• Take It from Me (1937 film)
  {{Short description|1937 film}} | released = {{Film date|1937|10|22|df=yes}}
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• Don't Get Me Wrong (film)
  | image = Don't Get Me Wrong (1937).jpg | released = {{Film date|1937|03}}
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• Manning Haynes
  ...began in 1918's ''Lead Kindly Light''. Haynes switched to directing silent films in the 1920s. He usually billed himself professionally as H. Manning Hayne * ''[[w:The Lost Chord (1917 film)|The Lost Chord]]'' (1917)
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• Jimmy Hanley
  ...|John Darling]] in ''Peter Pan''.<ref name=screenonline/> He began to make films in his teens.<ref name=britishpictures>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishpic ...and the Huggetts films.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f390ab7|title=Jimmy Hanley|website=BFI}}</ref> He later wor
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• John Paddy Carstairs
  ...of light-hearted subject matter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba13473bc|title=John Paddy Carstairs|website=BFI}}</ref> He w ...tairs directed many British comedies including many of [[Norman Wisdom]]'s films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/590042/|title=
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• Graham Moffatt
  ...s an English comedic [[character actor]]. He is best known for a number of films where he appeared with [[Will Hay]] and [[Moore Marriott]] as 'Albert': a p ...minor, mostly uncredited roles before getting his big break in Will Hay's films.
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• Oh, Mr Porter!
  | released = {{Film date|1937|10|05}} ...a classic of its genre. The film had its first public showing in November 1937 and went on general release on 3 January 1938.
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• Garry Marsh
  Marsh began acting on the stage at the age of fifteen. He started off in films as a [[leading man|leading man]] but later became a [[character actor|chara * ''[[The Lost Chord (1933 film)|The Lost Chord]]'' (1933) – Joseph Mendel
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• Michael Ripper
  ...7).<ref name=guardian/><ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fb7e804|title=Michael Ripper|website=BFI}}</ref> ...'[[Scars of Dracula]]'' in 1970.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b529515|title=Scars of Dracula (1970)|website=BFI}}</ref> (
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• The Ghost Train (play)
  ...a railway scenario in constrained circumstances" thrillers, leading to the films such as ''[[The Lady Vanishes (1938 film)|The Lady Vanishes]]'' (1938), ''[ ...tion]] (a now "lost station",<ref>{{cite web|title=Film of the site of the lost station in 2011|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRW6qrtubSI |archive-u
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• Amelia Bayntun
  ...sh stage and television actress.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bac4120b3|title=Amelia Bayntun|website=BFI}}</ref> Bayntun started her stage career in 1937, when she joined the [[Bristol]] Unity Players. During [[World War II]], sh
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• Sandy Powell (comedian)
  ...million records, earning a penny a side, so over £60,000. The first, ''The Lost Policeman'' on the cheap Broadcast label, sold almost half a million copies ...ay it again as everyone was saying it now. He also appeared in a number of films during the 1930s, usually as himself. In 1939, he was voted the fifth most
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• Dennis Price
  ...a London debut at the [[Sondheim Theatre|Queen's Theatre]] on 6 September 1937 in ''[[Richard II (play)|Richard II]]''. ...Place of One's Own]]'' (1945) starring [[James Mason]]. [[British National Films Company|British National]] borrowed him for ''[[The Echo Murders]]'' (1946)
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• Mavis Villiers
  ...in the silent era. Much of her activity as a child actress in Hollywood is lost or uncredited; her first accredited film role was as 'the Girl' in a 1927 s ...role before her death.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba52e1c84|title=Mavis Villiers|website=BFI}}</ref>
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• Lili Damita
  | yearsactive = 1922–1937 ...ench-American actress and singer who appeared in 33 films between 1922 and 1937.
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• Leslie Fuller
  ...edies. This was the start of his film career and he went on make around 26 films between 1930 and 1945, many of them "[[quota quickies]]". He leased the old With the outbreak of the [[Second World War]], fewer films were made, and Fuller's style of comedy was beginning to date. In 1945 he m
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• Sid James
  ...co.uk/films/2016/04/26/beyond-carry-on-sid-jamess-20-best---and-weirdest---films/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |a ...ive country, found his greatest success in England, starting with roles in films from 1947, he was cast in numerous small and supporting roles into the 1950
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• Ballard Berkeley
  ...quota quickies]]". One of his earliest roles was as the heroic lead in the 1937 film ''[[The Last Adventurers]]''.<ref>[http://www.radiotimes.com/servlet_f |1937 || ''[[The Last Adventurers ]]'' || Fred Devlin ||
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• Peter Bull
  ...character actor|character actor]] who appeared in supporting roles in such films as ''[[w:The African Queen (film)|The African Queen]]'', ''[[Tom Jones (196 *''[[Knight Without Armour]]'' (1937) as Commissar (uncredited)
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• Will Hay
  ...r authority figures with comic failings. His film ''[[Oh, Mr. Porter!]]'' (1937), made by [[Gainsborough Pictures|Gainsborough Pictures]], is often cited a ...76 interview, [[Val Guest]] who served as a screenwriter for many of Hay's films, recalled transposing Harbottle from school into other everyday situations.
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