• Let's Make a Night of It
  ...Let's Make a Night of It''''' is a 1937 British [[musical film|musical]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Graham Cutts]] and starring [[Charles "Buddy" Rogers]] * [[Bertha Belmore]] as Police sergeant
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• Dandy Dick (film)
  | distributor = [[Wardour Films]] ...layed an uncredited role in the film, later became a famous foil to Hay in films later on alongside [[Graham Moffatt]], it was during the film of Dandy Dick
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• Yes, Madam?
  '''''Yes, Madam?''''' is a 1938 British [[musical film|musical]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Norman Lee]] and starring [[Bobby Howes]], [[Diana Chu * [[Arthur Hambling]] as a police constable
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• Stormy Weather (1935 film)
  '''''Stormy Weather''''' is a 1935 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Tom Walls]] and starring Walls, [[Ralph Lynn]] and [[R * [[Peter Gawthorne]] as Police Inspector
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• Jack's the Boy
  '''''Jack's the Boy''''' is a 1932 British comedy film directed by [[Walter Forde]] and starring [[Jack Hulbert]], [[Cicely C * [[Arthur Rigby (actor)|Arthur Rigby]] as Police Constable
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• Ask a Policeman
  '''''Ask a Policeman''''' is a 1939 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Marcel Varnel]] and starring [[Will Hay]], [[Moore Mar The plot sees Will Hay playing a policeman at the Turnbotham Round police force. The force hasn't arrested anybody in the last ten years five weeks
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• Strange Boarders
  '''''Strange Boarders''''' is a 1938 British comedy thriller film, directed by [[Herbert Mason]], produced by [[Edward Black (p ...knocked down and critically injured by a bus on a London street. When the police search her handbag to find out her identity, they are astonished to discove
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• Old Mother Riley in Paris
  ...=2014-03-01}}</ref> It is the second in the [[Old Mother Riley]] series of films, and is also known by its re-release title, ''Old Mother Riley Catches a Qu ...e Zero". Kitty is heartbroken, and Old Mother Riley drags her rival to the police station, demanding the woman should be locked up for alienating Joe's affec
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• Go to Blazes (1962 film)
  '''''Go to Blazes''''' is a 1962 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Michael Truman]] and starring [[Dave King (actor)|Dave ...A [[Citroen DS]] rushes up and he gets inside to join his two friends. The police give chase and they are doing well until stopped at a junction for a fire e
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• Boys Will Be Boys (1935 film)
  '''''Boys Will Be Boys''''' is a 1935 [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[William Beaudine]] which stars [[Will Hay]], [[Gordon ...mart tries to prevent them. Eventually Smart kicks the ball towards some [[police]] spectators and unmasks the villains in spite of Crableigh's attempts to h
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• Esma Cannon
  ...d as a film actress, with a lengthy career in British productions from the 1930s to the 1960s. She worked not only as an actor in Britain in the 1930s but also in stage management and production.<ref>{{cite news|title=Arrivals
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• George Woodbridge (actor)
  ...ayed publicans, policemen or yokels, most prominently in horror and comedy films alongside [[Christopher Lee]] and [[Peter Cushing]].<ref>{{cite web|url=htt ...is film debut in 1940 in ''[[The Big Blockade]]'', he went on to appear in films such as ''[[Green for Danger (film)|Green for Danger]]'' (1946), ''[[The Fa
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• A Yank at Oxford
  '''''A Yank at Oxford''''' is a 1938 [[comedy-drama]] film directed by [[Jack Conway (film-maker)|Jack Conway]] and starr ...e this film, Taylor was seen as the "romantic love interest" and thus as a 1930s equivalent to [[Rudolph Valentino]], with men therefore starting to doubt T
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• Eric Barker
  | occupation = Comedy actor ...n (film series)|Carry On]]'' films, although he only appeared in the early films in the series, apart from returning for ''[[Carry On Emmannuelle]]'' in 197
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• Ealing comedies
  ...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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• Cardew Robinson
  | occupation = Comedy actor ...]'' with the adventures of Ralph Reckness Cardew of St Jim's. In the early 1930s, while at Harrow County School, he wrote for the school magazine, the 'Gayt
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• Oh, Mr Porter!
  '''''Oh, Mr Porter!''''' is a 1937 British [[comedy film]] starring [[Will Hay]] with [[Moore Marriott]] and [[Graham Moffatt]] ...routed so that Gladstone can finally crash into a siding where the waiting police force arrest the gun runners.
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• Peter Gawthorne
  ...es in the films of [[Will Hay]] and other popular British comedians of the 1930s and 1940s. Gawthorne was one of Britain's most called-upon supporting actor ...]] and other well-known comedians such as [[George Formby]], [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]], the [[w:Aldwych farce|Aldwych farce]]urs, [[Jack H
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• Leslie Henson
  ...irector]]. He initially worked in [[silent films]] and [[Edwardian musical comedy]] and became a popular [[music hall]] comedian who enjoyed a long stage car ...1919) and a series of musical comedies and farces throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
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• Tom Walls
  ...d for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s. ...years as an actor, from 1905, mostly in [[Edwardian musical comedy|musical comedy]], touring the British provinces, [[North America]] and [[Australia]] and i
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