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  • ...and-personalities-3/ |access-date=19 June 2022 |chapter=ABC Programmes and Personalities 3}}</ref> [[Category:Television shows produced by ABC Weekend TV]]
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  • {{Short description|English comic and singer}} ...''' (born 27 June 1938), known professionally as '''Tommy Cannon''', is an English comic, actor and singer. He is best known as the straight man of the comic
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  • {{Short description|English comedian and actor}} ...nglish comedian and actor. Mennard had a long career in variety, radio and television.
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  • {{short description|British television comedy sketch show}} {{Infobox television
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  • ...''Peter Cedric Coates'''; 31 October 1914 &ndash; 18 February 1981) was an English comic [[impressionist]], popular on [[BBC radio]] in the 1940s and 1950s wh ...ps]], and sometimes acted as compere at shows. He started mimicking radio personalities, such as the imaginary children impersonated by [[Harry Hemsley]], and deve
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  • ...'' ({{ne}} '''Walker'''; 27 November 1920 &ndash; 15 November 1994) was an English comedian and actor. ...Vegas]].<ref name=hudd/> In the late 1950s he took a leading role in the television adaptation of ''[[Educating Archie#ITV sitcom adaptation|Educating Archie]]
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  • {{short description|English comedian}} | occupation = Television comedian
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  • {{short description|English comedian}} | genre = Radio, television
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  • {{short description|English ventriloquist}} '''Peter Brough''' (26 February 1916 &ndash; 3 June 1999) was an [[w:England|English]] radio [[w:ventriloquist|ventriloquist]] who became a well-known name to a
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  • {{blockindent|The multi-voiced Train was a variety of unforgettable personalities – the German Funf, who was both fundamentally menacing and naturally funn ...57 when he was surprised by [[w:Eamonn Andrews|Eamonn Andrews]] at the BBC Television Theatre.
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  • {{short description|English comedy double act}} | medium=Film, television, stand-up, music, books
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  • | occupation = {{ublist|Radio & television writer|Television presenter|Radio personality}} ...te scripts for [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]] films. He presented television programmes on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] for many years, including the nostal
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  • | occupation = [[Ventriloquist]] and television entertainer ...r 1930 – 24 May 2010) was an English [[w:ventriloquist|ventriloquist]] and television entertainer from the 1950s until the 1980s. He was associated primarily wit
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  • ...me Joe You Don't Kno American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities'', Greenwood Press; {{ISBN|978-0-313-29550-8}}, p. 11</ref> between 1987 an [[Category:English television actresses]]
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  • ...Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (13 October 1904 – 27 March 1978) was an English actor and radio presenter. ...ued an acting career in London's [[West End theatre|West End theatre]], on television and on film.
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  • ...rts for [[Schweppes]] from 1965 to 1973. He also performed on stage, film, television and radio, taking over from [[Peter Jones (actor)|Peter Jones]] as "The Boo He went on to perform on the stage, on television and radio, and in several films. He appeared in several films in the 1950s,
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  • {{Short description|British radio, television and newsreel announcer}} | occupation = Radio, television and newsreel presenter
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  • | occupation = Film and television screenwriter '''David Freeman''' (22 August 1922 – 28 March 2005) was a British film and television writer, working chiefly in comedy.
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  • ...Loving Memory (TV series)|In Loving Memory]]'' ([[ITV Yorkshire|Yorkshire Television]]), and as the incompetent debt collector and golfer Morton Beamish in ''[[ ...e You Don't Know: An American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities|first=Anthony|last=Slide|date=13 May 1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Gr
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  • ...on before joining the [[w:BBC|BBC]]. He appeared in a variety of radio and television satirical shows and theatre shows, some of which he also directed. ...the founding of independent television, producing shows for [[w:Associated TeleVision|ATV]] in Birmingham.
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