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- | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_place = [[w:Plymouth|Plymouth]], Devon5 KB (765 words) - 09:02, 17 January 2023
- |work=Exeter and Plymouth Gazette ...>{{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}}<11 KB (1,583 words) - 22:11, 9 September 2024
- ...the quiz show ''[[w:Blankety Blank|Blankety Blank]]'', which he presented from 1984 until its cancellation in 1990. Dawson starred in ''[[Listen to Les]]' ...ack]], in which he sang a comic rendition of "I Got You Babe" with a woman from the audience who wanted to sing with him. The episode was aired shortly aft17 KB (2,447 words) - 23:04, 6 February 2023
- ...2009|author=Ridley, Nicholas |isbn=978-1-906132-98-9|title=Godfrey's Ghost From Father to Son|publisher=Mogzilla Life}}</ref> ...ivate Godfrey], BBC Radio 4, 2012-07-06.</ref> He was medically discharged from the army with the rank of [[Lance Corporal]] in 1916.<ref>Ridley's WW1 meda20 KB (2,914 words) - 09:38, 19 April 2023
- |birth_place = [[Plymouth]], England ...https://web.archive.org/web/20140912163648/http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Plymouth-born-actor-Sir-Donald-Sinden-dies-aged/story-22915124-detail/story.html |da40 KB (5,796 words) - 23:34, 13 February 2023
- ...but was stuck on a boat off Normandy.<ref name=McCann/> Despite suffering from [[stage fright]], he continued to work after the war, beginning his profess ...ly in the show ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'' (1969–70), which was a direct follow-up from ''Forum''. His television work was characterised by direct [[Piece to camer25 KB (3,706 words) - 16:22, 22 December 2022
- ...cords]]'' recognised Forsyth as having the longest television career for a male entertainer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/20 ...inging and dancing on BBC talent show ''Come and Be Televised'', broadcast from [[Radiolympia]], and introduced by [[Jasmine Bligh]].<ref name="Loxley"/><r49 KB (6,903 words) - 13:04, 18 March 2023
- ...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 moth30 KB (4,700 words) - 23:37, 23 February 2023
- ...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|2064 KB (9,472 words) - 17:51, 9 January 2023
- ...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 [53 KB (7,695 words) - 10:49, 29 September 2024
- ...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 83.90 KB (14,130 words) - 08:06, 29 March 2023
- a [[BBC television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] shown on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from 1 January 1980 to 30 January 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk ...around the lives of the camp's entertainers, most of whom were struggling actors and has-beens.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk53 KB (8,581 words) - 15:39, 24 August 2024