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  • {{Short description|British television scriptwriter}} | nationality = [[w:British people|British]]
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  • ...s | first = Stewart | title = Soundtracks : an international dictionary of composers for film | publisher = Routledge | location = London | year = 2018 | isbn = ...owboy]]''.<ref>{{cite book | last = Stubblebine | first = Donald | title = British cinema sheet music : a comprehensive listing of film music published in the
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  • ...]] and [[piano accordion]].<ref name="Chilton">John Chilton ''Who's Who of British Jazz'', London: Continuum, 2004, p. 165</ref> ...t Singles & Albums">{{cite book|first=David|last=Roberts|year=2006|title=[[British Hit Singles & Albums]]|edition=19th|publisher=Guinness World Records Limite
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  • | known_for = British television theme songs Hazlehurst composed the [[theme music|theme tunes]] for many well-known [[British sitcom]]s and gameshows of the 1970s and the 1980s, including ''[[Yes Minis
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  • ...Stratford East]], he played an instrumental role in the 1960s birth of the British musical theatre scene after an era when American musicals had dominated the ...Bart was described by [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] as "the father of the modern British musical".<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|title=Lionel Bart, 68, Songwriter; Cre
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  • '''Stanley Black''' [[Order of British Empire|OBE]] (14 June 1913 – 27 November 2002) was an English bandleader, ...he studio orchestra of [[Associated British Picture Corporation|Associated British Picture Corporation]] (ABPC) and their musical director composer from 1958
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  • {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} ...ith the [[Royal Flying Corps]], he was released from active service by the British government to help run a concert party called "The Gaieties", which provide
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  • |name = John Sullivan <br /> <small>[[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]</small> ...n English television scriptwriter responsible for several [[British sitcom|British sitcom]]s, including ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'', ''[[Citizen Smith]]'' a
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  • ...Variety Series#1980s|Outstanding Variety]]. In 2006, Hill was voted by the British public number 17 in [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]'s poll of [[TV's 50 Greatest S ...Hill an [[Ivor Novello Award]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]] in 1972.
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  • | genre = [[w:Easy listening|Easy listening]], [[w:20th-century classical music|classical]], [[w:jazz|jazz]], [[w:big band|big band]], [[w: ...:musical composition|musical composition]] in [[w:London|London]] with the British-Hungarian [[w:composer|composer]] [[w:Mátyás Seiber|Mátyás Seiber]] and
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  • ...eived an [[Ivor Novello Award]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]] in 1971.<ref>[http://theivors.com/archive/1970-1979/the-ivors ...whose shop was in [[South Kensington]], London. He was a founder of the [[British Antique Dealers' Association]].<ref name="Telegraphobituary">{{cite news|ti
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  • .../fish-called-wanda-1970-3 |title=''A Fish Called Wanda'' (15) |publisher=[[British Board of Film Classification]] |date=June 15, 1988 |access-date=November 2, ...t-of-cinema/top-100-british-films/ |title=British Film Institute – Top 100 British Films |date=1999 |website=Cinemarealm.com |access-date=August 27, 2016}}</r
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  • *[[British Army]] ...ref name="TelegraphObit" /> The same year, he was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] and was knighted five years later.<ref name="TelegraphObit" />
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] '''Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was an English [[w:Theatre
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  • Although Harris chiefly appeared on the BBC, he was also on the British [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] network, and when commercial television started in ...in 1967, lasting until 1974, on [[BBC1]], he had gained a high profile on British television.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dugan|first=Emily|title=Rolf Harris: He is
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  • ...le="The Happiest Days of My Life": Mutual |work=Charlie Chaplin |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=28 April 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=htt ...or the American draft, but he was not summoned by either country.{{efn|The British embassy made a statement saying: "[Chaplin] is of as much use to Great Brit
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