• Alan Hackney
  | birth_place = [[Manchester]], England '''Alan Charles Langley Hackney''' (10 September 1924, [[Manchester]] – 15 May 2009, [[Hertfordshire]]) was an English novelist and screenwri
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• David Croft (TV producer)
  ==Military service== ...nderwent officer training at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst|Royal Military College]].
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• Charlie Chester
  ...io]] and television presenter and writer, broadcasting almost continuously from the 1940s to the 1990s. His style was similar to that of [[Max Miller (come .../ref> Charlie Chester, he was well known to British audiences in the 1940s from his [[BBC]] radio show ''Stand Easy''. This show was adapted for [[televisi
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• Bernard Manning
  | birth_place = [[Harpurhey]], [[Manchester]], [[Lancashire]], England | death_place = [[Crumpsall]], Manchester, England
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• George A. Cooper
  ...hort period as a draughtsman he joined [[Theatre Workshop]], then based in Manchester. [[Joan Littlewood]]'s company, also based in Glasgow for a time, then conc ...ff 1978-1990 - Grange Hill Cast|website=www.grangehillevents.co.uk}}</ref> from 1985 to 1992. He returned to the role of Geoffrey Fisher in the sitcom vers
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• Lance Corporal Jones
  ...s particularly those in [[Sudan]] and [[India]] and gives a glimpse to the military traditions and events in the concluding years of the 19th century. ...rummer boy (military)|drummer boy]] in 1884; thereafter, he served in five military campaigns – the [[Nile Expedition|Gordon Relief Expedition]] to the Sudan
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• Harry H. Corbett
  ...is aunt, Annie Williams, in Earl Street, [[Ardwick|Ardwick]], [[Manchester|Manchester]] and later on a new [[council estate|council estate]] in [[Wythenshawe|Wyt ...before handing himself in to the [[Military Police|Military Police]]. His military service left him with a damaged bladder following an infection, and a red m
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• Jimmy Edwards
  ...er and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in ''[[Take It from Here]]'' and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in ''[[Whack-O!]]''. ...83/Military-advances-How-warfare-has-led-to-healthcare-developments |title=Military advances: How warfare has led to healthcare developments |first=Jane |last=
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• Tommy Handley
  ...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 ...Genome. Retrieved 12 June 2020</ref> The sketch remained in his repertory from 1921 to 1941, and according to Handley's biographer [[w:Ted Kavanagh|Ted Ka
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• John Gregson
  He was credited in 40 films between 1948 and 1971, and on television from 1960 until his death. He was often cast as a police inspector or as a navy ===Early life and military service===
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• Norman Wisdom
  | module = {{Infobox military person | embed=yes == Military service ==
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• Jimmy Perry
  ...ng with Derek Taverner, for which Perry received an [[Ivor Novello Award]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]] in 1971.<ref> ...https://books.google.com/books?id=3W97f5u9ZZEC&pg=PA13|year=2004|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-6556-9|page=13}}</ref>
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• Stanley Holloway
  ...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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• Arthur Lowe
  ...Mainwaring]] in the [[w:British sitcom|British sitcom]] ''[[Dad's Army]]'' from 1968 until 1977, was nominated for seven [[w:BAFTA|BAFTA]]s and became one ...is final years, he maintained a busy professional schedule until his death from a stroke on 15 April 1982, aged 66.
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• Alastair Sim
  ...inburgh]] in 1925. He also ran his own private elocution and drama school, from which, with the help of the playwright [[John Drinkwater (playwright)|John ...al association with the author [[James Bridie|James Bridie]], which lasted from 1939 until the dramatist's death in 1951. Sim not only acted in Bridie's wo
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• John Le Mesurier
  ...nrolled at the [[Fay Compton|Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art]] in 1933. From there he took a position in [[repertory theatre]] and made his stage debut ...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]] of
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• George Formby
  ...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 Na
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• The Goon Show series 7
  ...Dixon]] asked if the start of the new series could be deferred by a month from its planned start date to allow him a much deserved holiday. This sentiment ...ching third position in the charts by the end of the month. Spike returned from an Italian holiday to appear in his next TV series, ''[[Son of Fred]]'', al
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• Terry-Thomas
  ...Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'' (1963) and ''[[How to Murder Your Wife]]'' (1965). From the mid-1960s on he also frequently starred in European films, in roles suc ...and, shortly before his death, was living in poverty, existing on charity from the Actors' Benevolent Fund. A charity gala was held in his honour, which r
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• It's That Man Again
  | image = The British comedian Tommy Handley rehearses with actors from his ITMA show (cropped).jpg ...edd|Bangor]], Wales (s 3–6)|[[Llandudno|Llandudno]], Wales (s 5, one show)|Manchester (Specials)}}
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