• Johnnie Mortimer
  ...ting partner [[w:Brian Cooke|Brian Cooke]], also served as inspiration for American television projects. ...The second was ''Situation Comedy'', and featured two TV situation comedy writers struggling to come up with an idea for a new series (in the end they write
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• Howard Irving Young
  '''Howard Irving Young''' (1893–1952) was an American [[screenwriter]] and [[playwright]].<ref>Marshall p.297</ref> During the 19 [[Category:Writers from Jersey City, New Jersey]]
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• Dick Hills and Sid Green
  ...n''' and '''Dick Hills''', were a British partnership of television comedy writers, at their highest profile during the 1960s. ...er of radio scripts whilst Hills was still employed there, and then became writers for Dave King's radio show and then of [[Dave King (actor)|Dave King]]'s TV
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• John Wells (satirist)
  |''[[Bullshot (film)|Bullshot]]'' || 1983 || American Scientist || [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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• Neil Shand
  ...Moon in 1969, and spells in [[New York City|New York]] working on Frost's American talk show as a "creative consultant".<ref name="Times050618"/> [[Category:British comedy writers]]
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• Charles Chilton
  ....blogspot.com/2008/07/eagle-writers-charles-chilton-1917.html |title=Eagle Writers – Charles Chilton (1917 – ) |date=30 July 2008 |work=eagle-times.blogsp [[Category:British comics writers]]
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• Johnny Speight
  ...(1960-65)|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> Speight was one of many writers on that series which also included Sykes, [[John Antrobus]] and [[Spike Mil ....com/anglophenia/2015/01/5-classic-american-sitcoms-british-first |title=6 American Sitcoms Based on British Originals |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=5 Januar
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• Bob Oliver Rogers
  ...ies, he was a talent spotter, perpetually on the lookout for promising new writers who could be commissioned to write for the shows he produced. One of his su ...|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/67a2d86eb6d8485f857feac2586478b7|title=The American Way of Laughs|date=10 April 1980|publisher=|issue=2944|pages=52|accessdate=
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• Eddie Braben
  ...8|publisher=BBC}}</ref> He left school in 1945 and worked in the [[British American Tobacco]] factory before [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|national serv [[Category:English comedy writers]]
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• Bill Waddington
  ...'. In 1955 Bill was chosen for the [[Royal Variety Performance]], and when American stars such as [[Frankie Laine]], [[Lena Horne]], [[Billy Daniels]] and [[Do ...audition for the role of Percy Sugden as it was created for him, with the writers aware of his of comedy roles. In one autobiography Waddington agrees that h
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• Dick Clement
  ...ars. By this time they were living in [[California]], where they wrote the American version of ''Porridge'', ''[[On the Rocks (U.S. TV series)|On the Rocks]]'' ...and co-created ''[[Spender]]'' with [[Jimmy Nail]]. In America, they were writers and supervising producers for [[HBO]]'s [[Emmy Award|Emmy]]-winning show, '
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• Terry Nation
  ...e 1950s, Nation worked with [[John Junkin]] and [[Johnny Speight]] for the writers' agency [[Associated London Scripts]],<ref name="screenonline.org.uk"/> whe ...h Clemens claiming to have registered the ''Survivors'' concept with the [[Writers' Guild of Great Britain]] in 1965; Nation denied the allegations. Although
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• Blake Edwards
  {{short description|American filmmaker (1922–2010)}} ...(born '''William Blake Crump'''; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.
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• Dave Freeman (British writer)
  He was one of the first generation of writers who established television, taking over from radio, as the most popular med ...h]], he became a journalist, then took a job as a security officer for the American Officers' Club in [[Regent's Park, London|Regent's Park]]. One of his tasks
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• Alan Melville (writer)
  ...nson Family'' serial about an ordinary family in London on the BBC's North American Service. In 1941 he enlisted in the [[RAF]] where he reached the rank of [[ [[Category:20th-century English dramatists and playwrights]]
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• Mel Smith
  ...co-starring [[Griff Rhys Jones]], its title being a pun on the name of the American television series ''[[Alias Smith and Jones]]''. In 1982, he starred as the [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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• Dave King (actor)
  ...t otherwise had limited success despite [[Mel Brooks]] joining his regular writers [[Sid Green (writer)|Sid Green]] and [[Dick Hills]].<ref name="Leigh"/> On ...Cerney]] in Gloucestershire. His hobbies included [[model railway]]s and [[American folklore]].
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• Marty Feldman
  ...by others.) This work placed Feldman and Took 'in the front rank of comedy writers', according to [[Denis Norden]].<ref name="six" /> ...-Taylor, [[John Junkin]] and [[Roland MacLeod]], with Cleese as one of the writers.<ref name="six" /> Feldman won two [[w:British Academy of Film and Televisi
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• Ian La Frenais
  ...], where they wrote ''[[On the Rocks (U.S. TV series)|On the Rocks]]'', an American version of ''Porridge'', and ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda (1979 film)|The Pris In the US, he and Clement were writers and supervising producers on [[HBO]]'s [[Emmy Award|Emmy]]-winning show ''[
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• George Sanders
  ...d his suave, superior, and somewhat threatening air made him in demand for American films for years to come.<ref>Sanders 1960, p.117</ref> ''Lloyd's of London' ...aying Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert and dying in a duel with [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]] after professing his love for Jewish maiden Rebecca,
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