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  • | birth_place = [[w:Leeds|Leeds]], [[w:West Riding of Yorkshire|West Riding of Yorkshire]], England '''Geoffrey Davies''' (born 15 December 1942 in [[Leeds]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]) is an [[England|English]] actor.
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  • | birth_place= [[w:Leeds|Leeds]], [[w:West Riding of Yorkshire|West Riding of Yorkshire]], England | death_place= Leeds, [[w:West Yorkshire|West Yorkshire]], England
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  • | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_place = [[w:Beeston, Leeds|Beeston, Leeds]]
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  • | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_place = [[Leeds|Leeds]], [[Yorkshire|Yorkshire]]
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  • ...[[Mount St Mary's Catholic High School, Leeds|St Michael's Jesuit College, Leeds]] ...t St Mary's Catholic High School, Leeds|St Michael's Jesuit College]] in [[Leeds]].<ref name=steven />
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  • ...membered for supporting roles in many [[w:British sitcom|British sitcom]]s from the 1970s onwards. ...h|Dave Smith]] in ''[[w:Coronation Street|Coronation Street]]'' on and off from 1962 to 1976.
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  • ...26 "Mush Takes a (Real-Life) plunge!"</ref> He married Katherine Boyne of Leeds on 28 May 1960.<ref name=Mirror/> They had a son, Anthony, in 1961.<ref na ...g/web/20060911025828/http://www.tonyhancock.org.uk/mario.html Fabrizi bio] from [http://www.tonyhancock.org.uk/ Tony Hancock online]
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Leeds|Leeds]], [[w:West Riding of Yorkshire|West Riding of Yorkshire]], England Cooper was born in Leeds, the son of William and Eleanor ({{nee}} Dobson) Cooper. His father worked
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  • ...], [[w:London|London]], in 1894, married Aleta Cosette Turner in [[w:Leeds|Leeds]] in 1926 and died in [[w:Midhurst|Midhurst]], [[w:Sussex|Sussex]], England [[Category:English male comedians]]
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Leeds|Leeds]], [[w:West Riding of Yorkshire|West Riding of Yorkshire]], England ...r BBC Radio4 Great Lives 11 Jan 2011 b00x95hm.flac|Recorded January 2011]] from the BBC Radio 4 programme ''[[w:Great Lives|Great Lives]]''</center>}}
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  • ...nd_culture/newsid_8549000/8549145.stm|title=Ernie Wise brought sunshine to Leeds|date=4 March 2010|website=BBC News|access-date=16 October 2021}}</ref> [[W Ernest Wiseman, born in [[Leeds|Leeds]]<ref name="bbcnews"/> to Harry and Connie Wiseman (''[[née|née]]'' Wrigh
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  • ...leave Wales in order to find work.<ref>{{cite news|title=The two brothers from Tonypandy who went on to be Hollywood stars|url=https://www.walesonline.co. ...f ''[[Moonbase 3|Moonbase 3]]'', or Dr Francis in "Thirteen to Centaurus" (from the anthology series ''[[Out of the Unknown|Out of the Unknown]]'').
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  • | birth_name = William Cecil James Ottaway<!-- only use if different from name --> ...eterinary Science at the [[w:University of Bristol|University of Bristol]] from 1973 to 1975.
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  • ...avilion, a repertory theatre in [[Folkestone]], Kent.<ref>{{Cite web|title=From Theatre to Club|url=https://www.leaspavilionarchive.org.uk/new-contribution ...ory companies in [[Bradford]], [[Bristol]], [[Blackpool]], [[Keighley]], [[Leeds]], [[Lincoln, Lincolnshire|Lincoln]], [[Oxford]] and [[Southampton]], to na
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  • ...35</ref> His two step-brothers (who were also his first cousins) were also actors. ...whom he had known previously in England<ref>''A Who's Who of British Film Actors'', by Scott Palmer, The Scarecrow Press 1981 p307</ref> (Livesey's sister M
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  • | birth_place = [[Leeds]], England | death_place = Leeds, England
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  • ...on BBC regional radio, working in the North region of the BBC Home Service from 1958 with, among others, [[Jimmy Clitheroe]] (who he also appeared with on ...Kid]]'', another show which starred Jimmy Clitheroe, in which he appeared from 1957 as grumpy taxi driver Horatio Higginbottom, a regular role that he con
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  • ...[[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 ...programme ''The Symbol of Entertainment Supreme'', consisting of extracts from shows running in [[Blackpool]] at the time, including the revue ''Out of th
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  • ...ily in [[Glasgow]], the son of a tailor, and grew up and was educated in [[Leeds]], [[Harrogate]], and [[Brussels]]. After his father built up a successful ...udd/> Berens compered broadcasts by [[Maurice Winnick]] and his orchestra from the [[Dorchester Hotel]], and then, in 1939, started compering shows by [[J
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  • O'Shea received an honorary degree from [[Quinnipiac University]] in 2010.<ref name="Graduation">{{cite web|url=htt ...ted States citizenship and resided in New York City, where they both lived from 1976.<ref name=Guardian/>
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