• Wallace Greenslade
  | birth_place = [[Formby]], [[Lancashire]] ...n]]—for the BBC radio comedy series ''[[The Goon Show]]'' for eight series from 1953 to 1960.
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• Doc Cox
  | birth_name = Robert Cox<!-- only use if different from name --> ...unless the exact date is already widely published, as per [[WP:DOB]]. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. -->
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• Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall
  ...." (Following this book Milligan was even more upset, by comments from the people he wrote about. His manager Norma Farnes wrote that she thought the next vo ...George Formby]], who "cud play 'is bludy 'ead off." The idea of a headless Formby fills Milligan with delight.
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• Frank Randle
  ...rary of fellow [[w:Lancashire|Lancastrians]] [[w:George Formby, Jr.|George Formby]] and [[Gracie Fields]], he was regarded as more subversive.<ref name=indep ...y throwing his false teeth into the audience and once bombarding Blackpool from an aeroplane with toilet rolls (according to an episode of ''Rude Britannia
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• George Formby Sr
  | image = George Formby Sr, 1919.jpg | alt = Head and shoulders, black and white picture of Formby looking towards the camera
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• Tessie O'Shea
  ...news|title=Obituary: Tessie O'Shea|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-tessie-oshea-1616990.html|author=Denis Gifford |date=24 April 1995 ...e|Weston-super-Mare]], one day on the beach, the young O'Shea wandered off from her mother into the tent of a troupe of travelling performers and was only
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• Ronald Shiner
  ...''[[Old Bill and Son]]'' (1941), ''[[South American George]]'' (1941) with Formby. ...ilm parts remained small in ''[[They Flew Alone]]'' (1942), ''[[Those Kids from Town]]'' (1942), ''[[The Big Blockade]]'' (1942), ''[[The Black Sheep of Wh
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• Arthur Crabtree
  ...with Askey. After doing ''[[South American George]]'' (1941) with [[George Formby]] at Columbia, he did ''[[Uncensored (film)|Uncensored]]'' (1942) for ''Asq He did another with Formby at [[Columbia Pictures]], ''[[Much Too Shy]]'' (1942), then went back to Ga
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• Jimmy Clitheroe
  ...oduced by [[w:ABC Weekend TV|ABC Television]] in their Manchester studios) from 1963. ...tars of the day including Arthur Lucan (as [[Old Mother Riley]]), [[George Formby]], [[w:Vera Lynn|Vera Lynn]], and [[Frank Randle]].<ref>''Oxford Dictionary
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• Crazy Gang (comedy group)
  ...nd Allen]], [[Naughton and Gold]], and [[Nervo and Knox]] (with some input from Gray). They had all had entertainment success before the Crazy Gang but not ...l]], the Frenchman who also directed films starring [[Will Hay]], [[George Formby]] and others. [[Moore Marriott]], who was a frequent co-star of Will Hay, o
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• Edward Chapman (actor)
  ...comic foil to [[Norman Wisdom]]'s character of Pitkin in many of his films from the late 1950s and 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk ...The Citadel]]'' in 1938 and appeared alongside [[George Formby, Jr.|George Formby]] in the [[Ealing Studios]] comedy ''[[Turned Out Nice Again]]'' in 1941.<r
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• Peter Gawthorne
  ...ots played by [[Will Hay]] and other well-known comedians such as [[George Formby]], [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]], the [[w:Aldwych farce|Aldw * ''[[Home from Home (1939 film)|Home from Home]]'' (1939) as Governor
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• George Formby
  {{about|the ukulele player, singer and comedian|his father (1875–1921)|George Formby Sr}} | image = George Formby.webp
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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 - ...developed under the direction of its greatest exponent, [[James Gillray]] from London, who has been referred to as the father of the political cartoon.<re
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• Bill Waddington
  ...ealing two bananas from the harvest festival display. Having been expelled from his first school for being unruly, he finished his education, age 14, at gr Away from the stage, he developed a career as a butcher, and worked delivering meat f
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• GELF
  ====Kinitawowi====<!-- This section is linked from [[Emohawk: Polymorph II]]. See [[WP:MOS#Section management]] --> ...bodies are extremely tough; a direct blast of [[plasma (physics)|plasma]] from a bazookoid merely stunned a Kinitawowi at close range.<ref>{{Cite episode
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• Jack Buchanan
  ...sse]]. He suffered from spinal [[arthritis]], though this did not stop him from performing several dance numbers with Astaire in ''The Band Wagon''. ...rayals of the quintessential English gentleman, despite being a [[Scottish people|Scot]]. He was known for his financial generosity to less prosperous actors
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• Tommy Trinder
  ...<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
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• Phyllis Calvert
  ...n">{{cite web|last=Brooke|first=Michael|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/446920/ |title=BFI Screenonline: Calvert, Phyllis (1915–2002) Biograph ...argaret Morris (dancer)|Margaret Morris School of Dancing]], and performed from the age of ten, performing with [[Ellen Terry|Ellen Terry]] in ''Crossings'
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• The Goon Show series 2
  ...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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