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  • | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_place = [[w:West Derby|West Derby]], [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]]
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  • | birth_place = [[w:West Derby|West Derby]], [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]], England Ferris was born in [[w:West Derby|West Derby]], Liverpool. In the earlier years of his career, he was known as a comic actor, featuri
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  • ...gan playing seaside resorts, he made famous his home area of Knotty Ash in Liverpool and popularised a miniature race of people who inhabited it. Diddy is an in ...are the Diddy Men, Doddy's dotty Diddy Men, We are the Diddy Men who come from Knotty Ash". Another song "Doddy's Diddy Party" featured the refrain - "ton
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  • He made his stage debut in 1931 at the [[Liverpool Playhouse|Liverpool Playhouse]], appearing in ''The Swan'' and had a long theatrical career whi * ''[[Man from Tangier|Man from Tangier]]'' (1957)
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]], England ...on Smith in the [[w:Everton, Liverpool|Everton]] district of [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]] on 28 August 1881. He was a grand-uncle of actor [[w:Robin Askwith|Robin
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]], England He died in London on 30 March 2008 at the age of 82 from motor neurone disease.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCre
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  • ...at the [[Wyndham's Theatre]]. He toured Britain with ''[[Nigel Planer|Neal from the Young Ones]]''. [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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  • | education = [[Liverpool Collegiate School]]<br/>[[Liverpool Cathedral]] ...r three years in the [[Civil Service (United Kingdom)|Civil Service]] in [[Liverpool]] before training as an actor at the [[London Academy of Music and Dramatic
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  • | birth_place = [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], England ...ooks?id=qEW5BAAAQBAJ&q=brian+oulton+carry+on+films&pg=PT726|title=Carry-On Actors|isbn=9781908382085|last1=Ross|first1=Andrew|date=19 October 2011}}</ref>
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  • ...mbatant Corps]], before being seconded to the [[National Fire Service]] in Liverpool and London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertain ...=obit/> He is the father of actor [[Ioan Meredith]] and the grandfather of actors [[Ifan Meredith]] and Rhys Meredith.
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  • | birth_place = [[Liverpool]], England Jones was born in [[Liverpool]]. After working as a signwriter and performing as an amateur, he trained a
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]], England ...er aimless adolescent life as messenger, office boy at [[w:Liverpool Docks|Liverpool Docks]] and apprentice joiner.<ref name=guardianobit>[https://www.theguardi
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  • | birth_place = [[w:West Derby|West Derby]], [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]], England ...t she met and married her husband, Dr Jimmy Wilson Muggoch, an army doctor from Edinburgh.<ref name=BBC>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain
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  • | birth_place = [[Liverpool]], England ...as an English actor who appeared in films, television, and theatre ranging from the 1930s to the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/
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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
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  • ...RG13/500 f.123 p.3 Fred Arthur Emney aged 1 living in Camberwell, but born Liverpool, Lancashire</ref> the son of Blanche ({{nee}} Round) and [[Fred Emney Sr|Fr [[Category:English male film actors]]
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  • ...d joined the [[Royal Air Force Police|RAF Police]] but was later invalided from service, whereupon he joined [[Entertainments National Service Association] ...er 'Frisby Dike' (named after a Liverpool department store bombed in the [[Liverpool Blitz|Blitz]]) was the first time the [[Scouse|real Liverpudlian accent]] w
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  • | birth_place = [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], England After leaving Marlborough College, Liverpool, Haygarth worked unsuccessfully in 1963 as a [[lifeguard]] in [[Torquay]],
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  • | birth_place = [[Dingle, Liverpool|Dingle]], [[Lancashire]], England ...Master's Voice]] include "The Bee Song" (1938), a lasting part of his act. From the 1950s, Askey was a prominent television presence and made regular appea
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  • | birth_place = [[Liverpool|Liverpool]], England He was credited in 40 films between 1948 and 1971, and on television from 1960 until his death. He was often cast as a police inspector or as a navy
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