• Billy Russell (comedian)
  ...Cartoonist". He served in the [[South Staffordshire Regiment]] during the war, and entertained the troops as "The Trench Philosopher", performing [[monol ...On realising that many in his audience did not want to be reminded of the war, he modified the act to become "Old Bill in [[Civvies]]", and was sometimes
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• The Mouse on the Moon
  | studio = Walter Shenson Films ...flight using wine as a propellant. It satirises the [[space race]], [[Cold War]] and [[politics]].
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• Top Secret (1952 film)
  [[Category:1952 films]] [[Category:1950s spy comedy films]]
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• The Intelligence Men
  ...ilm was successful enough to enable Morecambe and Wise to make two further films, ''[[That Riviera Touch]]'' and ''[[The Magnificent Two]]''. ...ation known as "SCHLECHT" (a parody of [[SPECTRE]] from the [[James Bond]] films; the word is German for "bad" or "evil", although there is little evidence
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• Let's Get Laid
  ...n after being [[Demobilization|demobbed]] at the end of the [[Second World War]], only to find himself suspected of a murder in [[Wapping]]. ...thony-steel-a-cold-streak-saga/|title=The Emasculation of Anthony Steel: A Cold Streak Saga
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• Where the Spies Are
  ...ruits Doctor Jason Love, who did some intelligence work for him in [[World War II]], to find out what is going on. As a doctor, Love can attend a medical ...rights to the novel in 1964, inspired by the success of the [[James Bond]] films. [[David Niven]] was cast in the lead role. He was also making ''[[Lady L]]
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• Roy Plomley
  ...aim was to be an actor, and he did secure very minor parts in a number of films, e.g. ''[[To the Public Danger]]'' (1948), ''[[Double Confession]]'' (1950) ==World War II==
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• Ealing comedies
  ...cle Bill]]'' (1957) the last,<ref>Parkinson, David. ''Radio Times Guide to Films 2010'', BBC Worldwide, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-9555886-2-4}}</ref> although some {{quotebox|width=30%|quote=In the immediate post-war years there was as yet no mood of cynicism: the bloodless revolution of 194
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• To Catch a Spy
  ...= {{Unbulleted list|[[The Bryna Company]]|Ludgate Films|Capitole Films|Les Films de la Pléiade}} [[Category:1971 films]]
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• Hot Enough for June
  ...rt director]] was [[Syd Cain]], who had the same job on the first two Bond films. Koscina herself had been considered for the role of [[Tatiana Romanova]] i ...rmin%22|magazine=Kinematograph Weekly|first=Bill|last=Altria|title=British Films Romp Home - Fill First Five Places|date=17 Dec 1964|page=9}}</ref>
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• Allan Cuthbertson
  ...or. He was best known for playing stern-faced military officers in British films of the 1950s and 1960s. During the [[Second World War]], he served as a flight lieutenant with the [[Royal Australian Air Force|R
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• Ralph Thomas
  ...remembered for directing the ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' series of films. He cast the actor [[James Robertson Justice]] in many of his films. Thomas often worked with the producer [[Betty Box|Betty E. Box]], who was
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• I'll Never Forget What's'isname
  ...s mistakenly, the influence of [[John Schlesinger|Schlesinger]] – the same cold eye for human frailty, and the same identification of old school tie sentim ...e movie, as a whole, came off as a pessimistic reiteration of the existing war between traditions and society, and individuality and the arts. It sparked
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• Our Man in Havana (film)
  ...xpensive. A deal was done with Carol Reed, who had made several successful films based on Graham Greene's novels, and Columbia Studios, for whom Reed had ju ...een in mind, It’s a Battlefield, was never made into a film. The only good films, ''[[The Third Man]]'' and [[The Fallen Idol (film)|''The Fallen Idol'']],
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• David Lodge (actor)
  ...English character actor.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fbd1ccb|title=David Lodge}}</ref> ...Heroes|The Cockleshell Heroes]]'' and going on to feature in many British films usually portraying military types, and often comedic roles.<ref>{{cite web|
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• Geoffrey Keen
  ...Frederick Gray|Sir Frederick Gray]] in the ''[[w:James Bond|James Bond]]'' films. ...t joined the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] in 1939 when [[World War II|the war]] started. Keen enlisted in the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]], though also m
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• The Iron Petticoat
  ...Iron Petticoat''''' (aka '''''Not for Money''''') is a 1956 British [[Cold War]] [[comedy film]] starring [[Bob Hope]] and [[Katharine Hepburn]], and dire ...et Pilot'', inspired by real-life [[List of Cold War pilot defections|Cold War pilot defections]], completed principal photography in 1950 but was not rel
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• Lance Corporal Jones
  ...ce corporal]] and veteran of the [[British Empire]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad's Army|first=Jeffrey|las ...he Sudan]] (1896–1899), the [[Boer War]] (1899–1901) and the [[First World War]] (1914–1918) (declaring in "[[The Deadly Attachment]]" that, "I haven't
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• Alexei Sayle's Stuff
  ...ied, 'cos I got my girlfriend into trouble – got her involved in the civil war in Angola." Various episodes also feature sketches based around BBC2 presen One episode in series 2 begins with a lengthy [[cold open]] of an initially straight scene from ''[[Juliet Bravo]]'' featuring a
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• Lionel Jeffries
  ...y ''[[New York Times]]'', 20 February 2010.</ref> He appeared primarily in films and received a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Music ...]] at the [[Rangoon]] radio station during the [[World War II|Second World War]],<ref name="BBC 10 Feb"/> being awarded the [[Burma Star]]. (He blamed the
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