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  • ...led by Bill Brooke-Taylor, want to add some excitement to the lives of the people, and to get them excited about something again. In the attempt to add more ...to be interesting to the population. He asks his father, Tim, about the [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]]. Tim decides to take his son to the retirement home for
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  • He also served as an announcer for the [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]] at [[Lord's Cricket Ground]] for 28 years. [[Category:Male actors from London]]
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  • | birth_place = [[Marylebone]], London, England [[Category:Male actors from Brighton]]
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  • ...e an actor and when offered a job with the local rep, he took it and apart from six years in the army during World War II, he remained in the profession. ...sh Comedy Guide}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b86e3cda9|title=Physician Heal Thyself (1974)|website=BFI}}</ref> He al
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  • ...e]]'' (1988).<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba5ae9e43|title=John Warner|website=BFI}}</ref> ...ared at the [[Chichester Festival production history|Chichester Festival]] from 1978.<ref name=guardian/>
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  • | birth_place = [[Marylebone]], London, England ...nglish actress.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f1dcd04|title=Rosalind Knight}}</ref> Her career spanned 70 years on
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Marylebone|Marylebone]], London, England ...th their mother, who took frequent lovers, while their father did business from the [[w:Savoy Hotel|Savoy Hotel]], and often stayed there. Green attended [
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  • ...as an actor at [[w:RADA|RADA]]. He made his stage debut as a robot at the People's Palace in [[w:Mile End|Mile End]], [[w:East End of London|East London]] i ...}</ref> In the years that followed his [[w:demobilisation|demobilisation]] from the British Army in 1947, Carmichael worked mostly on stage. In 1949 he tou
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  • |birth_place=[[Marylebone]], [[London]], England ...n English actor. Although Barron was a familiar face on British television from the 1950s, he is best remembered for his role in the BBC comedy ''[[The Fal
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  • | birth_place = [[Marylebone]], [[County of London]], (now [[Inner London]]) England McKenna was born in [[Marylebone]] to a theatrical family and was educated at Heron's Ghyll School, a former
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  • ...e to the Galaxy]]'' and is [[Mornington Crescent (game)#Origins|one of the people credited]] with creating the bizarre panel game [[Mornington Crescent (game ...chhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' in 1977 for [[BBC Radio 4]], taking over from [[Simon Brett]], the producer of the pilot. Perkins assisted the notoriousl
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  • ...1972 to 1985, and [[Pauline Fowler]] on the soap opera ''[[EastEnders]]'' from 1985 to 2006. ...iss Brahms]] in ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'' appearing in all 69 episodes from 1972 to 1985. She also reprised the role in the sequel series ''[[Grace and
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  • ...[[comedian|comic actor]] who starred in revue, variety, film and pantomime from the 1920s to the mid-1980s. His trademark rubber-neck dance, skeletal frame ...//www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/57/a6336957.shtml |title=WW2 People's War: Una Bracey Remembers |publisher=BBC |url-status=dead |archiveurl=htt
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  • ...accommodate them and the last half desperately trying to save the building from a flood, and whilst all this is going on, put up with his nagging wife ([[H ..., p. 64"/> and the two married in 1946 at [[St Mary's, Bryanston Square]], Marylebone.<ref>Brown, p. 72</ref> Brown later became known for her television imperso
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  • ...1911 England Census for Irene Handl: Ancestry.com {{subscription}}]</ref> From 1907 to 1915 she attended the Paddington and Maida Vale High School.<ref>[h ...ue&pId=8384278 1939 England and Wales Register for Irene Handl, London, St Marylebone: Ancestry.com {{subscription}}]</ref> She continued to live with her father
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  • ...most prominently associated with the [[BBC]] during a career which lasted from 1946 until his death in January 1994. ...e]] in [[France]] during May but these plans were overtaken by the retreat from [[Dunkirk]]. He remained stationed in the United Kingdom until the invasion
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  • ...7). After briefly serving with the [[Royal Flying Corps]], he was released from active service by the British government to help run a concert party called ...y]]'' in 1955. Henson's film career was intermittent, and he made 14 films from 1916 to 1956. The most notable of these was ''[[Tons of Money (1924 film)|T
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  • | birth_place = [[Marylebone]], London, England ...Teck|Queen Mary]].<ref>Don't Laugh at Me, p. 1</ref> The couple married in Marylebone on 15 July 1912. Wisdom had an elder brother, Frederick Thomas "Fred" Wisdo
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  • ...r|Joan Cooper]]|1948|1982}}<ref>GRO Register of Marriages: MAR 1948 5d 800 MARYLEBONE&nbsp;– Arthur Lowe = Gatehouse or Cooper</ref> ...Mainwaring]] in the [[w:British sitcom|British sitcom]] ''[[Dad's Army]]'' from 1968 until 1977, was nominated for seven [[w:BAFTA|BAFTA]]s and became one
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  • ...2009|author=Ridley, Nicholas |isbn=978-1-906132-98-9|title=Godfrey's Ghost From Father to Son|publisher=Mogzilla Life}}</ref> ...ivate Godfrey], BBC Radio 4, 2012-07-06.</ref> He was medically discharged from the army with the rank of [[Lance Corporal]] in 1916.<ref>Ridley's WW1 meda
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