• Dick Bentley
  ...Here]]'' for [[w:BBC Radio|BBC Radio]]. He was a staple of and pioneer of radio, having started his career in the medium in the early 1930s. He appeared on ===Early life and radio===
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• Bernard Braden
  ...ian|comedian]], who is best known for his appearances in UK television and radio shows. ===Radio===
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• Harry Towb
  ...bsite=Bfi.org.uk|access-date=30 July 2020}}</ref> In 1959 he appeared in a radio episode of ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'', "Fred's Pie Stall". In December 200 ...ion of the hit stage musical Little Shop of Horrors, starring the original American lead Ellen Greene, based on Roger Corman's low-budget horror movie.
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• Jimmy Jewel
  ...my Jewel''', was an English comedian and actor whose long career in stage, radio, television and film productions, included a 32-year partnership with his c ...lt.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v9db6 |title=BBC Radio 4 Extra - Up the Pole |website=Bbc.co.uk |accessdate=2017-03-19}}</ref> Onl
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• Dick Vosburgh
  {{Short description|American-British comedy writer and lyricist}} | nationality = American<!-- use only when necessary per [[WP:INFONAT]] -->
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• Jack Douglas (actor)
  ...found they could get laughs by merely putting on American accents (English actors "died" there). After that, Joe Baker went to America to try his luck there. ...s that he would not be paid ([[Peter Rogers]], it was said, would give his actors anything but money). He accepted the small part; in return, a black Rolls-R
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• Ballard Berkeley
  .... He portrayed another retired military man (Colonel Freddie Danby) in BBC Radio 4's ''[[The Archers]]'', taking over the role from [[Norman Shelley]]. He made a brief appearance in the 1985 American film ''[[National Lampoon's European Vacation]]'' which starred [[Chevy Cha
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• Ben Lyon
  {{short description|American actor}} ...tive at [[w:20th Century-Fox|20th Century-Fox]] who later acted in British radio, films and TV.
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• Ian Carmichael
  ...r Wimsey (TV series)|television]] and [[w:Lord Peter Wimsey (radio series)|radio]]. In his later career, he starred in the [[w:ITV (TV network)|ITV]] [[w:m ...ame="Guardian obituary">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/feb/06/ian-carmichael-obituary|title=Ian Carmichael obituary|last=Bark
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• Peter Jones (actor)
  ==Radio== ...ole was as [[Mervyn Bunter]] in the [[Lord Peter Wimsey (radio series)|BBC Radio 4 adaptations]] of [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]' [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] stories. He
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• Arthur English
  His radio work began with the [[BBC]] series ''[[Variety Bandbox]]'', using as always ...era]] at the [[London Coliseum]]. In 1985 he appeared in an episode of the American TV series ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]''.<ref name=IMDb/>
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• Roy Dotrice
  ===Radio=== ...Permanent Under-Secretary Sir Gregory Pitkin" in the early episodes of BBC Radio's long-running comedy ''[[The Men from the Ministry]]''.<ref name="BBC"/> H
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• Terence Alexander
  ...>{{cite book|last1=Slide|first1=Anthony|title=Some Joe you don't know : an American biographical guide to 100 British television personalities|date=1996|publis ....<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jrq3|title = BBC Radio 4 Extra – John Creasey – the Toff on the Farm, 1. Trouble for Sale}}</r
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• Harold Berens
  ...hen, in 1939, started compering shows by [[Jay Wilbur]] and his band for [[Radio Luxembourg]]. During the [[Second World War]], he made regular broadcasts ...206-5}}, pp.13-14</ref> By 1947, it was said that he had done over 2,000 radio broadcasts. He also appeared in four [[Royal Variety Performance]]s.<ref n
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• Paul Eddington
  ...name="Arts 2000, p. 65">Quakers and the Arts: "Plain and Fancy" – An Anglo-American Perspective, David Sox, Sessions Book Trust, 2000, p. 65</ref> – and Eddi ...e award-winning [[w:BBC Radio|BBC Radio]] series ''[[w:This Sceptred Isle (radio series)|This Sceptred Isle]]''; he died midway through the production, and
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• Cecil Parker
  ...n 1933 and subsequently became a familiar face in British and occasionally American films until his death.<ref name=screenonline/> He appeared less often on te ...s).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0949879|title=BBC Radio 4 Extra - A Case for Dr Morelle|website=BBC}}</ref>
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• Jack Buchanan
  ==American stage career== Buchanan's American stage appearances included: [[André Charlot]]'s Revues, [[Charles B. Cochr
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• Cyril Chamberlain
  ...id=qEW5BAAAQBAJ&q=cyril+chamberlain+carry+on+films&pg=PT242|title=Carry-On Actors|isbn=9781908382085|last1=Ross|first1=Andrew|date=19 October 2011}}</ref> *''[[Ask a Policeman]]'' (1939) as Radio Announcer (uncredited)
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• Sid James
  ...British actor and comedian, born in South Africa, whose career encompassed radio, stage and screen, he was best known for his numerous roles in the [[Carry ...as [[Tony Hancock]]'s co-star in ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'', first in the radio series and later when it was adapted for television and ran from 1954 to 19
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• Marty Feldman
  ...network)|ITV]] sitcom ''[[Bootsie and Snudge]]'' and the [[w:BBC Radio|BBC Radio]] comedy programme ''[[Round the Horne]]''. He became known as a performer ...de, Feldman worked on the scripts for ''[[Educating Archie]]'' in both its radio and television incarnations, with [[Chesney and Wolfe|Ronald Chesney]] and
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