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- {{short description|1954 film}} | released = {{film date|1954|11|16|df=y}}7 KB (927 words) - 12:44, 27 September 2022
- | studio = George H. Brown Productions (for) [[Two Cities Films]] ...essdate=26 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b70034008|title=The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)|website=BFI}}</r6 KB (910 words) - 16:52, 12 April 2023
- | image = Hobson's Choice (1954 film).jpg | studio = [[London Films]]12 KB (1,810 words) - 18:25, 11 February 2023
- '''''Miranda''''' is a 1948 black and white British [[comedy film]], directed by [[Ken Annakin]] and written by Peter Blackmore, who als The film is a light comedy fantasy about a beautiful and playful [[mermaid]] Miranda and her effect on9 KB (1,344 words) - 16:04, 28 September 2024
- | distributor = [[Adelphi Films]] | released = {{film date|df=y|1954|10||}}16 KB (2,523 words) - 18:44, 4 February 2023
- '''''Value for Money''''' is a 1955 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Ken Annakin]], based on the novel of the same name by ...{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47400782 |title=ROMANTIC COMEDY |newspaper=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] |volume=24 |issue=5 |date=4 J11 KB (1,697 words) - 17:52, 7 February 2023
- | released = {{Film date|df=y|1953|05|28|UK|1954|02|16|US}} ...ariety196-1954-11/page/n143/mode/1up?q=%22top+grossers%22|date=17 November 1954|page=8}}</ref>18 KB (2,613 words) - 15:33, 17 March 2023
- ...edy]], Murdoch quickly moved on to increasingly prominent roles in musical comedy and [[revue]] in the [[West End theatre|West End]] and on tour. He made his ...the radio series ''[[Much Binding in the Marsh]]'', which ran from 1944 to 1954. Murdoch's last long-running radio programmes were ''[[The Men from the Min16 KB (2,452 words) - 12:02, 6 February 2023
- | known_for = [[Carry On (film series)|''Carry On'' films]]<br/>''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'' ...prominence with his appearances in the [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' films]].13 KB (1,920 words) - 20:01, 18 July 2024
- ...ck comedy]], [[Comedy drama]], [[Musicals]], [[Adventure films]], [[Action films]], [[Sex comedies]], [[Western (genre)|Western]] ...rector of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films. Late in his career, he took up writing, producing and directing for theate30 KB (4,205 words) - 17:53, 21 December 2022
- ...f>{{cite book |last=Fellner |first=Chris |title=The Encyclopedia of Hammer Films |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IVGfDwAAQBAJ&q=Adrienne+Riccoboni+bo ...hakespearean roles and in Hammer horror movies, as well as such well-known films as Dr Zhivago |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/28/adrienne-co19 KB (2,742 words) - 10:23, 25 August 2024
- ...Marple]] in a series of four [[George Pollock (director)|George Pollock]] films. She was appointed an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire|Order of ...es.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20040307/ai_n12751110/pg_3 |title=A life in films: Murder she hid |newspaper=The Independent on Sunday |first=Matthew |last=S27 KB (3,944 words) - 08:06, 11 September 2024
- ...Douglas Fairbanks Presents]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8784435e|title=The Heel (1953)|website=BFI}}</ref> ...3), and appeared in ''[[Romeo and Juliet (1954 film)|Romeo and Juliet]]'' (1954) as Benvolio,<ref name=bfi/> and in ''[[Footsteps in the Fog]]'' (1955) sta22 KB (3,344 words) - 20:53, 24 February 2023
- | known_for = [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' films]] ...une 2014}}</ref> as well as being a regular panellist on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s comedy panel show ''[[Just a Minute]]'' from its second series in 1968 until his d36 KB (5,196 words) - 19:07, 23 August 2024
- ...ish actor, comedian, musician and singer best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character tha ...and many [[Eastern Bloc]] countries, particularly in [[Albania]] where his films were the only ones by Western actors permitted by dictator [[Enver Hoxha]]50 KB (7,368 words) - 22:33, 24 August 2024
- ...aracters|Cato]] in the ''[[The Pink Panther (film series)|Pink Panther]]'' films. He made appearances in many television programmes, including a portrayal o ...inese Communist Revolution|Chinese communist revolution]] in the 1940s. In 1954, he returned to Britain, where a girlfriend "nagged [him] into acting".<ref23 KB (3,395 words) - 10:51, 20 February 2023
- ...er lightweight musicals, comedies and historical dramas. Almost all of her films were produced and directed by [[Herbert Wilcox]], whom she married in 1943. ...understudied [[Jessie Matthews]].<ref>Vermilye, Jerry. ''The Great British Films''. Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1978. p. 21.</ref>36 KB (5,270 words) - 00:10, 13 February 2023
- ...sh stage, film and television character actor who became a star of British films during the Second World War. ...worked regularly at [[Ealing Studios]], first with starring roles in such films as ''[[They Knew Mr. Knight (film)|They Knew Mr. Knight]]'' (1946), ''[[The53 KB (7,608 words) - 10:40, 4 April 2023
- ...remembered for his role as [[Sergeant Arthur Wilson]] in the BBC situation comedy ''[[Dad's Army]]'', between 1968 and 1977.{{sfn|McCann|2010|p=ix}} ...e played the character Jack Mottram. He went on to appear in over 100 films, including ''[[Private's Progress]]'' (1955), ''[[I'm All Right Jack]]'' (176 KB (10,354 words) - 15:51, 14 January 2023
- ...in 1969, until the demise of ATV in 1981. By 1953, Morley was also scoring films for the [[w:Associated British Picture Corporation|Associated British Pictu ...ed and conducted the [[w:RCA Red Seal Records|RCA Red Seal]] debut album ''Romantic Italian Songs'' for Italian-born tenor [[w:Sergio Franchi|Sergio Franchi]],46 KB (6,817 words) - 09:03, 6 February 2023