• Robin Parkinson
  | birth_place = [[Coventry]], [[Warwickshire]], England ...), followed by such titles as ''[[The Family Way]]'' (1966), ''[[They Came from Beyond Space]]'' (1967), ''[[Twisted Nerve]]'' (1968), ''[[Catch Me a Spy]]
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• Melvyn Hayes
  * {{Marriage|Jayne Male|2010}} ...e and lives in [[Ryde]] on the [[Isle of Wight]]. Hayes has one child with Male.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gazillionmovies.com/Actor/M/Me/MelvynHayes.
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• Sandy Powell (comedian)
  ...a cruise around the world with his wife, Kay White), he again said it in a Coventry theatre, for the last time. ...Fletcher]], of ''[[Emmerdale]]'', ''[[Coronation Street]]'' and other TV. From 1930 he took his own revue, ''Sandy Powell's Road Show'', on tour – it ra
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• Peter Butterworth
  | death_place = [[Coventry|Coventry]], [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]], England ...the film. Within the same camp as Butterworth and Rothwell were the future actors [[Rupert Davies]] and John Casson, the son of [[Lewis Casson]] and [[Sybil
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• Kenny Lynch
  ...ef>{{cite web|url=http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/from-me-to-you/ |title=From Me To You |publisher=Beatlesbible.com |date= 15 March 2008|access-date=23 M ...rst1=Gemma|last1=Dunn|first2=Duncan|last2=Gibbons|date=4 April 2018|work=[[Coventry Telegraph]]}}</ref>
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• Paul Eddington
  ...t family values. His father had been "emotionally shattered" on his return from the [[w:First World War|First World War]], which led to Eddington being a l Eddington read extracts from [[w:Sir Winston Churchill|Sir Winston Churchill]]'s ''[[w:A History of the
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• George Cole (actor)
  ...al service|national service]] in the [[w:Royal Air Force|Royal Air Force]] from 1944 to 1947, where he was temporarily a radio operator. ...mes Television]] series ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]'', which he played from 1979 to the show's conclusion in 1994. Prior to this, he had played a strug
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• Nigel Hawthorne
  | birth_place = [[Coventry]], England
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• Nat Jackley
  | death_place = [[Coventry]], England ...[[comedian|comic actor]] who starred in revue, variety, film and pantomime from the 1920s to the mid-1980s. His trademark rubber-neck dance, skeletal frame
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• Anton Rodgers
  ...sion sitcoms ''[[Fresh Fields]]'' in the 1980s and ''[[May to December]]'' from 1989 to 1994. He also had a long career both on stage and in film. His stage roles ranged from contemporary comedy and satirical farce to Restoration comedy, [[Henrik Ibs
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• Chuckle Brothers
  ...the Chuckle Brothers''. The comedy of the Chuckle Brothers usually derived from [[slapstick]], other [[visual gag]]s, and [[wordplay]], and their [[catchph ...''A Merry Morning'', in which the brothers entertained around 250 children from the Leeds area in [[Yeadon Town Hall]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://collectio
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• Leonard Rossiter
  ...Reginald Perrin in the BBC's ''[[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]'' from 1976 to 1979.<ref name=obit/> ...ned the [[w:Bristol Old Vic|Bristol Old Vic]] and was there for two years, from 1959 to 1961, a time he described as "the bedrock of his career", followed
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• Tony Hancock
  ...ck's Half Hour]]'', first broadcast on radio from 1954, then on television from 1956, in which he soon formed a strong professional and personal bond with ...hs: JUN 1924 6d 231 KINGS N. - Anthony J. Hancock, mmn = Thomas</ref> but, from the age of three, he was brought up in [[w:Bournemouth|Bournemouth]] (then
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• Richard Briers
  ...in ''[[Monarch of the Glen (TV series)|Monarch of the Glen]]'' (2000–05). From the late 1980s, with [[Kenneth Branagh]] as director, he performed Shakespe ...red a relationship.<ref name=more/> The family occasionally received money from a wealthy relation, and Briers' maternal grandparents paid for his educatio
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• Tommy Cooper
  ...herine Gertrude (''née'' Wright), Thomas's [[English people|English]] wife from [[Crediton]], [[Devon]].<ref name="exmem" /><ref>GRO Register of Marriages: ...man, to which he answered, "Well yes, my father's Welsh... and my mother's from Devon. Actually I was in Caerphilly and left here when I was about a year o
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• Max Miller (comedian)
  ...r=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-861388-1|pages=215–216}}</ref> He came from humble beginnings and left school at the age of twelve. At the outbreak of Demobilised from the army, Miller found work to be in short supply, and he had lost his moth
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• John Le Mesurier
  ...nrolled at the [[Fay Compton|Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art]] in 1933. From there he took a position in [[repertory theatre]] and made his stage debut ...rinker of alcohol for most of his life, Le Mesurier died in 1983, aged 71, from a stomach haemorrhage, brought about as a complication of [[cirrhosis]] of
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• Richard Beckinsale
  ...epted on his second attempt, becoming just one of 31 successful applicants from a total of more than 12,500.{{r|Clayton|p=38}} While at RADA, Beckinsale wo ...Following his stint in 1969 playing Hamlet, Beckinsale took a brief hiatus from acting and worked at a bottle factory, before returning to acting soon afte
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• Rik Mayall
  ...n't You Kill My Mother-in-law?: The Story of Alternative Comedy in Britain from the Comedy Store to Saturday Live|last=Wilmut|first=Roger|publisher=Methuen ...ne 2014|work=[[w:Digital Spy|Digital Spy]]|date=10 June 2014}}</ref> Apart from performing in their [[w:double act|double act]], [[w:20th Century Coyote|20
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• George Formby
  ...e ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the la ...|George Formby]] (he is now known as George Formby Sr). Formby Sr suffered from a chest ailment, identified variously as [[bronchitis]], [[asthma]] or [[tu
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