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  • ...ird". He also appeared in the films ''[[Secrets of a Windmill Girl|Secrets of a Windmill Girl]]'' (1966), ''[[The Touchables (film)|The Touchables]]'' (1 ...rchive-date=2021-12-14 |url-status=live|publisher=[[YouTube|]]|title=Video of 1979 UK Disco Dance Final|accessdate=1 August 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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  • ...ww.aveleyman.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba6a07cfc|title=Mario Fabrizi|publisher=}}</ref> ...0 p26 "Mush Takes a (Real-Life) plunge!"</ref> He married Katherine Boyne of Leeds on 28 May 1960.<ref name=Mirror/> They had a son, Anthony, in 1961.<
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  • ...ds|Blake Edwards]]' [[The Pink Panther (film series)|Pink Panther]] series of films. ...mid-1950s onwards, he developed a successful career playing a broad range of supporting roles in both film and television often with a specialisation in
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[Order of St. Gregory the Great|KSG]] ...them!" Carson was a member of the entertainment charity the [[Grand Order of Water Rats]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Frank Carson Obituary|url=https://www.t
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  • 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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  • '''Madeline Smith''' (born 2 August 1949) is an English actress. After working as a model in the late 1960s, she went on to appear ...ia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA2011-IA59|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|pu
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  • ...<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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  • ...0198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-111193 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.111193}}</ref><ref>{ ...November 1931, the daughter of an English mother (Olive Smethurst) and an Italian father (Luigi Riccoboni; sometimes spelt Reccobini). In the 1930s her fathe
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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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  • | death_place = [[London Borough of Barnet|Barnet]], London, England ...]]|pages=14}}<!--|access-date=2006-12-13--></ref> He appeared in a variety of stage, film, television and radio productions throughout his career.
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  • {{short description|English actress, broadcaster, and author (1948–2014)}} | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]]
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  • ...ty Python]] would perform) and ''[[Marty (TV series)|Marty]]'', the latter of which won Feldman two [[w:British Academy Television Awards|British Academy ...ps://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/04/obituaries/marty-feldman-film-comic-victim-of-heart-attack-at-48.html |access-date=12 November 2021 |newspaper=The New Yo
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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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  • | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ...Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was an English [[w:Theatre director|theatre and opera director]], actor, author, televisio
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  • ...= [[University College, Oxford|University College]] <br /> [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] ...or roles in several films. In the 1960s, he rose to prominence in the role of bigoted [[cockney]] [[Alf Garnett]] in the [[BBC]] television sitcom ''[[Ti
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  • ...Holmes à Court then deposed him in a boardroom coup and purged the company of all his staff, even, Lord Grade noted sadly, his tea lady. Later, he observ ...gle.com/books?id=VH94S39CRFYC&pg=PA106 |title=The East End: Four Centuries of London Life |publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]] |year=2000 |isbn=081352
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  • {{Short description|English writer, comedian, and musician (1944–2019)}} | alma_mater = [[Norwich School of Art]]<br>[[Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths College]]
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  • ...: star dies" /> Le Mesurier appeared in more than 120 films across a range of genres, normally in smaller supporting parts. ...d an offer to work with [[Alec Guinness]] in a [[John Gielgud]] production of ''[[Hamlet]]''.
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  • | alt = Black-and-white portrait of Margaret Smith ...www.goldderby.com/gallery/triple-crown-acting-winners/|title= Triple Crown of Acting Winners|website= GoldDerby|date= 5 April 2024|access-date= 4 June 20
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  • {{Short description|English actor and comedian (1925–1980)}} | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]]
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