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  • ...Law''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (born 8th May 1932) is a Scottish [[Actor|actress]], known for her numerous roles in film and television. [[Category:Scottish film actresses]]
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  • '''Stanley Baxter''' (born 24 May 1926) is a Scottish actor, comedian, impressionist and author. Baxter began his career as a [[w ...d for the stage by his mother. He began his career as a child actor in the Scottish edition of the BBC's ''[[w:Children's Hour|Children's Hour]]''. He develope
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  • ...play initially caused some controversy, with Smith proposing to flout the Scottish ban on smoking in public places, but the scene was quickly adapted after ga [[Category:20th-century English writers]]
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  • ...eoffey Perkins was killed by heart attack, probe told]". ''Daily Record'' (Scottish Record and Sunday Mail).</ref> [[Category:21st-century English male actors]]
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  • {{Short description|Scottish comedian and writer (1930–2016)}} ...s|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (4 December 1930&nbsp;– 31 March 2016) was a Scottish actor, broadcaster, comedian and writer. He had a long association with [[R
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  • ...episode featured comedian [[Bernard Manning]] and actor [[Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)|Richard Wilson]]. Manning clashed with Wilson and Aherne as she aske [[Category:21st-century English comedians]]
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  • ...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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  • Innes was born in [[Danbury, Essex|Danbury]] in Essex. His Scottish father was a [[warrant officer]] in the [[British Army]], and Innes spent h ...olitical Broadcast". He is one of only two non-Pythons ever to be credited writers for the TV series, the other being [[Douglas Adams]] (who co-wrote the "[[P
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  • ...s a [[BBC]] [[sitcom]] written by [[Craig Cash]] and [[Phil Mealey]]. Both writers appear in the series, playing the characters Joe and Duffy, who are best fr * Liam ([[James McAvoy]]) – a student, Mel's boyfriend in Series 1. Liam is Scottish and is often seen smoking. Several jokes are made about the impressive size
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  • ...eb |title=Terry Jones |url=http://welshwriters.co.uk/terry-jones/ |website=Writers of Wales |access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="Fantastic Fiction"> ...ists]] are [[anthropomorphic]] [[dragon]]s beset by evil humans.<ref name="Writers of Wales" /><ref name="Fantastic Fiction" />
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  • ...same [[w:anarchy|anarchic]] vein as ''Comic Strip''. Ben Elton joined the writers. The series was commissioned and first broadcast in 1982, shortly after ''C ...use he was uncomfortable acting in an Elton project, when they had been co-writers on ''The Young Ones''.<ref>{{cite episode |title=The Young Ones |series=[[w
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  • ...access-date=4 September 2019}}</ref> A 2017 poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers, and critics for ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' magazine r ...uickly disappointed after meeting the snobbish Hamish, Carrie's much older Scottish fiancé. During the reception, Charles experiences further humiliation from
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  • ...spect of Milligan's life in the 1950s and 1960s was his involvement in the writers' agency [[Associated London Scripts]]. Milligan married for the first time ...s included two illegal immigrants, an Irish landlord, a Chinese Cockney, a Scottish Arab and numerous other racial stereotypes; Milligan himself took the part
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  • | writers = {{Plainlist| ...ocations, but during the two weeks prior to [[principal photography]], the Scottish Department of the Environment declined permission for use of the castles in
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  • ...y=1999|2p=21}} Facing financial difficulty, her mother became engaged to a Scottish colonel, Leckie Forbes, and moved into his house in [[Hampstead]]. Lansbury * [[List of women writers]]
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  • ...roduce the film as a satire. The budget escalated as various directors and writers became involved in the production, and actors expressed dissatisfaction wit In addition to the credited writers, [[Woody Allen]], [[Peter Sellers]], [[Val Guest]], [[Ben Hecht]], [[Joseph
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  • ...[[BBC radio]] from 1924. By the end of the 1920s he was, according to the writers Andy Foster and [[Steve Furst]], a household name in Britain; his popularit ...raping.{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=116}} From the British regions there were the Scottish Tattie Mackintosh (and her mother); the Welsh Sam Fairfechan ("Hello, how a
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  • | writers = {{Plainlist| ...am Chapman. The album opens with a brief rendition of "[[Hava Nagila]]" on Scottish bagpipes. A CD version was released in 1997.
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  • ...<ref>{{cite episode |title=The Whisky Priest |series=Yes Minister |credits=Writers [[Antony Jay]] and [[Jonathan Lynn]], Producer Peter Whitmore|network=[[BBC ...f>{{cite episode |title=Man Overboard |series=Yes, Prime Minister |credits=Writers [[Antony Jay]] and [[Jonathan Lynn]], Producer [[Sydney Lotterby]]|network=
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  • [[File:Croft and Perry.jpg|thumb|Co-writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry during a ''Dad's Army'' event at Bressingham St ...e Joe Walker and Jim Jones became Jack Jones. He also suggested adding a [[Scottish people|Scot]]. Jimmy Perry had produced the original idea but needed a more
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