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  • | birth_place = [[w:Broxburn|Broxburn]], [[w:Scotland|Scotland]], UK | years_active = 1948 – 1973
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Inverness|Inverness]], Scotland | yearsactive = 1948–2013
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  • ...://www.heraldscotland.com/once-bitten-1.828727 "Once bitten..."], ''Herald Scotland''; retrieved 30 May 2015.</ref> | birth_place = [[Gourock]], Scotland
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  • | caption = In March 1962 ...h Film Institute}}</ref> He is best remembered for his eponymous lead role in ''[[Fabian of the Yard]]''.
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  • | birth_place = [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]], [[UK]] | known_for = ''[[w:At Last the 1948 Show|At Last the 1948 Show]]''
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  • | birth_place = [[Glasgow|Glasgow]], [[Scotland|Scotland]] ...[Scottish people|Scottish]] comedy actor and singer. He started his career in stage roles, and developed a television and film career.
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  • ...hipley, West Yorkshire|Shipley, Yorkshire]], England &ndash; 15 March 1975 in [[Worthing]], [[Sussex]], England) was a British [[cinematographer]] and [[ ...dy Dance]]'' (1936) with [[Cicely Courtneidge]]; and ''[[All In (film)|All In]]'' (1936) with Lynn for director [[Marcel Varnel]].
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  • | death_place = [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]] ...1950s, before moving into television work in the latter half of her career in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/
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  • ...hristmas Carol'', 1951) and a Cockney [[charwoman]] who inherits a fortune in the television series ''[[Mrs Thursday]]'' (1966–67). ...na]] and [[Madeira]] before making her professional acting debut in the UK in the 1920s.<ref name="obituary"/>
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  • | caption = Hayter in 1975 ...k Papers]]'' (1952), the latter earning him a [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|BAFTA Award for Best British Actor]] nomination.<ref>{{Cite
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  • | years_active = 1948–2018 | credits = [[w:Bond girl|Bond girl]] Sylvia Trench in ''[[w:Dr. No (film)|Dr. No]]'' and ''[[w:From Russia with Love (film)|From
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  • ...= Cremated; ashes buried in [[w:Spinningdale|Spinningdale]], Sutherland, Scotland ...south east [[London]], he exaggerated his Scottish roots but was prominent in Scottish public life, helping to launch [[Scottish Television]] (STV) and s
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  • | caption = Crichton in 1988 Born in [[w:Wallasey|Wallasey]], [[w:Cheshire|Cheshire]], he became best known for
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  • | caption = Lister in 1973 Born in [[Cape Town]] to Major James Lister and Margaret (née Hogan), Lister was e
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  • ...er/|title = Ronald Fletcher}}</ref> He first began performing the Odd Odes in 1937, long before they first appeared on television (though he did appear o ...for two years. He alleged defamation when Rowan Atkinson referred to him, in a ''Not the Nine O’Clock News'' sketch as “a cross eyed baboon”. As a
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  • | caption = Brambell in 1966 (photo by [[Brian Duffy (photographer)|Duffy]]) | spouse = {{marriage|Mary Josephine Hall<br />|1948|1955|end=div}}}}
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  • ...er]] [[w:List of James Bond allies#Sir Frederick Gray|Sir Frederick Gray]] in the ''[[w:James Bond|James Bond]]'' films. ...nlisted in the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]], though also managed to appear in an Army instructional film for [[Carol Reed]].<ref name="Guardian">{{cite j
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  • ...in nine of the [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'']] films, and took part in an episode of the ''[[Carry On Laughing]]'' television series ("The Case of ...Her most serious and arguably most dramatic role was as Lena Van Broecken in three episodes of the BBC's ''[[Secret Army (TV series)|Secret Army]]'' bet
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  • |birth_place = [[Rutherglen|Rutherglen]], [[Lanarkshire|Lanarkshire]], Scotland ...appearances in the [[Carry On films|''Carry On'' films]]. Butterworth died in 1979 and Brown never remarried.
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  • ...of the ''[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On]]'' films. He died on 2 May 1984 in [[Poole]], England.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0287045/ *''[[Man in a Suitcase]]'' (TV series - episode: "Essay in Evil") (1967) - Lorry Driver
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