• The Huggetts Abroad
  ...igrate to South Africa, travelling via a land route that takes them across Africa. On their journey they become entangled with a diamond smuggler. *[https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6acbf154 The Huggetts Abroad] at BFI
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• Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure
  | studio = Oakland Films ...s a low budget 1951 British [[w:comedy film|comedy film]], the penultimate in the long running [[Old Mother Riley]] series starring [[Arthur Lucan]] and
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• Law and Disorder (1958 film)
  ...= A Paul Soskin Production<br>[[British Lion Film Corporation|British Lion Films Limited]] ...ica in 1941, and a freed [[prisoner of war]] in 1946 to cover his absences in gaol. While Percy is "away", Colin is cared for by Aunt Florence, who knows
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• Melody (1971 film)
  |distributor=[[British Lion Films]] |budget=$600,000<ref>Alexander Walker, ''National Heroes: British Cinema in the Seventies and Eighties'', Harrap, 1985 p. 67</ref>
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• The Belles of St. Trinian's
  | studio = [[London Films]] <br> Individual Pictures | distributor = [[British Lion Films]]
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• Sid James
  | caption = James in the early 1970s | birth_place = [[w:Johannesburg|Johannesburg]], South Africa
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• Carry On Henry
  ...ich was cut down when he heard he was wanted for the film and arrived back in time for the second day of shooting. ...Two comedic madrigals written for the film but unused were later performed in the [[Carry On Christmas Specials#Carry on Christmas (or Carry On Stuffing)
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• The Captain's Paradise
  | studio = [[London Films]] | distributor = [[British Lion Films]]
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• Virginia McKenna
  ...screen actress, author and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films ''[[A Town Like Alice (film)|A Town Like Alice]]'' (1956), ''[[Carve Her Na ...[Horsham]] in Sussex. She spent six years in [[Union of South Africa|South Africa]] before returning to the school at the age of fourteen, after which she at
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• Carry On Up the Jungle
  ...eath after they are apprehended by a [[cannibalistic|cannibalistic]] tribe in the jungle. ...James]]) and his slow-witted African guide Upsidasi ([[Bernard Bresslaw]] in [[blackface]]). Also on the expedition is Tinkle's idiotic assistant, Claud
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• Michael Balcon
  ...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 t
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• Edmund Blackadder
  | caption = Captain Blackadder in the Suffolk Regiment ...otable personality traits and characteristics throughout each incarnation. In a 2001 poll [[Conducting|conducted]] by [[Channel 4]], Edmund Blackadder wa
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• Marriott Edgar
  [[File:Marriot Edgar (2).jpg|thumb|right|Marriott Edgar in pantomime dame costume]] ...ue]]s performed by [[Stanley Holloway]], particularly the 'Albert' series. In total he wrote sixteen monologues for Stanley Holloway, whilst Holloway him
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• Steptoe and Son
  ...'Snetherswaite and Son''. Two film adaptations of the series were released in cinemas, ''[[Steptoe and Son (film)|Steptoe and Son]]'' (1972) and ''[[Step ...on. Albert Steptoe, a "dirty old man", is an elderly rag-and-bone man, set in his grimy and grasping ways. By contrast, his son Harold is filled with soc
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• Ken Annakin
  ...ast]] comedies, [[Adventure films|Adventure films]], [[Action films|Action films]] ...ge-scale adventure epic and comedies films, like ''[[Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines]]'', ''[[Battle of the Bulge (1965 film)|Battle of th
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• Bill Travers
  | death_place = [[South Holmwood]], [[Surrey]], England ...d [[animal rights]] activist. Prior to his show business career, he served in the British army with [[Gurkha]] and special forces units.
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• Wilfrid Hyde-White
  ...n. He achieved international recognition for his role as Colonel Pickering in the film version of the musical ''[[w:My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]'' ...en -->was born in [[Bourton-on-the-Water]] in [[Gloucestershire]], England in 1903 to the Rev. William Edward White, [[Canon (priest)|canon]] of [[Glouce
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• A Fish Called Wanda
  ...=&Movie=55759 |title=A Fish Called Wanda |website=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118025232/ ...ema/top-100-british-films/ |title=British Film Institute – Top 100 British Films |date=1999 |website=Cinemarealm.com |access-date=August 27, 2016}}</ref>
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• Phyllis Calvert
  | caption = Calvert photographed by [[Allan Warren|Allan Warren]] in 1974 ...in Grey]]'' (1943) and was one of the most popular movie stars in Britain in the 1940s.<ref name="screen">{{cite web|last=Brooke|first=Michael|url=http:
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• Will Hay
  ...h-produced film-comedy, and in 1938 he was the third highest-grossing star in the UK. Many comedians have acknowledged him as a major influence. Hay was ...CKTON – William Thomson Hay</ref> By his late teens, Hay had become fluent in Italian, French and German and secured employment as an interpreter.<ref na
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