• Falling for You (film)
  ...cess-date=19 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a9cc0e7|title=Falling for You (1933)}}</ref> ...journalists Jack and Minnie (Hulbert and Courtneidge) compete for a scoop about a missing heiress (Tamara Desni). When they track her down to Switzerland,
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• Stop Press Girl
  The film was one of the four of [[David Rawnsley]]'s films that used his "independent frame" technique, a form of [[back projection]]. ...catches the train to [[London]] following Roy, where she meets a group of journalists including Jock Melville, who falls in love with Jennifer. Eventually the tr
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• The Naked Truth (1957 film)
  ...]] and [[Joan Sims]] also appear.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b13878b|title=The Naked Truth (1957)|publisher=www.bfi.org. ...anted to reveal any of their secrets in court. He was, in fact, optimistic about the trial anyway, and reveals that the evidence was his copies of "The Nake
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• One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
  ...is Missing''''' is a 1975 [[comedy film]] which is set in the early 1920s, about the theft of a [[dinosaur]] [[skeleton]] from the [[Natural History Museum, ...brother, Truscott, have been captured by the spies. They inform the spies about the possibility that what they are looking for is on another dinosaur skele
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• Marry Me! (1949 film)
  ...t to Get Married'''''<ref name="BFI">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b00ec52|title=Marry Me (1949)|website=BFI}}</ref>) is a 194 ...Haig is assigned by his [[Fleet Street]] editor to go undercover and write about the people behind the ads in the ''Marriage Chronicle'', a weekly newspaper
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• Woman Hater (1948 film)
  | studio = [[Two Cities Films]] ...er publicity-seeking agent and being besieged by [[autograph]] hunters and journalists. When she receives Datchett's invitation to stay at his house, she accepts
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• Corbet Woodall
  Corbet Woodall appeared in many television series, and also in some films, in which he invariably acted as either a television newsreader, or as an a [[Category:English television journalists]]
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• Alvar Lidell
  ...Empire|MBE]] in 1964 and retired in 1969. In 1979 he published an article about the deteriorating standards of speech at the BBC in ''[[The Listener (Briti Recordings of Lidell's news bulletins have been included in many films set in Britain during the Second World War, such as the movie ''[[Battle of
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• Whoops Apocalypse (film)
  {{About|the 1986 film|the 1982 TV series|Whoops Apocalypse}} Other characters include two tabloid journalists who discover the Communist weapons, but are killed; a rear admiral who is o
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• Still Crazy
  ...age" from Brian's ghost. The bus breaks down, and Karen confronts the band about their lack of confidence. When the band meet a girl wearing a Strange Fruit ...cause Brian to walk out. Everyone but Luke follows, and Luke chastises the journalists. Visibly shaken, Brian decides to back out of the show but gives his blessi
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• Ned Sherrin
  ..., a lively and humorous news events quiz featuring two teams of well-known journalists and columnists sparring against one another. The show was a production of W ...2007}}</ref> and ''[[w:Counterpoint (radio)|Counterpoint]]'', a quiz show about all types of music, until forced off the air when his voice succumbed to th
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• Alexei Sayle's Stuff
  ...a [[moped]] in a vague attempt to catalogue and comprehend all the "stuff" about him. The style of humour is often highly surreal and blunt. The bulk of the * ''Hooray for British Films'' – a satirical attack on the then dire state of the British film industr
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• James Robertson Justice
  ...rtraying pompous authority figures in comedies including each of the seven films in the ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' series. He also co-starred with ...bertson out of his habit of wearing Robertson [[tartan]]. Feeling strongly about his Scottish ancestry, he once claimed to have been born in 1905 under a di
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• Gorden Kaye
  ...re mill drama ''[[Champion House]]'' (1968) and played small roles in such films as ''[[The Party's Over (1965 film)|The Party's Over]]'' (1965), starring [ ...ccident, Kaye was photographed and interviewed by two ''[[Sunday Sport]]'' journalists, Gary Thompson and Ray Levine. On Kaye's behalf, his agent Peter Froggatt,
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• The Commitments (film)
  ...pon the working-class kids of Dublin to power his movie 'The Commitments,' about a fictional Irish band |work= [[Los Angeles Times]]|date=11 August 1991|url ...agan, a veteran musician who offers his services, and has unlikely stories about meeting and working with famous musicians. Joey names the band "The Commitm
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• Arnold Ridley
  ...[Phoney War]]", employed as a "Conducting Officer" tasked with supervising journalists who were visiting the front line. In May 1940,<ref name="BBC">[https://www. ===Films===
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• Willie Rushton
  ...ushton was the obvious choice to stand. Rushton gained much attention from journalists, since he stood under the slogan "Death to the Tories".<ref>{{cite news |fi ==Films, television and radio==
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• Dennis Potter
  ...g ''Pennies from Heaven'' on television one evening, Ross contacted Potter about the prospect of adapting that series for the cinema.<ref>On the DVD comment ...he stage after the television production was banned by the BBC, Potter set about writing a film version. Directed by [[Richard Loncraine]], who also directe
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• George Melly
  ...[Nigel Farndale]] in 2005, Melly said "I don't understand people panicking about death. It's inevitable. I'm an atheist; you'd think it would make it worse, ...ician and film maker [[Chris Wade (writer)|Chris Wade]] made a documentary about Melly entitled ''The Certainty of Hazard'', featuring his wife Diana, son T
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• Peter Sellers
  ...e]] and [[w:black comedy|black humour]] were major features of many of his films, and his performances had a strong influence on a number of later comedians ...{sfn|Lewis|1995|p=44}} According to Milligan, Sellers held a guilt complex about being Jewish and recalls that Sellers was once reduced to tears when he pre
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