• Stan Boardman
  | birth_place = [[Liverpool]], England | notable_work = ''[[The Comedians (1971 TV series)|The Comedians]]''
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• Robb Wilton
  | birth_place = [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]], England ...on Smith in the [[w:Everton, Liverpool|Everton]] district of [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]] on 28 August 1881. He was a grand-uncle of actor [[w:Robin Askwith|Robin
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• Norman Vaughan (comedian)
  | birth_place = [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]], England Vaughan was born in [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]] and began a stage career at the age of 14 with a boys' theatrical troupe,
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• Avril Angers
  | birth_place = [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]], England ...in [[w:Covent Garden|Covent Garden]], [[w:London|London]], where she died from pneumonia, aged 87.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/news
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• Albert Modley
  | birth_place = [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], [[England]] ...|first=Roy |year=1976 |title=British Music Hall: An Illustrated Who's Who from 1850 to the Present Day |location=London |publisher=Paul Elek |page= 124|is
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• Eddie Braben
  | birth_place = [[w:Dingle, Liverpool|Dingle]], Lancashire, England ...ef name="theguardian.com"/> and he was born in Monkswell Street, [[Dingle, Liverpool|Dingle]]. He was evacuated to [[Anglesey]] as a child during [[World War II
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• Betty Marsden
  | birth_place = [[w:West Derby|West Derby]], [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]], England ...t she met and married her husband, Dr Jimmy Wilson Muggoch, an army doctor from Edinburgh.<ref name=BBC>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain
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• Haver and Lee
  Keyes and Tully both came from theatrical families, and met and decided to work together as children.<ref ...me]] music. The following year they performed at [[Knowsley Hall]] near [[Liverpool]] in a private command performance for [[King George V]] and [[Mary of Teck
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• Dave Morris (comedian)
  He lived in the [[Blackpool]] area from the early 1930s, and in 1940 began a thirteen-year run in the resort's sum ...|url=http://www.ronnietaylor.co.uk/id2.html|title=Ronnie Taylor - Northern Comedians and BBC Radio|website=www.ronnietaylor.co.uk}}</ref> The scripts were writ
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• Syd Little
  ...ily Post |url= http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-arts/2007/12/07/syd-s-getting-there-little-by-little-64375-20215736/ |acces [[Category:Comedians from Lancashire]]
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• Arthur Askey
  | birth_place = [[Dingle, Liverpool|Dingle]], [[Lancashire]], England ...Master's Voice]] include "The Bee Song" (1938), a lasting part of his act. From the 1950s, Askey was a prominent television presence and made regular appea
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• Ted Ray (comedian)
  ...onstrated his ad-libbing skills in his weekly radio show ''Ray's A Laugh'' from 1949 until 1961.<ref name="Stevens">{{cite book ...www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007js9f|title=BBC Radio 4 Extra – Ray's a Laugh, From 01/04/1954|publisher=BBC}}</ref> Other actors and actresses who featured on
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• Deryck Guyler
  ...d joined the [[Royal Air Force Police|RAF Police]] but was later invalided from service, whereupon he joined [[Entertainments National Service Association] ...er 'Frisby Dike' (named after a Liverpool department store bombed in the [[Liverpool Blitz|Blitz]]) was the first time the [[Scouse|real Liverpudlian accent]] w
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• Tommy Handley
  | birth_place = [[w:Toxteth|Toxteth Park]], [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]], Lancashire, England ...music hall]] circuit. He became nationally known as a pioneer broadcaster. From 1924 onwards he was frequently heard on [[w:BBC|BBC]] [[w:variety show|vari
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• Ted Rogers (comedian)
  ...est known for hosting the [[Yorkshire Television]] game show ''[[3-2-1]]'' from 1978 to 1988. ...[[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]], [[Cliff Richard]] and [[Alma Cogan]] and comedians [[Terry Scott]] and [[Hugh Lloyd]]. He went on to host ''[[Sunday Night at
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• Fred Emney
  ...RG13/500 f.123 p.3 Fred Arthur Emney aged 1 living in Camberwell, but born Liverpool, Lancashire</ref> the son of Blanche ({{nee}} Round) and [[Fred Emney Sr|Fr [[Category:English male comedians]]
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• Roy Castle
  ...st Riding of Yorkshire]]. The son of a railwayman, he was a [[tap dancer]] from an early age and trained at Nora Bray's school of dance with Audrey Spencer ...film ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'', the first of two cinematic spin-offs from the [[BBC]] television series. He played the role of [[Dr. Who (Dalek films
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• Ernie Wise
  ...on 15 March 1939.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Liverpool Daily Post |journal=Liverpool Daily Post |date=15 March 1939 |page=5}}</ref> ...ew and Wise" on Thursday 28 August 1941, at the [[Liverpool Empire Theatre|Liverpool Empire]]. A change of name followed in the autumn: after agreeing that the
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• Derek Nimmo
  | birth_place = [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], England ...then a grammar school under headmaster R. F. Bailey, who brought with him, from his previous position as assistant headmaster at leading independent school
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• Ken Dodd
  | birth_place = [[Knotty Ash]], [[Liverpool]], England | death_place = Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England
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