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...creen-8916513.html "Graham Stark: Actor, author and director who graduated from music hall to the big screen"], ''The Independent'', 31 October 2013</ref> ...ose friend. With the Gang Shows, Stark toured the locations where military personnel were seeing active service.<ref name="Coveney"/> After the war he studied a

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