• Joyce Grant
  [[Category:British film actresses]] [[Category:British stage actresses]]
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• Barbara Lyon
  ...it record|hits]] in the [[w:UK Singles Chart|UK Singles Chart]].<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book | title= British Hit Singles & Albums
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• Diana Darvey
  ...l 1945 – 11 April 2000), known professionally as '''Diana Darvey''', was a British [[actress]], [[singing|singer]] and [[dance]]r, best known for her appearan *"From Benny Hill to Cabaret", ''The British Tourist'' (South Florida), July 1982, p.&nbsp;14.
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• Queenie Watts
  Watts was born '''Mary Spenton''' in [[London]] in 1923. She appeared in many British films, including the [[Joan Littlewood]] production ''[[Sparrers Can't Sing ...://www.comedy.co.uk/people/queenie_watts/ |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=British Comedy Guide |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nostalgiacentr
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• Violet Carson
  {{Short description|British actress and singer (1898–1983)}} {{Use British English|date=August 2011}}
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• Hy Hazell
  ...es give 1919 as her year of birth, although the [[w:British Film Institute|British Film Institute]] cites 1920 and ''[[w:The Oxford Reference|The Oxford Refer ...ggins''' (4 October 1919 – 10 May 1970), stage name '''Hy Hazell''', was a British actress of theatre, musicals and revue as well as a contralto singer and [[
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• Tessie O'Shea
  ...d his wife Nellie Theresa Carr.<ref name=onshow/> O'Shea was reared in the British [[w:music hall|music hall]] tradition and performed on stage as early as ag O'Shea starred in a short-lived British [[w:situation comedy|sitcom]] ''[[As Good Cooks Go]]'', which ran from 1969
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• Diana Coupland
  ...actress, best remembered for her role in the sitcom ''[[Bless This House (British TV series)|Bless This House]]'', as Jean Abbott, the wife of [[Sid James]] ...the long-suffering wife of Sid James's character, in ''[[Bless This House (British TV series)|Bless This House]]'', which began its run in February 1971. She
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• Binnie Hale
  ...(ed.) "Raine, Patricia", ''British Film and Television Yearbook'', Vol. 4, British and American Film Press (1952)</ref> The marriage ended in divorce about 19 ..., with [[Leslie Henson]] and her brother. She was Jill in the long-running British musical ''[[Mr. Cinders]]'' (1929).<ref name=Kenrick>[[John Kenrick (theatr
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• Jack Hulbert
  {{Short description|British actor, director, screenwriter and singer(1892–1978)}} '''John Norman Hulbert''' (24 April 1892{{spaced ndash}}25 March 1978) was a British actor, director, screenwriter and singer, specializing primarily in comedy
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• Anna Russell
  ...in opera (including a disastrous appearance as a substitute Santuzza in a British touring production of ''[[Cavalleria rusticana]]'', where she tripped on a ...resident of the B & R Music Publishing Company. She received the Canadian Women's Press Club Award in 1956 as the best Canadian comedy writer of the year.
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• Patsy Rowlands
  | television = ''[[Bless This House (British TV series)|Bless This House]]''<br />''[[Hallelujah! (TV series)|Hallelujah ...https://www.britannica.com/biography/Patsy-Rowlands|title=Patsy Rowlands - British actress|website=Britannica.com}}</ref><ref name=stage/>
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• Deddie Davies
  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 |''[[Time After Time (British TV series)|Time After Time]]''
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• Dora Bryan
  ...R|OBE}} (7 February 1923 – 23 July 2014), known as '''Dora Bryan''', was a British actress of stage, film and television.<ref name=Argus>[http://www.theargus. ...[[Entertainments National Service Association|ENSA]] in Italy to entertain British troops.<ref name="BBC">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainmen
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• Lili Damita
  ...}}</ref> [[G.W. Pabst]] (''[[Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe]]''; 1926) and British [[Film director|director]] [[Graham Cutts]] ([[The Queen Was in the Parlour [[Category:20th-century American actresses]]
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• John Inman
  | nationality = British | television = ''[[Odd Man Out (British TV series)|Odd Man Out]]''<br>''[[Are You Being Served?]]''<br>''[[Take a L
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• Max Bygraves
  ...om Brown's Schooldays]]'' (1951). Bygraves appeared as himself in the 1954 British film musical ''Harmony Lane'' directed by Lewis Gilbert, and 'What Now, Dav ...Jackie Gleason]], in America. He was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' in 1961 when he was surprised by [[Eamonn
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• Jack Buchanan
  ==British stage career== Buchanan's British stage appearances included ''A to Z'', ''Battling Butler'', ''Toni'', ''Sun
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• Joyce Grenfell
  |honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] '''Joyce Irene Grenfell''' [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (''{{nee}}'' '''Phipps'''; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 19
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• Joan Sims
  ...get... I always ended up resorting to jokes, and most men don't like funny women. ''They'' like to do the jokes."}} {{blockquote|"I've never been able to understand women who have this burning desire to have children. I've never had those feeling
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