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  • ...e and television actor.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba4925e35|title=Jack Allen|website=BFI}}</ref><ref name=theat ...lopedia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA1862|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|pu
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  • '''Talbot Nelson Conn “Tolly” Rothwell''', [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (12 November 1916 &ndash; 28 February 1981) was an ...[[Bromley|Bromley]], [[Kent|Kent]], [[England|England]]. He had a variety of jobs during his early life: [[town clerk|town clerk]], [[police officer|pol
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  • | based_on = <!-- {{based on|title of the original work|writer of the original work}} --> ...xter]] in a dual role as a dour Scottish prisoner and a German prisoner-of-war camp officer, [[Eric Sykes]], [[John Le Mesurier]], [[Leslie Phillips]] and
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  • '''''Hannibal Brooks''''' is a 1969 British [[War film|war]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Michael Winner]] and written by [[Ian La Fr ...hage|Carthaginian]] military commander [[Hannibal]] who led an army with [[war elephant]]s over the [[Alps]].
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  • | distributor = [[Gainsborough Studios]]<br />Ellis Films (US) '''''Two Thousand Women''''' is a 1944 British comedy-drama [[war film]] about a German [[internment camp]] in [[Occupied France]] which hold
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  • | education = [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] ...recognisable faces in [[Cinema of the United Kingdom#Post-war cinema|post-war British cinema]].
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  • | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] {{small|(UK)}} ...(UK)<ref>Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', ''Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'', Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p506</ref>
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  • ...still goes to the island, but as soon as he lands he is disturbed as most of his baggage disappears. ...is also nowhere to be seen when Pilbeam returns. Finally, another boatload of women plus some crewmen arrive from Bobbie's ship. This makes it very crowd
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  • ...itish actor born in [[w:Ceylon]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f8974d1|title=Colin Gordon|website=BFI}}</ref> ...rixton]]. He served in the [[British Army|army]] during the [[Second World War]] for six years.
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  • | studio = DJ Films ...eases/dads-army-film | title=''DAD'S ARMY'' (PG) | publisher=British Board of Film Classification | date=22 January 2016 | access-date=22 January 2016}}<
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  • ...n for his appearances in the [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' series of films]]. He was also a regular on children's television and radio, and was known ===Early life and war service===
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  • [[File:sttrinians.jpg|right|thumb|Cover of a modern re-issue of St Trinian's drawings]] ...ries was Searle's most famous work and inspired a popular series of comedy films.
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  • ...ng studied drama and dance in [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]] with the intention of becoming a ballet dancer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artis ...)|Mona Lisa]]'' (1986).<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fcd80f1|title=Robert Dorning|website=BFI}}</ref>
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  • | education = [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] ...y ''[[New York Times]]'', 20 February 2010.</ref> He appeared primarily in films and received a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Music
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  • ...everything;<ref name="TelgObit"/> he attended the local [[Methodist Church of Great Britain|Wesleyan Methodist]] chapel three times every Sunday, and bec ...hen he was cast by Peter Hoare as Cinna the Poet in a modern-dress version of ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' at the [[Cambridge Festival Thea
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  • ...lisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780719091391}}</ref> He made over 290 films, more than any other British actor, including 119 between 1946 and 1952. ...)|Territorial Army]] serving with the [[Queen Victoria's Rifles]] and when war broke out he was called up for active service.
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  • ...nglish actor, co-starring in many popular British [[Comedy film|comedies]] of the 1950s and 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9fc3 ...ing director and was the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]] for [[Walsall]] from 1924 to 1929.
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  • ...= [[University of Dhaka|Dhaka University]]<br />[[Guildhall School of Music and Drama]] ...e.com/books?id=3W97f5u9ZZEC&pg=PA72 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the role of Ali Nadim in [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] sitcom ''[[Mind Your Language]]''.
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  • | death_place = [[w:London Borough of Hackney|Hackney]], [[w:London|London]], England | alma_mater = [[w:Royal Academy of Dramatic Art|Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]]
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  • ...hall to the big screen"], ''The Independent'', 31 October 2013</ref> (part of [[Wallasey]]) in [[Wirral Peninsula|Wirral]], [[Cheshire]], England. He att ...n by [[Jimmy Grafton]], a venue at which soon-to-be-prominent entertainers of the next few decades regularly gathered.<ref name="Telegraph"/>
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