• Jack's the Boy
  ...Vivian Ellis]]<br>[[Jack Beaver]]<br>'''Lyrics:'''<br>Douglas Furber<br>'''Musical director:'''<br>[[Louis Levy]] ...om/books?id=9NX_8KbH89oC&q=jack%27s+the+boy+1932&pg=PA45|title=The British Musical Film|first=John|last=Mundy|date=15 July 2007|publisher=Manchester Universit
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• 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia
  ...nything. To avoid this, he sets himself goals to marry a woman and write a musical. He meets the gorgeous but taken Louise, a fellow boarder, and pursues her ...ctions, Rupert travels to [[Dublin]], where he finds success composing the musical, and he returns to London triumphant. However, his other goal is in jeopard
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• Tessie O'Shea
  ...olesaler James Peter O'Shea, who had been a soldier and who was the son of Irish emigrants, and his wife Nellie Theresa Carr.<ref name=onshow/> O'Shea was r ...elped win her a [[w:Tony Award|Tony Award]] for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.<ref name=Whitcomb>{{cite book|last=Whitcomb|first=Ian|title=Ukulele Heroes
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• Sam Kelly
  ...and appearances in two of the later ''[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On]]'' films, ''[[Carry On Dick]]'' (1974) and ''[[Carry On Behind]]'' (1975). He then h ...appeared as George Spelvin in a concert version of ''[[Strike Up the Band (musical)|Strike Up the Band]]'' at the Barbican in London and also was seen in an e
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• Milo O'Shea
  '''Milo Donal O'Shea''' (2 June 1926 – 2 April 2013) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] actor. He was twice nominated for the [[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Pl ...ast=Coveney|first=Michael|title=Milo O'Shea obituary: Milo O'Shea obituary Irish stage and screen character actor who appeared in Barbarella, The Verdict an
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• Wilfrid Brambell
  '''Henry Wilfrid Brambell''' (22 March 1912 – 18 January 1985) was an Irish television and film actor and comedian, best remembered for playing the gru ...War]]. After leaving school, he worked part-time as a reporter for ''[[The Irish Times]]'' and part-time as an actor at the [[Abbey Theatre]] before becomin
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• David Kelly (actor)
  | birth_place = [[Dublin]], [[Irish Free State|Ireland]] | nationality = Irish
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• Val Guest
  ...blisher=BFI Screenonline}} Reprinted from ''Reference Guide to British and Irish Film Directors''</ref> ...''[[I'll Be Your Sweetheart]]'' (1945); the latter was the first and only musical from Gainsborough Studios.
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• The Knack ...and How to Get It
  ...ted for a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical]], and the film was nominated for [[Golden Globe Award for Best English-Lan ...itor2=Del Cullen |editor3=Hannah Patterson |title=Contemporary British and Irish Film Directors: A Wallflower Critical Guide |publisher=Wallflower Press |da
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• Peter Gawthorne
  {{short description|Irish film actor}} ...h 1962) was an Anglo-Irish actor, probably best known for his roles in the films of [[Will Hay]] and other popular British comedians of the 1930s and 1940s.
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• Ted Kavanagh
  ...adio scriptwriter and producer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bacf61e28|title=Ted Kavanagh|website=2.bfi.org.uk|access-date ...le; Kavanagh had been writing for him since 1924, and co-wrote two feature films for Handley, ''[[It's That Man Again (film)|It's That Man Again]]'' (1943)
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• Frank Carson
  ...ess-date=9 August 2018|publisher=BBC|work=BBC News}}</ref>) was a Northern Irish comedian and actor from Belfast. He was best known for being a regular face Carson became a popular performer on Irish television, before moving to England to work as a stand-up club comedian. H
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• Arthur Haynes
  ...is death from a heart attack in 1966. Haynes also appeared on radio and in films. ...h [[Dermot Kelly (actor)|Dermot Kelly]] who played another tramp (called ''Irish''), who was not very bright.<ref>{{cite web|title=TV Greats Arthur Haynes|u
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• Lance Percival
  ...s-Royce]]'' (1964). He had a major role, and second billing, in the comedy musical ''[[It's All Over Town]]'' (1964). ...former-lance-percival-30934868.html |access-date=17 September 2020 |work=[[Irish Independent]] |location=Dublin |date=24 January 2015}}</ref>
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• Steptoe and Son
  ...ode. In addition, the early 1970s saw [[Steptoe and Son (film)|two feature films]], two 46-minute [[Christmas]] specials. In 2005, the play ''[[Steptoe and ...used voices considerably different from their own. Brambell, despite being Irish, spoke with a [[Received Pronunciation|received pronunciation]] English acc
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• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
  * Celandine Films ...tle=Monty Python's the Meaning of Life (1983) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6e742e39 |access-date=26 July 2021 |agency=BFI}}</ref>
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• Father Ted
  '''''Father Ted''''' is a [[sitcom]] created by Irish writers [[Graham Linehan]] and [[Arthur Mathews (writer)|Arthur Mathews]] a ...op-talking-about-father-ted-1.3357384|access-date=2021-12-06|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-10-29|title=Ardal O'Hanl
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• The Best of Sellers
  ...comedy LP, a live recording of [[Flanders and Swann]]'s [[musical theatre|musical]] [[revue]] ''[[At the Drop of a Hat|At the Drop of a Hat]]''. For Sellers' ...ee sessions in October 1958, each lasting three hours.<ref name="tunein"/> Musical direction was provided by Ron Goodwin who, with George Martin, "placed Sell
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• The Commitments (film)
  ...">{{cite news|first=Tom|last=Ryan|date=25 September 1991|title=Surprise! A musical without the schmaltz|newspaper=[[The Age]]|location=Melbourne|pages=25}}</r '''''The Commitments''''' is a 1991 [[musical film|musical]] [[comedy-drama]] film based on the [[The Commitments (novel)|1987 novel of the same name]]
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• Anna Neagle
  ...er lightweight musicals, comedies 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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