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  • '''''Lightning Conductor''''' is a 1938 British [[comedy film|comedy]] [[thriller film]] directed by [[Maurice Elvey]] and starring [[Gordon Harker]], [[John ...ickson|work=AllMovie}}</ref> and ''[[TV Guide]]'' called it "a suspenseful comedy with some good
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  • '''''The Ghost Train''''' is a 1931 British [[comedy film|comedy]] [[thriller film]] directed by [[Walter Forde]] and starring [[Jack Hulbert]], [[Cicely [[Category:1931 films]]
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  • '''''Luck of the Navy''''' is a 1938 British [[comedy film|comedy]] [[thriller film]] directed by [[Norman Lee]] and starring [[Geoffrey Toone]], [[Judy K * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.
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  • '''''Strange Boarders''''' is a 1938 British comedy thriller film, directed by [[Herbert Mason]], produced by [[Edward Black (producer)| ...l's Film & Video Guide'' described the film as "[quite an] engaging comedy-thriller in the Hitchcock mould, with entertaining performances and incidents."<ref>
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  • ...eart attack on 11 September 1981, aged 82. His wife predeceased him in the 1930s;<ref>Webber, Richard (1998). ''Are You Being Served: 25 Years''. London: Or ...peared in ''[[Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton]]'' (1965), and in several films, including as a photographer in ''[[Games That Lovers Play (film)|Games Tha
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  • ...ion film]|]s. He enjoyed a long career in the film industry from the early 1930s until the early 1980s.<ref name=ChibnallBFI>{{cite web|last=Chibnall|first= ...n]]'' (1936); ''[[O-Kay for Sound]]'' (1937) for Varnel with [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]; ''[[Alf's Button Afloat]]'' (1938) with Flanagan a
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  • ...ough some sources list ''[[Davy (film)|Davy]]'' (1958) as the final Ealing comedy.<ref>http://www.britmovie.co.uk/studios/Ealing-Studios {{Webarchive|url=htt ...little in common with the later Ealing comedy films. Ealing made no comedy films at all in 1945 and 1946.<ref name="auto">Murphy p.211</ref>
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  • ...who featured in many [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British films]] of the 1930s and 1940s. ...ngside [[Naunton Wayne]] as two [[cricket]]-obsessed Englishmen in several films from 1938 to 1949.
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  • ...television and theatre.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9efee33a|title=Max Wall}}</ref> ...ic-hall]] entertainer [[Jack Lorimer|Jack (Jock) Lorimer]], a [[Scottish]] comedy actor from [[Forfar]], known for his songs and dancing, and his wife Stella
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  • ...ord">{{cite book |last1=Maxford |first1=Howard |title=Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company |date=2018 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978147667 ...ref name="Bexhill">{{cite news |title="While the Sun Shines". Gay Rattigan Comedy at the De La Warr Pavilion |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/v
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  • ...f>{{cite book |last=Fellner |first=Chris |title=The Encyclopedia of Hammer Films |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IVGfDwAAQBAJ&q=Adrienne+Riccoboni+bo ...hakespearean roles and in Hammer horror movies, as well as such well-known films as Dr Zhivago |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/28/adrienne-co
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  • ...en appeared in film, rising from a [[bit part|bit part]] actor in the late 1930s to a member of the main cast; by the time of his death he had appeared in n ...and made his television debut, becoming a reliable bit-part actor in many films, particularly in the [[war film|war film]] genre.
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  • ...comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, [[Novelty song|comica ...4, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the late 1930s and 1940s, and became the UK's most popular entertainer during those decade
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