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  • | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|MBE]] | birth_place = [[Skipton]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], [[England]]
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  • {{Use British English|date=August 2011}} | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]]
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  • ...ds|Blake Edwards]]' [[The Pink Panther (film series)|Pink Panther]] series of films. ...d television often with a specialisation in playing unsmiling villains and German officers. In addition to acting, he ran his own antiques business.<ref>Obit
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  • {{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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  • | alma_mater = [[London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]] ...e=12 January 2014 }}</ref> known by the stage name '''Sam Kelly''', was an English actor who appeared in film, television, radio and theatre. He is best known
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  • ...alised British subject. Theirs was a comfortable middle-class life, with a German cook and housekeeper living in the family home.<ref>[https://www.ancestry.c ...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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  • | alma_mater = [[w:University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology|Manchester Technical College]] ...two-parter episode of [[Batman (TV series)|''Batman'']] (1966), the voice of [[Shere Khan]] in Disney's ''[[The Jungle Book (1967 film)|The Jungle Book]
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  • ...n he was appointed an [[w:Order of the British Empire|Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in 1959. ...ty) Weintrop (1856–1935) were Polish [[Jew]]s who were married in the city of [[Radom]], Poland, and fled to [[Łódź]] on their wedding day to avoid a
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  • ...on and theatre.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9efee33a|title=Max Wall}}</ref> ...who was looking after them, were killed by a bomb dropped from a [[Germany|German]] [[Zeppelin]] which also destroyed their house.<ref name=maxwallsociety>{{
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  • |name = John Sullivan <br /> <small>[[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]</small> ...=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222162606/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/578834/|archive-date=22 February 2017}}</ref>
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  • ...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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  • ...[: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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  • | last = ''The Thoughts of Chairman Alf'' (1998) ...Health]]''. He also appeared in the [[chat show|chat show]] ''The Thoughts of Chairman Alf''. The character was created by [[Johnny Speight]] and played
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  • | 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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  • | 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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  • ...Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] for his portrayal of King [[Louis XVI]] in ''[[Marie Antoinette (1938 film)|Marie Antoinette]]'' ...eman" roles – as a doctor, lawyer, accountant or other professional member of society.
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • | image = Dirk Bogarde Hallmark Hall of Fame.JPG | nationality = [[English people|English]]
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  • ...pearing in his productions in the [[West End theatre|West End]] by the age of 16, and was quickly promoted from minor to major roles in his [[Edwardian m ...ears later. They acted together on stage and screen, initially in a series of [[revue|revue]]s, with Hulbert frequently producing as well as performing.
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