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- {{Infobox film | image = The Running Jumping and Standing Still Film.jpg5 KB (685 words) - 16:16, 20 February 2023
- |caption = in ''[[Dave Allen at Large]]'' (1971) ...e Brody''' (6 November 1918 – 8 May 1991) was a British actor who appeared in many comedy television series and films.4 KB (604 words) - 12:46, 11 March 2023
- ...roup)|Stern Gang]]. He later trained as a clown in [[Paris]], appearing in the [[Cirque Medrano|Medrano Circus]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theherbs.homes ...who upsets a display of toy penguins that triggers the slapstick chaos in the opening credits scene.6 KB (886 words) - 08:07, 30 March 2023
- ...living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per [[WP:DOB]]. For people who h ...''' (born 1942)<ref name='galactic1'>"I was born in 1942, so I was exactly the right age for rock and roll when it all happened." [http://galacticramble.b4 KB (653 words) - 14:17, 23 January 2023
- {{short description|1978 television film}} {{Infobox film10 KB (1,449 words) - 00:14, 27 January 2023
- ...arry Champion|Harry Champion]] sang it as part of his act, and recorded it in 1911. ...nshow.co.uk/scripts/gorilla.html|title=The Goon Show Depository - Script - The Booted Gorilla (found?) (Series 5, Episode 10)}}</ref>5 KB (856 words) - 16:01, 14 December 2022
- | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] ...w/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100120311|accessdate=18 December 2019|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|edition=4th|first=Colin|last=Larkin|publisher11 KB (1,527 words) - 18:52, 14 September 2024
- ...ssie-oshea-1616990.html|author=Denis Gifford |date=24 April 1995|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=27 October 2016}}</ref> ..., one day on the beach, the young O'Shea wandered off from her mother into the tent of a troupe of travelling performers and was only discovered when her7 KB (1,104 words) - 15:12, 21 December 2022
- ...films]] and [[w:the Beatles|the Beatles]]' film ''[[w:A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]''. ...news/1999/may/22/guardianobituaries Obituary for Norman Rossington], ''[[w:The Guardian|]]'', 22 May 1999</ref>13 KB (2,026 words) - 14:50, 14 January 2023
- | series = [[The Goon Show]] | first = [[The Man Who Never Was]]5 KB (733 words) - 12:04, 15 September 2024
- ...me]]".<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Coli ...t Bygones Be Bygones", with [[Jewish humour]] and sketches, many featuring the fictitious Finkelfeffer family.<ref name=hudd/><ref name=jewish>[https://ww5 KB (689 words) - 11:55, 4 August 2024
- | related = ''[[At Last the 1948 Show]]'' (1967) ...The show took its name from the message (frequently seen on the TV screen in those days) which was displayed when there was a problem with transmission.8 KB (1,143 words) - 23:44, 2 February 2023
- ...n broadcast New Year's Eve favourite there, whilst being largely forgotten in his home country. ...(born 1892), and was brought up by [[foster parent]]s. He started working in a Grimsby [[fish processing plant]], where he is said to have entertained h8 KB (1,093 words) - 14:06, 18 January 2023
- ...itish+Film:+Fourth+edition&pg=RA4-PA1969|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Oxfor ...atra (play)|Caesar and Cleopatra]]'' at the [[Oxford Playhouse|Playhouse]] in [[Oxford|Oxford]].{{sfn|Noble|1982|p=356}}7 KB (1,052 words) - 16:05, 24 February 2023
- {{Infobox film | image = The Mouse on the Moon poster.jpg7 KB (1,057 words) - 22:46, 16 February 2023
- | first = ''[[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life]]'' (1983) ...aphically explodes. The sequence opens the film's segment titled "Part VI: The Autumn Years".10 KB (1,405 words) - 11:36, 26 January 2023
- ...own for his appearances in [[Satire|satirical comedy]] television shows of the early 1960s and his ability to improvise comic [[calypso music|calypso]]s a ...les for radio. He also formed a calypso group as "Lord Lance" which toured the US and Canada.<ref name=guardian>[https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/14 KB (2,046 words) - 11:30, 4 January 2023
- | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] ...fifty years, based on exploiting the childlike appearance that he retained in adulthood.8 KB (1,280 words) - 16:39, 15 February 2023
- {{short description|Participation of an outsider performer in an event or a movie}} ...tter term specifically indicating the guest appearance of a [[celebrity]]. The latter is often also credited as '''special guest star''' or '''special mus7 KB (1,031 words) - 17:25, 12 December 2022
- ...evision series including ''[[The Likely Lads]]'', ''[[Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?]]'', ''[[Porridge (TV series)|Porridge]]'', ''[[Lovejoy]]'' an ...completed his [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|National Service]] with the [[Royal Air Force|Royal Air Force]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Weight |first=Ri10 KB (1,539 words) - 23:33, 17 February 2023