• Stan Stennett
  ...try=GBR|MBE}} (30 July 1925 – 26 November 2013) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[comedian|comedian]], [[actor|actor]] and [[jazz|jazz]] [[musician|music ...sident comedian on variety radio show, ''[[Welsh Rarebit (radio programme)|Welsh Rarebit]]'', and he gained further success as one of the regular comedy gue
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• Robin Davies
  {{Short description|Welsh actor (1954–2010)}} ...Richard "Robin" Davies''' (16 January 1954 – 22 February 2010) was a Welsh television and film actor.<ref name ="Independent">[https://www.independent.co.uk/news
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• Meredith Edwards (actor)
  '''Gwilym Meredith Edwards''' (10 June 1917 – 8 February 1999) was a Welsh [[character actor]] and writer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.u ...phy |work=AllMovie}}</ref> He appeared as the murderous butler in the cult television series ''[[Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)]]'' in 1969, and as Tom in the cu
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• Richard Davies (Welsh actor)
  ...d other accents to play a wide range of characters, in addition to several Welsh stereotypes.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv- ...richard-davies-welsh-character-actor-rip-1926-2015/|title=Richard Davies – Welsh Character Actor – RIP 1926–2015|work=Toby Hadoke – Comedian, actor, W
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• Talfryn Thomas
  ...]] [[character actor|character actor]], best known for supporting roles on television in the 1970s, including those of Private Cheeseman in ''[[Dad's Army]]'' (1 ...perhaps best remembered for his role as Mr. Cheeseman in one series of the television comedy ''[[Dad's Army]]'' (1973-1974).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.teleg
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• Donald Houston
  ...d Daniel Houston''' (6 November 1923&nbsp;– 13 October 1991) was a [[Wales|Welsh]] actor whose first two films—''[[The Blue Lagoon (1949 film)|The Blue La ...s/entries/10c331cb-8cc2-3175-9b5a-b3d7a6e74702|title=Donald Houston, great Welsh actor|date=7 November 2011|website=BBC}}</ref> In 1940 he performed on stag
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• Neil McCarthy (actor)
  ...k fluent Greek).<ref name=WhosWho>''Who's Who on Television'', Independent Television Publications Ltd 1970</ref> ...I Laugh]]'', ''[[The Gentle Touch]]'' and ''[[Emmerdale]] Farm'', and the television adaptation of the [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] novel, ''[[The Nine Tailors]]''.
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• Jack Smethurst
  ...ge=en}}</ref> He was best known for his role as Eddie Booth in the British television [[w:sitcom|sitcom]] ''[[Love Thy Neighbour (1972 TV series)|Love Thy Neighb He made a guest appearance as Davenport in Britain's longest-running television sitcom ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'' in 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://w
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• Windsor Davies
  {{short description|Welsh actor (1930–2019)}} ...den]] in ''[[Never the Twain]]'' (1981–1991), and his deep [[Welsh English|Welsh-accented]] voice was heard extensively in advertising voice-overs.
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• Frank Williams (actor)
  ...was best known for portraying the Reverend [[Timothy Farthing]] in the BBC television [[British sitcom|sitcom]] ''[[Dad's Army]]'' (1969–1977). Often cast as a ...re]], [[Middlesex]], on 2 July 1931, to William Williams, a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|nonconformist]], and wife Alice (née Myl
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• Hugh Griffith
  ...Emrys Griffith''' (30 May 1912 – 14 May 1980) was a Welsh film, stage, and television actor.<ref>Obituary ''[[Variety Obituaries|Variety]]'', 21 May 1980.</ref> ...s|editor3-last=Menna|editor4-first=Peredur I.|editor4-last=Lynch|title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales|year=2008|publisher=University of Wales Pres
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• Roger Livesey
  ...35</ref> His two step-brothers (who were also his first cousins) were also actors. ...whom he had known previously in England<ref>''A Who's Who of British Film Actors'', by Scott Palmer, The Scarecrow Press 1981 p307</ref> (Livesey's sister M
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• Harry Secombe
  | nationality = [[Welsh People|Welsh]] | television = ''[[The Goon Show]]'' (Radio)<br />The Harry Secombe Show, Secomb
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• Victor Spinetti
  {{short description|Welsh actor and theatre director}} .... WalesOnline (15 September 2010). Retrieved 3 September 2013.</ref> was a Welsh<ref name=obit/> actor, author, poet, and raconteur. He appeared in dozens o
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• Arthur Askey
  ...of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1981; he continued to appear frequently on television, radio and the stage until his death in 1982. Askey served in the [[Royal Welsh Fusiliers|Royal Welsh Fusiliers]] in the [[First World War|First World War]] and performed in arm
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• Kenneth Griffith
  | occupation = Actor, television producer, television presenter ...rn '''Kenneth Reginald Griffiths''', 12 October 1921 – 25 June 2006) was a Welsh actor and documentary filmmaker.
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• Hywel Bennett
  ...966) and played the titular "thinking man's layabout" James Shelley in the television sitcom ''[[Shelley (TV series)|Shelley]]'' (1979–1992).<ref name="i"/> ...earnt to speak [[English language|English]] in an accent he called "London-Welsh" after the family moved to south London when he was four.<ref name="aberdee
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• Dennis Price
  ...rtrayal of the omniscient valet [[Jeeves]] in [[The World of Wooster|1960s television adaptations]] of [[P. G. Wodehouse]]'s stories. Price was born in [[Ruscombe]] in [[Berkshire]]. He had distant Welsh family connections, and was the son of [[Brigadier-General|Brigadier-Genera
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• Ronald Lacey
  ...haron Winter|date=2014|archive-date=11 March 2014}}</ref> He made numerous television and film appearances over a 30-year period. His roles included [[Harris (Po ....<ref name="James2017">{{cite book|author=Clive James|title=Clive James On Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qN4sDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT236|date=6 April 20
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• Wilfrid Hyde-White
  ...91) was a British [[w:character actor|character actor]] of stage, film and television. He achieved international recognition for his role as Colonel Pickering in ...nt that, unlike American actors Falk and [[Richard Basehart]], and British actors appearing in the episode, [[Honor Blackman]], [[Bernard Fox (actor)|Bernard
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