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  • Born in [[Norfolk]], Yule began his stage career as a singer in pantomime, [[West End theatre [[Category:English male radio actors]]
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  • | death_place = [[w:Norwich|Norwich]], [[w:Norfolk|Norfolk]] ...tage/> and was interred at St Peter's Church, [[w:Walsingham|Walsingham]], Norfolk, on 1 March 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catweazlefanclub.co.uk/robi
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  • | death_place = [[King's Lynn]], [[Norfolk]], England He died from [[cancer]] at the age of 52, a month before his father, actor [[Norman Mitc
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  • ...stage with the [[Bristol Old Vic]] and the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]]. From 25 May 1966 he appeared in ''Tango'', a play by [[Sławomir Mrożek]] at th Jeffrey died on 25 December 1999 from [[w:prostate cancer|prostate cancer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.c
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  • | death_place = [[South Creake]], [[Norfolk]], England ...'[[International Velvet (film)|International Velvet]]'' (1978), ''[[Morons from Outer Space]]'' (1985)<ref name="auto"/> and both ''[[The Buccaneers]]'' an
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  • ...etwork|ITV]]'s most popular advertising magazine programme, ''Jim's Inn'', from 1957 to 1963.<ref name="obit" /> Born in [[Norwich]], [[Norfolk]], Hanley began his career as a [[child actor]] before becoming popular in
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  • ...>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/blokes.html |title=the actors |publisher=British Horror Films |date=2005-12-25 |access-date=2014-04-14}}< ...he People That Time Forgot (film)|The People That Time Forgot]]'' (1977) – Norfolk
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  • ...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 ...920. He was educated at [[w:Gresham's School|Gresham's School]], [[w:Holt, Norfolk|Holt]], where he acted in school plays.<ref name=ex>[http://www.examiner.co
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  • ...(1899–1956) and Bertha May ''née'' Sindall (1900–1997), who outlived him. From 1939 to 1944 Robbins was a pupil at St Michael's College, a Catholic school ...t=Pocklington|date=13 August 2015|website=mirror}}</ref> Dyer died in 2011 from a [[Intracerebral hemorrhage|brain haemorrhage]].
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  • ...sometimes credited without the [[hyphen]] in his surname. He died in 2014 from [[pancreatic cancer]]. ...lson]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Haverson |first=Neil |title=Trigger happy in Norfolk |url=http://www.letstalk24.co.uk/features/story.aspx?brand=LETSOnline&categ
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  • ...BBC five years later. ''[[The Two Ronnies]]'' ran as a comedy sketch show from 1971 to 1987, and became Corbett and Barker's most famous work; Corbett bec ...etts-life/ | publisher = [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] | title = It's goodnight from him: A look back at Ronnie Corbett's life | date = 31 March 2016 | access-d
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  • ...Mainwaring]] in the [[w:British sitcom|British sitcom]] ''[[Dad's Army]]'' from 1968 until 1977, was nominated for seven [[w:BAFTA|BAFTA]]s and became one ...is final years, he maintained a busy professional schedule until his death from a stroke on 15 April 1982, aged 66.
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  • ...vision|science-fiction television]] series ''[[w:Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]'' from 1966 to 1969; he reprised the role in 1972–1973, 1983 and 1985. ...n]], the ship carrying him struck a [[sea mine]] off the coast of Britain, from which he escaped in a lifeboat as the vessel foundered. On arrival back in
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  • ...Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road|Whitefield's Tabernacle]] from 1903 and, from 1910, chairman of the [[Congregational Union of England and Wales]]. Betwee ...8–9}}<ref name="LP: Silvester death" /><ref name="D Tel: jolly old eek" /> From September that year Horne attended [[St George's School, Harpenden]] as a [
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  • ...the role on television five years later. He often appeared in film, rising from a [[bit part|bit part]] actor in the late 1930s to a member of the main cas ...ears later. Hordern suffered from kidney disease during the 1990s and died from it in 1995 at the age of 83.
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  • ...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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