• Time Flies (1944 film)
  ...y heavy-drinking [[Pocahontas]]. The main female character meets [[William Shakespeare]] and feeds him some of his own lines, which he eagerly writes down. * [[John Salew]] – [[William Shakespeare]]
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• The Great McGonagall (film)
  | music = [[John Carter (English musician)|John Shakespeare]] ...n the title role of ''[[Macbeth]]'' and his "improvement" of the [[William Shakespeare|Bard]]'s plot, his pilgrimage to [[Balmoral Castle]], the attempted assassi
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• Pamela Cundell
  ...name=guardian/> Henry Condell also helped put together the first folio of Shakespeare's works after his death. ...orked in the theatre, including pantomime, and appeared in several feature films.
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• Tony Britton
  ...1924 – 22 December 2019) was an English actor. He appeared in a variety of films (including ''[[The Day of the Jackal (film)|The Day of the Jackal]]'') and ...d professional, appearing on stage at [[the Old Vic]] and with the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]].
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• Tom Owen (actor)
  | birth_name = Thomas William Stevenson Rowbotham ...er Wine]]''. He was the son of [[Bill Owen (actor)|Bill Owen]], who played William "Compo" Simmonite (the father of Tom Simmonite) in the show.
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• Violet Carson
  ...arpenter|date=8 September 2009|access-date=25 April 2017}}</ref> As silent films fell out of fashion, and the '[[w:Sound film|talkies]]' arrived, Carson too ...anyone's aunt," Carson exclaimed when Hill produced a BBC Radio programme about her in 1981. She worked with the [[Council for the Encouragement of Music a
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• Blackadder: Back & Forth
  ...y things". On his way back to the time machine, Blackadder meets [[William Shakespeare]] ([[Colin Firth]]). He hits him saying "that is for every schoolboy and sc ...ing people have their lives flash before them]] and that if Blackadder was about to drown, he might see how the dials were originally set. Blackadder agrees
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• Imogen Hassall
  ...August 1942 – 16 November 1980) was an English actress who appeared in 33 films during the 1960s and 1970s. ...Walton|Sir William Walton]]'s with whom her father had collaborated in [[w:William Walton#Postwar|the early 1950s]], denied by Lady Walton.<ref>Page 71, Biogr
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• Theatre of Blood
  ...chive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729201356/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b808b4c|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 July 2016|title=The | gross = $1 million (U.S./ Canada rentals)<ref>"Big Rental Films of 1973", ''Variety'', 9 January 1974, p. 60</ref>
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• John Barrett (actor)
  ...ord">{{cite book |last1=Maxford |first1=Howard |title=Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company |date=2018 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978147667 ...dale, Lancashire |page=10}}</ref><ref name="Verona">{{cite news |title=The Shakespeare Society. "Two Gentlemen of Verona" |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive
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• Ronald Lacey
  | birth_name = Ronald William Lacey '''Ronald William Lacey''' (28 September 1935&nbsp;– 15 May 1991) was an English actor.<ref
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• Geoffrey Keen
  ...Frederick Gray|Sir Frederick Gray]] in the ''[[w:James Bond|James Bond]]'' films. ...he Bancroft Gold Medal after only one year. He had just joined the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] in 1939 when [[World War II|the war]] started. Keen enlisted in t
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• Norman Rossington
  ...for his roles in ''[[The Army Game]]'', the [[Carry On films|''Carry On'' films]] and [[w:the Beatles|the Beatles]]' film ''[[w:A Hard Day's Night (film)|A ...rsked!]]'', again as 'Cupcake'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ad40b5b|title=I only Arsked! (1959)|website=BFI}}</ref>
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• Roger Livesey
  ...n remembered for the three [[Powell and Pressburger|Powell & Pressburger]] films in which he starred: ''[[The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp]]'', ''[[I Kno ...B|id=60311|title=Livesey, Roger (1906–1976)}}</ref> Although most articles about him indicated that his parents were [[Sam Livesey|Samuel Livesey]] and Mary
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• John Laurie
  ...ica|access-date=29 April 2018}}</ref> Laurie appeared in scores of feature films with directors such as [[Alfred Hitchcock]], [[Michael Powell]], and [[Laur ...te=2012-07-11|title=John Laurie|work=BFI|access-date=2016-01-11}}</ref> to William Laurie (1856–1903), a clerk in a tweed mill and later a hatter and hosier
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• Songs and monologues of Stanley Holloway
  |By [[William Shakespeare]] with [[Laurence Olivier]]. Taken from the film [[Hamlet]] released the s |By William Shakespeare. Audiobook, featuring [[Moira Shearer]], [[Robert Helpmann]] and Micheal Be
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• John Gregson
  ...40 credited film roles.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ee347b3 |title=John Gregson }}</ref> He was best known for ...officer, or in comedy roles in [[Ealing Studios|Ealing]] and other British films.
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• Fenella Fielding
  ...usky voice. Fielding appeared in two ''[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On]]'' films, ''[[Carry On Regardless]]'' (1961) and ''[[Carry On Screaming!]]'' (1966). ...fi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba07d6a9e|title=Fenella Fielding|website=BFI Films, TV & People|access-date=27 March 2020}}</ref> in [[Metropolitan Borough of
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• Alastair Sim
  ...ath in 1976. Starting in 1935, he also appeared in more than fifty British films, including an iconic adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novella ''[[A Christ ...Vic]] company brought him wide experience of playing [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] and other classics, to which he returned throughout his career. In the mo
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• Norman Mitchell
  ...television, stage and film actor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba30f3922|title=Norman Mitchell|website=Bfi.org.uk|access-dat ...</ref> He then made many television appearances and appeared in over sixty films.
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