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- ...rtune''' (born '''John C. Wood'''; 30 June 1939 – 31 December 2013) was an English satirist, comedian, writer, and actor, best known for his work with [[John [[Category:20th-century English novelists]]8 KB (1,166 words) - 13:59, 18 March 2023
- ...-date=28 February 2015}}</ref> (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and [[satire|satirist]]. [[Category:English male television actors]]7 KB (1,004 words) - 11:06, 8 September 2024
- | language = English ...from a sense in the movie and elsewhere that this particular generation of satirists has to make itself up out of whole cloth, that there are no useful preceden6 KB (938 words) - 11:35, 8 September 2024
- ...Russell-Brown'''; 27 December 1911{{spaced ndash}}18 October 2006) was an English–Canadian singer and comedian. She gave many concerts in which she sang an ...he toured throughout North America, Britain, Australia and the rest of the English-speaking world.17 KB (2,522 words) - 10:39, 17 March 2023
- '''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 (wri17 KB (2,447 words) - 23:04, 6 February 2023
- '''Eleanor Bron''' (born 14 March 1938) is an English stage, film and television actress, and an author. Her film roles include A [[Category:English film actresses]]24 KB (3,420 words) - 12:10, 23 February 2023
- '''Madeline Smith''' (born 2 August 1949) is an English actress. After working as a model in the late 1960s, she went on to appear ...the Pier Show]]'' (1974) and ''[[In The Looking Glass]]'' (1978) alongside satirists [[John Wells (satirist)|John Wells]] and [[John Fortune]] and composer [[Ca17 KB (2,537 words) - 16:26, 24 February 2023
- {{Short description|English actor (1936–2022)}} '''John Michael Bird''' (22 November 1936 – 24 December 2022) was an English actor, director, writer and satirist. He performed in the television satire21 KB (3,189 words) - 17:51, 24 January 2023
- ...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 ...Hay's films has been described as subversive and similar to that of fellow English comedian [[Frank Randle]]. His films are often characterised as exhibiting33 KB (5,042 words) - 22:47, 18 March 2023
- ...ouse]] suburb of [[Dublin]] on 6 July 1936, the son of an Irish father and English mother.<ref name="GOC">{{cite AV media|people=Robin Brown (Director)|date=1 ...m and drugs. Later programmes included ''Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric'' (1974) and ''Eccentrics at Play'' (1974), in which he looked at24 KB (3,650 words) - 08:07, 11 September 2024
- | language = English ...inst Republican nominee Senator [[Barry M. Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]]. The satirists sang that Goldwater could not win because he "does not know the dance of th21 KB (3,069 words) - 10:32, 25 August 2024
- ...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 ...bourne]], followed by a new production of ''The Marriage of Figaro'' for [[English National Opera]] in 1978. Miller's other turns as an opera director include38 KB (5,348 words) - 07:58, 11 September 2024
- ...s at 57|author= Mel Gussow|date= January 10, 1995|page= D20}}</ref> was an English actor, comedian, [[satirist]], playwright and screenwriter. He was the lead ...ll of more than 300 comics, comedy writers, producers and directors in the English-speaking world.<ref>{{cite news |title=Peter Cook the funniest |url=http://49 KB (7,334 words) - 16:20, 25 August 2024
- ...1996|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=19 November 2016}}</ref> was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the sati ...hton, Author, Artist And Beer-Drinker Extraordinary'' William Rushton (New English Library, 1966)34 KB (5,049 words) - 19:26, 4 September 2024
- ...e British Empire|CBE]] (19 April 1935{{spaced ndash}}27 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer. Moore first came to prominence in t * ''[[The Adventures of Milo and Otis]]'' (1986) – Narrator (English version, voice)38 KB (5,603 words) - 23:16, 13 February 2023
- ...e hosted the weekly programme ''[[Frost Over the World]]'' on [[Al Jazeera English]], and the weekly programme ''The Frost Interview'' from 2012. He received ...ille and Caius College, Cambridge]], from 1958, graduating with a Third in English.<ref>J. Hughes-Onslow, "Sir David Frost", ''[[The Oldie]]'', May 2014, p. 842 KB (5,950 words) - 00:03, 13 February 2023
- ...d [[Secondary education#Australia|matriculated]] with brilliant results in English and Art. Humphries himself described this schooling, in a ''[[Who's Who]]'' ...ies, and this was during the Edna segments: English actress [[Emily Perry (English actress)|Emily Perry]] played Edna's long-suffering bridesmaid from New Zea67 KB (9,596 words) - 23:07, 6 February 2023