• The Big Freeze (film)
  ...me in [[Finland]]. Like other Sykes directorial vehicles, the piece is a [[silent comedy]] with a star cast - here including [[Bob Hoskins]], [[John Mills]], A silent comedy. Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for re
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• The Passionate Pilgrim (1984 film)
  ...e his long-term partner [[Ernie Wise]]. The film takes the setting of a [[silent film]] with narration provided by [[John Le Mesurier]] of ''[[Dad's Army]]' [[Category:1984 films]]
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• Walter Forde
  ...south London in 1898, he directed over fifty films between 1919 from the [[silent era]] through to 1949 in the [[sound film|sound era]].<ref name="imdb.com"/ ...films. Emerging as an established film director in the 1930s, he directed films for [[Gainsborough Pictures]] and [[Ealing Studios]].
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• Lupino Lane
  ...c hall|music hall]] and film performances. Increasingly celebrated for his silent comedy short subjects, he is best known in the United Kingdom for playing B ...oscoe Arbuckle]] was one of his directors, but Lane was soon directing the films himself under the pseudonym "Henry W. George" (his given names). These come
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• A. E. Matthews
  ...increasing renown from [[World War II|World War II]] onwards as one of the British cinema's most famous crotchety, and sometimes rascally, old men. ...ring the [[Silent film|silent era]] with the [[British Actors Film Company|British Actors Film Company]], a production company that operated between 1916 and
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• Tom Jones (1963 film)
  ...stribution.pdf|last=Petrie|first= Duncan James |year=2017|title= Bryanston Films : An Experiment in Cooperative Independent Production and Distribution|jour '''''Tom Jones''''' is a 1963 British [[comedy film]], an adaptation of [[Henry Fielding]]'s classic 1749 novel '
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• David Lodge (actor)
  {{Short description|British actor (1921-2003)}} ...English character actor.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fbd1ccb|title=David Lodge}}</ref>
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• O Lucky Man!
  ...CKY MAN'' (X)|url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/o-lucky-man-1970-2|work=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|date=1973-04-25|access-date=2013-06-04}}</re ...l=http://ycba.yale.edu/programs/programs-films.asp |title= Yale Center for British Art |access-date=9 February 2007 }}</ref> -->
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• Ghost in the Noonday Sun
  '''''Ghost in the Noonday Sun''''' is a 1974 British comedy film directed by [[Peter Medak]] starring [[Peter Sellers]], [[Antho ...Ras Mohammed's ghost for directions to the treasure. After seeing off the British Navy by posing as Portuguese fishermen suffering the "red plague", the pira
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• The Last Remake of Beau Geste
  '''''The Last Remake of Beau Geste''''' is a 1977 British [[historical film|historical]] [[comedy film]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https:// It was the feature film directorial debut of Feldman. He subsequently went on to direct ''[[In
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• David Croft (TV producer)
  |honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] |awards = [[British Comedy Awards|British Comedy Awards]]<br>2003 Lifetime Achievement Award<br>[[Writers' Guild of G
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• Marty Feldman
  ...cademy Television Awards|British Academy Television Awards]] including [[w:British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance|Best Entertainm ...TmrBgAAQBAJ&q=guinness+book+of+box+office+hits+swern+childs&pg=PA268|title=British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure: The Boundaries of Pl
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• The Abominable Dr. Phibes
  ...plore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6bf3d3cd|title=The Abominable Dr. Phibes|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712173120/htt ...ble.shtml|title=The Abominable Doctor Phibes (1970)|website=British Horror Films|access-date=3 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2014110609
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• Will Hay
  ...insborough Pictures|Gainsborough Pictures]], is often cited as the supreme British-produced film-comedy, and in 1938 he was the third highest-grossing star in ...76 interview, [[Val Guest]] who served as a screenwriter for many of Hay's films, recalled transposing Harbottle from school into other everyday situations.
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• Peggy Mount
  ...nd]]. She became known for playing domineering middle-aged women in plays, films and television shows. ...verything I Ever Wanted'', by Andrew Ross, was published in 2019 by Fantom Films Limited.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fantompublishing.co.uk/product/andr
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• Help! (film)
  * Walter Shenson Films ...rchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915050205/http://beatles.com/#/films/Help|url-status=live}}</ref> The soundtrack was released as the band's [[He
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• Anna Neagle
  ...er lightweight musicals, comedies and historical dramas. Almost all of her films were produced and directed by [[Herbert Wilcox]], whom she married in 1943. In her historical dramas, Neagle was renowned for her portrayals of British historical figures, including [[Nell Gwyn]] (''Nell Gwyn'', 1934), [[Queen
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• Jimmy Edwards
  Edwards was a feature of London theatre in post-war years, debuting at London's [[Windmill Theatr ...9 film)|Rhubarb]]'' (1969), which again featured Sykes. The films were not silent but had very little dialogue. He also appeared in ''[[The Bed Sitting Room
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• Michael Bentine
  | honorific_suffix={{postnominal|country=GBR|size=100%|list=[[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]]}} ...ichael James Bentine" with a date of birth of 26 January 1922.</ref> was a British comedian, [[w:Comedy film|comic actor]] and founding member of [[The Goon S
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• Mr. Bean
  {{Short description|British sitcom created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis}} '''''Mr. Bean''''' is a [[British sitcom]] created by [[Rowan Atkinson]] and [[Richard Curtis]], produced by
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