• Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
  ...ett |first=Katherine |date=19 March 2006 |title=Sunday drama? Stop messing about |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2006/mar/19/features.review7 | [[Category:2006 television films]]
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• Elspet Gray
  ...lspet+gray+stage+career&pg=PA81|title=Some Joe You Don't Know: An American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities|first=Anthony|last=Slide|date Gray appeared in many films and television programmes, her earliest being ''[[The Blind Goddess (1948 f
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• Ian Carmichael
  ...screen and radio in a career spanning 70 years. He found prominence in the films of the [[w:Boulting brothers]], including ''[[Private's Progress]]'' (1956) ...-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091019012920/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/actors/Ian-Carmichael|archive-date=19 October 2009}}</ref> The son of an optician,
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• Carry On Columbus
  ...ine=[[Screen International|]]|date=29 January 1993|page=15|title=UK Top 50 Films}}</ref> ...arry On Columbus'' was also shot on a much lower budget than the other two films, a budget of £2.5 million compared to the other two budgets of $45 million
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• Ben Lyon
  ...[[w:20th Century-Fox|20th Century-Fox]] who later acted in British radio, films and TV. ...glo-Jewish History'', Palgrave Macmillan (2011), p. 626</ref> Lyon entered films in 1918 after a successful appearance on [[w:Broadway theatre|Broadway]] op
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• Jimmy James (comedian)
  == Biographical details == ...an]] in the late 1960s, comedian [[Eric Morecambe]] spoke in glowing terms about James:
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• Roger Livesey
  ...n remembered for the three [[Powell and Pressburger|Powell & Pressburger]] films in which he starred: ''[[The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp]]'', ''[[I Kno ...35</ref> His two step-brothers (who were also his first cousins) were also actors.
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• Ballard Berkeley
  ...During the 1930s he performed regularly in the so-called "[[Cinematograph Films Act 1927|quota quickies]]". One of his earliest roles was as the heroic lea ...wers]]'',<ref>{{cite book|page=21|title=Some Joe you don't kno an American biographical guide to 100 British television personalities|first=Anthony|last=Slide|publ
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• Graham Crowden
  ...He was best known for his many appearances in television comedy dramas and films, often playing eccentric "offbeat" scientist, teacher and doctor characters ...nd Anne Margaret (née Paterson).<ref name=":1">Who's Who In The Theatre: a biographical record of the contemporary stage, seventeenth edition, vol. I, ed. Ian Herb
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• The Curse of Steptoe
  ...]'', and is based on interviews with colleagues, friends and family of the actors, and the ''Steptoe'' writers, [[Ray Galton]] and [[Alan Simpson (scriptwrit ...2006 drama ''[[Fanny Cradock#Media portrayals|Fear of Fanny]]'', which is about television personality [[Fanny Cradock]] off-screen. The 66-minute film is
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• David Rappaport
  ...English actor with [[w:achondroplasia|achondroplasia]]. He appeared in the films ''[[w:Time Bandits|Time Bandits]]'' and ''[[w:The Bride (1985 film)|The Bri ...net.nl/~motinni/biographical/bio-index.html |title=David Rappaport Pages – biographical |access-date=7 February 2009}}</ref> Rappaport studied [[w:psychology|psych
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• Kynaston Reeves
  ...le">{{cite web | url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/11166 | title=Biographical detail | publisher=[[British Film Institute|BFI.org.uk]] | access-date=5 Ja ...reyfriars School]]''. He recorded six episodes in 1952, after which fellow actors [[Raf De La Torre]], [[John Woodnutt]] and [[Jack Melford]] began sharing t
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• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
  ...lms]] <br /> [[Company Pictures]] <br /> HD Vision Studios <br /> Labrador Films <br /> De Mann Entertainment '''''The Life and Death of Peter Sellers''''' is a 2004 [[television film]] about the life of English comedian [[Peter Sellers]], based on [[Roger Lewis]]'s
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• Valerie Leon
  ...e]] and [[Sean Connery]], respectively. She also had roles in high profile films such as ''[[The Italian Job]]'' (1969), ''[[The Wild Geese]]'' (1978) and ...]'' (1972) and ''[[Carry On Girls]]'' (1973), and appeared in 2 James Bond films ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me (film)|The Spy Who Loved Me]]'' (1977) as a Hotel
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• Will Hay
  ...76 interview, [[Val Guest]] who served as a screenwriter for many of Hay's films, recalled transposing Harbottle from school into other everyday situations. ...be – in the cinema, theatre, or music-hall – we tend to identify with the actors we are watching. So that when a custard pie is thrown we fear for a moment
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• James Booth
  ...ng career stalled and nearly stopped. In interviews, Booth was forthcoming about the reasons for his professional difficulties. These included his appearanc ...May 1991, The Salvation Army, p. 12</ref><ref>Who's Who in the Theatre, A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage, Vol. 1, ed. Ian Herbert, Gale Research Co
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• Anton Rodgers
  ...nore Victoria (née Wood).<ref name="Who's Who">Who's Who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the contemporary stage, seventeenth edition, ed. Ian Herbert, Gal ...e|Wilde]] and [[Peter Nichols (playwright)|Peter Nichols]]. He appeared in films such as ''[[The Man Who Haunted Himself]]'' (1970), ''[[Scrooge (1970 film)
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• Richard Vernon
  ....uk|access-date=7 December 2016}}</ref> He appeared in many [[film|feature films]] and [[television]] programmes, often in [[Aristocracy (class)|aristocrati ...both in [[Reading, Berkshire]]).<ref>Richard Vernon: Theatre & Performance Biographical File</ref> During the [[Second World War]] served in the [[Royal Navy]]. He
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• Boulting brothers
  ...of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced many of their films through their own production company, '''Charter Film Productions''', which ...69d70b54 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> about the village of [[Thaxted]], [[Essex]], narrated by [[Leo Genn]].<ref name=f
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• Kenneth Griffith
  In 1941, he made his debut in the first of more than 80 films, being ''[[Love on the Dole (film)|Love on the Dole]]''.<ref name="IndpObit He appeared in many British films between the 1940s and 1980s, notably as Archie Fellows in ''[[The Shop at S
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