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  • * ''[[The Long Dark Hall]]'' (1951) - Jefferson (American published) (US version only) * ''[[The Runaway Bus]]'' (1954) - American Traveller
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  • | nationality = Burmese / American / British ...mme ''[[UFO (TV series)|UFO]]''. He appeared in the 1968 [[London|London]] stage production of ''[[Man of La Mancha|Man of La Mancha]]'', as Anselmo, a [[mu
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  • ...ed to London, and his early appearances on the [[West End theatre|West End stage]] were in intimate [[revue]].<ref name="Obit Guardian"/> ...y sued by Liberace. Thompson settled out of court, making a donation to an actors’ charity.<ref name="Obit Guardian"/>
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  • In ''Breakfast with Braden'' (for the [[BBC]], from January 1950) he played American serviceman "Brandon Marlow" (a caricature of Marlon Brando in ''[[A Streetc ...interspersed with lighthearted sketches and music, and helped a number of actors to get a start on television. Performers frequently featured included [[Pet
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  • | occupation = Stage, film and TV actor ...ational Theatre]] in 2004.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/jul/30/harry-towb-obituary|title=Harry Towb|first=Michael|last=Coveney
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  • ...'''Jimmy Jewel''', was an English comedian and actor whose long career in stage, radio, television and film productions, included a 32-year partnership wit ...of four, worked with his father from the age of 10 and subsequently became stage manager for the family show.
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  • ...rth_offset=0|last=Find my past|title=Arthur Howard}}</ref>) was an English stage, [[film actor|film and television actor]].<ref name=mcfarlane/><ref>{{cite ...url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228050359/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/19/alan-howard|date=28 December 2020}}, ''The Guardian'', 18 Febru
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  • ...1995) was an [[w:Australia|Australia]]n-born comedian and actor of radio, stage and screen. He starred with [[Jimmy Edwards]] in ''[[Take It From Here]]'' |1962|| ''[[The Girl on the Boat (film)|The Girl on the Boat]]'' || American || Uncredited
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  • ...eley''',{{efn|Berkeley is pronounced "bark-lee".}} was an English actor of stage and screen. He is best remembered for playing [[Major Gowen]] in the Britis ...nd in the [[Alfred Hitchcock|Hitchcock]] film ''[[Stage Fright (1950 film)|Stage Fright]]'' (1950). He featured as Detective Inspector Berkeley in two episo
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  • ...n ''[[Z-Cars]]'' from 1967 to 1974. He also appeared in the notorious 1958 stage production of [[Harold Pinter]]'s ''[[The Birthday Party (play)|The Birthda ...l=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/10/archives/john-slater-british-actor-of-stage-and-tv-is-dead.html|access-date=2021-07-05|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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  • ...est remembered for playing comedy parts in the [[Aldwych farce]]s first on stage and then in film. ...among the most popular British film actors of the 1930s. He continued his stage career during and after the Second World War, scoring another hit in London
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  • ...argaret Thatcher]], to [[Bill Deedes]]. Wells developed the feature into a stage farce, ''Anyone for Denis?'', first performed in 1981, in which he played D |''[[Bullshot (film)|Bullshot]]'' || 1983 || American Scientist ||
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  • ...2010}}</ref> was an [[w:England|English]] actor who worked prolifically on stage, screen and radio in a career spanning 70 years. He found prominence in the ...an obituary"/> before training as an actor at [[w:RADA|RADA]]. He made his stage debut as a robot at the People's Palace in [[w:Mile End|Mile End]], [[w:Eas
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  • {{Short description|American-British comedy writer and lyricist}} | nationality = American<!-- use only when necessary per [[WP:INFONAT]] -->
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  • ...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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  • ...nglish''' (9 May 1919 – 16 April 1995) was an English television, film and stage actor and comedian from the [[w:music hall|music hall]] tradition. ...t End Centre]]) from the age of 5 to 14.<ref>English, pg18</ref> His first stage appearance was aged 10 when he joined a group from [[Gale & Polden]] called
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  • ...a well-known performer in musical comedies, appearing in both British and American shows. He spent ten years performing in Australia in musical comedies. Fr ...served in the army in the first years of the First World War, and made his stage debut in [[w:City of Sunderland|Sunderland]] in August 1916 in the chorus o
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  • ...eacly sentimentality...".<ref name=wilmut>Roger Wilmut, ''Kindly Leave the Stage: The Story of Variety 1919-1960'', Methuen, 1985, {{isbn|0-413-48960-4}}, p He married an American entertainer, Ewing Eaton, on 7 April 1933,<ref>New York Marriage License In
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  • ...e "The top hat and tails man who left the boos and catcalls behind" in The Stage page 32, Col.1. Thursday 16 May 1985 by Chris Young</ref> ...omedian under the name of '''Chump Buchanan''' and appeared on the variety stage in Scotland.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Music Hall and Theatre Review |journ
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  • {{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]
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