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  • ...at series to feature in the [[Are You Being Served? (Australian TV series)|Australian Version]]. ...regularly playlisted on [[BBC Radio 1]]/[[BBC Radio 2|2]] Saturday morning children's show ''[[Ed Stewart]]'s [[Junior Choice]]'' in the late 1970s and included
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  • ...f fighting in the war but prior to demobilisation Secombe joined a pool of entertainers in [[Naples|Naples]] and formed a comedy duo with [[Spike Milligan]].<ref n ...orian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=267}}
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  • ...front-of-cloth variety turn", he was one of the United Kingdom's foremost entertainers during the [[Second World War]].<ref name="sweet">{{cite web |last1=Sweet | ...ple!' Tommy Trinder on Stage and Film as a Public Vector of Post-War Anglo-Australian Projects of Land, Food and Peop |url=https://openjournals.library.sydney.ed
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  • ...ref>The Goodies Still Alive on Stage – the Official [[Souvenir Program]] – Australian Tour 2002</ref><ref>''The Penguin TV Companion'' (2nd Edition) – Jeff Eva ...series)|The Goodies]]''{{'}} style of humour earned it a reputation as a "children's" programme]]
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  • {{Short description|Australian entertainer and sex offender (born 1930)}} '''Rolf Harris''' (born 30 March 1930) is an Australian entertainer whose career has encompassed work as a musician, singer-songwri
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  • Fields made her first stage appearance as a child, in 1905, joining children's repertory theatre groups such as "Haley's Garden of Girls" and the "Nine Da ...her of Bert Aza, founder of the Aza Agency, which was responsible for many entertainers of the day including the actor and comedian [[Stanley Holloway]], who was i
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  • * '''Arthur Atkinson''' (Whitehouse), parody of 1940s music hall entertainers such as [[Max Miller (comedian)|Max Miller]] and [[Arthur Askey]], introduc ...ter of ''That's Amazing'', a spoof of pop-science shows, in particular the Australian show [[The Curiosity Show]]. Normally such a person would try to pass off a
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  • ...]; they performed alongside [[w:Dick James|Dick James]], Fred Datchler and Australian singer Marie Benson who had arrived in the UK in 1948. The vocalists had br ...[[Paddie O'Neil]] (later the wife of Alfred Marks). By now, Peter had met Australian actress Anne Howe (who acted as Anne Hayes) who in turn introduced her best
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  • ...m "Bill" Sellers and Agnes Doreen "Peg" ({{née}} Marks). Both were variety entertainers; Peg was in the Ray Sisters troupe.<ref name="Milligan (DNB)" /> Although c ..., while her professional name was Anne Hayes.{{sfn|Lewis|1995|p=231}}}} an Australian actress who lived in London.{{sfn|Evans|1980|p=68}} He proposed to her in A
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