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- | birth_date = {{birth date|1921|09|25|df=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1981|04|08|1921|09|25|df=y}}8 KB (1,129 words) - 12:04, 21 February 2023
- ...2 |url-access=registration}} Note: Figures are for [[distributor rentals]] in the United States and Canada.</ref> ...plagues were dropped, new ones added and they are ordered differently from in the Bible.24 KB (3,421 words) - 22:02, 27 September 2024
- ...moguls, Balcon emerged as a key figure, and an obdurately British one too, in his benevolent, somewhat headmasterly approach to the running of a creative ...a production company known as Ealing Films, and later headed British Lion Films. He served as chairman of the [[British Film Institute]] production board t18 KB (2,564 words) - 23:53, 4 February 2023
- ...920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s. ...tnership with the comic actor [[Leslie Henson]]. They had an early success in the West End with a long-running farce, ''[[Tons of Money (play)|Tons of Mo16 KB (2,355 words) - 21:20, 25 February 2023
- | birth_date = {{birth date|1921|02|01|df=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|06|02|1921|02|01|df=y}}32 KB (4,780 words) - 13:34, 25 August 2024
- | caption = Marriott in his "old man" character ...n he used the character in his "The fourth form at St. Michael's" sketches in the 1920s.12 KB (1,928 words) - 15:06, 27 March 2023
- | birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|06|29|df=y}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|11|30|1921|06|29|df=y}}21 KB (3,165 words) - 16:16, 24 February 2023
- | caption = Finlayson in 1923 ...ayson''' (27 August 1887 – 9 October 1953) was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a [[fake moustache]],<ref name=m25 KB (3,674 words) - 22:23, 28 September 2024
- |caption=Laurie as [[Private Frazer]] in ''[[Dad's Army]]'' ...r supporting roles rather than leading ones. As a stage actor, he was cast in Shakespearean roles and was a speaker of verse, especially of [[Robert Burn21 KB (3,113 words) - 23:27, 15 January 2023
- ...ire|Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in 1961 and a Dame Commander (DBE) in 1967. ....jpg|thumb|right|Margaret Rutherford's early home, her aunt Bessie's house in [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]], 1895–1920]]27 KB (3,944 words) - 08:06, 11 September 2024
- | spouse = {{marriage|Kathleen Marsh|1921}} ...w|variety]], [[revues]] and by the early 1930s reached the top of the bill in the large [[music hall|music halls]] including the [[London Palladium]].30 KB (4,700 words) - 23:37, 23 February 2023
- | birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|03|28|df=yes}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|5|8|1921|03|28|df=yes}}43 KB (6,535 words) - 10:41, 25 August 2024
- |caption = Ustinov in 1986, photographed by [[Allan Warren|Allan Warren]] |birth_date = {{birth date|1921|04|16|df=yes}}56 KB (7,853 words) - 10:43, 25 August 2024
- {{about|the ukulele player, singer and comedian|his father (1875–1921)|George Formby Sr}} ...ngwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, [[Novelt87 KB (13,680 words) - 07:53, 16 March 2023
- | caption = Chaplin in the early 1920s ...5 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.164 KB (24,245 words) - 14:14, 25 August 2024
- | image = Terry-Thomas in Where Were You When the Lights Went Out.jpg | caption = Terry-Thomas in ''[[Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?]]'' (1968)94 KB (14,211 words) - 07:49, 27 September 2024
- | alt = A group of performers in 1940s clothes, dressed warmly for a visit to northern Scotland ...for twelve series from 1939 to 1949. The shows featured [[Tommy Handley]] in the central role, a fast-talking figure, around whom all the other characte98 KB (14,826 words) - 00:03, 10 February 2023