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  • | death_place = [[Chiswick|Chiswick]], [[London]], [[England]], UK Curtis lived in [[Chiswick|Chiswick]], where he died in February 2021 aged 90.<ref>[https://alancurtis.org.uk/
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  • | birth_place = [[Chiswick]], [[County of London|London]], England ...=https://web.archive.org/web/20180420052239/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba65cef74|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 April 2018|title=Edwin Styles
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  • | birth_place = [[Chiswick]], London, England ...thernecho.co.uk/2001/7/22/164851.html |title=Newcastle one, Hollywood nil (From ''The Northern Echo'') |publisher=Archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk |date=22 Ju
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  • ...lms-tv-people/4ce2ba07d6a9e|title=Fenella Fielding|website=BFI Films, TV & People|access-date=27 March 2020}}</ref> in [[Metropolitan Borough of Hackney|Hack ...p://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conceleb382.htm|title=Chiswick's Local Web site|website=www.chiswickw4.com}}</ref>
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  • | caption = Title card, used from Series 6–8. ...ennium Experience". Lead actor [[Gary Olsen]] (who played the father) died from cancer in September 2000.<ref name=bbc-olsen-dies>{{cite news |url=http://n
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  • ...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 ...dy|British comedy]] film ''[[She Knows Y'Know]]'' (1962). Taking its title from her catch-phrase,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/She-Knows-YKn
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  • ...young beatnik.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b740cd528 |title=Il MARITO È MIO E L'AMMAZZO QUANDO MI PARE (1967) |pu ...The Consultant'' (1981).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b852ea58a|title=Malice Aforethought Part 3 (1979)}}</ref> In 1981, he p
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  • | death_place = [[w:Chiswick|Chiswick]], [[w:London|London]], England ...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
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  • ...as a home for his new wife June who was then pregnant and on her way back from [[w:Australia|Australia]]. Eventually Max Geldray and vocalist [[Ray Elling ...-natal fever and had to leave the baby in Spike’s hands. A full-time nurse from [[w:New Zealand|New Zealand]] was assigned to assist the family, with Spike
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  • '''Thomas Frederick Cooper''' (19 March 1921 – 15 April 1984) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]]-born<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-09-22|title=Tommy Cooper, a great Wel ...herine Gertrude (''née'' Wright), Thomas's [[English people|English]] wife from [[Crediton]], [[Devon]].<ref name="exmem" /><ref>GRO Register of Marriages:
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  • ...Lloyd (writer)|John Lloyd]]. The series was originally aired on [[BBC 1]] from 15 June 1983 to 20 July 1983, and was a joint production with the Australia ...lackadder)|his brother]] in the battle.<ref name="shardlow">{{cite video | people = M.Shardlow | title = The Black Adder episode 1 "The Foretelling" | medium
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  • ...mwell Road, as George Frederick Joffre Hartree, he took his [[stage name]] from the theatrical knight, [[Sir Charles Hawtrey]], whose surname was a differe ...That Fire?]]'' (1939). In all he appeared in more than 70 films, including from this period [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Sabotage (1936 film)|Sabotage]]'' (1
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  • ...rs to it as ''the Goon Show'' (or that ''Goon Show'') but never as ''Crazy People'' (which quite frankly could be applied to almost any comedy show).’ ...e show would be pre-empted on Tuesday 26 February to make way for speeches from the ''Pilgrims’ Dinner''. The Stargazers were also announced as appearing
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  • ...er Michael Bentine, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and I cooked up whenever people asked us to explain ourselves,’ wrote Harry Secombe in his newspaper colu From 3.30pm to 4.15pm on Wednesday 26 April 1949, a trial recording of a new BBC
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  • ...r=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-861388-1|pages=215–216}}</ref> He came from humble beginnings and left school at the age of twelve. At the outbreak of Demobilised from the army, Miller found work to be in short supply, and he had lost his moth
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  • ...5|fifth season]] at 7.30pm on the [[BBC Light Programme|Light Programme]] from late April 1955 through to the end of June, with around four million listen ...06}}, with a deal covering thirteen shows to be recorded at 9pm on Sundays from 18 September to 11 December, and broadcast two days later at 8.30pm on Tues
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  • [[File:Ba4.jpg|thumb|250px|Main characters from ''Blackadder Goes Forth'': Darling (left), Melchett (centre), George Colthu ...nother occasion, he was unable to pay back a £1,000 loan that he had taken from the Black Monks, and was threatened with being impaled by the baby-eating B
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  • ...actory at Bill Gates. Among the artists are those three sons of fun, fresh from their triumphant Palladium failure, Sellers, Secombe and Milligan in… ''[ ...on Show'' continued as before with tapings in Studio I of the Aeolian Hall from 9pm to 9.45pm on Sundays. Earlier the same day, [[Harry Secombe]] was makin
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