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  • Johnnie Mortimer
    {{Short description|British television scriptwriter}} | nationality = [[w:British people|British]]
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  • Max Harris (composer)
    ...]] and [[piano accordion]].<ref name="Chilton">John Chilton ''Who's Who of British Jazz'', London: Continuum, 2004, p. 165</ref> ...t Singles & Albums">{{cite book|first=David|last=Roberts|year=2006|title=[[British Hit Singles & Albums]]|edition=19th|publisher=Guinness World Records Limite
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  • Eric Rogers (composer)
    ...s | first = Stewart | title = Soundtracks : an international dictionary of composers for film | publisher = Routledge | location = London | year = 2018 | isbn = ...owboy]]''.<ref>{{cite book | last = Stubblebine | first = Donald | title = British cinema sheet music : a comprehensive listing of film music published in the
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  • Ronnie Hazlehurst
    | known_for = British television theme songs Hazlehurst composed the [[theme music|theme tunes]] for many well-known [[British sitcom]]s and gameshows of the 1970s and the 1980s, including ''[[Yes Minis
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  • Fred Tomlinson (singer)
    {{short description|British singer, songwriter and composer (1927-2016)}} ...on ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', ''[[The Two Ronnies]]'' and other British television shows.<ref name=telegraph>{{cite news|title=Fred Tomlinson, sing
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  • Lucky Jim (1957 film)
    | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] (UK)<br />[[Kingsley-International Pictures]] (US) '''''Lucky Jim''''' is a 1957 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[John Boulting]] and starring [[Ian Carmichael
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  • Lionel Bart
    ...Stratford East]], he played an instrumental role in the 1960s birth of the British musical theatre scene after an era when American musicals had dominated the ...Bart was described by [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] as "the father of the modern British musical".<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|title=Lionel Bart, 68, Songwriter; Cre
    18 KB (2,736 words) - 18:18, 12 February 2023
  • Stanley Black
    '''Stanley Black''' [[Order of British Empire|OBE]] (14 June 1913 – 27 November 2002) was an English bandleader, ...he studio orchestra of [[Associated British Picture Corporation|Associated British Picture Corporation]] (ABPC) and their musical director composer from 1958
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  • John Sullivan (writer)
    |name = John Sullivan <br /> <small>[[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]</small> ...n English television scriptwriter responsible for several [[British sitcom|British sitcom]]s, including ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'', ''[[Citizen Smith]]'' a
    18 KB (2,634 words) - 23:47, 11 February 2023
  • Leslie Henson
    {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} ...ith the [[Royal Flying Corps]], he was released from active service by the British government to help run a concert party called "The Gaieties", which provide
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  • Ted Kavanagh
    '''Henry Edward Kavanagh''' (7 March 1892 – 17 September 1958) was a British radio scriptwriter and producer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk ...nest Longstaffe, with special scenes by Ted Kavanagh, and songs by various composers.<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a772400189db4d2a92d673583b6ae4b7 ''Cinder
    15 KB (2,247 words) - 15:59, 26 January 2023
  • Benny Hill
    ...Variety Series#1980s|Outstanding Variety]]. In 2006, Hill was voted by the British public number 17 in [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]'s poll of [[TV's 50 Greatest S ...Hill an [[Ivor Novello Award]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]] in 1972.
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  • Angela Morley
    ...:musical composition|musical composition]] in [[w:London|London]] with the British-Hungarian [[w:composer|composer]] [[w:Mátyás Seiber|Mátyás Seiber]] and ...coring films for the [[w:Associated British Picture Corporation|Associated British Picture Corporation]] under music director [[w:Louis Levy|Louis Levy]].<ref
    46 KB (6,817 words) - 09:03, 6 February 2023
  • A Fish Called Wanda
    .../fish-called-wanda-1970-3 |title=''A Fish Called Wanda'' (15) |publisher=[[British Board of Film Classification]] |date=June 15, 1988 |access-date=November 2, ...t-of-cinema/top-100-british-films/ |title=British Film Institute – Top 100 British Films |date=1999 |website=Cinemarealm.com |access-date=August 27, 2016}}</r
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  • Carry On series on screen and stage
    The ''[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On]]'' series is a long-running British sequence of comedy films, stage shows and television programmes produced be ...<ref>[http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bc852e8 "Max Harris"], [[British Film Institute]], accessed 10 June 2017.</ref>
    53 KB (7,631 words) - 15:05, 27 March 2023
  • Jimmy Perry
    ...eived an [[Ivor Novello Award]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]] in 1971.<ref>[http://theivors.com/archive/1970-1979/the-ivors ...whose shop was in [[South Kensington]], London. He was a founder of the [[British Antique Dealers' Association]].<ref name="Telegraphobituary">{{cite news|ti
    33 KB (4,913 words) - 15:32, 24 August 2024
  • George Martin
    ...that year. Later that decade, he created what has been cited as "the first British comedy LP created in a recording studio" with [[Peter Sellers]] - ''[[The B ...ref>{{Pop Chronicles|45}}</ref> As "Love Me Do" peaked at number 17 in the British charts, on 26 November 1962 Martin recorded "[[Please Please Me (song)|Plea
    67 KB (9,538 words) - 23:20, 17 February 2023
  • Joking Apart
    '''''Joking Apart''''' is a [[BBC television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] written by [[Steven Moffat]] about the rise and fall of a r ...s proper;<ref>{{cite book |authors=Tise Vahimagi, Michael Ian Grade |title=British television: an illustrated guide |page=344 |publisher=Oxford University Pre
    40 KB (6,261 words) - 14:28, 11 March 2023
  • Jonathan Miller
    | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] '''Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was an English [[w:Theatre
    38 KB (5,348 words) - 07:58, 11 September 2024
  • Norman Wisdom
    *[[British Army]] ...ref name="TelegraphObit" /> The same year, he was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] and was knighted five years later.<ref name="TelegraphObit" />
    50 KB (7,368 words) - 22:33, 24 August 2024

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