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  • ...e="last" /> After completing his National Service he started a long career at the BBC. ...V series)|Grandstand]]'' in 1965, initially announcing the [[w:Rugby union|rugby]] and [[w:horse racing|racing]] results, but then succeeded [[w:Len Martin|
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  • ...st End theatre|West End theatre company.]] His first public appearance was at the age of seven, when he was seen in a commercial which aired in cinemas.< ...Guardian|access-date=3 May 2020}}</ref> The boys attended Sunday services at St. Aldhelm's Church, and Croft later gave that name to the church in Dad's
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  • | education = [[Calderstones School|Quarry Bank High School for Boys]] ...dependent.co.uk]]|date = 23 October 2011}}</ref> He began his stage career at the Hippodrome Theatre in [[Bolton]], [[Lancashire]].<ref name=BBC/><ref na
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  • ...n]] with the [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] in 1942, at the age of 38. [[Scotland Rugby League]] have named their Student Player of the Year Award after him. Kinnear was educated at [[George Heriot's School]] in Edinburgh. At the age of 17, he enrolled in the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]], but [[
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  • ...[[Beckenham RFC]].<ref>[http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/beckenham/ Beckenham Rugby Club<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> ...der of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1992. He died on 24 July 2002, aged 92 at [[Denville Hall]] in [[North London]].<ref name=bio>{{Cite news|title=Obitu
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  • ...English actor.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f5570cb|title=Timothy Bateson|website=BFI}}</ref> ...ted at [[Uppingham School]] in [[Rutland]] and [[Wadham College, Oxford]]. At [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], he read history, rowed [[Coxswain|cox]] fo
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  • ...> in the [[Air Raid Precautions|ARP]] during the [[Second World War]], and at other times worked as an engineer in a tractor factory.<ref>{{cite news|las ...kaye-star-allo-allo-dies-75/|title=Gorden Kaye, star of 'Allo 'Allo!, dies at 75|publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=24 January 2017|newspaper=
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  • ...a student production. Ridley undertook teaching practice at an Elementary School in Bristol.<ref name=Ghost>{{cite book|year=2009|author=Ridley, Nicholas |i ...the rank of [[Lance Corporal]] in 1916.<ref>Ridley's WW1 medal index card at The National Archive, Kew Surrey. Document code: WO 372/17/728.</ref>
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  • | education = [[w:Sevenoaks School|Sevenoaks School]] ...t school for boys (now co-educational). After leaving school, Dunn studied at the independent [[w:Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts|Italia Conti Acade
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  • ...rsity College London]], but left after a year and became a geology student at the [[University of Bonn]], where he again left after just a year. He spoke ...ada]], where he worked as an insurance salesman, taught English at a boys' school, became a [[lumberjack]] and mined for gold. He came back to Britain pennil
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  • | alma_mater = [[w:Glasgow School of Art|Glasgow School of Art]] ...anding Contribution to Film/Television|outstanding contribution]]" to film at the [[w:British Academy Scotland Awards|British Academy Scotland Awards]].
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  • ...cite news |last=Keay |first=Douglas |date=26 July 1957 |title=Off Parade – At the Hartnell Home |newspaper=[[TVTimes|TV Times]] |location=London}}</ref> ..., he and his wife continued to live in one of Blaker's adjacent properties at Isleworth and their daughter was born there in 1929.<ref>{{cite book|author
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  • ...and ''[[Dead of Night]]'' (1945). In the postwar era, he worked regularly at [[Ealing Studios]], first with starring roles in such films as ''[[They Kne ...ontent/uploads/2014/11/Llandoverian-Midsummer-1915.pdf |journal=Llandovery School Journal |volume=XVII |issue=52 |pages=10 |access-date=6 February 2023}}</re
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  • ...ctions, Hordern was educated at [[Windlesham House School|Windlesham House School]] in [[Pulborough|Pulborough]], [[West Sussex|West Sussex]], where he becam ...won a [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actor|best actor]] award at that year's [[British Academy Television Awards]] for his role as the barri
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  • ...] comes from a snobby [[Prefect#Academic|prefect]] with whom they attended school. They joke that only the boy's name was used, and not his personality becau ...ed before prior to the episode, and he reveals that he wasn't academically educated unlike others who had become officers. After Lister is awakened from [[Stas
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