• Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
  | studio = [[Walter Shenson]] Films ...ector)|Joseph McGrath]].<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a8db1c9|title=Digby the Biggest Dog in the World (1973)}}</
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• Melvyn Hayes
  ...[It Ain't Half Hot Mum]]'', for appearing in the [[Cliff Richard]] musical films ''[[The Young Ones (1961 film)|The Young Ones]]'', ''[[Summer Holiday (1963 Hayes has performed voices on children's cartoons such as ''[[SuperTed]]'', ''[[The Dreamstone]]'', ''[[Little Dracu
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• Malcolm McFee
  ...ned for seasons two and three. He appeared on television many times in the 1970s but was only rarely seen after this, until 1993. | [[w:BBC|BBC]] children's drama series ''Ramshackle Road''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/
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• Patrick Newell
  ...'' (27 March 1932 – 22 July 1988)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba1ed3dcb|title=Patrick Newell|website=BFI}}</ref> was a Brit ...e inept recruits in the first of the ''[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On]]'' films, 1958's ''[[Carry On Sergeant]]'' but, according to producer Peter Rogers,
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• Ruth Madoc
  ...n the [[Smash (instant mashed potato)|Cadbury's Smash]] commercials in the 1970s, and made a brief appearance in the 1977 film ''[[The Prince and the Pauper | 1986 || ''[[The Adventure Game]]'' || Herself
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• Terry Nation
  ...drama, working on many of the most popular British series of the 1960s and 1970s such as ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'', ''[[The Baron (TV se ...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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• 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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• 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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• John Antrobus
  | genre = {{hlist|Comedy|drama|adventure}} ...II play, ''Crete and Sergeant Pepper'' at the Royal Court. He authored the children's book series ''Ronnie'', which includes ''Help! I am a Prisoner in a Toothpa
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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]]' ''[[ ...[[The Three Musketeers (1973 live-action film)|Musketeer]]'' series of the 1970s and 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/5192
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• Jack Watling
  Watling had a long career in low-key British films, originally in easy-going boyish roles.<ref name=guardian/> His early appea ...=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> Watling also appeared as Doc Saxon in the 1970s series ''[[Pathfinders (TV series)|Pathfinders]]''.<ref name=guardian>{{cit
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• Glynn Edwards
  ...es)|Minder]]''.<ref name="bfi.org.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9efa5d96|title=Glynn Edwards|publisher=British Film Institut ...e=telegraph/> In his childhood he read [[Arthur Ransome|Arthur Ransome's]] adventure novel ''[[Swallows and Amazons]]'', which gave him a life-long passion for
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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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• Lew Grade
  ...s.google.com/books?id=rW7nJMJ-WloC&pg=PA100 ''Saints and Avengers: British Adventure Series of the 1960s''], London: I.B Tauris, 2002, p.100</ref> and two featu ...blisher=Classic TV Info |access-date=12 April 2017}}</ref> Unusually for [[children's television series]], these [[Color television|colour]] programmes were gene
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• William Hartnell
  ...ade numerous stage and television appearances and acted in over 75 British films, he is best remembered as the [[First Doctor]] in [[BBC Television]]'s ''[[ ...t was pitched to him as a children's series, in part due to his success in films,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-10-16/doctor-
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• Pink Panther (character)
  ...cal shorts]], television cartoons and merchandise. He starred in 124 short films, four TV series and four TV specials. The character is closely associated w === Feature films ===
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• The Goodies
  ...series)|The Goodies]]''{{'}} style of humour earned it a reputation as a "children's" programme]] On Sunday 8 June 2014, during a 1970s weekend, BBC Two repeated the Montreux '72 Edition of "Kitten Kong" once ag
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• Bob Monkhouse
  ...''[[Hotspur (comic)|Hotspur]]'', ''[[Wizard (DC Thomson)|Wizard]]'' and ''Adventure''.<ref name="Guardian obit" /> He established a comics writing and art part ...lso began appearing in comedy films, including the first of the [[Carry On films|Carry On]] film series, ''[[Carry On Sergeant]]'', in 1958. He starred in '
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• Kenneth More
  ...]]'' (1953), he appeared in many roles as a carefree, happy-go-lucky gent. Films from this period include ''[[Doctor in the House]]'' (1954), ''[[Raising a ...mmer]]'' (1961) with [[Susannah York|Susannah York]], "one of the happiest films on which I have ever worked."<ref name="More">Kenneth More (1978) ''More or
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• George Martin
  ...his young assistant, Martin, a chance. In 1956 he produced the well known children's song "Nellie the Elephant" which was released by Parlophone in October of ...ilm scores since the early 1960s, including the instrumental scores of the films ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'' (1964, for which he wo
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