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  • {{Short description|English actor}} '''Joseph Gladwin''' (22 January 1906 – 11 March 1987) was an English actor, best known for his roles as Fred Jackson in [[w:Coronation Street|Co
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  • [[Category:British Roman Catholics]] [[Category:South African Roman Catholics]]
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  • ...|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (22 December 1909 – 19 September 1998) was an English [[Character actor|character actress]]. * ''[[La Rosa di Bagdad]]'' (1949) – Amin (English version, voice)
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  • '''Lionel Charles Jeffries''' (10 June 1926 – 19 February 2010) was an English actor, director, and screenwriter.<ref name="bbc">{{cite news |url=http://n [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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  • Powell was born as Vincent Joseph Smith to Roman Catholic parents in [[w:Miles Platting|Miles Platting]], Manchester. When h ...ly in the [[Doctor in the House (TV series)|''Doctor''... series]]) as the English-Foreign Language teacher Mr Jeremy Brown, set in an adult education college
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  • '''Anthony John Melody''' (18 December 1922 – 26 June 2008) was an English television actor who appeared in a number of long running comedies and [[so He was raised as a devout [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] and attended [[Sacred Heart Church, Blackpool|Sacred Heart Churc
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  • ...after Danny La Rue ("la rue" in [[French language|French]] translates into English as "the street") [[Category:English drag queens]]
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  • ...Maurice James Christopher Cole'''; 25 December 1944 – 4 April 1995) was an English comedian, radio disc jockey and television presenter. After spells on [[w:p [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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  • ...rn '''James Lawler Booth'''; 4 October 1875&nbsp;– 8 February 1921) was an English comedian and singer in musical theatre, known as one of the greatest [[musi ...after their marriage, Eliza persuaded Formby to join the [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic Church]], which helped her parents overcome their initial distrust
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  • ...ls|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (3 January 1926{{snds}}8 March 2016) was an English [[record producer]], [[arrangement|arranger]], [[composer]], [[conducting|c [[Category:English male composers]]
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  • ...idesmaid and constant companion [[Madge Allsop]] (played by [[Emily Perry (English actress)|Emily Perry]]), a New Zealander from [[Palmerston North]] who assi .... I love all races, particularly white people. You know, I even like Roman Catholics.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/30/10513819
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  • ...'''Diana Mary Fluck'''; 23 October 1931{{spaced ndash}}4 May 1984) was an English actress and singer. ...uffering from unrequited love, and by the mid-1950s, she was known as "the English [[Marilyn Monroe]]".<ref name=Bret/> Hamilton also made sure that she had t
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  • ...BE}} (born '''George Hoy Booth'''; 26 May 1904&nbsp;– 6 March 1961) was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audie ...mart|Bothway Howard|2011|p=51}} Later in 1915, and with the closure of the English racing season because of the [[First World War]], Formby moved to Ireland w
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