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  • | death_place = [[w:Twickenham|Twickenham]], London, England ...ember 1963). He spent his last six months in a [[nursing home]], suffering from [[Alzheimer's disease]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/new
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  • |birth_place = [[Municipal Borough of Twickenham|Twickenham]], [[Middlesex]], England Born in [[Municipal Borough of Twickenham|Twickenham]], [[Middlesex]], England, King left school aged 12 and joined [[Morton Fra
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  • ...School]] there, before qualifying as a teacher at [[St Mary's University, Twickenham|St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill]]. He worked as a primary school teacher ...'', in which he and [[Tim Brooke-Taylor]] played comedy writers (with both actors contributing scripts to the series as well).<ref name="Teleg">{{cite news|u
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  • ...thusa|Shaftesbury Homes]], first at Fortescue House School in [[Twickenham|Twickenham]] in a [[Dr Barnardo's|Dr Barnardo's]] Home, and then at Bisley Boys' Schoo ...series)|Doctor at Large]]'' (1971). Evans enjoyed working with his fellow actors [[George Layton]], [[Geoffrey Davies]], [[Robin Nedwell]] and [[Richard O'S
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  • | birth_place = [[Twickenham]], [[Middlesex]]<!--Twickenham did not become part of London until 1965-->, England ...[[Norman Clegg|Norman "Cleggy" Clegg]] in ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'' from its 1973 inception until the final episode in 2010, making him the only act
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  • [[Category:Male actors from London]] [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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  • ...g, producing and performing her own shows. Her stage act included a gossip from the [[w:Northern England|North of England]], with a silent, sullen companio ...dy|British comedy]] film ''[[She Knows Y'Know]]'' (1962). Taking its title from her catch-phrase,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/She-Knows-YKn
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  • | death_place = [[Brinsworth House]], [[Twickenham]], [[London]], England ...r-enthusiastic workman had "mended" the bookcase before the broadcast. The actors working with him, unaware of what had happened, proceeded with the rest of
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  • ...lfriend, Gilda, pregnant. Alfie thinks nothing of pilfering fuel and money from his employer and tells Gilda to do the same. Although he refuses to marry h ...lungs]], the diagnosis and his fear of death, combined with his separation from his son, lead him to have a brief [[mental breakdown]].
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  • ...hise holders from the early-1960s beginning with ''[[Coronation Street]]'' from 1961; Powell ceased writing for the programme in 1964, but Driver's involve ...around a white couple and a black couple living as next-door neighbours in Twickenham, London, during an era, in which Britain was coming to terms with the popul
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  • | caption = Title card from the pilot for ''Love Thy Neighbour'' ...' is a [[British television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] that was broadcast from 13 April 1972 until 22 January 1976. The show spanned eight series, lasted
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  • ...ne]] on the [[UK Singles Chart]] and earned Hill an [[Ivor Novello Award]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]] in 1972. ...cal show; for example, a March 1964 episode featured James Pond, 0017, in "From Moscow with Love" and his version of [[The Beatles]]. He played a number of
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  • ...Day's Night]]'', ''Help!'' sees the group struggle to protect Ringo Starr from a sinister [[thugee|eastern cult]] and a pair of mad scientists, all of who ...who is secretly aiding the Beatles. To stay safe, they ask for protection from Scotland Yard. They are hidden in Buckingham Palace, narrowly avoiding capt
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  • ...herine Gertrude (''née'' Wright), Thomas's [[English people|English]] wife from [[Crediton]], [[Devon]].<ref name="exmem" /><ref>GRO Register of Marriages: ...man, to which he answered, "Well yes, my father's Welsh... and my mother's from Devon. Actually I was in Caerphilly and left here when I was about a year o
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  • ...ed as various directors and writers became involved in the production, and actors expressed dissatisfaction with the project. Sir James Bond 007, a legendary British [[spy]] who retired from the secret service 20 years previously, is visited by the head of British [
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  • ...edy drama consisting of 43 episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993. It was produced by Richmond Film & Television for [[Central I ...ties of a children's newspaper, the ''Junior Gazette'', produced by pupils from the local [[comprehensive school]]. In later series it was depicted as a co
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  • ...lumes of memoirs, six novels, and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''. ...tor of ''[[The Times]]''. Margaret Niven was [[Scottish people|Scottish]], from [[Glasgow]], and was a former actress.
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  • ...small private school, Selwood House. She enjoyed the cinema; her heroines from the age of eight onwards were [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] act Dors' third film was ''[[Dancing with Crime]]'' (1947), shot at [[Twickenham Studios]] opposite [[Richard Attenborough]] during the [[Winter of 1946–1
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