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  • | caption = Original British cinema poster | music = [[Edmund Crispin|Bruce Montgomery]]
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  • ...lms. He is well known for playing [[w:Minister of Defence (United Kingdom)|British Defence Minister]] [[w:List of James Bond allies#Sir Frederick Gray|Sir Fre ...sion, he was one of the leads in BBC TV's long-running drama about the oil industry, ''[[The Troubleshooters]]'', between 1965 and 1972.<ref name="Telegraph"/>
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  • | nationality = Russian (1906–1912)<br />British (1912–1998) ...dia of Television''</ref> 25 December 1906&nbsp;– 13 December 1998) was a British [[media proprietor]] and [[impresario]]. Originally a dancer, and later a [
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  • ...io executive at [[w:20th Century-Fox|20th Century-Fox]] who later acted in British radio, films and TV. ...lley|first=Paul |title=Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries|publisher=Music Sales Group|date=2003|pages=487|isbn=0-711-99512-5}}</ref> After his first
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  • '''''Chalk''''' is a [[British television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] set in a [[comprehensive school]] named Galfast High. Two s ...f and some of his eccentric staff. His wife Janet ([[Geraldine Fitzgerald (British actress)|Geraldine Fitzgerald]]) and new [[English studies|English]] teache
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  • | music = [[Richard Rodney Bennett]] '''''Four Weddings and a Funeral''''' is a 1994 British [[romantic comedy]] film directed by [[Mike Newell (director)|Mike Newell]]
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  • | producer = {{ubl|Roger Randall-Cutler|[[Lynda Myles (British producer)|Lynda Myles]]}} ...not add a composer, this film has no original score. It uses pre-existing music. -->
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  • ...'' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE}} (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was a British television host, [[journalist]], comedian and writer. ...|stage play]] and [[Frost/Nixon (film)|film]]. Frost interviewed all eight British prime ministers serving between 1964 and 2016 and all seven American presid
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  • ...S STILL IN EXISTENCE, SO PRESENT TENSE IS USED. --> a British television [[British sitcom|sitcom]] about the UK's [[Home Guard (United Kingdom)|Home Guard]] d ...in ''Dad's Army'' are over military age and the series stars several older British actors including [[Arnold Ridley]], [[John Laurie]], [[Arthur Lowe]] and [[
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  • ...simply '''''Monty Python'''''; sometimes abbreviated '''''MPFC''''') is a British [[surreal humour|surreal]] [[sketch comedy]] series created by and starring ...and sketches targets the idiosyncrasies of [[Culture of the United Kingdom|British life]], especially that of professionals, as well as aspects of politics. T
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  • '''''The Goon Show''''' is a British [[radio comedy]] programme, originally produced and broadcast by the [[BBC ...orary life in 1950s Britain, parodying aspects of show business, commerce, industry, art, politics, diplomacy, the police, the military, education, class struc
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  • {{Short description|Irish-British-American actress and singer (1925–2022)}} ...S:OVERLINK--> US<!--Do not change to "U.S.", as this article is written in British English.-->
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  • ...rs [[Margaret Thatcher]] and [[John Major]] and the [[British Royal Family|British royal family]]. The series was the first to caricature [[Queen Elizabeth Th ...the 1980s, ''Spitting Image'' satirised politics, entertainment, sport and British popular culture of the era. At its peak, the show was watched by 15 million
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