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- | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> ...r on a local newspaper, the ''[[w:Hampstead & Highgate Express|Hampstead & Highgate Express]]''. When World War II broke out, Hudis joined the [[w:RAF|RAF]] an7 KB (1,153 words) - 23:35, 17 January 2023
- | resting_place = [[Highgate Cemetery]], London, England ...on and theatre.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9efee33a|title=Max Wall}}</ref>13 KB (1,958 words) - 07:56, 21 August 2024
- ...th_date = 16 January 2014 (age 69)<ref>https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0da66e4</ref> | resting_place = [[Highgate Cemetery]]24 KB (3,333 words) - 12:57, 7 February 2023
- | birth_place = [[Highgate]], [[County of London]], England, UK ...1915 and was an insurance policy draughtsman before training as an actor. From 1940 to 1946 he served with the [[Royal Corps of Signals]] and the [[Royal11 KB (1,644 words) - 17:41, 24 January 2023
- ...s range from the practical (stealing pills from the prison doctor and eggs from the prison farmyard), to the symbolic (finding new and imaginative ways to ...h is also manipulative, and can play upon the sympathies and weaknesses of people like the liberal warden, [[Mr Barrowclough]], and the ineffectual prison go7 KB (1,111 words) - 10:41, 17 March 2023
- ...Military Chaplain|padre]]. She herself served in the [[Women's Land Army]] from 1942 to 1946. ...with a devotional theme for her church, [[St Augustine of Canterbury]], [[Highgate]],<ref>[http://www.saintaugustine.org.uk/ Parish web-site]</ref> where she6 KB (892 words) - 16:21, 11 April 2023
- ...ng his [[Conscription in the United Kingdom #After 1945|national service]] from 1946 to 1948, following which he briefly worked as an unpaid trainee assist ...st of these being the radio comedy ''[[The Maltby Collection]]'' broadcast from 2007.19 KB (2,721 words) - 20:51, 24 February 2023
- ...ton Mowbray]]. He enjoyed science, acting and comedy and, after graduating from [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Emmanuel College, Cambridge]] and [[St Bartho ...8}} and both appeared on a one-off television special, ''[[How to Irritate People]]'' alongside Brooke-Taylor and future Python member [[Michael Palin]].{{sf38 KB (5,644 words) - 19:14, 16 March 2023
- | burial_place = [[Highgate Cemetery]], London ...and television series such as ''[[Pennies from Heaven (TV series)|Pennies from Heaven]]'' (1978), ''[[The Long Good Friday]]'' (1980), ''[[Mona Lisa (198636 KB (4,989 words) - 09:08, 24 January 2023
- ...1963 and 1971 on [[BBC One]], and ''[[The Stanley Baxter Picture Show]]'' from 1972 to 1975 on [[ITV Network|ITV]]; the six-part ''Stanley Baxter Series'' ...[[Humphrey Carpenter]], a children's show about a magic teacher, expelled from Walpurgis (the wizard land) for failing his professional examinations. He l20 KB (2,855 words) - 12:45, 11 March 2023
- | resting_place = [[Highgate Cemetery]], [[London]], England ...of his universe|date=19 April 2005|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/douglas-adams-master-of-his-universe-495422.html}}</ref> technolog69 KB (10,003 words) - 07:50, 30 March 2023
- ...or the programme's innovative, surreal structure, in which sketches flowed from one to the next without the use of punch lines. He made his directorial deb ...ative [[aphasia]], he gradually lost the ability to speak and died in 2020 from [[frontotemporal dementia]] at the age of 77.<ref name="Guardian"/>56 KB (7,720 words) - 19:07, 4 September 2024
- ...adio comedy writer David Quantick. "It's so blank that it can be filled by people as diverse as Paul Merton and Graham Norton, who don't have to adapt their ...}}</ref> To this, Messiter added a rule disallowing players from deviating from the subject, as well as a scoring system based on panellists' challenges.<r46 KB (6,649 words) - 20:03, 24 August 2024
- The show was transcribed from the version found on [[The Goon Show Compendiums#Vol1|The Goon Show Compend || Impossible! According to my calculations I've just come up Highgate Hill33 KB (5,111 words) - 19:52, 9 October 2024
- ...or|director|producer<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f5e1afb | title=Leslie Phillips }}</ref>}} ...e=VE Day: Remembering Victory (2015) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/5553f58e0eaa1 |website=BFI |access-date=11 November 2022}}</ref><ref name="45 KB (6,314 words) - 23:31, 25 January 2023
- ...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 Spike62 KB (10,149 words) - 19:46, 21 January 2023
- ...un, the cast were reluctant. And in mid-January, Spike was again suffering from anxiety neurosis and barely well enough to record the twelfth show, ''[[The ...of the country, Peter had a film commitment and Spike was still recovering from illness.50 KB (8,528 words) - 23:24, 3 March 2023
- ...l schools, including a "convent school in Holloway", St Joseph's School ([[Highgate]]), and at [[St Ignatius' College]] ([[Stamford Hill]]), where he had won a ...his veteran's grant to attend the [[Guildhall School of Music and Drama]] from 1947 to 1950. He studied piano and oboe, being interested in the music of R67 KB (9,538 words) - 23:20, 17 February 2023
- ...ed four times and had three children from his first two marriages. He died from a heart attack, aged 54, in 1980. English filmmakers the [[Boulting brother ...particular. He was prone to laziness, but his natural talents shielded him from criticism by his teachers.{{sfn|Moritz|1961|p=371}} Sellers recalled that a128 KB (19,030 words) - 19:48, 18 July 2024