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- | death_place = [[Ashgrove, Queensland|Ashgrove]], [[Brisbane]], [[Queensland]], Australia ...d joined the [[Royal Air Force Police|RAF Police]] but was later invalided from service, whereupon he joined [[Entertainments National Service Association]12 KB (1,737 words) - 08:10, 5 August 2024
- | birth_place = [[w:Brisbane|Brisbane]], [[w:Queensland|Queensland]], Australia | death_place = [[w:Southport, Queensland|Southport]], Australia16 KB (2,404 words) - 08:56, 29 December 2022
- He served in the [[Royal Artillery|Royal Artillery]] from March 1940 to June 1942 during the [[Second World War|Second World War]], b ...eople/id/448547/ "Price, Dennis (1915-1973)"], BFI screenonline, reprinted from MacFarlane (ed.) ''Encyclopaedia of British Cinema'', London: Methuen/BFI,14 KB (2,144 words) - 13:16, 25 February 2023
- ...as a very good cinematographer, but there weren't enough directors, and so people who were scriptwriters or were behind the camera were suddenly made directo ...GAZINE |newspaper=[[The South Coast Express]] |volume=1 |issue=2 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=15 September 1949 |accessdate=27 October 2017 |page=5 |via11 KB (1,579 words) - 23:51, 5 February 2023
- | death_place = [[Hope Island, Queensland]], Australia | children = 6 (three with Blossom, three from extramarital affairs)18 KB (2,484 words) - 19:37, 3 October 2024
- ...on of the [[Gainsborough melodramas]].<ref>[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/448996/ Gainsborough Pictures] at [[BFI Screenonline]]</ref><ref>{{cite ...rs such as [[Will Hay]] and [[Arthur Askey]]. He also produced early films from [[Carol Reed]] and [[Alfred Hitchcock]] and was an early supporter of write14 KB (2,132 words) - 12:45, 7 February 2023
- ...Stewart (film editor)|Hugh Stewart]] read the story when he was recovering from [[jaundice]]. He bought the film rights and tried to finance the film throu ...omething in [[schottische]]... I said, "It's a very nice number but I come from the music halls and I tell you you cannot use a schottische at this point.11 KB (1,725 words) - 17:03, 25 April 2023
- ...SES SENSATION |newspaper=[[Daily Mercury]] |volume=86 |issue=275 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=17 November 1952 |access-date=25 September 2017 |page=14 } From 1954 to 1955 she was a member of the [[Old Vic]] theatre company, appearing18 KB (2,707 words) - 20:32, 7 February 2023
- ...ers (1960 film)|The Sundowners]]''. She is one of the last surviving stars from the [[Classical Hollywood cinema|Golden Age of Hollywood]] and class years ...Strangers (1945 film)|Perfect Strangers]]'' (1945) (also titled ''Vacation from Marriage'').23 KB (3,459 words) - 16:19, 20 December 2022
- ...get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew ...st a mere £23,000 to produce, it was a hit at the box office, with profits from its Australian release alone being £150,000.<ref name="bfireleases">[https36 KB (5,270 words) - 00:10, 13 February 2023
- ...inburgh]] in 1925. He also ran his own private elocution and drama school, from which, with the help of the playwright [[John Drinkwater (playwright)|John ...al association with the author [[James Bridie|James Bridie]], which lasted from 1939 until the dramatist's death in 1951. Sim not only acted in Bridie's wo28 KB (4,358 words) - 15:34, 24 August 2024
- | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> ...his career, and reruns of television programs featuring Harris were pulled from syndication.<ref>[http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/perth-rolf-88 KB (12,437 words) - 11:39, 1 March 2023
- ...ought therefore to be treated as an alien."], '' 'Our Gracie' risked fall from grace over wartime marriage to Italian'', 21 Dec, 2021</ref> ...BE)]] in 1979.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/451952/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Fields, Gracie (1898-1979) Bio38 KB (5,709 words) - 19:29, 24 August 2024
- | image = Illustration of man suffering from wind. Wellcome L0005360.jpg | caption = Illustration of man suffering from "wind"51 KB (7,113 words) - 23:56, 12 February 2023
- ...e next several years, still wearing his dressing gown, helplessly launched from crisis to crisis while trying to straighten out his lifestyle. He rather en ...of many failed prototypes of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's GPP (Genuine People Personalities) technology, Marvin is afflicted with severe depression and b137 KB (22,869 words) - 10:55, 25 August 2024
- ...-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed from the television series into something larger in scope and influence, includi ...th America, it has coloured the work of [[cult following|cult]] performers from the early editions of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' through to more recent [[151 KB (22,229 words) - 11:42, 4 January 2023