• Mike Walling
  '''Mike Walling''' (8 July 1950 – 2 July 2020) was an English comic [[actor]] and [[screenwriter]]. Walling began his career as an English teacher at [[Holland Park School]] in [[London]]. In the mid-1970s, while s
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• Lee Cornes
  | nationality = English '''Lee Cornes''' is an [[England|English]] television [[actor]] and writer born in [[Worcester, England|Worcester]].
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• Jonathan Cecil
  ...ary 1939 – 22 September 2011), known as '''Jonathan Cecil''', was an English [[theatre|theatre]], [[film|film]], and [[television|television]] [[actor|a Brought up in [[Oxford]], where his father was Goldsmith Professor of English, he was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]], where he played small parts in s
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• Mel Smith
  '''Melvyn Kenneth Smith''' (3 December 1952 – 19 July 2013) was an English comedian, actor and director. Smith worked on the [[sketch comedy]] shows ' [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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• Geoffrey Perkins
  Perkins read English literature while at [[Lincoln College, Oxford]]<ref name="Telegraphobit">{{ [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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• John Sullivan (writer)
  ...rder of the British Empire|OBE]] (23 December 1946 – 22 April 2011) was an English television scriptwriter responsible for several [[British sitcom|British si ...h no qualifications. He did, however, attend evening classes in German and English, and read Teach Yourself books after leaving school.<ref>{{cite web|url=htt
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• Barry Cryer
  ...stnom|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (23 March 1935 – 25 January 2022) was an English writer, comedian, and actor. As well as performing on stage, radio and tele ...described himself as a university dropout: "I was supposed to be studying English Literature at Leeds, but I was in the bar and chasing girls and my first-ye
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• Sean Lock
  '''Sean Lock''' (22 April 1963 – 16 August 2021){{efn |name="date"}} was an English comedian and actor. He began his comedy career as a [[Stand-up comedy|stand ...ph obit" /> In 1981, he left education with a grade E in [[English studies|English]] [[A-Level]].<ref name="Telegraph obit" /><ref name="Times obit" /> Afterw
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• John Bird (actor)
  {{Short description|English actor (1936–2022)}} '''John Michael Bird''' (22 November 1936 – 24 December 2022) was an English actor, director, writer and satirist. He performed in the television satire
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• Tim Brooke-Taylor
  {{Short description|English actor and comedian (1940–2020)}} ...Empire|OBE]] (17 July 1940{{snd}}12 April 2020)<ref name=BBCDeath/> was an English actor and comedian best known as a member of [[The Goodies]].
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• Eric Sykes
  ...ntly wrote for and performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including [[Tony Hancock]], [[Spike Milligan]], [[Tommy Coop ...ing nor the script has survived. Sykes and Milligan are credited as the co-writers of all but the first six of the 26 episodes in Series 5 (1954–55)<ref>{{c
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• Tom Jones (1963 film)
  | language = English ...sasters and squabbles caused by films being shot on location in the spotty English weather. The film has an unusual comic style: The opening sequence has subt
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• Ronnie Corbett
  ...first worked with [[Ronnie Barker]] in ''The Frost Report'' (1966–67). The writers and cast were mostly [[w:Oxbridge|Oxbridge]] graduates from the [[w:Footlig ...in ''[[No – That's Me Over Here!]]'', a sitcom written by ''Frost Report'' writers [[Barry Cryer]], [[Graham Chapman]] and [[w:Eric Idle|Eric Idle]] ([[ITV (T
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• Terry Jones
  After graduating from [[Oxford University]] with a degree in English, Jones and writing partner [[Michael Palin]] wrote and performed for severa ...e interested in the medieval period through reading Chaucer as part of his English degree.<ref>{{cite web|first=Todd|last=Leopold|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2
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• Neil Innes
  {{Short description|English writer, comedian, and musician (1944–2019)}} ...nnes''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɪ|n|ɪ|s}}; 9 December 1944 – 29 December 2019) was an English writer, comedian and musician. He first came to prominence in the pioneerin
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• Donald Sinden
  ...s wife Mabel Agnes (''née'' Fuller), he had an elder sister Joy who was an English teacher at Claverham Community College in Battle, East Sussex, and a younge ...e man who, so far, has shared star billing with some other more boisterous male idols. He has usually been left, crestfallen and jilted, in the last reel.<
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• Hywel Bennett
  ...ge was [[Welsh language|Welsh]], but he learnt to speak [[English language|English]] in an accent he called "London-Welsh" after the family moved to south Lon ...medy Guide |access-date=5 December 2021}}</ref> According to Bennett, "the writers had done something pretty amazing. They had created what was almost a monol
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• George Melly
  '''Alan George Heywood Melly''' (17 August 1926 – 5 July 2007) was an English [[jazz]] and [[blues]] singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 19 [[Category:English humanists]]
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• Victor Spinetti
  One of Spinetti's most challenging theatre roles was as the principal male character in [[Jane Arden (director)|Jane Arden]]'s radical feminist play ' ...ramme ''[[Harry and the Wrinklies]]'', which also starred [[Nick Robinson (English actor)|Nick Robinson]] in the title role.
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• Kryten
  ...nk=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=w:Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=w:Doug Naylor |first3=Ed (director) |last3=Bye ...nk=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=w:Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=w:Doug Naylor |first3=Ed (director) |last3=Bye
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