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- | birth_place = [[Melbourne]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], Australia ...started his career in the medium in the early 1930s. He appeared on screen from the late 1940s until retiring in 1978.6 KB (872 words) - 09:58, 19 April 2023
- ...er and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in ''[[Take It from Here]]'' and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in ''[[Whack-O!]]''. ...ghts]] revue. He gained wider exposure as a radio performer in ''[[Take It From Here]]'', co-starring [[Dick Bentley]], which first paired his writer [[Fra14 KB (2,083 words) - 00:22, 19 February 2023
- ...hries has regularly updated Edna, originally a drab [[Melbourne, Australia|Melbourne]] housewife satirising Australian suburbia. Then he caused the Edna charact ...Barry Humphries has claimed that they were inspired by the glasses worn by Melbourne eccentric, beautician, radio broadcaster, actor and dancer [[Stephanie Dest42 KB (6,292 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- ...7). After briefly serving with the [[Royal Flying Corps]], he was released from active service by the British government to help run a concert party called ...y]]'' in 1955. Henson's film career was intermittent, and he made 14 films from 1916 to 1956. The most notable of these was ''[[Tons of Money (1924 film)|T19 KB (2,834 words) - 20:01, 16 August 2024
- | birth_place = [[Kew, Melbourne|Kew]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], Australia ...d be avoided when the country to which the subject belongs can be inferred from the country of birth." -->67 KB (9,596 words) - 23:07, 6 February 2023
- ...Tim Brooke-Taylor]], [[Graeme Garden|Graeme Garden]] <br />in a screenshot from the title sequence <br />of the BBC television series ...rmed in their [[The Goodies (TV series)|eponymous television comedy show]] from 1970 until 1982, combining [[sketch comedy|sketches]] and situation comedy.40 KB (5,949 words) - 11:58, 24 August 2024
- ...an actor and reciter of comic monologues were soon recognised. Characters from his monologues such as Sam Small, invented by Holloway, and Albert Ramsbott ...9 July 2012</ref> George left Florence in 1905 and was never seen or heard from again by his family.<ref name="Holloway and Richards, p. 68">Holloway and R56 KB (8,391 words) - 00:06, 23 February 2023
- ...hildhood as "a happy time, marred by no ructions or family tensions, apart from the occasional wet sock."<ref>{{harvnb|McCabe|2005|p=14}}</ref> As a child, ...toles-Diams in ''[[Irma La Douce (musical)|Irma La Douce]]'' for two years from 1958,<ref name=C2/> Lord Slingsby-Craddock in ''Mr. Whatnot'' in 1964 and B70 KB (10,654 words) - 16:58, 14 December 2022