• Roger Kitter
  | birth_place = [[Southsea]], [[Hampshire]], England, UK Kitter died from cancer on 3 January 2015, aged 65.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chortle.c
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• Robin Nedwell
  | death_place = [[Hedge End]], [[Hampshire]], England ...Guardian}}</ref> Most of his roles were designed for television, and apart from the "Doctor" series, his appearances included ''[[The Vault of Horror (film
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• Derek Roy (comedian)
  | death_place = [[Southampton]], [[Hampshire]], England [[Category:English male comedians]]
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• Eli Woods
  ...of the [[Hippodrome, Aldershot|Hippodrome Theatre]] in [[Aldershot]] in [[Hampshire]]. ...including, on occasion, [[James Casey (variety artist)|James Casey]] - or (from 1956 to 1959) by [[Roy Castle]]. Much later, Woods was in the support cast
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• Jimmy James (comedian)
  He was often hailed as a ''"comedians' comedian"''.<ref name="Manchunian"/><ref name="JimmyBFI">{{cite web |url=h ...oved – this is an important word – was ''loved'' – by both. One of the few comedians that all the comics used to stand on the side and watch. One of the greats.
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• Arthur English
  | birth_place = [[w:Aldershot|Aldershot]], Hampshire, England ...6 April 1995) was an English television, film and stage actor and comedian from the [[w:music hall|music hall]] tradition.
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• Jeremy Hardy
  ...ary 2019) was an [[English people|English]] comedian. Born and raised in [[Hampshire]], Hardy studied at the [[University of Southampton]] and began his stand-u Hardy was born in [[Aldershot]], Hampshire,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=LxyLJ
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• George Martin (comedian)
  | birth_place = [[w:Aldershot|Aldershot]], Hampshire Martin was born in [[w:Aldershot|Aldershot]], Hampshire, England, with [[Romani people|Romany]] blood on his mother's side. He was
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• Bill Fraser
  ...anerges in ''[[The Apple Cart]]'' and Eddie Waters in ''[[Comedians (play)|Comedians]]'', both for the [[BBC]], and appearances on ''[[The Professionals (TV ser ...d at the Haymarket, and then toured Britain. Also in the cast were [[Susan Hampshire]] and [[John McCallum (actor)|John McCallum]], who was married to Googie Wi
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• Barry Cryer
  ...r BBC Radio4 Great Lives 11 Jan 2011 b00x95hm.flac|Recorded January 2011]] from the BBC Radio 4 programme ''[[w:Great Lives|Great Lives]]''</center>}} ...ted to laughter|date=27 January 2022|work=BBC News}}</ref> He was released from his contract by Van Damm and concluded that a performing career was not a w
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• Benny Hill
  | birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Southampton]], [[Hampshire]], England}} ...ne]] on the [[UK Singles Chart]] and earned Hill an [[Ivor Novello Award]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]] in 1972.
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• Will Hay
  ...comedy, and in 1938 he was the third highest-grossing star in the UK. Many comedians have acknowledged him as a major influence. Hay was also a keen amateur ast ...as a screenwriter for many of Hay's films, recalled transposing Harbottle from school into other everyday situations.<ref name="bbc1976"/> He famously per
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• Michael Bentine
  ...of those unbelievable places. I’ve tried, without success, to describe it from my own point of view, but the words won’t come. To me Belsen was the ulti ...tick" and "The Chairback", with a broken chairback having a number of uses from comb to machine gun and taking on a demoniacal life of its own. [[Peter Sel
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• Tommy Trinder
  ...], on 24 March 1909, the son of Thomas Henry Trinder, a London tram driver from [[Shilton, Oxfordshire|Shilton]], Oxfordshire, and his wife Jennie Georgina ...urnal |title=TOMMY TRINDER Returns with another Load of Nonsense. |journal=Hampshire Telegraph |date=15 January 1937 |page=4 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperar
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• Bob Monkhouse
  ...documentary, it was revealed that Monkhouse and his older brother suffered from [[Physical abuse|physical]] and [[verbal abuse]] by their mother. ...hool in [[Worthing]], [[Sussex]], and [[Dulwich College]] in south London, from which he was expelled for climbing the clock tower.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http
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• Tony Hancock
  ...ck's Half Hour]]'', first broadcast on radio from 1954, then on television from 1956, in which he soon formed a strong professional and personal bond with ...he was brought up in [[w:Bournemouth|Bournemouth]] (then in [[w:Hampshire|Hampshire]]), where his father, John Hancock, who ran the Railway Hotel in Holdenhurs
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• Tommy Cooper
  ...herine Gertrude (''née'' Wright), Thomas's [[English people|English]] wife from [[Crediton]], [[Devon]].<ref name="exmem" /><ref>GRO Register of Marriages: ...man, to which he answered, "Well yes, my father's Welsh... and my mother's from Devon. Actually I was in Caerphilly and left here when I was about a year o
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• Yootha Joyce
  ...hat she "hated" her time in Petersfield, she and the other female evacuees from Battersea would use the local church hall there for acting, dancing and sin ...hy"/> Starting back at RADA in September 1945, Joyce dropped the "Needham" from her name and began using the stage name "Yootha Joyce" saying "it seemed le
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• Bernard Cribbins
  ...d-cribbins-obituary|url-status = live}}</ref> the latter cited a statement from his agent.<ref name=Rice/> Other journalistic sources reported that he died ...was a regular and prolific reader for the [[BBC]] series ''[[Jackanory]]'' from 1966 to 1991, he narrated the children's programme ''[[The Wombles (1973 TV
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• George Formby Sr
  ...04}} Formby also had a successful recording career and made the transition from music hall to [[revue]] in 1916. ...n|Formby was not alone in developing a chest complaint: the mortality rate from bronchitis was 20% higher in the north west than the rest of the country.{{
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