• Howard Irving Young
  ...writer]] and [[playwright]].<ref>Marshall p.297</ref> During the 1930s and 1940s he worked on a number of British films. [[Category:1893 births]]
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• Alan Hume
  | employer = [[w:Cineguild Productions|Cineguild Productions]] (1940s) ...tudios]] in 1942, and worked for [[Cineguild Productions]] during the late 1940s. His early credits, prior to being called up to the [[Royal Navy]] and [[Fl
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• Freddie Sales
  ...''[[Workers' Playtime (radio programme)|Workers' Playtime]]'' in the late 1940s and 1950s, and also visited the United States, performing as part of a [[w: [[Category:1920 births]]
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• Peter Cavanagh (impressionist)
  | years_active = 1940s&ndash;1970s ...1) was an English comic [[impressionist]], popular on [[BBC radio]] in the 1940s and 1950s when he was known as "The Voice of Them All".
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• Eric Merriman
  ...created sketches for the Boy Scout [[w:Gang Show|Gang Show]]. By the early 1940s, he was a caption writer for the ''[[w:Picture Post|Picture Post]]''. [[Category:1924 births]]
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• Robert Moreton
  | years_active = 1940s&ndash;1957 [[Category:1922 births]]
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• Charlie Chester
  ...television presenter and writer, broadcasting almost continuously from the 1940s to the 1990s. His style was similar to that of [[Max Miller (comedian)|Max ...rrect</ref> Charlie Chester, he was well known to British audiences in the 1940s from his [[BBC]] radio show ''Stand Easy''. This show was adapted for [[tel
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• Derek Roy (comedian)
  ...e|English]] comedian, whose public profile was at its greatest in the late 1940s and early 1950s. [[Category:1922 births]]
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• Robb Wilton
  ...nd actor. He was best known for his filmed monologues during the 1930s and 1940s, in which he played incompetent authority figures. His trademark was to put ...Nether Backwash, appeared in a number of radio series during the 1930s and 1940s and was known for the phrase "You shouldn't have done that!" He would also
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• Bees in Paradise
  ...round two thousand strong) has just reported that there have only been two births within the last eighteen months and both of them were boys. As the Queen po [[Category:1940s war comedy films]]
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• Tim Gudgin
  ...ity. He carried out his [[w:National Service|National Service]] during the 1940s, and he started his broadcasting career during that time in Germany in 1949 [[Category:1929 births]]
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• Charles Penrose (entertainer)
  ...tle''. He was also a character actor in a number of films in the 1930s and 1940s. [[Category:1873 births]]
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• Diana King (actress)
  ...}}</ref> She continued to appear on television and in films throughout the 1940s and 1950s.<ref name=bfi/> In 1961, she appeared in ''[[The Avengers (TV ser [[Category:1918 births]]
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• Sandra Dorne
  ...nd|platinum blonde]], she was a regular female lead in B-films in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She trained at the [[Rank Organisation|Rank Organisation]] [[Category:1924 births]]
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• Alan Clare
  ...e of 14, he played in local nightclubs.<ref name="Chilton" /> In the early 1940s he played in small bands led by Stephen Miller and Roy Marsh, then with [[w [[Category:1921 births]]
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• Betty Marsden
  ...ntyear_offset=0&county=lancashire|title=Search Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006 - findmypast.co.uk|website=Search.findmypast.co.uk|access-date=26 ...ngler (in a series of loose pastiches of the stilted dialogue in 1930s and 1940s romances and melodramas - for example, ''[[w:The Astonished Heart|The Aston
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• Carroll Levis
  ...'Brass Monkey'']], in which he played himself. He became ill in the late 1940s, and for a time was replaced by his brother, Cyril Levis, the show being re [[Category:1910 births]]
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• Suzette Tarri
  ...comedian and singer, popular on radio as well as on stage in the 1930s and 1940s. [[Category:1881 births]]
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• Basil Radford
  ...ed in many [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British films]] of the 1930s and 1940s. They appeared together in several other 1940s films, including ''[[Crook's Tour]]'' (1941), ''[[The Next of Kin]]'' (1942
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• Lionel Murton
  ...ans and Canadians in films and in various television series, from the late 1940s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid= [[Category:1915 births]]
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