• Bill Waddington
  ...ealing two bananas from the harvest festival display. Having been expelled from his first school for being unruly, he finished his education, age 14, at gr Away from the stage, he developed a career as a butcher, and worked delivering meat f
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• Charlie Williams (comedian)
  He became famous from his appearances on [[Granada Television]]'s ''[[The Comedians (1971 TV seri ...ad come to [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]] in 1914 from [[Barbados]],<ref name="guardian"/><ref name="times"/><ref name="telegraph"
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• Norman Collier
  He died on 14 March 2013, aged 87, after a long battle with [[Parkinson's disease]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2013/03/15/17430/norma [[Category:2013 deaths]]
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• David Jacobs (broadcaster)
  ...various short-term jobs, before he served in the [[Royal Navy|Royal Navy]] from 1944 to 1947, and performed on the popular BBC General Forces Programme ''[ ...Saturday nights.<ref name= "Mundy">Mundy, John, ''Popular music on screen: from the Hollywood musical to music video'' (Manchester University Press, 1999)
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• Neil McCarthy (actor)
  He died of [[motor neurone disease]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a5-fBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA2 [[Category:1985 deaths]]
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• Thorley Walters
  From the 1960s onwards he also appeared in several [[Hammer horror]] films, incl ...F.O.]]'' and was shocked at his appearance (he was ill with [[Parkinson's disease]]). That visit resulted in the Terry-Thomas Gala held in the [[Theatre Roya
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• Terence Alexander
  ...=Google Books}}</ref> He is probably best remembered as Charlie Hungerford from the detective series ''[[w:Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]'', though he was ...appeared in all but two episodes of ''[[Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]'' from 1981 to 1991.<ref name=bergeracscreenonline>{{Cite web|url=http://www.scree
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• Bob Hoskins
  ...and television series such as ''[[Pennies from Heaven (TV series)|Pennies from Heaven]]'' (1978), ''[[The Long Good Friday]]'' (1980), ''[[Mona Lisa (1986 ...'s disease]], with which he had been diagnosed the previous year, and died from [[pneumonia]] on 29 April 2014 at the age of 71.
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• Richard Briers
  ...in ''[[Monarch of the Glen (TV series)|Monarch of the Glen]]'' (2000–05). From the late 1980s, with [[Kenneth Branagh]] as director, he performed Shakespe ...red a relationship.<ref name=more/> The family occasionally received money from a wealthy relation, and Briers' maternal grandparents paid for his educatio
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• Richard Vernon
  ...Service Sir James Greenley in ITV political drama ''[[The Sandbaggers]]'' from 1978 to 1980. In 1986 he appeared in ''[[Paradise Postponed]]'', and voiced Vernon died of complications from [[Parkinson's disease]] on 4 December 1997.<ref name="Independent 13 Dec 1997"/>
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• Freddie Starr
  ...apped'', Starr gives speech problems as the reason he spent two years away from home as a child.<ref>{{cite web |title=Freddie Starr reveals misery of chil Starr was encouraged by his mother to perform from the age of 12 working in clubs and pubs. For five years, he was a member of
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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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• List of The Brittas Empire characters
  ...a [[British television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] that aired on [[BBC1]] from 1991 to 1997. ...ically low attendance rates, catastrophic fires, floods, injuries and even deaths on several occasions. In typical bureaucratic style, he is obsessed with pa
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• Wendy Richard
  ...1972 to 1985, and [[Pauline Fowler]] on the soap opera ''[[EastEnders]]'' from 1985 to 2006. ...iss Brahms]] in ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'' appearing in all 69 episodes from 1972 to 1985. She also reprised the role in the sequel series ''[[Grace and
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• Ronnie Corbett
  ...BBC five years later. ''[[The Two Ronnies]]'' ran as a comedy sketch show from 1971 to 1987, and became Corbett and Barker's most famous work; Corbett bec ...etts-life/ | publisher = [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] | title = It's goodnight from him: A look back at Ronnie Corbett's life | date = 31 March 2016 | access-d
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• Kenneth More
  ...eventyear=1982&eventyear_offset=2|title=Search Results for England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007}}</ref> ...1953), he appeared in many roles as a carefree, happy-go-lucky gent. Films from this period include ''[[Doctor in the House]]'' (1954), ''[[Raising a Riot
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• Anna Neagle
  ...st a mere £23,000 to produce, it was a hit at the box office, with profits from its Australian release alone being £150,000.<ref name="bfireleases">[https ...as ''The Show Goes On''. The film, with a script featuring a contribution from [[Herman J. Mankiewicz]] (later to co-write ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' with [[Ors
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• Dudley Moore
  ...f the four writer-performers in the comedy revue ''[[Beyond the Fringe]]'' from 1960 that created a boom in satiric comedy, and with a member of that team, ...a Francis (née Hughes), a secretary, and John Moore, a railway electrician from Glasgow.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/13
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• Terry-Thomas
  ...Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'' (1963) and ''[[How to Murder Your Wife]]'' (1965). From the mid-1960s on he also frequently starred in European films, in roles suc ...and, shortly before his death, was living in poverty, existing on charity from the Actors' Benevolent Fund. A charity gala was held in his honour, which r
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• Peter Ustinov
  ...t recording for children, as well as the recipient of governmental honours from, amongst others, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He also displayed ...significant contributions Ustinov had made as chancellor of the university from 1992 until his death.
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