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- | birth_place = [[w:Shepherd's Bush|Shepherd's Bush]], [[w:London|London]], UK ...e family's textile and menswear business. His TV appearances were sporadic from then on. He died on 3 June 1999 <ref>{{cite news|author=Dennis Barker |url=7 KB (976 words) - 08:57, 17 January 2023
- ...ome Service]].<ref name=BFI>{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/573767/index.html |title=Morecambe, Eric (1926-1984) and Wise, Ernie (19 ...from the [[Shepherd's Bush Empire|BBC Television Theatre]] in [[Shepherd's Bush]].<ref>McCann, p. 106</ref>12 KB (1,603 words) - 13:57, 28 January 2023
- ...a remote Scottish island to monitor the weather, where he hopes to escape from women, but soon finds the island overrun by them. ...a boat from the mainland, his is warned by the locals that he will go mad from the isolation and the curse of a [[mermaid]] within a month, as his predece7 KB (1,098 words) - 16:35, 13 March 2023
- ...ly age. He first worked as a [[call boy (theatre)|call boy]] at Shepherd's Bush Studios, and often saw actor [[Tom Walls]] going in and out of the sound st In the mid-1940s he semi-retired from show business to become a [[Public house|publican]] with his wife, Joyce Mu10 KB (1,446 words) - 15:07, 27 March 2023
- ...h Marks (1879–1965), a former opera singer. The family surname was changed from "Bramble" by Wilfrid's grandfather Frederick William Brambell. His two olde Brambell had roles in film and television from 1947, first appearing (uncredited) in ''[[Odd Man Out]]'' as a tram passeng16 KB (2,449 words) - 20:04, 24 August 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
- ...her companion Richard Winthrop ([[Peter Murray-Hill]]) ejects both of them from the compartment. ...nd explains that he is searching for his sister Julia, who he says suffers from delusions. Julia protests that he is lying. Price further explains that she10 KB (1,486 words) - 13:12, 31 January 2023
- ...iew |url=http://www.steptoe-and-son.com/societymedia/maureencorbett2.html |people=Dave Cosgrove (presenter); Maureen Corbett (interviewee); [[Galton and Simp From 1958, Corbett began to appear regularly in films, coming to public attentio19 KB (2,751 words) - 00:18, 19 February 2023
- ...1953), he appeared in many roles as a carefree, happy-go-lucky gent. Films from this period include ''[[Doctor in the House]]'' (1954), ''[[Raising a Riot ...is career declined in the early 1960s, two of his own favourite films date from this time – ''[[The Comedy Man]]'' (1964) and ''[[The Greengage Summer]]'38 KB (5,858 words) - 08:36, 20 February 2023
- ...and [[Johnny Speight]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1058088/ |title=Sykes, Eric (1923–2012) |publisher=BFI Screenonline}}< ...om the early 1950s Sykes began to make an ultimately successful transition from radio to TV, writing a number of series episodes and one-off shows for the38 KB (5,619 words) - 08:06, 26 August 2024
- ...Christopher Bond. The title is a play on the phrase "to the manner born," from [[w:William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[w:Hamlet|Hamlet]]'' ("Though I ...[[w:nouveau riche|nouveau riche]] millionaire supermarket owner originally from [[w:Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovakia]]. DeVere and fforbes-Hamilton<!--DO NOT41 KB (6,391 words) - 08:58, 27 December 2022
- ...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
- ...arly acclaimed, the series received numerous awards, including recognition from [[BAFTA]], the [[National Television Awards]] and the [[Royal Television So ...[[Uncle Albert]], the boys' great uncle, played by [[Buster Merryfield]]. From 1988 onwards, the show features regular characters in Del Boy and Rodney's98 KB (14,396 words) - 13:14, 25 February 2023
- ...e ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the la ...ce was in December 1960, two weeks before the death of Beryl. He surprised people by announcing his engagement to a school teacher, Pat Howson, seven weeks a87 KB (13,680 words) - 07:53, 16 March 2023