• We Joined the Navy
  | image = We Joined the Navy.jpg |based_on = ''We Joined the Navy'' by [[John Winton]]
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• Forces' Sweetheart (film)
  The plot revolves around two gormless soldiers, played Secombe and Bentine who ...viously unwittingly decided on the pseudonym Lieutenant John Robinson) and the Flight Lieutenant to be mistaken for their namesake and thus bluff their wa
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• Watch Your Stern
  ...a Sailor'' by Earle Couttie. The Royal Navy provided cooperation, allowing the producers to film in [[Chatham Dockyard]], and aboard [[HMS Jaguar (F37)|HM ...ies. It also has similarities to the long-running BBC radio series ''[[The Navy Lark]]''.
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• Sailors Three
  ...itish sailors who accidentally find themselves aboard a German ship during the [[Second World War]]. ...did likewise with ''Sailors Three'', following his comic misadventures in the army in ''[[Laugh It Off (1940 film)|Laugh It Off]]'' (dir. [[John Baxter (
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• Carry On Admiral
  | based_on = ''[[Off the Record (play)|Off the Record]]'' by [[Ian Hay|Ian Hay]] & [[Stephen King-Hall|Stephen King-Hall]] ...m/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&q=carry+on+admiral+literary+sources&pg=PA212|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|first=Alan|last=Goble|date=8 Sep
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• The Bulldog Breed
  | image = The Bulldog Breed.jpg ...fi.org.uk/4ce2b6a6a5c35 |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 July 2012 |title=The Bulldog Breed (1960)|publisher=British Film Institute|date=|accessdate=9 Ju
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• Alan Hume
  ...'[[Carry On films|Carry On]]'' films<br>''[[w:Return of the Jedi|Return of the Jedi]]'' (1983)<br>''[[w:Octopussy|Octopussy]]'' (1983)<br>''[[A View to a ...e= 2013-10-31 |department= Movies & TV Dept. |work= [[w:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |date= 2013 |title= Alan Hume }}</ref>
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• The Baby and the Battleship
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• Jack Train
  ...tor best known for his appearances as a variety of eccentric characters in the [[w:BBC|BBC]] radio series ''[[It's That Man Again]]'' (''ITMA''). ...til Handley's sudden death in 1949 put an end to ''ITMA''. ''[[w:The Times|The Times]]'' said of Train:
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• Up the Creek (1958 film)
  | image = Up the Creek (1958 film).jpg '''''Up the Creek''''' is a 1958 British [[w:comedy film|comedy film]] written and dire
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• Up to His Neck
  ...It was shot at [[Pinewood Studios]] near [[London]] with sets designed by the [[art director]] [[Alex Vetchinsky]]. ...d, and treated as a King by natives. He is eventually rescued by the Royal Navy, who then use him to train up commandos to recover a stolen submarine, and
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• They Met in the Dark
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• Michael Mills (British producer)
  | notable_works = Head of comedy at the [[w:British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] (1967–1972), producer at Thame ...anuary 1988) was an English television producer and director who served as the [[w:BBC|BBC]]'s Head of Comedy from 1967 until 1972.
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• Let George Do It!
  ...s|ABFD]]. This was the first comedy from this studio to deal directly with the [[World War II|Second World War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.co ...on about British shipping to German [[U-boat]]s, using a code concealed in the radio broadcasts.
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• Jack Watson (actor)
  ...from the 1950s onwards.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fa677ad|title=Jack Watson|website=BFI}}</ref> ...k-watson-1105138.html|title=Obituary: Jack Watson|date=9 July 1999|website=The Independent}}</ref>
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• Barnacle Bill (1957 film)
  | budget =$659,000<ref name="Mannix">{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Moti ...d multiple roles.<ref>Guinness 2001, p. 224.</ref> The film was written by the screenwriter of ''[[Passport to Pimlico]]''.<ref name="McGee"/>
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• Raising a Riot
  | studio = [[London Films]] <br> Wessex Films | distributor = [[British Lion Films]]
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• Sailor Beware! (1956 film)
  | studio = [[Remus Films]]<br>[[Romulus Films]] | gross = £221,779 (UK)<ref>Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', ''Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television''
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• Terry Scott
  ...= 978-1-84854-195-5 |page=240 }}</ref> He is also best known for appearing the [[BBC1]] [[Situation comedy|sitcom]] ''[[Terry and June]]'' with [[June Whi ...tember 2010</ref> After [[National Service]] in the [[Royal Navy|Navy]] at the end of [[World War II]], he briefly studied accounting.
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• Doris Hare
  ...ef name="Lentz2000">{{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PZ8HAQAAMAAJ|year=200 ...seemed inevitable that she would become a part of it, making her debut at the age of three in ''Current Cash'' and appearing in juvenile troupes all over
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