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- | module = {{Infobox military person|embed=yes ...ame show ''[[Bullseye (British game show)|Bullseye]]'', which he presented from its beginning in 1981 through to the end of its original run in 1995.16 KB (2,294 words) - 12:08, 20 February 2023
- {{infobox military person ...> He was educated at [[Edinburgh Academy]] and then trained at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]].12 KB (1,643 words) - 23:16, 19 February 2023
- ...ogrom]]. Wolf and Yetta Weintrop intended to escape to the "[[New World]]" from Eastern Europe – they paid for a ticket to [[New York City|New York]], bu ...and received the award from the [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Duke of Edinburgh]] at [[Buckingham Palace]]. By the 1960s, and with his career on the wane,11 KB (1,667 words) - 22:56, 24 August 2024
- | birth_place = [[Edinburgh]], Scotland | module = {{Infobox military person|embed=yes30 KB (4,195 words) - 15:14, 23 December 2022
- | alma_mater = [[University of Edinburgh|University of Edinburgh]] | birth_place = [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingd28 KB (4,358 words) - 15:34, 24 August 2024
- ...herine Gertrude (''née'' Wright), Thomas's [[English people|English]] wife from [[Crediton]], [[Devon]].<ref name="exmem" /><ref>GRO Register of Marriages: ...man, to which he answered, "Well yes, my father's Welsh... and my mother's from Devon. Actually I was in Caerphilly and left here when I was about a year o32 KB (4,605 words) - 07:53, 11 September 2024
- ...an actor and reciter of comic monologues were soon recognised. Characters from his monologues such as Sam Small, invented by Holloway, and Albert Ramsbott ...liver Percy Bernard]] [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[Military Cross|MC]] (1881–1939), an English architect and scenic designer, who des56 KB (8,391 words) - 00:06, 23 February 2023
- ...] and made his stage debut in September 1934 at the Palladium Theatre in [[Edinburgh]] in the [[J. B. Priestley]] play ''[[Dangerous Corner]]''. He later accept ...rinker of alcohol for most of his life, Le Mesurier died in 1983, aged 71, from a stomach haemorrhage, brought about as a complication of [[cirrhosis]] of66 KB (10,031 words) - 19:40, 15 August 2024
- '''''Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh''''' was a comedy show broadcast from 1944 to 1950 and 1951 to 1954 by [[BBC radio]] and in 1950–51 by [[Radio Among the supporting cast were [[Sam Costa]] as the officers' [[Batman (military)|batman]], [[Maurice Denham]] in a multitude of roles, [[Diana Morrison (br45 KB (6,842 words) - 23:35, 22 February 2023
- ...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 ...6 it was estimated that he had performed in front of three million service personnel. After the war his career declined, although he toured [[Commonwealth of Na87 KB (13,680 words) - 07:53, 16 March 2023
- ...was comedic, often [[w:parody|parody]]ing characters of authority such as military officers or policemen, he also performed in other film genres and roles. Fi ...ed four times and had three children from his first two marriages. He died from a heart attack, aged 54, in 1980. English filmmakers the [[Boulting brother128 KB (19,030 words) - 19:48, 18 July 2024