• Ronnie Brody
  |birth_place = [[Bristol]], England ...lm ''[[Help! (film)|Help!]]''.<ref>{{cite web|author=Born: 6 January 1918, Bristol - Died: 8 May 1991, London |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba3a254dd |ar
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• Terence Edmond
  | birth_place = [[w:Bristol|Bristol]], [[w:England|England]] ...as a stalwart of the [[w:BBC Radio 4|BBC Radio 4]] Drama Repertory Company from the 1970s right up to his death, appearing in dramatisations of many classi
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• Peter Jeffrey
  | birth_place = [[w:Bristol|Bristol]], England Jeffrey was born in [[Bristol]], the son of Florence Alice (née Weight) and Arthur Winfred Gilbert Jeffr
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• Gordon Rollings
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• John Fortune
  | birth_place = [[Bristol]], England ...r= Kennedy, Maev | author-link= Maev Kennedy }}</ref> He was educated at [[Bristol Cathedral School]] and [[King's College, Cambridge]], where he was to meet
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• John Warner (actor)
  ...'[[Salad Days (musical)|Salad Days]]'', which premiered in the UK at the [[Bristol Old Vic|Theatre Royal]] in 1954, and transferred to the [[Vaudeville Theatr ...co.uk}}</ref> His first job in 1939 was at the Little Theatre in [[Bristol|Bristol]].<ref name=guardian/> After service in the [[Royal Navy|Royal Navy]] durin
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• Simon Cadell
  ...them in the 1967 production of ''[[Zigger Zagger]]''. He trained at the [[Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]]. His first successes were found in the theatre in [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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• Dino Shafeek
  ...comedy actor. Born and raised in [[Dhaka]], he moved to the United Kingdom from [[East Pakistan]] (now Bangladesh) in 1958 and appeared in several [[sitcom ...p attached to the [[Royal Artillery]]. The series was broadcast by the BBC from 1974 to 1981 and starred [[Windsor Davies]] as the Battery sergeant-major o
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• Joseph O'Conor
  ...th three seasons (1956–1958) at the [[w:Bristol Old Vic|Bristol Old Vic]]. Bristol acted in several [[w:George Bernard Shaw|Bernard Shaw]] classics. O'Conor p [[Category:Irish male stage actors]]
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• Nicholas Smith (actor)
  ...]. He then appeared in repertory theatres, on the West End stage, at the [[Bristol Old Vic]] and on Broadway.<ref>''Who's Who on Television'' Independent Tele ...in the role of Mr Spooner following actor [[Trevor Bannister]]'s departure from the series.
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• Lennard Pearce
  ...y Fools and Horses)|Grandad]] in the sitcom ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'', from its beginning in September 1981 until his death in December 1984. In 1980, Pearce was in a play at the [[Bristol Old Vic]], when he kept losing balance and repeatedly falling asleep. He wa
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• Donald Hewlett
  ...r [[Manchester Exchange (UK Parliament constituency)|Manchester Exchange]] from 1940 to 1945 and owned the Anchor Chemical Company based in [[Clayton, Grea ...Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948</ref> in [[Bristol]] followed by [[St John's College, Cambridge]], where he studied geography
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• David Rappaport
  ...logy|psychology]] at the [[w:University of Bristol|University of Bristol]] from 1970, graduating with a degree while developing his skills as a semi-profes ...Law]]''. In LA Law, Rappaport played crack trial lawyer Hamilton Schuyler from Texas, in two episodes. Both episodes were significant roles, opposing Jimm
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• Christopher Beeny
  ...]: Christopher Beeny obituary; Friday January 10, 2020</ref> He moved to [[Bristol]] with his family as a young child, spent several years at the [[Arts Educa ...ap, the BBC TV series ''[[The Grove Family]]'', which was shown on Fridays from 1954 until 1957, (and named after the BBC Studios of [[Lime Grove Studios]]
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• Norman Rossington
  ...eed. Rossington went on to train at the [[w:Bristol Old Vic Theatre School|Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]], by the mid-1950s appearing on the stage in plays ...rman Rossington|website=www.aveleyman.com}}</ref> He also told the stories from ''[[w:The Adventures of Portland Bill|The Adventures of Portland Bill]]''.<
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• Jack Hulbert
  ...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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• Kenneth Connor
  | caption = Publicity photo of Connor from 1959 ...or)|William Devlin]] asking him to join the newly formed [[Bristol Old Vic|Bristol Old Vic]], where he gained a solid grounding in the classics.
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• Michael Aldridge
  ...mour Utterthwaite in the television series ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'' from 1986 to 1990 and he had a long career as a [[w:character actor|character ac ...II broke out. From 1939 to 1940, he was in [[repertory theatre|rep]] at [[Bristol]], [[Blackpool]], [[Sunderland, Tyne and Wear|Sunderland]], [[Sheffield]],
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• Ian Lavender
  ...re School|Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]], with the assistance of a grant from the City of Birmingham. Following his graduation in 1967 he appeared on sta ...gave him the great advantage of working alongside a number of experienced actors during his formative years, helping him to hone his acting skills. <ref>{{c
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• Geoffrey Keen
  ...Bristol Grammar School]]. He then joined the Little Repertory Theatre in [[Bristol]] for whom he made his stage debut in 1932. After a year in repertory he st ...[[The Third Man]]'' (1949). He quickly became one of the busiest character actors, typically doing five films a year. He also continued to perform on stage,
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