'''Derek Roy''' (25 August 1922 – 15 March 1981) was an [[English people|English]] comedian, whose public profile was at its greatest in the late 19 ...|first=Gregory K. |title=A history of Du Cane Court : land, architecture, people and politics |publisher=Woodbine |year=2008 |isbn=0-9541675-1-1}}</ref>

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...[[George Martin]]. Despite initial concerns about its commercial viability from EMI, ''The Best of Sellers'' was a major success, receiving critical acclai ...pearing with [[Ted Ray (comedian)|Ted Ray]] in ''[[Ray's a Laugh]]'' and, from 1951, alongside [[Spike Milligan]], [[Harry Secombe]] and [[Michael Bentine

...<ref name="sweet">{{cite web |last1=Sweet |first1=Matthew |title=You lucky people: remembering Tommy Trinder |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/aug/1 ...], on 24 March 1909, the son of Thomas Henry Trinder, a London tram driver from [[Shilton, Oxfordshire|Shilton]], Oxfordshire, and his wife Jennie Georgina

...itcom written by [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Sullivan]], first broadcast from 1977 to 1980.<ref>{{Cite web|title=BFI Screenonline: Citizen Smith (1977-80 ...merely a small bunch of his friends), the goals of which are "Power to the People" and "Freedom for Tooting". In reality, he is an unemployed [[slacker|slack

...m 1948 to 1959, he co-wrote the [[BBC Radio]] comedy programme ''[[Take It from Here]]'' with [[Frank Muir]]. Muir and Norden remained associated for more ...were vehicles for Jimmy Edwards. They also wrote the satirical sketch ''[[Balham, Gateway to the South]]'' for the [[BBC Third Programme]]. The sketch, whic

...est known for his appearances as "Mr Derek" in ''[[Basil Brush#Basil Brush from 1963 to 1984|The Basil Brush Show]]'' (1969–1973), [[Bernard Woolley]] in ...2. The character first appeared as the local police sergeant, then retired from the force and ran the post office before becoming a [[pub]]lican.<ref name=

| birth_place = [[Balham]], [[County of London|London]], England ...al Lunatic Asylum]]. Seven years later, on 26 July 1890, he was discharged from Broadmoor and reunited with his wife. He legally dropped his surname.

...in the television series ''[[w:Dixon of Dock Green|Dixon of Dock Green]]'' from 1955 until 1976, but he was also for some years one of Britain's most popul ...nt to work as a mechanic in Paris. He drove completed chassis to the coast from where they were shipped to England, road-testing them ''en route''.<ref nam

...itish Academy Television Award for Best Actor]] in three consecutive years from 1994 to 1996. In 2006, Coltrane came eleventh in ITV's poll of [[w:TV's 50 ...rl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922120126/https://www.empireonline.com/people/robbie-coltrane/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Circular reporting|date=October

...ed four times and had three children from his first two marriages. He died from a heart attack, aged 54, in 1980. English filmmakers the [[Boulting brother ...particular. He was prone to laziness, but his natural talents shielded him from criticism by his teachers.{{sfn|Moritz|1961|p=371}} Sellers recalled that a