• John Paddy Carstairs
  [[Category:Writers from London]] [[Category:20th-century English painters]]
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• Charles Chilton
  ....blogspot.com/2008/07/eagle-writers-charles-chilton-1917.html |title=Eagle Writers – Charles Chilton (1917 – ) |date=30 July 2008 |work=eagle-times.blogsp ...el.html '''The most influential radio programme ever'?'' – British Library English and Drama Blog – 6 January 2014]</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.f
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• Alan Melville (writer)
  === Non-fiction ===
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• Les Dawson
  '''Leslie Dawson Jr.''' (2 February 1931 – 10 June 1993) was an English comedian, actor, writer, and presenter, who is best remembered for his [[w: ...f his love for [[w:canonical|canonical]] figures in [[w:English literature|English literature]], in particular the 19th-century essayist [[w:Charles Lamb (wri
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• Bryan Forbes
  ...|b|z}}; born '''John Theobald Clarke'''; 22 July 1926 – 8 May 2013) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist described as He served as president of the [[National Youth Theatre]], [[Writers' Guild of Great Britain]] and the [[Beatrix Potter Society]].<ref name="Tel
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• Clive Dunn
  ...m|country=GBR|OBE}} (9 January 1920{{spaced ndash}}6 November 2012) was an English actor, artist, author, comedian and singer. Despite being only 48 and one o ===Non-fiction===
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• George Sanders
  ...ctor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth, bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but ...er]], in one of his first leads, as the hero; Sanders' smooth, upper-class English accent, his sleek manner, and his suave, superior, and somewhat threatening
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• Michael Bentine
  {{short description|English comedian}} | nationality = English
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• Will Hay
  ...nals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRAS}} (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian who wrote and acted in a [[schoolmaster]] sketch that later transf ...due to his film ''[[Hey! Hey! USA]]'' being somewhat unsuccessful that the writers and producers successfully talked him into bringing Moffatt and Marriott ba
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• Terry Jones
  After graduating from [[Oxford University]] with a degree in English, Jones and writing partner [[Michael Palin]] wrote and performed for severa ...e interested in the medieval period through reading Chaucer as part of his English degree.<ref>{{cite web|first=Todd|last=Leopold|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2
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• Sean Lock
  '''Sean Lock''' (22 April 1963 – 16 August 2021){{efn |name="date"}} was an English comedian and actor. He began his comedy career as a [[Stand-up comedy|stand ...ph obit" /> In 1981, he left education with a grade E in [[English studies|English]] [[A-Level]].<ref name="Telegraph obit" /><ref name="Times obit" /> Afterw
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• Kryten
  ...nk=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=w:Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=w:Doug Naylor |first3=Ed (director) |last3=Bye ...nk=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=w:Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=w:Doug Naylor |first3=Ed (director) |last3=Bye
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• Sid James
  ...Having seen him in ''The Lavender Hill Mob'', it was the idea of Hancock's writers, [[Galton and Simpson]], to cast James. He played a character with his own [[Category:20th-century South African male actors]]
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• Dennis Potter
  {{short description|English TV dramatist, screenwriter, journalist}} ...ennis Christopher George Potter''' (17 May 1935&nbsp;– 7 June 1994) was an English television [[dramatist]], screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for
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• Carry On Cabby
  | language = English ...'[[Carry On Jack]]'') from a story by [[Dick Hills and Sid Green]] (script writers for [[Morecambe and Wise]]). Regulars [[Sid James]], [[Hattie Jacques]], [[
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• Donald Sinden
  ...s wife Mabel Agnes (''née'' Fuller), he had an elder sister Joy who was an English teacher at Claverham Community College in Battle, East Sussex, and a younge ...e man who, so far, has shared star billing with some other more boisterous male idols. He has usually been left, crestfallen and jilted, in the last reel.<
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• Goodness Gracious Me (TV series)
  ===Going for an English=== One of the best known sketches featured the cast "going out for an English" after a few [[lassi]]s. They continually mispronounce the waiter's name, o
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• Douglas Adams
  '''Douglas Noel Adams''' (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, screenwriter, essayist, humourist, satirist and dramatist. Adams wa ...s in three years — he graduated in 1974 with a 2:2 in [[English literature|English literature]].<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/re
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• High & Dry (1987 TV series)
  | language = English ...C Television broadcast in 1985 under the title ''Walking the Planks'', the writers took the concept to the ITV company. Only one series was made.
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• Round the Horne main characters
  The persona adopted by the writers for Horne was not greatly different from his real-life one,{{sfn|Massingber ...end.{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=2, 5, 10 and 13}} As the show developed, the writers gave him more to do. In the second series Smith continually interrupts the
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