• Ted Lune
  ...ers, Lynne and Anne. He turned professional in 1947, taking his stage name from the [[River Lune|River Lune]] that flows through Lancashire, and his older ...circuit and took a pub, the Raglan, in [[Hulme|Hulme]], just a short step from [[Hulme Hippodrome|Hulme Hippodrome]]. The following year, he was called ou
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• Show 14
  At this point in time, the show was called '''''Crazy People'''''. '''''Show 14''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]] (Crazy People). It is the fourteenth show in the first series.
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• Gorden Kaye
  ...tar_of____Allo____Allo__who_launched_career_at_Bolton_theatre/|website=The Bolton News|access-date=24 January 2017}}</ref> ...en seen by [[Pat Phoenix]] in ''Little Malcolm'' by [[David Halliwell]] at Bolton, he was cast as Bernard Butler, the nephew of [[Elsie Tanner]] (Phoenix), i
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• Alan Hackney
  He was educated at [[Thornleigh Salesian College]] in [[Bolton]], and later, while at [[Manchester University]], was called up to the army [[Category:Writers from Manchester]]
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• Meredith Edwards (actor)
  * ''[[Law and Disorder (1958 film)|Law and Disorder]]'' (1958) – Sergeant Bolton [[Category:People from Rhosllanerchrugog]]
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• This'll Make You Whistle
  | writer = [[Guy Bolton]] <br> [[Fred Thompson (writer)|Fred Thompson]] (as Frederick A. Thompson) ...del]] named Bobbie Rivers. Further confusion ensues when the action shifts from London to the French resort of [[Le Touquet]].
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• Bryan Pringle
  '''Bryan Pringle''' (19 January 1935 – 15 May 2002) was an [[English people|English]] character actor who appeared for several decades in television, f ...he was brought up in the [[Lancashire]] town of [[County Borough of Bolton|Bolton]]. After boarding at [[St Bees School|St Bees School]], Cumberland,<ref>Old
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• Allan Cuthbertson
  ...bfi.org.uk |access-date=2014-04-23}}</ref> he performed on stage and radio from an early age. ...served as a flight lieutenant with the [[Royal Australian Air Force|RAAF]] from 6 December 1941 to 1 July 1947, including service with [[No. 111 Air-Sea Re
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• Ned Sherrin
  ...e Guardian|date=2 October 2007}}</ref><ref>[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1204295/index.html Bio: Ned Sherrin] screenonline.org.uk</ref> and rende ...cite web|title=Sherrin, Ned (1931–2007)|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1204295/index.html|work=Screenonline|publisher=BFI|access-date=21 April
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• Hylda Baker
  | birthname = Hilda Baker<ref>GRO Register of Births: Q1 1905 8c 406 BOLTON, Hilda Baker</ref> ...g, producing and performing her own shows. Her stage act included a gossip from the [[w:Northern England|North of England]], with a silent, sullen companio
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• Dead Parrot sketch
  ...et Shop Sketch'''" or "'''Parrot Sketch'''", is a [[Sketch comedy|sketch]] from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' about a non-existent species of [[parr ...d on ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' in 1969|description=Listen to a clip from the sketch.}}
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• Al Read
  ...he was 18, he performed impressions of [[Maurice Chevalier]] in clubs in [[Bolton]], before being found by his father and having to return to work as a meat ...]. He honed his skills with carefully-observed characterisations ranging from drunks to "know-alls" and cheeky children. After moving to [[Lytham St Ann
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• Shirley Anne Field
  ...ley was placed in the [[National Children's Home]] at [[Edgworth]], near [[Bolton]], Lancashire and four years later was moved to another children's home in ...ie on ''BBC Radio 4'' 15 April 2011] accessed 19 March 2013</ref><ref>VIEW FROM A LOCAL VANTAGE POINT
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• Francis Matthews (actor)
  ...le/4ce2b9ee90d05|title=Francis Matthews|website=BFI}}</ref> On television, from 1969 to 1971, he played [[Francis Durbridge]]'s amateur private detective P ...QBAJ&dq=follow+me+francis+matthews&pg=PT101|title=Flying Visits: Postcards From The Observer 1976-83|first=Clive|last=James|date=6 April 2017|publisher=Pan
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• Ian Lavender
  ...title=Ian Lavender| access-date=28 July 2020| work=[[w:The Bolton News|The Bolton News]]}}</ref> ...]]''. From 1982 to 1983, he was in the BBC radio comedy series, a spin-off from ''Dad's Army'' called ''It Sticks Out Half a Mile.'' Lavender also appeare
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• Derek Nimmo
  ...ober 2011}}</ref> He began his stage career at the Hippodrome Theatre in [[Bolton]], [[Lancashire]].<ref name=BBC/><ref name=Indy>{{cite news |title=Obituary ...was felt that he seemed less at ease as a chat show host. Having been away from television for some time, he made an appearance in the Australian televisio
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• Graham Crowden
  |1971|| ''[[The Night Digger]]'' || Mr. Bolton || ...ent.co.uk/news/obituaries/graham-crowden-character-actor-whose-work-ranged-from-king-lear-to-the-sitcom-waiting-for-god-2116285.html Obituary in ''The Inde
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• Bob Hoskins
  ...and television series such as ''[[Pennies from Heaven (TV series)|Pennies from Heaven]]'' (1978), ''[[The Long Good Friday]]'' (1980), ''[[Mona Lisa (1986 ...'s disease]], with which he had been diagnosed the previous year, and died from [[pneumonia]] on 29 April 2014 at the age of 71.
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• Sydney Tafler
  ...tage, was best remembered for numerous appearances in films and television from the 1940s to the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b ...id |last=McGillivray |date=15 May 2000 |access-date=2 January 2011}}</ref> from cancer;<ref name=grave>{{cite web |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/
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• George Grossmith Jr.
  ...performed together with diminutive comic [[Edmund Payne]].<ref name=obit/> From 1904, he was a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]].<ref>He joined the Green Room Lodg ...s given writing credits for some of the Gaiety pieces, usually adaptations from French comedies (like ''The Spring Chicken'') or collaborations with other
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