• Brothers in Law (film)
  | distributor = [[British Lion Films|British Lion Films]]<br />Tudor * Harper, Sue & Porter, Vincent. ''British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference''. Oxford University Press, 2003.
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• Left Right and Centre
  ...-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225051001/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Left-Right-and-Centre |archive-date=25 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}</r [[Category:1959 films]]
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• Lucky Jim (1957 film)
  | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] (UK)<br />[[Kingsley-International Pictures]] (US) [[Category:1957 films]]
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• The Man in the White Suit
  |gross=£90,000<ref name="sue">{{cite book|title=British Cinema of The 1950s The Decline of Deference|first1=Sue|last1= Harper|first2=Vincent|last2= Por '''''The Man in the White Suit''''' is a 1951 British [[w:satire|satirical]] [[w:science fiction film|science fiction]] [[w:comedy film|comedy film]]
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• Private's Progress
  | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] {{small|(UK)}} ...icial cooperation of absolutely nobody".<ref>Mackenzie, S.P. ''British War Films'' BLM Academic UK; 1st edition (1 June 2006) p. 133 </ref><ref name="NYT19
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• I'm All Right Jack
  | distributor = [[British Lion Films|British Lion Films]] (UK) ...Hackney|Alan Hackney]].<ref name=bfi>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6acf2bb5 |title=I'm All Right Jack (1959) |website=British F
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• The Mouse That Roared (film)
  ...The Mouse That Roared]]'' (1955).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b0dc0d2|title=The Mouse That Roared (1959)|publisher=}}</re ...who had an arrangement to produce films for Columbia through his Highroad Films.<ref name="new">{{Cite news|title=PREMINGER BUYS TOP BEST-SELLER|author=R.
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• Our Man in Havana (film)
  ...xpensive. A deal was done with Carol Reed, who had made several successful films based on Graham Greene's novels, and Columbia Studios, for whom Reed had ju ...een in mind, It’s a Battlefield, was never made into a film. The only good films, ''[[The Third Man]]'' and [[The Fallen Idol (film)|''The Fallen Idol'']],
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• British comedy
  ...to as the father of the political cartoon.<ref name="Guardian"/> With his satirical works calling the king (George III), prime ministers and generals (especial ''See'' [[w:British comedy films|British comedy films]] ([[w:Cinema of the United Kingdom|Cinema of the United Kingdom]]).
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• Kenneth Cope
  Cope also appeared in the satirical series ''[[That Was The Week That Was]]'' from 1962 until 1963. He also took leading roles in two [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' films]]. In ''[[Carry On at Your Convenience]]'' (1971) he played Vic Spanner, th
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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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• Roy Kinnear
  ...ber 1988) was a British [[character actor]]. He was known for his roles in films directed by [[Richard Lester]]; including Algernon in [[The Beatles]]' ''[[ Kinnear made his stage debut in 1955, and came to prominence in the [[BBC]] satirical comedy series ''[[That Was the Week That Was]]'' in 1962. He went on to app
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• The Best of Sellers
  ...f name="sikov"/> Sellers found acclaim for his impersonations and [[Satire|satirical humour]] and began appearing in film, sometimes in [[voice acting]] roles.< ...dy team [[Frank Muir]] and [[Denis Norden]], lampoons cinema [[travelogue (films)|travelogues]] by presenting the suburban [[South London]] area [[Balham]]
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• Kind Hearts and Coronets
  ...it was included in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''{{'}}s list of the top 100 films since 1923. ...he "post-war sensitivity about anti-Semitism", and the moral stance of the films produced by Ealing.{{sfn|Newton|2003|p=35}} According to the [[British Film
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• Nicholas Parsons
  In the 1950s and 1960s, he appeared in many supporting roles in British films. In the late 1960s, he portrayed David Courtney in the American sitcom ''[[ ...]], who was in the show. During the late 1960s, he created and presented a satirical programme on [[BBC Radio 4]] called ''Listen to This Space'', which by the
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• Peter Cook
  ...lishment]] comedic movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s. ...nce]]. Following the success of the show, the duo appeared together in the films ''[[The Wrong Box]]'' (1966) and ''[[Bedazzled (1967 film)|Bedazzled]]'' (1
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• Leslie Phillips
  ...ctor|author|director|producer<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f5e1afb | title=Leslie Phillips }}</ref>}} ...web |title=VE Day: Remembering Victory (2015) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/5553f58e0eaa1 |website=BFI |access-date=11 November 2022}}</ref><
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• Joyce Grenfell
  ...he never appeared as a stage actress, but had roles, mostly comic, in many films, including Miss Gossage in ''[[The Happiest Days of Your Life (film)|The Ha ...peaker lecturing on 'useful and acceptable gifts', and gives us a neat and satirical impersonation of an American mother listening to her small daughter recitin
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• Bernard Cribbins
  ...ight Said Fred (song)|Right Said Fred]]" and for his appearances in comedy films including ''[[Two-Way Stretch]]'' (1960) and the ''[[Carry On (franchise)|C ...Tom Campbell]], a [[companion (Doctor Who)|companion]] to [[Dr. Who (Dalek films)|Dr. Who]]. 41 years later, he began appearing in [[Doctor Who|the revival
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• Dame Edna Everage
  ...ooks including an autobiography, ''My Gorgeous Life'', appeared in several films and hosted several television shows (on which Humphries has also appeared a === 1950s–1999 ===
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