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  • {{Short description|British radio, television and newsreel announcer}} | occupation = Radio, television and newsreel presenter
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  • | medium = Radio, television ...ped his trademark voices and surreal characters which he later adapted for television.
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  • ...', was a German-born British actor and writer. He made his name on British television and found his greatest fame for his portrayal of the comical Spanish waiter He had a long career in acting and [[voice-over]] work for television, film and radio. He was successful well into his eighties, with roles in nu
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  • ...me Garden]] <br />in a screenshot from the title sequence <br />of the BBC television series |data6 = [[Television|Television]], [[theatre|theatre]], [[sound recording and reproduction|audio recordings
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  • {{Short description|Australian entertainer and sex offender (born 1930)}} *television personality
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  • ...cartoon shorts and comic strips. The character has featured on children's television from the 1960s to the present day. He has also appeared in pantomimes acros ...puppet was designed by [[w:Peter Firmin|Peter Firmin]] in 1962 for an ITV television series, and was voiced and performed by [[w:Ivan Owen|Ivan Owen]] until his
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  • ...[[BBC Radio]] with ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'', he moved into television with ''[[At Last the 1948 Show]]'', working together with old Cambridge fri In the mid-1960s Brooke-Taylor performed in the television series ''On the Braden Beat'' with Canadian [[Bernard Braden]],<ref name="g
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  • ...2017}}</ref> was an English actress, broadcaster and author. She acted in television series such as ''[[w:All Creatures Great and Small (1978 TV series)|All Cre ==Film and television==
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  • ...voices in his head, and keen to get on close terms with one of the female presenters.{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|p=16}} In later programmes he is first the king and The character was loosely based on the television cook Fanny Cradock.{{sfn|Ross|2011|p=106}}{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1996|p=262}} D
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  • {{Infobox television ...book|author1=Laura Mulvey|author2=Jamie Sexton|title=Experimental British Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ook8CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA180|year=2015|publi
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  • {{Infobox television ...news company.<ref>{{cite book|author=Horace Newcomb|title=Encyclopedia of Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NUXIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA327|date=3 February
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  • ...last=Smurthwaite | date=21 May 1996 | access-date=28 July 2019}}</ref> On television, Pertwee starred as the [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]] of [[Doctor (Doc ...e book |last=McCann |first=Graham|title=Dad's Army: The Story of a Classic Television Show|year=2001|publisher=4th Estate|isbn=9-781841-153094}}</ref>{{page need
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  • ...1958 to 1964 with largely the same cast. By the time the new series began, television had become the dominant broadcasting medium in Britain, and ''Round the Hor ...liams and Marsden), the hoarse-voiced cook Fanny Haddock – a parody of the television cook [[Fanny Cradock]] (Marsden), the earthy gardening guru Arthur Fallowfi
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  • ...tly dropped the character and in the 2000s became the presenter of various television and radio shows, including ''[[The Paul O'Grady Show]]''. ...television, radio, and theatrical appearances. As Savage, he presented the television shows ''[[The Big Breakfast]]'' (1995–1996), ''[[Blankety Blank]]'' (1997
    110 KB (14,760 words) - 19:34, 27 September 2024
  • | medium = Books, film, stand-up comedy, television, theatre ...glish actor, comedian and writer. He was known for roles in British comedy television series such as ''[[Porridge (TV series)|Porridge]]'', ''[[The Two Ronnies]]
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  • {{Infobox television ...ouse approached the new controller of [[BBC Two|BBC2]], [[Michael Jackson (television executive)|Michael Jackson]]. He was looking for new shows at the time to r
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