• You Must Be Joking! (1965 film)
  {{short description|1965 film by Michael Winner}} | director = [[Michael Winner]]
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• Hannibal Brooks
  {{Short description|1969 film by Michael Winner}} | director = [[Michael Winner]]
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• I'll Never Forget What's'isname
  | director = [[Michael Winner]] | producer = Michael Winner
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• Meet Me Tonight
  | based_on = three plays from ''[[Tonight at 8.30]]'' by Noël Coward ...chive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127222059/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b02e23d|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 November 2016|title
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• Miranda (1948 film)
  | based_on = ''Miranda'' by [[Peter Blackmore (screenwriter)|Peter Blackmore]] | gross = £181,300 (by Dec 1949)<ref name="box"/>
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• Holiday Camp (film)
  ...s a 1947 British [[comedy film|comedy]] [[drama film|drama film]] directed by [[Ken Annakin]], starring [[Flora Robson|Flora Robson]], [[Jack Warner (act ...|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201232516/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Holiday-Camp_1947/ |date=1 February 2014 }}, BritMovie.co.uk</ref><ref>[htt
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• Ken Annakin
  ...ast]] comedies, [[Adventure films|Adventure films]], [[Action films|Action films]] ...60s he was noticed by critics with large-scale adventure epic and comedies films, like ''[[Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines]]'', ''[[Battle of
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• Mike Reid (actor)
  | birth_name = Michael Reid '''Michael Reid''' (19 January 1940 – 29 July 2007) was an English comedian, actor,
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• Steptoe and Son
  ...d by [[Ron Grainer|Ron Grainer]]. The series was voted 15th in a 2004 poll by the BBC to find ''[[Britain's Best Sitcom|Britain's Best Sitcom]]''. It was ...man", is an elderly rag-and-bone man, set in his grimy and grasping ways. By contrast, his son Harold is filled with social aspirations and pretensions.
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• Bob Monkhouse
  ...der brother suffered from [[Physical abuse|physical]] and [[verbal abuse]] by their mother. ...Aladdin]] in [[Aladdin (1958 film)|a stage show of the same name]] written by [[S. J. Perelman]] and [[Cole Porter]] and then in the first London product
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• Tom Walls
  | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> ...e specially-written comedies on similar lines, and there were also serious films, particularly later in Walls's career.
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• Whisky Galore! (1949 film)
  | caption = UK film poster by [[Tom Eckersley]] | producer = [[Michael Balcon]]
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• Anna Neagle
  ...and historical dramas. Almost all of her films were produced and directed by [[Herbert Wilcox]], whom she married in 1943. ...understudied [[Jessie Matthews]].<ref>Vermilye, Jerry. ''The Great British Films''. Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1978. p. 21.</ref>
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• Richard Briers
  ...Briers asked Morna to stand in for his regular pianist for a performance; by this time his first marriage had collapsed and six months later they had en ...rd-briers | work = The Guardian | title = Richard Briers obituary | first =Michael | last = Goveney | access-date = 18 February 2013 | date = 23 February 2013
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• Kenny Everett
  ...verett returned six months later, however, before being given his own show by [[Radio Luxembourg]] in 1966. ...96.</ref> An audition tape submitted to the BBC was assessed in March 1967 by a panel:
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• Albert Finney
  ...uting with ''[[The Entertainer (film)|The Entertainer]]'' (1960), directed by [[Tony Richardson]], who had previously directed him in the theatre. He mai ...ander in a TV version of ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' (1959) directed by [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall]].
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• The Commitments (film)
  * Michael Aherne ...is the first in a series known as ''[[The Barrytown Trilogy]]'', followed by ''[[The Snapper (film)|The Snapper]]'' (1993) and ''[[The Van (1996 film)|T
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• The Goon Show series 1
  ‘What exactly is a goon? Well, this is the answer Michael Bentine, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and I cooked up whenever people aske ...teran of Have a Go! and various musical shows, the melodies were conducted by Stanley Black, and Dennis Castle acted as the announcer.
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• Have I Got News for You
  ...ries related to questions, and the [[satirical]] humour derived from these by the teams. This style of presentation had a profound impact on panel shows ...ccess-date=22 April 2011}}</ref> Since then, the programme has been hosted by a different celebrity each week; many of them add their own comedy.
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• Maggie Smith
  ...language=en}}</ref> She received [[List of awards and nominations received by Maggie Smith|numerous accolades]], including two [[Academy Awards]], five [ ...date=28 December 2014 }}</ref><ref name="BAFTA322"/> Smith was made a dame by [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]] in 1990.<ref>{{cite news |last=Spears |
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