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  • ...formance for [[King George V]] and [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]], with other performers including [[George Formby Sr.]] and [[David Devant]], one year after the fi ...His father and grandfather, both named Henry Newbold, both worked as music hall comedians, dancers, and as [[slackwire]] walkers, and both used the name He
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  • | occupation = {{hlist||Entertainer|music hall performer|comedian|actor}} ...ll|music hall]] comedians they would often feature a mixture of comedy and music in their act and this led to a successful recording career and roles in fil
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  • ...h, the [[w:Call boy (theatre)|call boy]]. The show also featured leading performers of the time as guest stars. ...r |first1=Max |date=2011|title= Come to the Happidrome|url= |journal=Music Hall Studies |volume= |issue=7 |pages=298–301}}</ref>
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  • ...enderson''' (20 March 1891 &ndash; 15 October 1958) was an English [[music hall]] comedian, singer and [[character actor]]. ...013|title= The Hendersons: their success and heartache|url= |journal=Music Hall Studies |volume= |issue=12 |pages=495–506 |doi= |access-date=}}</ref>
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  • | medium = [[w:Music hall|Music hall]], radio, television '''David Morris''' (5 July 1896 &ndash; 8 June 1960) was a British [[music hall]] comedian who made a successful transition to radio and television.
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  • ...December 2020</ref><ref name=tatchell>[https://laughterlog.com/2009/03/09/performers-billy-russell/ Peter Tatchell, "Billy Russell", ''LaughterLog'', 2011]. Re [[Category:Music hall performers]]
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  • ...che ({{nee}} Round) and [[Fred Emney Sr|Fred Emney]], a [[music hall|music hall]] entertainer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.10 ...ade his film debut in 1935, having previously worked in [[music hall|music hall]].<ref name=bfi/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/fred-e
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  • ...itish comic entertainer and actor who appeared in films, plays and [[music hall]] revues. He had a lengthy career of over fifty years, based on exploiting ...pawnbroker]]'s shop.<ref name=baker>Richard Anthony Baker, ''British Music Hall: an illustrated history'', Pen & Sword, 2014, {{ISBN|978-1-78383-118-0}}, p
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  • ...ewer' Eddie Gray''', was an English stage comedian. He appeared in [[music hall]]s as a solo act and also as a member of [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|the Cr ...to appear with the comic double act [[Nervo and Knox]] in 1919. The three performers formed the original basis of the group of seven comedians who became famous
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  • | music = [[Bretton Byrd]] ...title=Time Flies (1944)}}</ref> The screenplay concerns two [[music hall]] performers, an inventor and a con-man who travel back to [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan
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  • ...usic, the show helped to launch the careers of a number of leading British performers. ...950 saw the debut of a fortnightly series within the show called ''Blessem Hall'' which featured several characters voiced by a young [[Peter Sellers]] in
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  • | occupation = [[w:music hall|Music hall performer|]], [[w:comedienne|comedienne]], actress ...) was an English [[w:comedian|comedian]], actress and [[w:music hall|music hall]] performer. Born and brought up in [[w:Farnworth|Farnworth]], Lancashire,
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  • | occupation = Comedy actor<br>Music hall artist ...mpressions. He made his first London stage appearance at the Bedford Music Hall, [[Camden Town]] in 1925.
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  • | occupation = Comedian, music hall artist, television actor ...erick Frinton aged 54 (59?)</ref> was an English [[comedian]], and [[music hall]] and television actor. He is primarily remembered today as a household nam
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  • | death_place = [[Denville Hall]], [[Northwood, London]], England ...and her sisters Betty Hare and Winifred Hare Braemer were also actors and performers
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  • ...Jack Short and Mary Dalziel "May" Allan) who were the [[w:music hall|music hall]] act Short and Dalziel.<ref name="bbc">{{cite web |title=Jimmy Logan: A gr ...ool at the age of 14. His family, in the 1930s and 1940s, toured the small music halls of Scotland and [[Northern Ireland]] and ran seasons at the Metropole
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  • | occupation = Comedian, Theatre impresario of [[music hall]] ...Karno''', was an English [[theatre]] [[impresario]] of the British [[music hall]].<ref name=up/> As a comedian of [[slapstick]] he is credited with popular
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  • ...', and went on to appear in a wide range of theatrical, [[music hall|music hall]] and film performances. Increasingly celebrated for his silent comedy shor ...to One]]'', written by L. Arthur Rose and [[Frank Eyton|Frank Eyton]] with music by [[Billy Mayerl|Billy Mayerl]], on the [[West End theatre|West End]]. Lan
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  • ...o Barker) on a different topic each week from his [[stately home]], Chrome Hall. Helped and hindered by Rustless' secretary (Mildred) Bates, his Butler Bad The Chrome Hall sequences were written by Peter Cauldfield (a [[pseudonym]] of [[Alan Ayckb
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  • | occupation = Music hall and vaudeville entertainer, comedian, television and film actor | known_for = [[Music hall]] comedy [[double act]]
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