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- {{Infobox television season | first_aired = {{Start date|1984|09|07|df=y}}7 KB (884 words) - 19:33, 18 July 2024
- {{Infobox television season | first_aired = {{start date|1984|12|30|df=y}}8 KB (1,081 words) - 16:03, 26 January 2023
- ...s an English-born Welsh actress who was best known for her work on British television, mostly notably for her role as Ivy in ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]''. ...Company's first production, ''[[A Man for All Seasons (play)|A Man for All Seasons]]'', at Cardiff's New Theatre in 1962.<ref name="thestage"/>6 KB (839 words) - 16:24, 14 March 2023
- | 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 the8 KB (1,192 words) - 15:16, 24 February 2023
- | 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]]''.11 KB (1,600 words) - 17:19, 18 January 2023
- ...actress and dancer best known for playing Yvonne Stuart-Hargreaves in the television sitcom ''[[Hi-de-Hi!]]'' from 1980 to 1988. ...London Palladium]]'' shows, and also performed as principal during summer seasons in [[Monte Carlo]] and other European casino hotspots as part of an [[adagi7 KB (1,020 words) - 22:32, 17 July 2024
- {{Short description|British television director}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}}10 KB (1,532 words) - 10:57, 18 January 2023
- ...James Ottaway''' (25 July 1908 – 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 [[10 KB (1,589 words) - 13:02, 14 January 2023
- ...– 19 March 1988) was a British actress who in her 30–year career on film, television and stage is best known for playing comedy roles. She was also a political ...dlady in ''[[The Chinese Detective]]'' (1982), Mavis in ''[[Hi-de-Hi!]]'' (1984), Mrs. Ivan in ''[[The Life and Loves of a She-Devil]]'' (1986) and the Fai8 KB (1,160 words) - 16:47, 25 August 2024
- {{short description|British actor (1923-2008)}} {{Use British English|date=May 2017}}10 KB (1,553 words) - 12:51, 13 January 2023
- | honorific_suffix = [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|03|12|1896|01|07|df=yes}}20 KB (2,914 words) - 09:38, 19 April 2023
- '''Roy Mitchell Kinnear''' (8 January 1934 – 20 September 1988) was a British [[character actor]]. He was known for his roles in films directed by [[Rich17 KB (2,660 words) - 19:12, 21 August 2024
- ...e book|year=1985|author=Eddie Pedder|isbn=0-907965-31-8|title=Who's Who on Television, 3rd Edition|publisher=Michael Joseph}}</ref> From 2012, she appeared as Marj Brennig in the British TV series ''[[Stella (British TV series)|Stella]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tvguide.co.uk/cast.as13 KB (1,870 words) - 08:09, 27 August 2024
- ...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 === Television ===15 KB (2,314 words) - 12:17, 17 March 2023
- | honorific_suffix = [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1984|5|28|1926|5|14}}23 KB (3,453 words) - 12:20, 18 February 2023
- | death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|10|5|1926|10|21|df=yes}} | years_active = 1954–198435 KB (5,150 words) - 14:02, 21 February 2023
- ...e=7 December 2016}}</ref> He appeared in many [[film|feature films]] and [[television]] programmes, often in [[Aristocracy (class)|aristocratic]] or supercilious In 1960, Vernon appeared in an [[The Citadel (1960 British miniseries)|adaptation]] of [[A.J. Cronin]]'s novel, ''[[The Citadel (novel19 KB (2,803 words) - 23:41, 3 February 2023
- ...became known for playing domineering middle-aged women in plays, films and television shows. ...other Courage and Her Children|Mother Courage]]'' on stage, and in several television dramas. She retired after going blind and spent her last years in the actor22 KB (3,503 words) - 14:45, 24 February 2023
- | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] ...as the mother in the long-running series of "[[w:Oxo Family|Oxo Family]]" British TV advertisements between 1983 and 1999, and as a panellist on the ITV lunc24 KB (3,419 words) - 10:12, 27 December 2022
- ...he [[Monty Python]] troupe on their [[BBC]] [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|television series]] and films, and is often called the "seventh Python" along with per ...his childhood in [[West Germany]] where his father was deployed with the [[British Army of the Rhine]]. He took piano lessons from age 7 to 14 and taught hims29 KB (4,238 words) - 10:37, 26 January 2023