• Roger Livesey
  ...rica, and then returned to join the [[Old Vic]]/[[Sadler's Wells]] company from September 1932 until May 1934. In 1936 he appeared in [[New York City]] in He toured Australia from 1956 to 1958 playing Jimmy Broadbent in ''[[The Reluctant Debutante (play)|
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• ISIRTA episodes and songs
  | starring = [[Tim Brooke-Taylor]]<br />[[John Cleese]]<br />[[Graeme Garden]]<br />[[David Hatch]]<br />[[Jo Kendall]]<br />[[Bill Oddie]] '''ISIRTA episodes and songs''': a list of episodes and sketches from the comedy radio series ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'', and the so
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• Lupino Lane
  ..., part of the [[Lupino family|Lupino family]]. He adopted the surname Lane from his great-aunt Sarah Lane (1822–1899, née Borrow), the director of the [ ...ollies]] of 1924'' at the [[New Amsterdam Theatre|New Amsterdam Theatre]], from June 1924 to March 1925, and subsequently played Ko-Ko in ''[[The Mikado]]'
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• Diane Holland
  ...laying Yvonne Stuart-Hargreaves in the television sitcom ''[[Hi-de-Hi!]]'' from 1980 to 1988. ...role of Sarah Maynard in ''[[Crossroads (British TV series)|Crossroads]]'' from 1964 to 1970.
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• Noël Dyson
  ...cter actress.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba246ddb5|title=Noël Dyson|website=BFI}}</ref> ...me a familiar face to British viewers in a career spanning almost 50 years from 1949 until her death. Dyson's best remembered roles are as matriarch [[Ida
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• Rita Webb
  ..., and two elder identical twin half-brothers, Leslie and Gordon Durlacher, from her mother's first marriage to Samuel Durlacher. She was the niece of [[Leo Following her separation from her husband, she lived with Al Jeffery "Jeffie", an accomplished [[banjo]]
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• Ted Rogers (comedian)
  ...est known for hosting the [[Yorkshire Television]] game show ''[[3-2-1]]'' from 1978 to 1988. ...ame back in late 2022 when top Twitch streamer - Limmy, reviewed his shows from 3-2-1.
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• Paul Shane
  ...scs]] after slipping on soap in the pithead baths in 1967, being pensioned from the coal mines as a result. Two years later he became a professional entert ...ng was at St Ann's Club in Rotherham, for 30 shillings. His transformation from singer to comedian was gradual, starting with his version of "[[Green, Gree
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• Eric Sykes
  ...and [[Johnny Speight]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1058088/ |title=Sykes, Eric (1923–2012) |publisher=BFI Screenonline}}< ...om the early 1950s Sykes began to make an ultimately successful transition from radio to TV, writing a number of series episodes and one-off shows for the
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• British comedy
  ...ter years of [[Puritanism]]. We soon changed Punch's name, transformed him from a marionette to a hand puppet, and he became, really, a spirit of Britain - ..., when Samuel Pepys noted a “pretty” puppet play being performed in Covent Garden, London.<ref name="British seaside"/> The various episodes of Punch and Jud
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• Richard Wattis
  ...tive Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]] for [[Walsall]] from 1924 to 1929. ...servant Northbrook in ''[[The Prince and the Showgirl]]'' (1957). He broke from this typecasting in his later films, such as his starring role in ''[[Games
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• Richard Beckinsale
  ...se. There was a bit of a scandal and one of the girls had a baby. The only people who really know are two elderly aunts and they don't tell me. Strange thoug ...epted on his second attempt, becoming just one of 31 successful applicants from a total of more than 12,500.{{r|Clayton|p=38}} While at RADA, Beckinsale wo
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• Brian Murphy (actor)
  ...r immediate chemistry was that they had been friends for many years. Aside from their Theatre Workshop years, Murphy also featured in ''[[Sparrows Can't Si ...also appeared as Frank Dobson in ''[[The Café (UK TV series)|The Cafe]]'' from 2011 and 2013. He also appeared in the [[Channel 4]] comedy ''[[Man Down (T
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• Anna Neagle
  ...get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew ...st a mere £23,000 to produce, it was a hit at the box office, with profits from its Australian release alone being £150,000.<ref name="bfireleases">[https
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• David Jacobs (broadcaster)
  ...various short-term jobs, before he served in the [[Royal Navy|Royal Navy]] from 1944 to 1947, and performed on the popular BBC General Forces Programme ''[ ...Saturday nights.<ref name= "Mundy">Mundy, John, ''Popular music on screen: from the Hollywood musical to music video'' (Manchester University Press, 1999)
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• Amanda Barrie
  ...rls]]'', playing inmate [[List of Bad Girls characters#Bev Tull|Bev Tull]] from the fifth series to the last, along with [[List of Bad Girls characters#Phy ...iry Godmother in ''Cinderella'' at the [[Marina Theatre]] in [[Lowestoft]] from December 2013 to January 2014.<ref>{{cite web|author=Wilf Arasaratnam |url=
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• Anton Rodgers
  ...sion sitcoms ''[[Fresh Fields]]'' in the 1980s and ''[[May to December]]'' from 1989 to 1994. He also had a long career both on stage and in film. His stage roles ranged from contemporary comedy and satirical farce to Restoration comedy, [[Henrik Ibs
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• Harry Fowler
  ...hose Kids from Town]]'', a propaganda piece about wartime evacuee children from London. This role was given to him after film company executives heard him * ''[[Those Kids from Town]]'' (1942) – Ern
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• Donald Sinden
  ...results/3475/Donald%20Alfred+SINDEN.aspx |date=17 July 2011}}, ''Debrett's People of Today''; accessed 15 December 2013.</ref> and later trained as an actor ...panied by his trade-mark "wolf-growl".<ref>[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/540500 Donald Sinden profile], screenonline.org.uk; accessed 15 December
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• Roger Lloyd-Pack
  ...th_date = 16 January 2014 (age 69)<ref>https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0da66e4</ref> ...sometimes credited without the [[hyphen]] in his surname. He died in 2014 from [[pancreatic cancer]].
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