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  • | birth_place = [[Sevenoaks]], [[Kent]], England Percival was born in [[Sevenoaks]], Kent,<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Percival, John Lancelot Blades (Lance)|last=Mellor |
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  • |birth_place = [[Beckenham]], [[Kent]], England Born in [[Beckenham]], Kent, England, she initially planned to be a commercial artist or journalist.<re
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  • ...haracter Charlie Quick, in the slapstick children's TV series ''Grandad'', from 1979 to 1984. ...of [[w:Algarve|Algarve]], on 6 November 2012 as a result of complications from an operation that had taken place earlier that week.
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  • Everett was dismissed from the BBC in 1970 after making remarks about a government minister's wife. He ...oped00lark/page/148}}</ref> {{cvt|5|mi|0}} north of Liverpool city centre. From a Catholic family, he attended [[Sacred Heart Catholic College|St Bede]]'s,
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  • ...f the four writer-performers in the comedy revue ''[[Beyond the Fringe]]'' from 1960 that created a boom in satiric comedy, and with a member of that team, ...a Francis (née Hughes), a secretary, and John Moore, a railway electrician from Glasgow.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/13
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  • | death_place = [[w:Deal, Kent|Deal]], England ...mwell Road, as George Frederick Joffre Hartree, he took his [[stage name]] from the theatrical knight, [[Sir Charles Hawtrey]], whose surname was a differe
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  • After a period in a [[Foster care|children's home]] in [[Deal, Kent]], Wisdom ran away when he was 11 but returned to become an [[errand boy]] ...s centre in a command bunker in London, where he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|prime minister]].
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  • ...in ''[[Monarch of the Glen (TV series)|Monarch of the Glen]]'' (2000–05). From the late 1980s, with [[Kenneth Branagh]] as director, he performed Shakespe ...red a relationship.<ref name=more/> The family occasionally received money from a wealthy relation, and Briers' maternal grandparents paid for his educatio
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  • ...sional repeats on the [[BBC Light Programme]]. The first series, broadcast from 28 May to 20 September 1951, was titled '''''Crazy People'''''; subsequent ...ited States, [[NBC]] began broadcasting the programme on its radio network from the mid-1950s.<ref name="Firezine_Goons">{{cite web |url=http://www.firezin
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  • ...d from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. Morecambe took his stage name from his home town, the [[seaside resort|seaside resort]] of [[Morecambe|Morecam ...in Boy|Bevin Boy]] and worked as a coal miner in [[Accrington|Accrington]] from May 1944 onwards.
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  • ...of the same name]] by [[Roddy Doyle]]. It was directed by [[Alan Parker]] from a screenplay written by Doyle, [[Dick Clement]] and [[Ian La Frenais]]. Set ...aracters in the novel. [[Principal photography]] took place in [[Dublin]], from late August to October, 1990.
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  • | caption = Opening titles from 1988 to 1991 ...d 2 February 2015</ref> The popularity of the show saw collaborations with musicians, including [[Phil Collins]] and [[Sting (musician)|Sting]]. The series was
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  • ...04}} Formby also had a successful recording career and made the transition from music hall to [[revue]] in 1916. ...n|Formby was not alone in developing a chest complaint: the mortality rate from bronchitis was 20% higher in the north west than the rest of the country.{{
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