• Felix Bowness
  .../ref> was a British comedy actor who was best remembered for his portrayal of the [[jockey]] [[Hi-de-Hi!#Main entertainment staff|Fred Quilley]] in the [ Born in the village of [[Harwell, Oxfordshire|Harwell]], [[Berkshire]], to [[French Canadian]] parents, he became a [[bantamweight]] [[boxing]] champion.
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• Ronald Fraser (actor)
  ...ies, and despite a long-standing reputation as one of the hardest drinking of British actors he was still working in his last years. He was perhaps best Ronald Fraser was born in [[Ashton-under-Lyne]], Lancashire, the son of an interior decorator and builder from [[Scotland]]. He attended [[Ashton S
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• Moira Lister
  | spouse = {{marriage|Jacques Gachassin-Lafite, Viscount of Orthez|1951|1989|end=died}} '''Moira Lister Gachassin-Lafite, Viscountess of [[Orthez]]''' (6 August 1923{{spaced ndash}}27 October 2007) was a South Af
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• Ron Moody
  {{short description|English actor, composer, singer and writer}} ...ottenham was part of Middlesex when Moody was born, it did not become part of London until 1965-->, England
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• Fenella Fielding
  | post-nominals = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] | birth_place = [[Metropolitan Borough of Hackney|Hackney]], London, England
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• Peter Arne
  ...ds|Blake Edwards]]' [[The Pink Panther (film series)|Pink Panther]] series of films. ...born in [[w:Kuala Lumpur|Kuala Lumpur]], [w:[British Malaya|]], to a Swiss-French mother and an American father, and gained his early acting experience in Br
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• Hermione Baddeley
  ...she played from the 1930s to the 1950s, co-starring several times with the English actress [[Hermione Gingold]]. ...ard]] for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series for her portrayal of Nell Naugatuck on the TV series ''[[Maude (TV series)|Maude]]''.
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• Irene Handl
  Irene Handl was born in [[Maida Vale]], London, the youngest of two daughters of an Austrian banker and stockbroker, Frederick Handl, born as Friedrich Hand ...appearances on stage, she played [[Lady Bracknell]] in ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'' in 1975, in a production directed by [[Jonathan Miller]].
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• Roy Kinnear
  | education = [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] ...n the 1974 and 1989 sequels, and died following an accident during filming of the latter. He is also known for playing Private Monty Bartlett in ''[[The
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• James Robertson Justice
  ...ch [[Scottish Television]] (STV) and serving as Rector of the [[University of Edinburgh]]. ..."Justice, James Norval Harald Robertson (1907–1975)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.c
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• Lynda Bellingham
  {{short description|English actress, broadcaster, and author (1948–2014)}} | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]]
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• Michael Bentine
  {{short description|English comedian}} | honorific_suffix={{postnominal|country=GBR|size=100%|list=[[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]]}}
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• Victor Spinetti
  ...<ref name=obit/> actor, author, poet, and raconteur. He appeared in dozens of films and stage plays throughout his 50-year career, including the three 19 ...w]]'', ''[[Under Milk Wood (1972 film)|Under Milk Wood]]'', ''[[The Return of the Pink Panther]]'' and ''[[Under the Cherry Moon]]''.
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• Andrew Sachs
  ...[:File:Andrew Sachs, audio description of London Zoo.ogg|audio description of London Zoo]] for [[VocalEyes]] }} ...s name on British television and found his greatest fame for his portrayal of the comical Spanish waiter [[Manuel (Fawlty Towers)|Manuel]] in ''[[Fawlty
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• Peter Vaughan
  ...productions.<ref name="BFI">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ef5bd96 |title=Peter Vaughan |access-date=7 December 2016 |work=Briti ...ce and Fire characters#Maester Aemon|Maester Aemon]] in [[HBO]]'s ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' (2011–2015).
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• Roger Lloyd-Pack
  ...th_date = 16 January 2014 (age 69)<ref>https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0da66e4</ref> ...mic|John Lumic]] in the episodes "[[Rise of the Cybermen]]" and "[[The Age of Steel]]". He was sometimes credited without the [[hyphen]] in his surname.
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• Herbert Lom
  | birth_place = [[Prague]], [[Kingdom of Bohemia]], [[Austria-Hungary]] Lom was noted for his precise, elegant enunciation of English.<ref name=DTObit>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituari
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• Peter Ustinov
  ...dwill ambassador|goodwill ambassador]] for [[UNICEF|UNICEF]] and president of the [[World Federalist Movement|World Federalist Movement]]. ...a]], composer of the music for ''[[Quo Vadis (1951 film)|Quo Vadis]]'' and of numerous concert works, dedicated his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 22 (1950) t
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• Chesney and Wolfe
  ...ft the French Lycée school in London at the age of 16, and began using his English name.<ref name="Hayward2018">{{cite news |last=Hayward |first=Anthony |url= ...Declared unfit to serve in the [[Second World War]] because of the removal of a [[tuberculosis]]-infected kidney,<ref name="Hayward2018"/> he taught the
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• Sean Lock
  ...dy panel show ''[[8 Out of 10 Cats]]'' from 2005 to 2015, and on ''[[8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown]]'' from 2012 until his death in 2021. ...orthern-ireland-40774477.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Lock, the youngest of four children, was raised in [[Woking]], Surrey, where he attended [[St Joh
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