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  • {{Infobox television season | first_aired = {{Start date|1988|10|16|df=yes}}
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  • ...lisher=[[BBC]]|date=15 September 2009|access-date=2009-09-15}}</ref> was a British comedy actor who was best remembered for his portrayal of the [[jockey]] [[ ...itain and started performing on the comedy circuit, undertaking two summer seasons at [[Clacton Pier|Clacton-on-Sea Pier]] in 1948 and 1949.<ref>{{cite web |
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  • | death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|03|19|1928|09|30|df=y}} ...– 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
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  • ...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 [[adagi
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  • {{Infobox television season | first_aired = {{Start date|1988|09|03|df=y}}
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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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  • {{Short description|British television director}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}}
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  • | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1988|09|20|1934|01|08}} | years_active = 1955–1988
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  • ...e-boy<ref>{{cite web | title = Please Sir! / The Fenn Street Gang | work = Television Heaven |url=http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/pleasesir.htm | accessdate=8 ...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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  • | 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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  • {{short description|British actor (1923-2008)}} {{Use British English|date=May 2017}}
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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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  • ...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 In 1988, Martin joined the London production of the Sondheim musical ''[[Follies]]'
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  • {{Infobox television season ...of Last of the Summer Wine characters#Smiler Hemingway|Smiler Hemingway]] (1988, 1990–2007)
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  • {{Infobox television ...ondon, and features a predominantly black [[Guyanese in the United Kingdom|British Guyanese]] cast. With 71 episodes, ''Desmond's'' became Channel 4's longest
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  • ...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.as
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  • {{Infobox television ...e 2007</ref> The programme won a [[BAFTA]] award for Best Comedy Series in 1988 and received three further nominations.<ref name="Awards at IMDb">[https://
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  • ...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 (novel
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  • | television = ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]''<br />''[[In Loving Memory (TV ser ...nheaven.co.uk/thorahird.htm|title="TV GREATS:DAME THORA HIRD 1911 – 2003", Television Heaven|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
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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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