• Eunice Black
  | birth_place = [[West Ham]], [[Essex]]<!-- Do not change to London, West Ham was in Essex in 1914 -->, UK ...October 1914 in [[West Ham]], [[Essex]]<!-- Do not change to London, West Ham was in Essex in 1914 -->, as Eunice Holden.
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• Ned Sherrin
  | birth_place = [[w:Low Ham|Low Ham]], [[w:Somerset|Somerset]], England ...e Guardian|date=2 October 2007}}</ref><ref>[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1204295/index.html Bio: Ned Sherrin] screenonline.org.uk</ref> and rende
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• Johnny Speight
  ...ref> Haynes died in 1966.<ref name=profile>[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/465520/index.html Profile], screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 26 December 2 ...with a vengeance on the BBC's ''[[In Sickness and in Health]]'' which ran from 1985 to 1992.<ref name="auto"/><ref name=bbcnews>{{Cite news|url=https://ww
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• Alf Garnett
  '''Alfred Edward "Alf" Garnett''' is a [[fictional character]] from the [[Television in the United Kingdom|British]] [[Situation comedy|sitcom] ...d 1968, according to the film ''The Alf Garnett Saga'', despite resistance from Alf, the Garnetts were rehoused in a tower block in a new town on the edge
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• Reg Varney
  ...at the nearby [[Star Lane DLR station|Star Lane]] Primary School in [[West Ham]] and after leaving school at 14, he worked as a messenger boy and a page b ...k}}</ref> In late 1939, he married Lilian E. Flavell (1915-2002) at [[East Ham]].
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• Bryan Forbes
  ...ulture/2008/jun/11/art Albert Herbert: A visionary artist, he found a path from abstraction to religious imagery via etching]. ''The Guardian''. 11 June 20 Forbes trained as an actor at the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] from age 17, but completed only three terms.<ref name=bfi /><ref name=BAFTA_trib
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• Jimmy Edwards
  ...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 [[Fra
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• Warren Mitchell
  ...' (1964), ''[[The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (film)|The Spy Who Came In from the Cold]]'' (1965), ''[[The Assassination Bureau]]'' (1969) and ''[[Norman ...15 December 2006 }}</ref> (originally surnamed "Misell"<ref>Davis, Barry. "From the BBC with Love", ''The International Jerusalem Post'', 2–8 January 201
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• Love Thy Neighbour (1972 TV series)
  | caption = Title card from the pilot for ''Love Thy Neighbour'' ...' is a [[British television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] that was broadcast from 13 April 1972 until 22 January 1976. The show spanned eight series, lasted
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• Fanny Cradock
  {{short description|Restaurant critic, television celebrity cook and writer from England}} ....<ref>GRO Register of Births: June Qtr, 1909, Phyllis Nan S. Pechey, at W. Ham, vol 4a, page 369</ref>
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• Rutland Weekend Television
  ...ce in April 1974 so, supposedly, there were tax advantages to broadcasting from somewhere that did not legally exist. This framework allowed for a range of ...). A Rutland TV station would be pretty small (representing roughly 30,000 people in an area less than 150 square miles), so a Rutland {{em|Weekend}} Televis
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• Norman Bird
  ...pector Calls]]'' (1954).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba127353d|title=Norman Bird}}</ref> ...'' and ''[[Boon (TV series)|Boon]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/people/norman-bird/|title=Norman Bird|last=TV.com|website=TV.com}}</ref> In 1990 h
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• Till Death Us Do Part
  ...six episodes, calling it ''[[Till Death...]]''. The BBC produced a sequel from 1985 until 1992, ''[[In Sickness and in Health]]''. ...ike Rawlins ([[Tony Booth (actor)|Anthony Booth]]) is a socialist layabout from [[Liverpool]] who frequently locks horns with Garnett. Alf Garnett became a
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• Donald Sinden
  ...957). He then became highly regarded as an award-winning Shakespearean and West End theatre actor and television sitcom star, winning the 1977 [[Evening St ...results/3475/Donald%20Alfred+SINDEN.aspx |date=17 July 2011}}, ''Debrett's People of Today''; accessed 15 December 2013.</ref> and later trained as an actor
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• John Bluthal
  ...He also appeared in ''[[The Omar Khayyam Show]]'', a UK remake of episodes from ''The Idiot Weekly''. He later worked extensively with Milligan on the tele ...rances at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] included ''Tales from Hollywood'', ''Entertaining Strangers'', [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall
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• Tony Hancock
  ...his best-remembered work (including "[[The Blood Donor]]" and "[[The Radio Ham]]"). After breaking with his scriptwriters [[Galton and Simpson|Ray Galton
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• Brian Rix
  ...House of Lords]] as a crossbencher in 1992 and was president of [[Mencap]] from 1998 until his death. ...xperience with the White Rose Players at the opera house in [[Harrogate]]. From there he went into the Royal Air Force, eventually ending up as a volunteer
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• List of Till Death Us Do Part episodes
  ...ordings of some episodes have been found. Recordings exist of all episodes from Series 4 and later. ...rateful. Mike and Rita take Alf and Else to dinner at a fancy place in the West End. But Alf gets drunk and Mike discovers he doesn't have enough money for
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• Oh! What a Lovely War
  The title is derived from the [[music hall]] song "Oh! It's a Lovely War", which is one of the major ...f older popular songs, and using allegorical settings such as Brighton's [[West Pier]] to criticise the manner in which the eventual victory was won.
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• The Best of Sellers
  ...[[George Martin]]. Despite initial concerns about its commercial viability from EMI, ''The Best of Sellers'' was a major success, receiving critical acclai ...pearing with [[Ted Ray (comedian)|Ted Ray]] in ''[[Ray's a Laugh]]'' and, from 1951, alongside [[Spike Milligan]], [[Harry Secombe]] and [[Michael Bentine
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