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  • | birth_place = [[w:Shaw and Crompton|Shaw and Crompton]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]] ...dvertiser]]|date=2008-10-02|last=Greer|first=Stuart}}</ref> He had decided from an early age to become an actor, but had his hopes dashed when his father d
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  • ...ion Force|British Commonwealth Occupation Force]] (BCOF). After graduating from drama school in 1952, he joined the Sheffield Rep as assistant stage manage [[Category:British Army personnel of World War II]]
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  • | death_place = [[Melling-with-Wrayton]], [[Lancashire]], England | module = {{Infobox military person|embed=yes
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Toxteth|Toxteth Park]], [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]], Lancashire, England ...music hall]] circuit. He became nationally known as a pioneer broadcaster. From 1924 onwards he was frequently heard on [[w:BBC|BBC]] [[w:variety show|vari
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  • | birth_place = [[Harpurhey]], [[Manchester]], [[Lancashire]], England ...andfather came from [[Sevastopol|Sebastopol]], and changed the family name from Blomberg.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pearson|first=Allison|url=https://www.telegr
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  • | birth_place = [[Derker]], [[Lancashire]], England | module = {{Infobox military person
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  • | birth_place = [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], England ...was an English [[jazz]] and [[blues]] singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973 he was a film and television critic for ''[[The Observer]]'';
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  • ...left school, his headmaster J. T. Griffith suggested that he drop the "s" from his surname so it would sound less English.<ref name="IndpObit">{{cite news ...Love on the Dole]]''.<ref name="IndpObit"/> He joined the [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]]-relocated [[Old Vic]],<ref name="TelgObit"/> and in repertory.<ref name=s
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  • ...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 des
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  • | birth_place = [[Wigan|Wigan]], [[Lancashire|Lancashire]] | death_place = [[Lytham St Annes|Lytham St Annes]], [[Lancashire|Lancashire]]
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