• The Old Dark House (1963 film)
  '''''The Old Dark House''''' is a 1963 British-American [[comedy horror|comedy horror film]] directed by [[William Castle]]. It is a [[film remake|remake] Tom Penderel, an American car salesman in London, delivers a car to an old mansion on Dartmoor for hi
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• One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
  | gross = $5.5 million (North American rentals)<ref>"All-time Film Rental Champs", ''Variety'', 7 January 1976 p 4 '''''One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing''''' is a 1975 [[comedy film]] which is set in the early 1920s, about the theft of a [[dinosaur]] [
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• All You Need Is Cash
  ...4; EW.com|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> ratings of any show on American prime time [[Television network|network television]] that week, though thos The film has many [[cameo appearance]]s by both English and American comedians, including alumni of ''[[Monty Python]]'', ''[[Saturday Night Liv
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• Salt and Pepper (film)
  | gross = $1,750,000 (US/Canada rentals)<ref>"Big Rental Films of 1969", ''Variety'', 7 January 1970 p 15</ref> '''''Salt and Pepper''''' is a 1968 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Richard Donner]] and starring [[Sammy Davis Jr.]], [[P
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• The Runaway Bus
  | distributor = [[Eros Films]] '''''The Runaway Bus''''' is a 1954 British [[comedy film]] produced, written, and directed by [[Val Guest]]. It stars [[Frankie
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• A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)
  {{short description|1964 comedy film by Blake Edwards}} *[[Mirisch Films]]}}
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• Mr Creosote
  ...awed construction, so he rewrote it with [[Graham Chapman]]. At the ''U.S. Comedy Arts Festival&nbsp;— Tribute to Monty Python'' it was claimed Cleese was ...st [[Christopher Tucker]], who also created the prosthetic effects for the American film drama [[The Elephant Man (film)|''The Elephant Man'']] (1980).<ref>{{c
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• Curse of the Pink Panther
  ...' attempted to relaunch the series with a new lead, [[Ted Wass]], as inept American detective Clifton Sleigh, assigned to find the missing Inspector Clouseau. .... The woman shoots the man, then points the gun at Clouseau. His fate is a mystery. Meanwhile, his former superior, Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus ([[Herbert
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• Val Guest
  ...his work for [[w:Hammer Film Productions|Hammer]], for whom he directed 14 films, and [[w:science fiction film]|]s. He enjoyed a long career in the film ind ...n]]'' (1936); ''[[O-Kay for Sound]]'' (1937) for Varnel with [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]; ''[[Alf's Button Afloat]]'' (1938) with Flanagan a
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• Blake Edwards
  {{short description|American filmmaker (1922–2010)}} ...ck comedy]], [[Comedy drama]], [[Musicals]], [[Adventure films]], [[Action films]], [[Sex comedies]], [[Western (genre)|Western]]
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• Ian La Frenais
  ...Lads]]'', and by the end of the decade they had also written three feature films: ''[[The Jokers]]'', ''[[Otley (film)|Otley]]'' (directed by Clement) and ' ...], where they wrote ''[[On the Rocks (U.S. TV series)|On the Rocks]]'', an American version of ''Porridge'', and ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda (1979 film)|The Pris
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• Brian Clemens
  ...n writer)|Tony Williamson]] from the former's story. It was Clemens' first American credit. ...the anthologies ''[[w:Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense|Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense]]'' (ITV, 1984–1986) and ''Worlds Beyond'' (ITV, 1984–1989
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• Stanley Black
  ...ter]] during the 1930s, he moved into arranging and recording in the Latin American music style and also won awards for his classical conducting. ...1936.<ref name="Larkin"/> He had also broadcast and recorded with several American musicians, including jazz saxophonists [[Coleman Hawkins|Coleman Hawkins]]
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• David Battley
  ...January 2003) was a British actor of stage and screen, mainly appearing in comedy roles. ...of [[The Rutles]], a parody of [[The Beatles]], but did not appear in the American TV film ''[[All You Need Is Cash]]'', based on the sketch.<ref>{{Cite book|
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• Ian Carmichael
  ...screen and radio in a career spanning 70 years. He found prominence in the films of the [[w:Boulting brothers]], including ''[[Private's Progress]]'' (1956) ...es/ian-carmichael-actor-who-played-likeable-toffs-in-golden-age-of-british-comedy-1892294.html|access-date=17 October 2017|work=The Independent|date=8 Februa
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• The Ghost Train (play)
  | genre = Comedy-Thriller '''''The Ghost Train''''' is a stage comedy-[[thriller (genre)|thriller]], written in 1923 by the English actor and pla
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• James Finlayson (actor)
  ...e."<ref name=louvish>Louvish, Simon (2001); ''Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy''; London: Faber and Faber; {{ISBN|0-571-20352-3}}; p. 157</ref><ref>[http: ...1928, Laurel and Hardy had their own starring series while the ''All-Star Comedy'' series soldiered on with other comedians.<ref name=mit102>Mitchell, p. 10
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• Bill Kerr
  ...er the [[Second World War]], where he developed a career as a performer in comedy, especially gaining notice in the radio version of ''[[Hancock's Half Hour] ...).<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/citizenjames/ ''Citizen James''], BBC Comedy</ref> Kerr's other television appearances in Britain include a ''[[Doctor W
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• The Inbetweeners
  * [[Blue comedy]] * [[Cringe comedy]]
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• Hermione Gingold
  ...ermione Baddeley]]. Later she played formidable elderly characters in such films and stage musicals as ''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]'' (1958), ''[[Bell, Book From the early 1950s Gingold lived and made her career mostly in the U.S. Her American stage work ranged from ''[[John Murray Anderson's Almanac]]'' (1953) to ''[
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