• Valerie Leon
  ...[[Roger Moore]] and [[Sean Connery]], respectively. She also had roles in high profile films such as ''[[The Italian Job]]'' (1969), ''[[The Wild Geese]] Leon also appeared in the [[Hai Karate]] television adverts in the 1970s which gained her substantial publicity. She also becam
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• David Nobbs
  ...was an English comedy writer, best known for writing the 1970s television series ''[[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]'', adapted from his own novels. ...ponse to the mundanity of his daily commute".<ref name="bha obit"/> The TV series starred [[Leonard Rossiter]] as Perrin.
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• Madeline Smith
  ...ing as a model in the late 1960s, she went on to appear in many television series and stage productions, plus comedy and horror films, in the 1970s and 1980s ..., ''[[The Amazing Mr. Blunden]]'' (1972) and the musical film ''[[Take Me High]]'' (1973) with [[Cliff Richard]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google
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• Joking Apart
  {{Infobox television | num_episodes = 12 (+ [[Television pilot|pilot]])
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• Red Dwarf: Back to Earth
  {{Infobox television | preceded_by = [[Only the Good...#Series VIII (1999)|''Red Dwarf VIII'']]
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• Hywel Bennett
  ...ing man's layabout" James Shelley in the television sitcom ''[[Shelley (TV series)|Shelley]]'' (1979–1992).<ref name="i"/> ...cowboy-obsessed teenager was the first of many parts in [[Dennis Potter]] television plays.<ref name=bfiobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/s
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• Lance Corporal Jones
  | series = [[Dad's Army]] | portrayer = [[Clive Dunn]] (TV series)<br/>Clive Dunn and [[Jack Haig (actor)|Jack Haig]] (stage show)<br/>[[Tom
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• Blake Edwards
  ...' (1982), and the hugely successful [[The Pink Panther|Pink Panther]] film series with British actor [[Peter Sellers]]. Often thought of as primarily a direc ...date= August 5, 1971|page=56}}</ref> After graduating from [[Beverly Hills High School]] in the class of Winter 1941, Blake began taking jobs as an actor d
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• O Lucky Man!
  '''''O Lucky Man!''''' is a 1973 British [[comedy-drama]] [[fantasy film]] directed by [[Lindsay Anderson]], and starring [[Malcolm McDowell]] ...ner, and converted to [[humanism]]. He is quickly faced with a bewildering series of assaults upon his new-found idealism, culminating in a scene in which he
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• Dennis Potter
  | occupation = Television playwright, screenwriter, journalist, author, novelist, director | notableworks = ''[[Pennies from Heaven (TV series)|Pennies from Heaven]]'' (1978)<br />''[[Blue Remembered Hills]]'' (1979)<b
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• William Hartnell
  ...r 75 British films, he is best remembered as the [[First Doctor]] in [[BBC Television]]'s ''[[Doctor Who]]'', which he played from 1963 to 1966.<ref name="meyric ...poverty stricken illegitimate child and hard-drinking womaniser to one of television's most iconic characters |last=Retter |first=Emily |work=[[Daily Mirror|The
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• The Goodies
  ...<br />in a screenshot from the title sequence <br />of the BBC television series |data6 = [[Television|Television]], [[theatre|theatre]], [[sound recording and reproduction|audio recordings
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• Terry Jones
  ...ones and writing partner [[Michael Palin]] wrote and performed for several high-profile British comedy programmes, including ''[[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]'' ...nt award at the [[BAFTA Cymru]] Awards for his outstanding contribution to television and film. After living for several years with a degenerative [[aphasia]], h
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• Help! (film)
  ...of Snowdon|Earl of Snowdon]]. While not reviewed at the time with the same high level of admiration as their first film, ''Help!'' is now credited with inf ...and sacrifice the girl, the chief priest, Clang, several cult members, and high priestess Ahme leave for London. After failed attempts to steal the ring wi
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• Arnold Rimmer
  | series = [[Red Dwarf]] | occupation = Technician, Second Class (series), Technician, First Class (books)
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• Maggie Smith
  ...rva McGonagall]] in the [[Harry Potter (film series)|''Harry Potter'' film series]] (2001–2011). She also acted in ''[[Death on the Nile (1978 film)|Death ...tecture school. Smith was educated at [[Oxford High School (Oxford)|Oxford High School]] until the age of 16, when she left to study acting at the [[Oxford
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• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  ...the hiatus between the third and fourth series of their [[BBC Television]] series ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. ...a compilation of [[sketch comedy|sketches]] from the first two television series, ''Holy Grail'' is an original story that parodies the legend of [[King Art
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• Spike Milligan
  ...gan parlayed success with ''The Goon Show'' into television with ''[[Q (TV series)|Q5]]'', a surreal sketch show credited as a major influence on the members ...s educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Poona, and later at St Paul's High School, Rangoon.
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• Barbara Windsor
  ...[[w:Jim Dale|Jim Dale]], she was one of the last surviving regulars on the series. Her other film roles included ''[[w:A Study in Terror|A Study in Terror]]' ...ned a [[w:scholarship|scholarship]] for a place at [[w:Our Lady's Catholic High School, Stamford Hill|Our Lady's Convent]] in [[w:Stamford Hill|Stamford Hi
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• The Goon Show series 3
  ...[w:BBC TV|BBC TV]] that in the wake of the attempt to bring Goon humour to television in the form of [[Goonreel]] at the start of July, three of the show’s sta ...return for a run of his other [[w: BBC Home Service|Home Service]] comedy series ''[[Educating Archie]]'' during September and October. In mid-June 1952, Pe
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