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  • ...del]] named Bobbie Rivers. Further confusion ensues when the action shifts from London to the French resort of [[Le Touquet]]. The musical was first performed on stage at Southsea in December 1935, before a long run at the [[Palace Theatre, London|Palace
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  • ...1973. He also performed on stage, film, television and radio, taking over from [[Peter Jones (actor)|Peter Jones]] as "The Book" (the narrator) in the thi ...slow period, he traded as an antiques dealer, taking junk away on a barrow from rich areas of London and selling it as [[antique]]s.
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  • ...r]]''.<ref name="bfi.org.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9efa5d96|title=Glynn Edwards|publisher=British Film Institute|access-d ...d shortly after his birth and he was raised first by his grandparents in [[Southsea]], [[Hampshire]], and then by his father and stepmother, who ran a pub in [
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  • ...rls]]'', playing inmate [[List of Bad Girls characters#Bev Tull|Bev Tull]] from the fifth series to the last, along with [[List of Bad Girls characters#Phy ...iry Godmother in ''Cinderella'' at the [[Marina Theatre]] in [[Lowestoft]] from December 2013 to January 2014.<ref>{{cite web|author=Wilf Arasaratnam |url=
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  • ...]'', a panel game that combined humour and erudition, in which he appeared from 1964 to 1973. ...eatre|West End]] in May of that year.<ref>Gaye, p. 1000</ref> He graduated from the chorus to a supporting role in a tour of ''Oh! Letty'', a "musical farc
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  • ...house]] in 1973, as well as at the [[Lyric Theatre, London|Lyric Theatre]] from 1973 to 1974.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/play ...lso broadcast in 1979.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6f6bbd73|title=Blue Remembered Hills (1979)|website=BFI}}</ref>
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  • ...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 Spike
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  • ...rs to it as ''the Goon Show'' (or that ''Goon Show'') but never as ''Crazy People'' (which quite frankly could be applied to almost any comedy show).’ ...e show would be pre-empted on Tuesday 26 February to make way for speeches from the ''Pilgrims’ Dinner''. The Stargazers were also announced as appearing
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  • | ShortSummary = Mr. Bean attends a mathematics exam, where he tries to copy from a student ([[Paul Bown]]) under the nose of the invigilator ([[Rudolph Walk ...a pillar box whilst posting his letter, Bean packs for a holiday, suffers from a noisy laughing man ([[Stephen Frost]]) during a train ride and then attem
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  • ...mouth|Portsmouth]], Sellers made his stage debut at the [[w:Kings Theatre, Southsea|Kings Theatre]], when he was two weeks old. He began accompanying his paren ...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
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  • ...pt was most recently written by [[Iain Pattinson]], who worked on the show from 1992 until his death in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amandahowardas ''I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue'' developed from the long-running radio [[sketch show]] ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]
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  • | birth_name = Josephine Edwina Jaques <!-- only use if different from name --> ...m)|Green for Danger]]'' (1946), in which she had a brief, uncredited role. From 1958 to 1974 she appeared in 14 ''Carry On'' films, playing various roles i
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