• Ben Lyon
  {{short description|American actor}} '''Ben Lyon''' (February 6, 1901 – March 22, 1979) was an American film actor and a studio executive at [[w:20th Century-Fox|20th Century-Fox]] who
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• James Finlayson (actor)
  | image = Silent film actor James Finlayson (SAYRE 772).jpg ...(27 August 1887 – 9 October 1953) was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a [[fake moustache]],<ref name=mit102/> Finl
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• Blake Edwards
  {{short description|American filmmaker (1922–2010)}} ...William Blake Crump'''; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.
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• Marty Feldman
  ...ack At 48 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/04/obituaries/marty-feldman-film-comic-victim-of-heart-attack-at-48.html |access-date=12 November 2021 |news ...tack at 48|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/04/obituaries/marty-feldman-film-comic-victim-of-heart-attack-at-48.html|work=The New York Times|date=4 Dece
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• Jack Buchanan
  ...'''Buchanan''' (2 April 1891 – 20 October 1957) was a Scottish theatre and film actor, singer, dancer, producer and director.<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book ===Film career and later years===
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• Ian Lavender
  '''Arthur Ian Lavender''' (born 16 February 1946) is an English stage, film and television [[w:actor|actor]]. He is best known for his role as [[Privat ...'s Army Movie Dossier: The Making of Jimmy Perry and David Croft's Classic Film |year=2015|isbn=9781785381430}}</ref> He reprised the part of Pike in the [
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• Tom Walls
  ...the [[Aldwych farce]]s in the 1920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s. ...ade. He and his co-star [[Ralph Lynn]] were among the most popular British actors of their time.
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• Milo O'Shea
  O'Shea began acting on the stage, then moved into film in the 1960s. He became popular in the United Kingdom, as a result of starr ...name. He played Inspector Boot in the 1973 [[Vincent Price]] horror/comedy film ''[[Theatre of Blood]]''.
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• Will Hay
  | occupation = Comedian, actor, film director, amateur astronomer ...es|Gainsborough Pictures]], is often cited as the supreme British-produced film-comedy, and in 1938 he was the third highest-grossing star in the UK. Many
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• Bob Monkhouse
  ...house appeared on stage in London, first as [[Aladdin]] in [[Aladdin (1958 film)|a stage show of the same name]] written by [[S. J. Perelman]] and [[Cole P ...first=Fiona |last=Hamilton}}</ref> In addition, they were gag writers for American comedians including [[Bob Hope]], supplying jokes for British tours. Indeed
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• Warren Mitchell
  ...in Health]]'' (BBC, 1985–92), and in the films ''[[Till Death Us Do Part (film)|Till Death Us Do Part]]'' (1969) and ''[[The Alf Garnett Saga]]'' (1972). ...958), ''[[Carry On Cleo]]'' (1964), ''[[The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (film)|The Spy Who Came In from the Cold]]'' (1965), ''[[The Assassination Bureau
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• O Lucky Man!
  {{Infobox film | released = {{Film date|df=y|1973|06|20}}
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• Eric Sykes
  ...'[[Sykes (TV series)|Sykes]]'', ''[[The Goon Show]]'', ''[[The Plank (1967 film)|The Plank]]'', ''[[Teletubbies|Teletubbies]]'' ...E}} (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor, and director whose performing career spanned more
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• Tommy Handley
  [[File:The British comedian Tommy Handley rehearses with actors from his ITMA show and the Royal Marines band during a visit to the Home Fl ...", ''The Age'', 4 February 1950, p. 8</ref> A Canadian newspaper quoted an American who heard the show: "I can't understand a word the guy is saying, but it su
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• Leonard Rossiter
  ...(née Howell) Rossiter.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.filmreference.com/film/66/Leonard-Rossiter.html| title = Rossiter profile at FilmReference.com}}</ ==Film and television career==
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• Stanley Holloway
  ...ed]]'' and ''[[The Way to the Stars]]''. After the war, he appeared in the film ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' and made a series of films for Ealing Studios, incl ...that he played on Broadway, the West End and in the [[My Fair Lady (film)|film version in 1964]]. The role brought him international fame, and his perform
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• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
  {{Infobox film ...or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965)|work=BFI Film Forever|access-date=20 October 2018}}</ref>
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• Ken Dodd
  ...58.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/whats-on/tv-and-film/looking-back-at-ken-dodd-s-love-of-blackpool-1-9058544|title=Looking back a ...] in the 1999 television movie adaptation of ''[[Alice in Wonderland (1999 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]''.<ref name=tickled/> Marking Dodd's ninetieth birth
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• George Formby Sr
  ...his name to [[George Formby]]; Formby Jr went on to become the top British male star in box office takings between 1937 and 1943. ...ake further film work a later project never transpired.<ref name="Times: F Film" />}} When the First World War broke out in August that year, he tried to e
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• Ronnie Barker
  | medium = Books, film, stand-up comedy, television, theatre ...pted to take on the persona of "Charlie" so as not to be himself. He and a male nurse often entertained the patients with comedy routines. He found work at
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