• Charlie Naughton
  | birth_place = [[w:Glasgow|Glasgow]], Scotland Naughton was born in Glasgow. He was a member of [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]], and part
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• Alex Munro (comedian)
  Born as '''Alexander Neilson Horsburgh''' in [[Shettleston]], Glasgow, he joined his brother Archie and sister June in an acrobatic act called '' [[Category:Comedians from Glasgow]]
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• Eddie Leslie
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• Jimmy Logan
  | caption = BBC promo from 1955 | birth_place = [[w:Dennistoun|Dennistoun]], [[Glasgow|Glasgow]], [[Lanarkshire|Lanarkshire]], Scotland
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• George Chisholm (musician)
  | birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland In the mid-1990s, Chisholm retired from public life suffering from [[w:Alzheimer's disease|Alzheimer's disease]]. He died in December 1997, ag
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• John Grieve (actor)
  | birth_place = [[w:Maryhill|Maryhill]], [[w:Glasgow|Glasgow]], [[w:Scotland|Scotland]] | death_place = Glasgow, Scotland
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• Benny Lee
  | birth_place = [[Glasgow|Glasgow]], [[Scotland|Scotland]] ...land.com/news/12054159.benny-lee/|title=Benny Lee|work=The Herald|location=Glasgow|date=13 January 1996|access-date=6 December 2020}}</ref> He began his singi
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• Dickie Henderson
  ...ckie Henderson obituary |work=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]]|location=Glasgow|date=23 September 1985|accessdate=17 April 2014}}</ref> was an English ente ...s}}</ref> They had a son and a daughter. After the death of his first wife from a barbiturate overdose in 1963, he remarried in 1965, to Gwynneth Wycherley
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• Ruxton Hayward
  ...opular regular in the series, and was often greeted by applause and cheers from the studio audience. ...vation Society]]. He was an active member of the actors union [[w:British Actors' Equity Association|Equity]], subsection Variety. According to an article
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• Arthur Lucan
  ...d Mother Riley]] on stage, radio and screen, with a series of comedy films from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. ...here is a memorial bust of Arthur Lucan, together with various memorabilia from his career. He is buried in Hull's Eastern Cemetery.<ref name=grave/>
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• Jack Douglas (actor)
  ...ton Television]]</ref> The family later moved to [[Blackpool]] to get away from the bombing in the [[World War II|Second World War]]. ...]]'', with [[Eamonn Andrews]] as host. They found themselves working on it from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm each day; their agent fitted in another two jobs, so tha
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• Fulton Mackay
  ...[[w:Clydebank|Clydebank]] by a widowed aunt after the death of his mother from [[w:diabetes|diabetes]]. His father was employed by the [[w:NAAFI|NAAFI]].< ...an actor at [[RADA]]. His first work was with the [[Citizens' Theatre]], [[Glasgow]], where he performed in nine seasons between 1949 and 1958. He also worked
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• Stanley Baxter
  | birth_place = [[w:Glasgow|Glasgow]], Scotland Baxter has also written a number of books based on [[w:Glasgow|Glasgow]].
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• Roy Barraclough
  ...st=Pollock |first=David |access-date=3 June 2017 |work=The Herald|location=Glasgow |date=1 June 2017}}</ref> ...BC drama ''[[All the Small Things (TV series)|All the Small Things]]'' and from 2012 to 2013 he played Maurice in ''[[Last Tango in Halifax]]''. In 2016, h
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• Joseph O'Conor
  ...on he played two seasons at the [[w:Citizens Theatre|Citizens Theatre]] in Glasgow where his roles included Benedick in ''[[w:Much Ado About Nothing|Much Ado [[Category:Irish male stage actors]]
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• George A. Cooper
  ...]], then based in Manchester. [[Joan Littlewood]]'s company, also based in Glasgow for a time, then concentrated on performing its productions on tour. The co ...ff 1978-1990 - Grange Hill Cast|website=www.grangehillevents.co.uk}}</ref> from 1985 to 1992. He returned to the role of Geoffrey Fisher in the sitcom vers
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• Ronald Fraser (actor)
  ...spite a long-standing reputation as one of the hardest drinking of British actors he was still working in his last years. He was perhaps best known as Basil ...ton-under-Lyne]], Lancashire, the son of an interior decorator and builder from [[Scotland]]. He attended [[Ashton Sixth Form College|Ashton Grammar School
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• Harold Berens
  | birth_place = [[Glasgow]], Scotland He was born into a Jewish family in [[Glasgow]], the son of a tailor, and grew up and was educated in [[Leeds]], [[Harrog
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• Billy Bennett (comedian)
  | birth_place = [[Glasgow]], Scotland ...[blackface]].<ref name=fisher/> In 1930, when his contracts prevented him from broadcasting under his own name,<ref name=gifford>[[Denis Gifford]], ''The
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• Jack Buchanan
  ...dn, January 2008. Retrieved 3 November 2008</ref> He was educated at the [[Glasgow Academy]].<ref>article "The top hat and tails man who left the boos and cat ...ttempt to follow his late father's profession and a failure at acting in [[Glasgow]], he became a [[music hall]] comedian under the name of '''Chump Buchanan'
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