• Slartibartfast
  ...Dent]] in the 1981 TV series. With [[Marvin the Paranoid Android|Marvin]] in the background | gender = Male
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• Mr Praline
  | gender = Male ...Vox populi|vox pop]] segment, to announce that he would be appearing later in the show.<ref name="Johnson-90">Johnson 1999, p. 90</ref> This he did as a
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• Ford Prefect (character)
  | caption = [[David Dixon]] as Ford Prefect in Episode One of [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)|the BBC T | gender = Male
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• Arthur Dent
  | caption = [[Simon Jones (actor)|Simon Jones]] as Arthur Dent in the<br />first episode of [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series | gender = Male
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• Del Boy
  | last = "[[Beckham in Peckham]]" <br> {{End date|2014|03|14|df=y}} * [[List of Only Fools and Horses characters#Reg Trotter|Reg Trotter]] (father)
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• Les Dawson
  ...le, curmudgeonly persona and [[w:Mother-in-law joke|jokes about his mother-in-law]] and wife. ...|id=51827|title=Dawson, Leslie [Les] (1931–1993)}}</ref> His first job was in the parcels department of the Manchester [[w:The Co-operative Group|Co-op]]
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• Herbert Lom
  ...essional men as he aged. Highly versatile, he proved a skilled comic actor in ''[[The Pink Panther]]'' franchise, as Chief Inspector Dreyfus. ...r 2012 |access-date=7 November 2019}}</ref> He is best known for his roles in ''[[The Ladykillers (1955 film)|The Ladykillers]]'', ''[[The Pink Panther (
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• Zaphod Beeblebrox
  | gender = Male ...Ac-en|ˈ|z|eɪ|f|ɒ|d|_|ˈ|b|iː|b|əl|b|r|ɒ|k|s}}) is a [[fictional character]] in the various versions of the [[comedy science fiction|comic science fiction]
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• Confessions of a Window Cleaner
  Like the other films in the ''Confessions'' series; ''[[Confessions of a Pop Performer]]'', ''[[Co The optimistic and inept Timothy Lea is freshly employed by his brother-in-law Sid as a window cleaner. With Sid an impending father to be, he looks t
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• John Bird (actor)
  ...''[[El C.I.D.]]'' and ''[[Chambers (series)|Chambers]]''. He also featured in the long-running ''[[Bremner, Bird and Fortune]]'' (1999–2010), on [[Chan ...assed the entrance exam for [[King’s College, Cambridge]]; he read English literature and stayed for postgraduate studies with a thesis entitled "European Drama
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• Goodness Gracious Me (TV series)
  ...o series those parts were played by the cast themselves. Some of the white characters were also played by [[Amanda Holden]] and [[Emma Kennedy]]. ...was a parody, the actor still portrayed him as a competent professional. (In her 1996 novel ''[[Anita and Me]]'', Syal had referred to British parodies
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• The Americanization of Emily
  ...is set in London during World War II in the weeks leading up to [[D-Day]] in 1944.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=B0IEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47& ...ber 2005.</ref> have considered the film their personal favourite of those in which they acted.
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• Baldrick
  | caption = Baldrick, portrayed by Sir Tony Robinson, in all four series of ''Blackadder'' | gender = Male
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• Hale and Pace
  ...that performed in clubs and on radio and television in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/what-happe ...appeared in ''[[The Young Ones (TV series)|The Young Ones]]'' three times, in the episodes "[[Flood (Young Ones episode)|Flood]]", "[[Nasty (Young Ones e
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• Get Some In!
  ...m]] about [[National Service in the United Kingdom|National Service]] life in the [[Royal Air Force]], broadcast between 1975 and 1978 by [[Thames Televi ...vident sexual connotation which replaced the original meaning and resulted in a convenient double entendre for the programme.
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• List of Are You Being Served? characters
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''Are You Being Served?'' characters}} ...ou Being Served?]]'' that ran from 1972 until 1985, with a one-off episode in 2016.
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• Peter Cook
  ...[[anti-establishment]] comedic movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s. ...apart from a few cameo appearances but continued to be a regular performer in British television and film.
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• Dennis Potter
  ...ed as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British television. ...he United States|Hollywood]] studios. Potter died of [[pancreatic cancer]] in 1994.
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• It Ain't Half Hot Mum
  ..."[[Whispering Grass]]" performed by [[Don Estelle]] and [[Windsor Davies]] in character as Gunner "Lofty" Sugden and Sergeant Major Williams, reached num ...="Tgraph2019" /> According to the head of broadcasting regulator [[Ofcom]] in 2014, such series "are unimaginable today and if they were shown people wou
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• Spike Milligan
  ...is childhood, relocating in 1931 to live and work the majority of his life in the United Kingdom. Disliking his first name, he began to call himself “S ...programme ''[[The Goon Show]]'', performing a range of roles including the characters [[Eccles]] and [[Minnie Bannister]]. He was the earliest-born and last surv
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