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  • ...and spent nine months as a prisoner taking care of Asian elephants at the Munich zoo.<ref name="Goodwin">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O ..."Hannibal" Brooks is a British [[prisoner of war]] who is put to work in [[Munich]] zoo, looking after a female [[Asian elephant]] named Lucy. When the zoo i
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  • ...eenonline.org.uk}}</ref><ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba17b8221|title=Frank Launder}}</ref> He was born in [[Hitchin]], Hertfordshire, England and worked briefly as a clerk before be
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  • ...insel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48'' By Robert Murphy p34]</ref> In 1946 Mason called Black "the one good production executive" that [[J. Arthu ...used to come off as successful as his others."<ref>Round Table on British Films Cornelius, Henry; Dickinson, Thorold; Havelock-Allan, Anthony; John, Rosamu
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  • ...Ghost Train''''' is a stage comedy-[[thriller (genre)|thriller]], written in 1923 by the English actor and playwright [[Arnold Ridley]]. ...lm)|The Lady Vanishes]]'' (1938), ''[[Night Train to Munich|Night Train to Munich]]'' (1940), ''[[The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film)|The Taking o
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  • ...es Clouseau]]'s ([[Peter Sellers]]) unrelenting ineptitude in the previous films. A typically disastrous visit from Clouseau on the day of his release promp Unused footage from the film was later included in ''[[Trail of the Pink Panther]]'' (1982), after Sellers's death.
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  • ...ember 1888 – 27 October 1970) was an English actor and comedian. He worked in film, television and theatre. ...in the comedy ''[[Doctor in the House (TV series)|Doctor in the House]]'' in 1970.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Collins' Music Hall, 10/11 Islington Green, Lond
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  • ...ps of the staff of the retail ladies' and gentlemen's clothing departments in the flagship [[department store]] of a fictional chain called Grace Brother ...ith the same main cast in 1991–1992, and a one-off episode with a new cast in 2016. Since its original release, all 69 episodes, the pilot, the Christmas
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  • |caption = Finney in 1966 ...previously directed him in the theatre. He maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television.
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  • |caption = Ustinov in 1986, photographed by [[Allan Warren|Allan Warren]] ...ame of its Graduate Society to [[Ustinov College, Durham|Ustinov College]] in honour of the significant contributions Ustinov had made as chancellor of t
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  • | 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.
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