• The Good Old Days (film)
  | released = {{film date|df=yes|1939|6||UK}}<ref name=BFI75/> '''''The Good Old Days''''' is a 1939 British [[historical film|historical]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Roy Wi
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• Don't Get Me Wrong (film)
  Unlike several of Miller's Teddington films which are now [[lost film|lost]], this still survives. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.
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• Where's That Fire?
  ...s the incompetent Fire Captain Viking who fails to find a large fire, gets lost in the process and ends up on a newspaper headline as 'The engine that neve ...l prints, including a 35mm duplicating positive, in their possession since 1939.<ref name=BFICollections/> The film is copyrighted until 2076, the 2006 dea
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• There Was a Crooked Man (film)
  | based_on = {{based on|''The Golden Legend of Shults''<br />1939 play|[[James Bridie]]}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books? | studio = Knightsbridge Films
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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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• Cyril Chamberlain
  ...arry On]]'', ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' and ''[[St. Trinian's]]'' films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.carryon.org.uk/irregularly_c.htm|title=Carry ...ttps://books.google.com/books?id=qEW5BAAAQBAJ&q=cyril+chamberlain+carry+on+films&pg=PT242|title=Carry-On Actors|isbn=9781908382085|last1=Ross|first1=Andrew|
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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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• 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 ...YERS. |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |location=Perth |date=24 February 1939 |accessdate=24 April 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}
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• Bob Danvers-Walker
  ...segment in his 2000 film ''[[w:Love's Labour's Lost (film)|Love's Labour's Lost]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://72.166.46.24/archives/2000/documents/00523 ...airwaves until the station was closed down at the start of World War II in 1939.
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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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• 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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• Ealing comedies
  ...cle Bill]]'' (1957) the last,<ref>Parkinson, David. ''Radio Times Guide to Films 2010'', BBC Worldwide, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-9555886-2-4}}</ref> although some ...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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• Ballard Berkeley
  ...During the 1930s he performed regularly in the so-called "[[Cinematograph Films Act 1927|quota quickies]]". One of his earliest roles was as the heroic lea |1939 || ''[[The Outsider (1939 film)|The Outsider ]]'' || || Uncredited
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• Arthur Mullard
  | spouse = {{marriage|Florence Rose|1939|1961|end=d.}} | yearsactive = 1939–1995
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• Dennis Price
  | spouse = {{marriage|Joan Schofield|1939|1950|reason=divorced}} ...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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• Wilfrid Hyde-White
  ...Wilfrid Hyde White" (without the hyphen). He also appeared in some earlier films as plain "Hyde White". He later added the hyphen, as well as his first name ...lyn Monroe]] in the film ''[[Let's Make Love]]'' (1960), followed by other films, including ''[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]'' (1964).<ref name="obit2
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• Graham Stark
  | yearsactive = 1939&ndash;1999 ...BBC 1964).<ref name="Telegraph"/> Now entirely [[Lost television broadcast|lost]],<ref>[http://lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=eda99a07-e34a-43b9-b28e
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• Boulting brothers
  ...of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced many of their films through their own production company, '''Charter Film Productions''', which ...<ref name="bfi1">{{cite web |title=Ripe Earth |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69d70b54 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=8 Apri
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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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• Bernard Miles
  ...ter actor, writer and director.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f0848ac|title=Bernard Miles|website=BFI}}</ref> He opened t ...olling bass-baritone voice made him a regular presence on the stage and in films for more than fifty years. In addition to his acting, he was a voice-over a
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