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- {{Short description|British radio and television comedy scriptwriter}} | nationality = British3 KB (438 words) - 14:15, 23 January 2023
- ...ork=The Telegraph|date=23 April 2021|access-date=2 June 2021}}</ref> was a British playwright, screenwriter and actor. ...ony Marriott at the Film Reference website]</ref> A [[No Sex Please, We're British (film)|film version]] starring [[Ronnie Corbett]] was released in 1973.3 KB (416 words) - 18:18, 8 January 2023
- ...r)|Alan Simpson]]. Together they devised and wrote 1950s and 60s [[BBC]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]]s including ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'' (1954–1961), the Galton won two BAFTA awards among many others such as a British Comedy Award.5 KB (669 words) - 15:50, 22 December 2022
- ...w:West Chiltington|West Chiltington]], [[w:Sussex|Sussex]], England) was a British film actor and screenwriter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sif [[Category:English male film actors]]3 KB (361 words) - 13:49, 16 January 2023
- {{short description|British television, radio, and comic strip author}} ...creenwriter)|Hazel Adair]], he co-created the soap opera ''[[w:Crossroads (British TV series)|Crossroads]]''.7 KB (940 words) - 14:40, 23 December 2022
- ...er Sisters]] and [[Johnny Dorelli]]), and Hollywood as well as working for British television and continuing to contribute to ''Punch''. [[Category:British male screenwriters]]5 KB (674 words) - 15:11, 18 August 2024
- [[Category:English television writers]] [[Category:English comedy writers]]4 KB (495 words) - 14:16, 24 January 2023
- ...School]] in [[London]]. In the mid-1970s, while still a teacher, he won a British TV talent contest, [[New Faces]], with a comedy double act called "Mr Carli ...4/mike-walling-rip/|title=Actor & writer Mike Walling dies at 69|publisher=British Comedy Guide|date=4 July 2020|accessdate=4 July 2020}}</ref>5 KB (772 words) - 19:58, 16 August 2024
- | nationality = British ...with [[Ray Galton]]. Together they devised and wrote the [[w:BBC|BBC]] [[w:British sitcom|sitcom]] ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'' (1954–1961), the first two se8 KB (1,111 words) - 12:05, 6 February 2023
- {{Short description|British actor, director and screenwriter (1923–2002)}} ....bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba4b1f175 Filmography of Alexander Doré] [[British Film Institute]] Database</ref>5 KB (641 words) - 23:53, 21 January 2023
- [[Category:English male comedians]] [[Category:English male film actors]]5 KB (638 words) - 23:58, 18 February 2023
- '''Talbot Nelson Conn “Tolly” Rothwell''', [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (12 November 1916 – 28 February 1981) was an English [[s ...'') was voted the greatest one-liner in movie history by a thousand comedy writers, actors, impresarios and members of the public for the launch of Sky Movies6 KB (865 words) - 12:28, 18 February 2023
- ...n Keys'''; 11 May 1910, in [[London]] – 12 December 1970, in London) was a British [[film director]] (1933–62) and television director (1962–64), usually ...ollywood film and British series of ''The Saint''. Carstairs directed many British comedies including many of [[Norman Wisdom]]'s films.<ref>{{cite web|url=ht6 KB (836 words) - 11:48, 7 February 2023
- '''Val Valentine''' (1895–1971) was a British [[screenwriter]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individua ...">{{cite web|url=https://historyproject.org.uk/interview/val-guest|website=British Entertainment History Project|first=Roy|last=Fowler|date=1988|title=Intervi3 KB (393 words) - 17:02, 25 April 2023
- | honorific_suffix = [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]] | employer = [[w:British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]]13 KB (1,769 words) - 19:29, 1 January 2023
- {{short description|British writer}} {{Use British English|date=October 2015}}7 KB (1,153 words) - 23:35, 17 January 2023
- ...ntinue his acting by joining the [[w:British Commonwealth Occupation Force|British Commonwealth Occupation Force]] (BCOF). After graduating from drama school [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]8 KB (1,078 words) - 16:35, 22 December 2022
- | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] | nationality = [[w:British people|British]]11 KB (1,534 words) - 19:45, 20 January 2023
- '''Neil Hodgson Shand''' (3 March 1934 – 14 April 2018) was a British television comedy writer.<ref name="BBC15042018">{{cite news|url=https://ww ...f-british-comedy-1-8410149|title=Neil Shand: My life with the old guard of British comedy|work=The Yorkshire Post|date=26 February 2017|accessdate=18 April 206 KB (795 words) - 08:09, 29 March 2023
- | nationality = British '''John Francis Junkin''' (29 January 1930 – 7 March 2006) was a British actor and [[Screenwriter|scriptwriter]] who had a long career in radio, tel10 KB (1,412 words) - 13:59, 18 March 2023