• Harry Korris
  ...609 BFI.org]</ref> He was a star of the hit BBC radio show ''[[Happidrome (radio)|Happidrome]]'', and of the [[Happidrome (film)|1943 film version]]. He als ...as a legal clerk in [[Douglas, Isle of Man|Douglas]], while taking part in amateur theatrical productions. In 1911, he became manager of an amusement resort
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• Carroll Levis
  ...h 15, 1910 – October 17, 1968) was a Canadian talent scout, impresario and radio and television broadcaster, mainly working in Britain. ...ce to sing a song. Following a good listener reaction, he started a local radio [[talent show]], ''Saturday Night Club of the Air'', and then a similar pro
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• Ruth Kettlewell
  After playing small parts in many [[amateur theatre|amateur dramatic productions]], Kettlewell began her career in [[Repertory#Today's ===TV and Radio breakthroughs===
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• Tom Mennard
  ...) was an English comedian and actor. Mennard had a long career in variety, radio and television. ...ard] on Harry Worth site</ref> Whilst in Brighton he became involved in an amateur revue company where his performances attracted the attention of singer [[w:
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• Violet Carson
  ...eer as an actress and performer during the early days of [[w:BBC radio|BBC Radio]], and during the latter decades of her life as the matronly Christian wido ...as Scottish, ran a flour mill and her mother, Mary Clarke (Tordoff) was an amateur singer. As a child, she took piano lessons whilst attending Church of Engla
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• Wilfred Pickles
  ...sh Empire|OBE]] (13 October 1904 – 27 March 1978) was an English actor and radio presenter. ...his family in 1929, and worked with his father as a builder. He joined an amateur dramatic society, and in a local production there met Mabel Cecilia Myersco
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• Jimmy James (comedian)
  | occupation = Music hall, stage, film, radio and television comedian and comedy actor ...cite web |url=http://www.swalwelluk.co.uk/picpages/pic-radioij.html |title=Radio and TV Personalities I and J |work=swalwell.co.uk |accessdate=24 January 20
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• Frank Muir
  |occupation = Writer, radio and television personality ...and then appeared on BBC radio quizzes ''[[My Word!]]'' and ''[[My Music (radio programme)|My Music]]'' for another 35. Muir became Assistant Head of Light
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• Molly Weir
  ...and|Scottish]] actress.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fcd2832 |title=Molly Weir |website=[[British Film Institute]] |access ...nobituaries.artsobituaries |title=Molly Weir: A familiar Scottish voice on radio and television |first=Stephen |last=Dixon |date=1 December 2004 |newspaper=
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• Harry Worth
  ...was in the [[Tankersley, South Yorkshire|Tankersley]] [[Amateur Dramatics|Amateur Dramatics]] Society and taught himself [[ventriloquism|ventriloquism]] from ...hows a day as comedian between fan dancers. In 1948 he also made his first radio appearance in a show ''New to You''. He now had two dummies for his ventril
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• Michael Robbins
  ...nt on to work as a bank clerk and later became an actor after appearing in amateur dramatic performances also in Hitchin, where he and his family lived at the ...ttps://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220514/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-michael-robbins-1563495.html |archive-date=14 May 2022 |url-access
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• Talfryn Thomas
  ...Talfryn Thomas''' (31 October 1922 &ndash; 4 November 1982) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[character actor|character actor]], best known for supporting role ...31 October 1922. He trained as an instrument mechanic but joined the local amateur dramatic society. During [[World War II|World War II]], he joined the [[Roy
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• Jonathan Cecil
  ...languages]], specialising in [[French language|French]] and continued with amateur dramatics.<ref name=gore>{{cite news |url=https://www.questia.com/magazine/ ...ews| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/8913990/Jonathan-Cecil.html |title=Jonathan Cecil |author=Staff
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• Barry Cryer
  ...Great Lives 11 Jan 2011 b00x95hm.flac|Recorded January 2011]] from the BBC Radio 4 programme ''[[w:Great Lives|Great Lives]]''</center>}} ...as an English writer, comedian, and actor. As well as performing on stage, radio and television, Cryer wrote for many performers including [[Dave Allen (com
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• Fenella Fielding
  ...lms-tv-people/4ce2ba07d6a9e|title=Fenella Fielding|website=BFI Films, TV & People|access-date=27 March 2020}}</ref> in [[Metropolitan Borough of Hackney|Hack ...ember 1959.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tonyhancock.org.uk/episode-guide/radio/series-6|title=Tony Hancock Appreciation Society - Series 6|website=Tonyhan
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• Maurice Denham
  ...a lift engineer. Like fellow actor [[James Robertson Justice]], he played amateur rugby for [[Beckenham RFC]].<ref>[http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/beckenham/ ...viding over sixty different voices, female as well as male, according to a radio interview in November 1988), and later provided all the voices for the anim
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• Frank Williams (actor)
  ...ter the show that made him famous|url=https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1459031/Dads-Army-Frank-Williams-comedy-vicar-captain-mainwaring-corporal-j
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• Davy Kaye
  ..., munitions factories and [[British Army|Army]] camps, as well as on [[BBC radio]] where he was a regular with such shows as ''[[Midday Music Hall]]'' and ' [[Category:People from Mile End]]
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• Roy Barraclough
  ...er=BBC News|date=31 December 2005}}</ref> Combining his day job with local amateur theatre for several years, he was eventually offered a full-time acting con ...ref name="theguardian">{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jun/01/roy-barraclough-obituary |title=Roy Barraclough obituary |last
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• Joyce Grenfell
  ...-known broadcaster on radio and television. As a writer, she was the first radio critic for ''[[The Observer|The Observer]]'', contributed to ''[[Punch (mag ...dren of their own.<ref name=indyobitRG>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-reginald-grenfell-1452966.html Obituary: Reginald Grenfell], ''[[T
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