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- | birth_place = [[w:Paddington|Paddington]], Middlesex ...e Jackson, (1878-1935).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f952a1f|title=Billy Milton|publisher=[[w:British Film Institute|Briti4 KB (523 words) - 17:12, 26 January 2023
- | birth_place = [[w:Paddington|Paddington]], [[London]], England, UK ...n the United Kingdom#After 1945|national service]] in the [[British Army]] from 1946 until 1948.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s5 KB (627 words) - 08:45, 24 January 2023
- | birth_place = [[Paddington]], London, England | death_place = Paddington, London, England5 KB (669 words) - 15:50, 22 December 2022
- | birth_place = [[w:Paddington|Paddington]], London, England ...y Fools and Horses)|Grandad]] in the sitcom ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'', from its beginning in September 1981 until his death in December 1984.7 KB (1,111 words) - 23:51, 2 February 2023
- | death_place = [[Paddington]], [[London]], England ...on shows and in theatre.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba008f77c|title=Ann Lancaster}}</ref><ref name=avelyman>{{cite web|url=7 KB (942 words) - 20:32, 7 February 2023
- | birth_place = [[Paddington]], [[London]], England Jay was born in [[Paddington]], [[London]], the son of Ernest Jay, a [[character actor]], and Catherine9 KB (1,213 words) - 11:59, 24 August 2024
- | birth_place = [[w:Paddington|Paddington]], [[w:London|London]], England Davies was born on 9 March 1939 in [[w:Paddington|Paddington]], [[w:London|London]], the son of [[w:Jack Davies (screenwriter)|Jack Davi10 KB (1,464 words) - 14:22, 23 December 2022
- | death_place = [[Paddington]], [[London]], [[England]] ...stry.com; accessed 25 July 2015.</ref> Her stage name, Villiers, was taken from her maternal grandfather.<ref>[http://www.omnilexica.com/?q=mavis+villiers+11 KB (1,562 words) - 17:20, 16 January 2023
- ...rick Holt]] from 1954 until her death, Dorne died on Christmas Day 1992 at Paddington Community Hospital, Westminster, London. The cause of death was kidney canc [[Category:People from Keighley]]4 KB (570 words) - 23:57, 22 February 2023
- ...t family values. His father had been "emotionally shattered" on his return from the [[w:First World War|First World War]], which led to Eddington being a l ...tps://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-paul-eddington-1580768.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=12 KB (1,819 words) - 17:50, 21 December 2022
- ...at a spectacularly waterlogged royal garden party. To distract the nation from the appalling state of the economy, the Goodies are employed to cheer up th ...Ernie (Sesame Street)|Ernie]], [[Oscar the Grouch]] and [[Cookie Monster]] from ''[[Sesame Street]]''); he and Graeme are challenged to a sword fight by Bi10 KB (1,445 words) - 22:46, 13 March 2023
- ...er and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in ''[[Take It from Here]]'' and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in ''[[Whack-O!]]''. ...ghts]] revue. He gained wider exposure as a radio performer in ''[[Take It From Here]]'', co-starring [[Dick Bentley]], which first paired his writer [[Fra14 KB (2,083 words) - 00:22, 19 February 2023
- | death_place = [[Paddington]], London, England ...d?]]'', a [[British sitcom]] between 1972 and 1985, and was the only actor from that series to feature in the [[Are You Being Served? (Australian TV series17 KB (2,542 words) - 10:29, 25 August 2024
- ...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 invasion20 KB (3,078 words) - 23:38, 3 February 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
- ...o 2017. She also reprised the role of Olive Rudge in ''[[The Rag Trade]]'' from 1977 to 1978, while her film roles included parts in two ''[[Carry On (fran ...he shared a room with two other girls in a girls' hostel in [[w:Paddington|Paddington]] and enrolled at the [[w:London School of Dramatic Art|London School of Dr24 KB (3,600 words) - 08:58, 3 February 2023
- ...1794.html Anna Russell: Versatile singer and comedienne who parodied works from Wagner to Cole Porter]</ref><ref name=telegraph>''Daily Telegraph'' obituar * Autobiography: ''I'm Not Making This Up, You Know'' (a quote from her Ring of the Nibelung routine), {{ISBN|0-8264-0364-6}}, was published by17 KB (2,522 words) - 10:39, 17 March 2023
- ...m ''[[Murder, She Said]]'', based on Agatha Christie's novel ''[[4.50 From Paddington]]'' and starring [[Margaret Rutherford]] as Miss Marple. ...highly rated TV series ''[[Our Man at St. Mark's|Our Man at St Mark's]]''. From 1970 to 1971 she played Mrs Pugsley in ''[[Bachelor Father (UK TV series)|B18 KB (2,629 words) - 00:03, 24 January 2023
- ...in the television series ''[[w:Dixon of Dock Green|Dixon of Dock Green]]'' from 1955 until 1976, but he was also for some years one of Britain's most popul ...nt to work as a mechanic in Paris. He drove completed chassis to the coast from where they were shipped to England, road-testing them ''en route''.<ref nam15 KB (2,258 words) - 14:21, 18 January 2023
- ...ber (character)|Oldest Member]]'', based on stories by [[P.G. Wodehouse]], from 1994 to 1999, as Rumpole in ''[[Rumpole of the Bailey|Rumpole: The Splendou ...of the most listenable and controlled of English-speaking voices, a legacy from his many years in radio."<ref name=book/>13 KB (2,022 words) - 23:01, 15 January 2023