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  • | birth_place = [[w:Brighton|Brighton]], [[w:Sussex|Sussex]], England [[Category:English male stage actors]]
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  • | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> .../#/tom-mennard/4516970295 Tom Mennard] on Harry Worth site</ref> Whilst in Brighton he became involved in an amateur revue company where his performances attra
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  • | birth_place = [[Brighton|Brighton]], Sussex, England '''Derek Francis''' (7 November 1923 in [[Brighton|Brighton]] – 27 March 1984 in [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]], London) was an Engl
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  • [[Category:British male comedy actors]] [[Category:English male television actors]]
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  • ...theatres across the UK, including [[Redgrave Theatre, Farnham|Farnham]], [[Brighton]], [[Manchester]], [[Edinburgh]], [[Derby]] and [[Norwich]]. One of his las [[Category:English male stage actors]]
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  • | death_place = [[Brighton]], England Maranne died 12 April 2021 in [[Brighton, England]] at the age of 94. He was survived by his wife, Moira.<ref>{{Cite
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  • | caption = BBC promo from 1955 ...420.stm |date=13 April 2001 |access-date=7 November 2010}}</ref> His aunt, from whom he took his stage surname, was [[w:Broadway theatre|Broadway]] perform
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  • ...of South Africa|South Africa]], Warner was educated at [[Brighton College|Brighton College]] after his family returned to [[UK|Britain]] in 1929.<ref name=gua ...ared at the [[Chichester Festival production history|Chichester Festival]] from 1978.<ref name=guardian/>
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  • | death_place = [[Brighton]], East Sussex, England ...stories himself, his first professional engagement. He continued to write from the timber yard, his short stories, poems, manuscripts sometimes being acce
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  • |death_place= [[Brighton]], [[Sussex]], England ...s as host of the [[BBC Radio|BBC Radio]] show ''[[Have A Go]]'', which ran from 1946 to 1967 and launched such catchphrases as "How do, how are yer?", "Are
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  • | death_place = [[w:Brighton|Brighton]], [[w:East Sussex|East Sussex]], [[w:England|England]], UK ...comic foil to [[Norman Wisdom]]'s character of Pitkin in many of his films from the late 1950s and 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk
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  • ...Fuller married one of his fellow entertainers, the 26-year-old dancer and male impersonator Beatrice Witham. [[Category:English male film actors]]
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  • ...actors' union, [[Equity (trade union)|Equity]]. He chose the surname Blake from the telephone directory. He was married twice and had three children from his first marriage; two daughters and a son. A talented all-round cricketer
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  • [[Category:English male comedians]] [[Category:People from Brighton]]
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  • | death_place = [[Brighton]], Sussex, England ...gan his theatrical career in London in 1922, adopting the surname "Parker" from his mother's maiden name.<ref name=screenonline>{{Cite web|url=http://www.s
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  • ...ish people|English]] actor who made his name in television and film comedy from the 1960s to the 1980s. He was best known for appearances in ''[[Hancock's ...Brenda Bruce]]); and a number of [[Alan Bennett]] plays, such as ''A Visit From Miss Protheroe'' (with [[Patricia Routledge]]), ''Say Something Happened''
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  • ...id=qEW5BAAAQBAJ&q=cyril+chamberlain+carry+on+films&pg=PT242|title=Carry-On Actors|isbn=9781908382085|last1=Ross|first1=Andrew|date=19 October 2011}}</ref> *''[[Brighton Rock (1947 film)|Brighton Rock]]'' (1947) as Detective (uncredited)
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  • ...in the film ''[[Jack's the Boy]]''. In 1934 he was voted the most popular male British star at the box office.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla. [[image:Jack and Claude Hulbert cigarette card from Wills's album 'Radio Celebrities' circa 1934.JPG|thumb|Photo of card in Wil
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  • :Come where the heat from the sun's burning rays<br>Gets you so gaga you tear off your stays!<br>I'm Byng never really retired from the stage and was working in his late eighties. His career was revived when
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  • ...r months after his death Mark's daughter - and Reid's granddaughter - died from cot death. He coped by ploughing himself into work, but Reid said years lat |title = Supplementary Memorandum from the National Secular Society
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