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- | studio = [[British National Films Company]] | released = {{Film date|df=yes|1942|9}}2 KB (278 words) - 22:41, 19 July 2024
- | released = {{Film date|1942|12|28|df=y}} ...https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034943/|title = King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942) - IMDb| website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref> It was [[film producer|produced]] by [[E3 KB (420 words) - 00:19, 5 February 2023
- | image = "Much Too Shy" (1942).jpg | released = {{Film date|1942|10|12|df=y}} {{small|(UK)}}4 KB (544 words) - 20:21, 8 February 2023
- | image = Let the People Sing (1942 film).jpg | released = 10 August 19425 KB (782 words) - 12:41, 13 December 2022
- | image = The Goose Steps Out (1942).jpg | released = August 19426 KB (969 words) - 15:30, 19 February 2023
- {{short description|1942 film by Basil Dearden, Will Hay}} ...us=dead|archive-date=10 March 2016|title=''The Black Sheep of Whitehall'' (1942)|work=BFI Film Forever|access-date=20 June 2019}}</ref>7 KB (1,098 words) - 10:41, 21 July 2024
- | released = {{Film date|1942|4|17|United Kingdom|1947|02|10|Sweden|df=y}} .../Iux6eL3lnr8 |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|title=Back Room Boy 1942|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The original story was written by7 KB (1,098 words) - 16:35, 13 March 2023
- | years_active = 1942–1998 | known_for = ''[[Carry On films|Carry On]]'' films<br>''[[w:Return of the Jedi|Return of the Jedi]]'' (1983)<br>''[[w:Octopuss4 KB (582 words) - 17:15, 23 January 2023
- | caption = Front of house re-release (1942) still '''''Old Mother Riley''''' is a 1937 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Oswald Mitchell]] and starring [[Arthur Lucan]] in the4 KB (486 words) - 23:28, 8 February 2023
- ...=BFI}}</ref> Born in Lambeth, south London in 1898, he directed over fifty films between 1919 from the [[silent era]] through to 1949 in the [[sound film|so ...films. Emerging as an established film director in the 1930s, he directed films for [[Gainsborough Pictures]] and [[Ealing Studios]].4 KB (598 words) - 12:20, 20 February 2023
- ...for his career in the United States and England as a director of plays and films ...ilms. Among the performers he worked with were [[Will Hay]], [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]], [[Arthur Askey]] and [[George Formby]].4 KB (532 words) - 12:45, 18 February 2023
- | studio = Oakland Films ...Riley's Jungle Treasure''''' is a low budget 1951 British [[w:comedy film|comedy film]], the penultimate in the long running [[Old Mother Riley]] series st5 KB (675 words) - 23:34, 8 February 2023
- | studio = Associated London Films '''''Till Death Us Do Part''''' is a 1969 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Norman Cohen]], written by [[Johnny Speight]], and sta6 KB (860 words) - 23:14, 6 February 2023
- .... He directed films with comedians such as [[Will Hay]], the [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|Crazy Gang]] and [[Arthur Askey]] and several of the [[Gainsborough Crabtree did some films for [[Michael Powell]], ''[[Lazybones (1935 film)|Lazybones]]'' (1935) and11 KB (1,579 words) - 23:51, 5 February 2023
- ...ack Davies]] and Henry Blyth. The cast includes several well-known British comedy and character actors, including [[James Robertson Justice]], [[Stanley Baxt In 1942, Pease is in charge of very important aircraft research during the [[World9 KB (1,390 words) - 08:08, 1 October 2024
- ...the Dole]]'' (1941), and was the producer-director for the musical-comedy films of [[Flanagan and Allen]] during [[World War II]]. ...oduction company with his friend [[John Barter]]. He also acted in several films produced by [[Lance Comfort]].<ref name="google1"/>5 KB (665 words) - 16:59, 17 March 2023
- ...e (film)|1943 film version]]. He also appeared in several [[Frank Randle]] films.<ref>Richards p.275</ref> ...rank Randle]] films. In 1941, he became the star of the popular BBC radio comedy ''[[Happidrome (radio)|Happidrome]]'', playing the part of Mr Lovejoy, a ha4 KB (571 words) - 16:03, 26 January 2023
- ...haracter actor 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 1949.8 KB (1,209 words) - 22:47, 13 March 2023
- ...of his early career was in [[w:Edwardian musical comedy|Edwardian musical comedy]]; in his later career he was chiefly associated with [[w:farce|farce]]. ...ut. He toured for three years in [[w:Julian Wylie|Julian Wylie]]'s musical comedy companies.<ref name=who/>8 KB (1,269 words) - 17:37, 3 January 2023
- ...with his brother in an automobile agency before going into English musical comedy. In 1929, he joined the [[Birmingham Repertory Theatre]], which was headed ...ly. For example, in 1957 he played the lead role, with top billing, in the comedy ''[[There's Always a Thursday]]'', whilst in the same year he had a bit par9 KB (1,420 words) - 16:59, 25 April 2023