• Invasion Quartet
  '''''Invasion Quartet''''' is a 1961 British World War II [[comedy-drama film]] that was publicised as a parody of ''[[The Guns of * [[Alexander Archdale]] as Brigadier, War Office
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• Where the Spies Are
  '''''Where the Spies Are''''' is a 1966 British comedy adventure film directed by [[Val Guest]] and starring [[David Niven]], [[Françoise D ...ruits Doctor Jason Love, who did some intelligence work for him in [[World War II]], to find out what is going on. As a doctor, Love can attend a medical
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• The Assassination Bureau
  ...in the United States) is a 1969 British [[Technicolor]] [[black comedy]] [[adventure film]], produced by [[Michael Relph]], directed by [[Basil Dearden]], and s ...gs, emperors, and prime ministers of Europe are trying to avoid a possible war over the assassination of a [[Balkan]] prince who had accidentally been kil
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• Ralph Thomas
  ...remembered for directing the ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' series of films. He cast the actor [[James Robertson Justice]] in many of his films. Thomas often worked with the producer [[Betty Box|Betty E. Box]], who was
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• Ken Annakin
  ...ast]] comedies, [[Adventure films|Adventure films]], [[Action films|Action films]] ...60s he was noticed by critics with large-scale adventure epic and comedies films, like ''[[Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines]]'', ''[[Battle of
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• John Paddy Carstairs
  ...of light-hearted subject matter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba13473bc|title=John Paddy Carstairs|website=BFI}}</ref> He w ...tairs directed many British comedies including many of [[Norman Wisdom]]'s films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/590042/|title=
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• Thorley Walters
  ===Films=== He featured in three of the [[St Trinian's]] films, starting as an army major in ''[[Blue Murder at St Trinian's]]''. He later
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• Malcolm McFee
  ...t0064754/fullcredits#cast | title=Full cast and crew for Oh! What a Lovely War | publisher=IMDb | accessdate=22 November 2011}}</ref> ...t on Saturday or Sunday nights), and tells of the fall of a TV star of the 1960s who later became unknown.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m
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• John Gregson
  ...40 credited film roles.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ee347b3 |title=John Gregson }}</ref> He was best known for ...officer, or in comedy roles in [[Ealing Studios|Ealing]] and other British films.
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• Blake Edwards
  ...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 theate
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• Sam Kydd
  ...lisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780719091391}}</ref> He made over 290 films, more than any other British actor, including 119 between 1946 and 1952. ...)|Territorial Army]] serving with the [[Queen Victoria's Rifles]] and when war broke out he was called up for active service.
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• Eric Pohlmann
  ...Blofeld]], the primary antagonist of the ''[[James Bond]]'' series, in the films ''[[From Russia with Love (film)|From Russia with Love]]'' and ''[[Thunderb ...(best known in the UK for playing the concentration camp guard in the war films, ''[[Odette (1950 film)|Odette]]'' and ''[[Carve Her Name With Pride]]''),
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• James Robertson Justice
  ...es)|Doctor]]'' series. He also co-starred with [[Gregory Peck]] in several adventure movies, notably ''[[The Guns of Navarone (film)|The Guns of Navarone]]''. B ...es]]). After the [[Nazi]]s came to power, he fought in the [[Spanish Civil War]] on the [[Second Spanish Republic|Republican]] side. It was here that he f
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• Peter Sallis
  ...lace|Wallace]] in the [[Academy Award]]-winning ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'' films and portrayed [[Norman Clegg|Norman "Cleggy" Clegg]] in ''[[Last of the Sum ...is film appearances include the [[Hammer Film Productions|Hammer]] horror films ''[[The Curse of the Werewolf]]'' (1961) and ''[[Taste the Blood of Dracula
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• Noël Dyson
  ...ish character actress.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba246ddb5|title=Noël Dyson|website=BFI}}</ref> Dyson played a number of roles in theatre and films (including in telemovies) but is best remembered as a versatile television
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• Norman Bird
  ...'[[An Inspector Calls]]'' (1954).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba127353d|title=Norman Bird}}</ref> ...to British cinema audiences of the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in nearly 50 films such as ''[[The Angry Silence]]'' (1960), ''[[The League of Gentlemen (film
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• John Antrobus
  | genre = {{hlist|Comedy|drama|adventure}} ...tten extensively for stage, screen, TV and radio, including the epic World War II play, ''Crete and Sergeant Pepper'' at the Royal Court. He authored the
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• Terry Nation
  ...riter for drama, working on many of the most popular British series of the 1960s and 1970s such as ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'', ''[[The Ba ...ogrammes/profiles/3PlvjrTLc2sf8gnSTHZSY7T/terry-nation |title=BBC Two - An Adventure in Space and Time - Terry Nation |website=Bbc.co.uk |date=1970-01-01 |acces
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• Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)
  ...ost of St. Michael's]]''), through the [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' films]], and television. ...and ''[[Where's That Fire?]]'' (1939). In all he appeared in more than 70 films, including from this period [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Sabotage (1936 film)
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• Lew Grade
  Following the beginning of the [[Second World War]] in 1939, Grade became involved in arranging entertainment for soldiers in ...transdiffusion.org/emc/tvheroes/lewgrade/index3.php Lew Grade, Part 3: the War and After] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905211110/http
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