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  • {{Infobox television | num_series = 1 <!-- Or num_series. Increment when new seasons/series begin. See template documentation for more info. -->
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  • | birth_place = [[Karachi]], [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British India]]<br><small>(present-day [[Pakistan]])</small> ...]'' (1977), ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'', ''[[Foyle's War]]'' and [[Heartbeat (British TV series)|Heartbeat]]'', ''[[The BFG (1989 film)|The BFG]]'' (1989) as the
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  • | occupation = [[w:Television director|Director]], [[w:television producer|producer]], [[w:child actor|child actor]] ...BBC as a production assistant in 1966, Davies became a hugely influential television director and producer, specialising in comedy.
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  • {{Infobox television season | first_aired = {{Start date|1969|5|31|df=yes}}
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  • ...[[Please Sir! (film)|Please Sir!]]''. McFee had made his film debut in the 1969 satirical anti-war musical ''[[Oh! What a Lovely War]]''.<ref>{{cite web | ...li|Leon Vitali]]. McFee returned for seasons two and three. He appeared on television many times in the 1970s but was only rarely seen after this, until 1993.
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  • {{Infobox television season | first_aired = {{Start date|1969|2|28|df=yes}}
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  • {{short description|British actor (1923-2008)}} {{Use British English|date=May 2017}}
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  • ...elsh screenwriter and novelist. Especially known for his work in [[British television science fiction]], he created the [[Dalek]]s and [[Davros]] for ''[[Doctor ...becoming a prolific writer for drama, working on many of the most popular British series of the 1960s and 1970s such as ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Aven
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  • Throughout film, television, and radio, '''British comedy''' has become known for its consistently peculiar characters, plots, ...cal cartoons." |source=—[[Punch and Judy]] showman Glyn Edwards.<ref name="British seaside">{{cite news|title=Punch and Judy around the world|url=https://www.
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  • Wiltshire was a professional script writer, focusing mainly on television comedy. ...rofession of sub-editing newspapers, at which point he no longer worked in television.
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  • ...|[[Ronnie Carroll]]|1959|1965|reason=div}}<br>{{marriage|[[Norman Eshley]]|1969|1973|reason=div}}<br>{{marriage|Marc Alexander|1978}} ...Featured Actress in a Musical|Best Featured Actress in a Musical]]. Other television roles include her recurring role as [[Minor characters on Frasier#Moon fami
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  • '''Roy Mitchell Kinnear''' (8 January 1934 – 20 September 1988) was a British [[character actor]]. He was known for his roles in films directed by [[Rich
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] ...rections officer|prison officer]] [[w:Mr. Mackay|Mr. Mackay]] in the 1970s television [[w:situation comedy|sitcom]] ''[[w:Porridge (1974 TV series)|Porridge]]''.
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  • ...rmy]], Beck became an actor. Prior to his broadcast roles he spent several seasons with the Unicorn Players <ref>The Stage, 1957</ref> based in Paignton, Devo ...nice]]'' in 1963, for which he gained positive reviews. He concentrated on television and was cast as a policeman in a 1965 episode of ''[[w:Coronation Street|Co
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  • ...James Ottaway''' (25 July 1908 &ndash; 16 June 1999) was a British film, television and stage actor whose career spanned seven decades.<ref name=Obit>[https:// ...'The Island'' at the [[w:Q Theatre]]. Also in 1937 he appeared in an early television production, ''Capital Punishment'', broadcast by the [[w:BBC|BBC]] from [[
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  • {{Infobox television *[[Cicely Courtneidge]] {{small|(1969)}}
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]] | nationality = British
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  • | caption = Hughes as he appeared in ''[[Heartbeat (British TV series)|Heartbeat]]'' ...or playing loveable slob [[Onslow (Keeping Up Appearances)|Onslow]] in the British sitcom ''[[Keeping Up Appearances|Keeping Up Appearances]]'' (1990–1995);
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  • ...roadcast for the [[BBC]] in 1932 and in 1937 and 1938 he featured in early television broadcasts. ...1937 and early 1938 he took part in five broadcasts by the fledgling [[BBC Television]] service, including an adaptation of [[Noël Coward]]'s one-act comedy wit
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  • | spouse = {{Marriage|[[Glynn Edwards]]|1956|1969|end=divorced}} ...d's film ''[[Sparrows Can't Sing]]'' (1963). Joyce and Edwards divorced in 1969 but remained close friends, to the extent that she used to console him afte
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