• Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon
  | release_date = [[1982 in literature|1982]] ...title of '''''Sir Nobonk and the... Dragon''''') is a [[1982 in literature|1982]] [[Comedy|comedy novel]] written by [[Spike Milligan]], and the fourth pic
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• Masquerade (1965 film)
  '''''Masquerade''''' is a 1965 British [[comedy film|comedy]] [[thriller film]] directed by [[Basil Dearden]] base ...to a screenplay).<ref>Goldman, William, ''Adventures in the Screen Trade'' 1982 p 170-173</ref>
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• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  ...The book was inspired by the song [[Grand Hotel (album)|"Grand Hotel"]] by British rock band [[Procol Harum]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Adams|first=Douglas|author *Review by Jo Duffy (1982) in ''[[Epic Illustrated]]'', February 1982
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• Dick Clement
  | spouse = {{Marriage|Nancy Campbell Clement|1982}} ...e Commitments (film)|The Commitments]]'', which won the [[Evening Standard British Film Awards|Evening Standard's Peter Sellers Award for Comedy]] and the [[B
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• Irene Handl
  ...er 1987) was a British [[character actress]] who appeared in more than 100 British films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f4c4272|archive-u ...n wife, Maria ''née'' Schiepp (1875&ndash;before 1924), also a naturalised British subject. Theirs was a comfortable middle-class life, with a German cook and
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• To Catch a Spy
  | caption = Original British quad poster by [[Arnaldo Putzu]] Fabienne, a young French-born British [[schoolteacher]] marries and heads to [[Bucharest]] in the [[Eastern Bloc]
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• The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
  ...tarring [[Leonard Rossiter]] in the title role. It is based on a series of novels written by [[David Nobbs]] and produced from 1976 to 1979. Nobbs adapted th ...not want to take the series forward unless it continued to be grounded in novels.<ref>David Nobbs, ''I Didn't Get Where I Am Today'', Heinemann, 2003, pp. 2
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• Brian Oulton
  ...ead actor. During the [[World War II|Second World War]] he served in the [[British Army]], and returned to acting playing character roles in 1946; he made a n ...who must be obeyed") in the first television series of [[John Mortimer]]'s novels.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/rumpole-of-the-bailey/|title=Ru
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• Ian La Frenais
  ...n [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], and completed his [[National Service]] in the [[British Army]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Weight |first=Richard |title=Porridge (BFI TV ...]]'', which won both the ''[[Evening Standard]]''{{'}}s [[Evening Standard British Film Awards|Peter Sellers Award for Comedy]] and a [[BAFTA Award for Best A
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• Ronald Frankau
  ...a Davis Frankau]], who would later become a celebrated writer of satirical novels.<ref>Aryeh Newman, "From Exile to Exit: the Frankau Jewish Connection", ''J ...], became a comedy writer and co-created the Channel 4 sitcom [[Peep Show (British TV series)|Peep Show]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/art
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• Ray Alan
  ...g age, entering a talent contest at the age of five at his local [[Gaumont British|Gaumont]] [[movie theatre|cinema]]. Alan wrote four novels: ''Death and Deception'' in 2007 and ''A Game of Murder'' in 2008 (both pub
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• Dennis Price
  ...3)"], BFI screenonline, reprinted from MacFarlane (ed.) ''Encyclopaedia of British Cinema'', London: Methuen/BFI, 2003, p. 534</ref> ...Own]]'' (1945) starring [[James Mason]]. [[British National Films Company|British National]] borrowed him for ''[[The Echo Murders]]'' (1946), a Sexton Blake
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• Barry Evans (actor)
  ...=London, UK}}</ref> was an English actor best known for his appearances in British [[sitcom]]s such as ''[[Doctor in the House (TV series)|Doctor in the House ...), based on [[Richard Gordon (English author)|Richard Gordon]]'s series of novels, which had already been turned into a [[Doctor in the House|feature film se
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• Michael Aldridge
  ...heyney]]'', Cambridge, 1980; [[Noises Off]], Lyric, Hammersmith and Savoy, 1982; ''[[The Biko Inquest]]'', Riverside, 1984; ''[[Relatively Speaking (play)| ...a Cold Climate]]'' - [[Simon Raven]]'s adaptation of the [[Nancy Mitford]] novels ''[[Love in a Cold Climate]]'' and the ''[[Pursuit of Love]]'' for Thames T
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• The Last Remake of Beau Geste
  '''''The Last Remake of Beau Geste''''' is a 1977 British [[historical film|historical]] [[comedy film]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https:// ...to the old silent comics who could do it all. It doesn't matter that he's British because physical gags travel. That's why he has a major future ahead of him
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• Willie Rushton
  ...years of [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|national service]] in the [[British Army|army]], where he failed officer selection.<ref name=Sherrin/> He later ...''Private Eye''{{'}}s Lunchtime O'Booze), from bizarre skulduggery in the British colonies (where the soldiers holding back the politicised rabble bear a str
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• Les Dawson
  ...]], Manchester, on 2 February 1931,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Les Dawson {{!}} British comedian |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Les-Dawson |url-status=d ...cks (UK TV series)|Opportunity Knocks]]'' in 1967 and worked as a comic on British television for the rest of his life.
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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)
  ...to the Galaxy (TV series)|television]]. This was followed by three further novels, a [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)|computer game]], ...adaptation as well as adaptations of the remaining ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' novels ''[[So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish]]'' and ''[[Mostly Harmless]]''.<r
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• Herbert Lom
  | nationality = {{hlist|British|Czech}} ...professionally as '''Herbert Lom''' ({{IPA-cs|ɦɛrbɛrt lom}}), was a Czech-British actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939. In a career lasting more tha
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• Eric Sykes
  ...heir father was a labourer in a [[cotton mill|cotton mill]] and a former [[British Army|army]] [[sergeant|sergeant]]. When Sykes was two, his father remarried ...ure (1962 film)|Kill or Cure]]'', starring [[Terry-Thomas]] with a cast of British comedy stalwarts including one of the first film appearances by [[Ronnie Ba
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