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  • ...arly extensive, she did play a significant role in two of the more popular British TV comedies of the 1970s. ...nd series. She was one of a team of scriptwriters on ''[[Bless This House (British TV series)|Bless This House]]'' and wrote her own short lived series ''Divi
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  • {{Short description|British television scriptwriter}} | nationality = [[w:British people|British]]
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  • '''John Law''' (11 November 1929 – 5 January 1970) was a British comedy writer for television, who created the [[Class sketch]] for ''[[The [[Category:Writers from Paisley, Renfrewshire]]
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  • ...ork=The Telegraph|date=23 April 2021|access-date=2 June 2021}}</ref> was a British playwright, screenwriter and actor. ...ony Marriott at the Film Reference website]</ref> A [[No Sex Please, We're British (film)|film version]] starring [[Ronnie Corbett]] was released in 1973.
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  • ...w:West Chiltington|West Chiltington]], [[w:Sussex|Sussex]], England) was a British film actor and screenwriter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sif [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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  • ...er Sisters]] and [[Johnny Dorelli]]), and Hollywood as well as working for British television and continuing to contribute to ''Punch''. [[Category:British male screenwriters]]
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  • [[Category:English television writers]] [[Category:English comedy writers]]
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  • {{short description|British television, radio, and comic strip author}} ...creenwriter)|Hazel Adair]], he co-created the soap opera ''[[w:Crossroads (British TV series)|Crossroads]]''.
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  • ...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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  • ...29/obituary-richard-waring-a-million/|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref> was a British television scriptwriter. [[Category:British radio writers]]
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  • ...n Keys'''; 11 May 1910, in [[London]] – 12 December 1970, in London) was a British [[film director]] (1933–62) and television director (1962–64), usually ...ollywood film and British series of ''The Saint''. Carstairs directed many British comedies including many of [[Norman Wisdom]]'s films.<ref>{{cite web|url=ht
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  • '''Val Valentine''' (1895–1971) was a British [[screenwriter]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individua ...">{{cite web|url=https://historyproject.org.uk/interview/val-guest|website=British Entertainment History Project|first=Roy|last=Fowler|date=1988|title=Intervi
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  • {{Short description|British actor, director and screenwriter (1923–2002)}} ....bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba4b1f175 Filmography of Alexander Doré] [[British Film Institute]] Database</ref>
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  • '''Talbot Nelson Conn “Tolly” Rothwell''', [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (12 November 1916 &ndash; 28 February 1981) was an English [[s ...'') was voted the greatest one-liner in movie history by a thousand comedy writers, actors, impresarios and members of the public for the launch of Sky Movies
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  • '''Eric Hugh Peter Merriman''' (6 December 1924 – 2 June 2003) was a British [[w:radio|radio]] and [[w:television writer|television writer]], who provid [[Category:English comedy writers]]
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  • ...roadcaster, producer and director. With [[Jonathan Lynn]], he co-wrote the British political comedies ''[[Yes Minister]]'' and ''[[Yes Minister|Yes, Prime Min ...tic aggression: a report on Britain's government machine: presented to the British taxpayer, September 1972 |publisher=Cape |location=London |year=1972 |isbn
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  • ...o worked, together with [[Barry Cryer]] as a writer for the groundbreaking British TV programme [[The Frost Report]], where Corbett first met his later perfor [[Category:British comedy writers]]
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  • ...f>Marshall p.297</ref> During the 1930s and 1940s he worked on a number of British films. [[Category:Writers from Jersey City, New Jersey]]
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  • [[Category:English radio writers]] [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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  • '''Neil Hodgson Shand''' (3 March 1934 – 14 April 2018) was a British television comedy writer.<ref name="BBC15042018">{{cite news|url=https://ww ...f-british-comedy-1-8410149|title=Neil Shand: My life with the old guard of British comedy|work=The Yorkshire Post|date=26 February 2017|accessdate=18 April 20
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