He played at the [[Harrogate]] and [[Sheffield]] reps before doing a two-year course at the [[Royal Acad [[Category:English male film actors]]

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...in the sitcom ''[[The Royle Family|The Royle Family]]'', playing the part from 1998 to 2000, and reprising his role for the specials in 2006 and 2008. ...sh TV series)|Heartbeat]]'', taking over as the show's main loveable rogue from [[Bill Maynard]]'s Claude Greengrass, and returning to the show briefly in

...=Google Books}}</ref> He is probably best remembered as Charlie Hungerford from the detective series ''[[w:Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]'', though he was ...appeared in all but two episodes of ''[[Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]'' from 1981 to 1991.<ref name=bergeracscreenonline>{{Cite web|url=http://www.scree

...asgow]], the son of a tailor, and grew up and was educated in [[Leeds]], [[Harrogate]], and [[Brussels]]. After his father built up a successful business in [[ ...udd/> Berens compered broadcasts by [[Maurice Winnick]] and his orchestra from the [[Dorchester Hotel]], and then, in 1939, started compering shows by [[J

...alisbury Playhouse]] for two years, from 1960 to 1961. She moved then to [[Harrogate]] for a year, where she was a member of the White Rose Players.<ref name="H ...[[EastEnders]]'' and ''[[Coronation Street]]'' and with many British comic actors in numerous situation comedies and one-off plays and ''Love/Loss'' (2010).

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...sion sitcoms ''[[Fresh Fields]]'' in the 1980s and ''[[May to December]]'' from 1989 to 1994. He also had a long career both on stage and in film. His stage roles ranged from contemporary comedy and satirical farce to Restoration comedy, [[Henrik Ibs

...inburgh]] in 1925. He also ran his own private elocution and drama school, from which, with the help of the playwright [[John Drinkwater (playwright)|John ...al association with the author [[James Bridie|James Bridie]], which lasted from 1939 until the dramatist's death in 1951. Sim not only acted in Bridie's wo

...n}} and was educated at [[St Felix School]] at [[Southwold, Suffolk]], at Harrogate College and in [[Brussels]] and Paris. She studied at the [[Royal College ...cus pantomime, which combined performing acts with a play, featured Sydney actors Colin Croft, Keith Little, Anita Roberts, Peter Williams and Ron May.

...duced from 1976 to 1979. Nobbs adapted the screenplay for the first series from the novel. Some of its subplots were considered too dark or risqué for tel ...from those around it only by having its streets named after famous poets. From references, it would have approximately coincided with [[Teddington]]. He c

...House of Lords]] as a crossbencher in 1992 and was president of [[Mencap]] from 1998 until his death. ...formed in the plays and two of them, Brian and Sheila, became professional actors. Sheila Mercier, as she became known, played [[Annie Sugden]] for more than

...ive years old, his [[Jewish]] family escaped the [[pogrom]]s by emigrating from [[Odessa]] (Ukraine) via [[Berlin]] (Germany) to London (England) and reset ...ate]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bethnal Green: Building and Social Conditions from 1876 to 1914 &#124; British History Online |url=https://www.british-history

...the role on television five years later. He often appeared in film, rising from a [[bit part|bit part]] actor in the late 1930s to a member of the main cas ...ears later. Hordern suffered from kidney disease during the 1990s and died from it in 1995 at the age of 83.