1963 || ''[[Our Man at St. Mark's]]'' || Mike Daniels || Episode: "A Joyful Noise"
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• Joan Sims
  ...SBN|978-1781961216}}.</ref> Sims's early interest in being an actress came from living at the railway station. She would often put on performances for wait ...BC News|date=28 June 2001|access-date=18 August 2008}}</ref> She graduated from RADA in 1950 at the age of 19.<ref name="BBCdeath">{{cite news|url=http://n
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• Amanda Barrie
  ...ife Connie (''[[née]]'' Pyke). Barrie attended St Anne's College, [[Lytham St Annes]], then trained at the [[Arts Educational School]] in London and late ...hanging her name before making her West End debut in 1961's ''Babes in the Wood''. Throughout the 1960s, Barrie worked on many stage productions including
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• Not the Nine O'Clock News
  ...television [[sketch comedy]] show which was broadcast on [[BBC Two|BBC2]] from 1979 to 1982. Originally shown as a comedy alternative to the ''[[BBC Nine ...e conventional sketch format. Sketches were mostly self-contained, lasting from a few seconds to a few minutes, and often had a degree of naturalism in per
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