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  • ...oft]]. He was educated at [[Hall School (Hampstead)|The Hall School]] in [[Hampstead]] and [[Bedales School]] at [[Petersfield, Hampshire|Petersfield]] where hi [[Category:English people of Scottish descent]]
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  • | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> ...riting career on a local newspaper, the ''[[w:Hampstead & Highgate Express|Hampstead & Highgate Express]]''. When World War II broke out, Hudis joined the [[w:R
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  • | death_place = [[Hampstead]], [[London]], England ...the 1950s to the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f003887|title=Ronald Fraser|work=BFI}}</ref> An unusual appearance an
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  • | death_place = [[Hampstead]], London, England ...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
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Hampstead|Hampstead]], London, England ...]'' (1978) and had a starring role in the [[Hammer horror]] film ''[[Blood from the Mummy's Tomb]]'' (1971).
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  • | resting_place = [[Hampstead Cemetery]] ...dio and films.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f4db93a|title=Ronald Frankau|website=BFI}}</ref>
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Hampstead|Hampstead]], London, England ...309&dat=19880925&id=2a1UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GJADAAAAIBAJ&pg=2478,2432896}}</ref> from which she graduated in 1952.<ref>[https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles?aos=actin
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  • Born '''Miriam Samuels'''<ref name=BBCdeath/> in [[Hampstead]], [[North London]], she was brought up in an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox J ..., Karlin based some of the zany characters that she invented and played on people who had appeared before the [[rent tribunal]] chaired by her father.<ref na
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Hampstead|Hampstead]], London, England ...y On (franchise)|Carry On]]'' films, and also regularly appeared on screen from the 1960s to the 1980s.
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  • ...ppell''' (25 September 1933 – 21 April 2022)<ref>[https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/news/6824/rip-eric-chappell/ Rising Damp writer Eric Chappell dies aged 88] ...">{{cite news|last=Hewett|first=Richard|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1367178/index.html|title=Chappell, Eric (1933-)|website=BFI Screenonline
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  • ...mpo''' was a [[folk music|folk singer]] character, played by the [[English people|English]] [[comedian|comedian]] and [[actor|actor]] [[Kenneth Williams]], o Here is a lyrical excerpt from a Christmas episode, ''Cinderella'', first broadcast on Christmas Eve 1967,
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  • |death_place = [[Hampstead]], London, England ...achine Wreckers'' at the [[Novelty Theatre|Kingsway Theatre]] in May 1923. From 1923 to 1929, she appeared as the Principessa della Cercola in [[W. Somerse
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  • | death_place = [[w:Hampstead|Hampstead]], London, England, UK ...s were broadcast on NZBC in the 1970s, presumably from transcription disks from the Overseas Service of the BBC / [[w:BBC World Service|BBC World Service]]
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  • ...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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  • ...n,<ref name=marriage>Register of Marriages Solemnized at St Paul’s Church, Hampstead, [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/1623/31280_198927-00053 p. 94] (Ma ...idge]], the daughter of [[Robert Courtneidge]], a theatrical manager, in [[Hampstead]].<ref name=marriage/> On 2 March, the [[Military Service Act 1916]] came i
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  • ...ams was an only child and in 1956 bought a house one and a half miles away from his parents' house.<ref name=":1"/> ...Jonathan Ross Salutes Dad's Army (2008)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8ccacf81|website=bfi.org.uk|publisher=[[British Film Institute|BFI]]|a
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  • ...h family in the [[w:Hampstead Heath#The Vale of Health|Vale of Health]] by Hampstead Heath, London. She continued her absorption of the theatre mode with study ...es not appear in the television version, which was much changed by Johnson from his original play.
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  • ...isher = [[Bowdoin College|]] | title = Actor Burt Kwouk '53 Receives Honor from English Crown | date = 28 July 2011 | access-date = 24 May 2016}}</ref> The ...22337b08c32b08c5b609516963223|archive-date=14 July 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> From 2002 to the series's end in 2010, he had a [[regular character|regular role
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  • '''Bryan Pringle''' (19 January 1935 – 15 May 2002) was an [[English people|English]] character actor who appeared for several decades in television, f ...stead Theatre, 1987).<ref>''This Story of Yours'' a play by John Hopkins / Hampstead Theatre: programme by Stilwell Darby & Co Ltd: '1987 no 7'</ref> In his fin
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  • ...2013}}</ref> Her marriage to television actor [[Peter Penry-Jones]] lasted from 22 September 1967 until his death in 2009. They had two sons, Laurence and Other theatre work that Thorne partook in was in ''Little Boxes'' - [[Hampstead Theatre]],<ref name="lady"/> She portrayed [[Io (mythology)|Io]] in ''[[Pro
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