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  • | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> ...riting career on a local newspaper, the ''[[w:Hampstead & Highgate Express|Hampstead & Highgate Express]]''. When World War II broke out, Hudis joined the [[w:R
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  • | death_place = [[Hampstead]], [[London]], England ...delivery made him a natural comedic actor. Fraser was a familiar figure in West End clubs during the sixties, and despite a long-standing reputation as one
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Hampstead|Hampstead]], London, England ...309&dat=19880925&id=2a1UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GJADAAAAIBAJ&pg=2478,2432896}}</ref> from which she graduated in 1952.<ref>[https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles?aos=actin
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Hampstead|Hampstead]], London, England ...]'' (1978) and had a starring role in the [[Hammer horror]] film ''[[Blood from the Mummy's Tomb]]'' (1971).
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  • ...ppell''' (25 September 1933 – 21 April 2022)<ref>[https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/news/6824/rip-eric-chappell/ Rising Damp writer Eric Chappell dies aged 88] ...">{{cite news|last=Hewett|first=Richard|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1367178/index.html|title=Chappell, Eric (1933-)|website=BFI Screenonline
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  • ...2013}}</ref> Her marriage to television actor [[Peter Penry-Jones]] lasted from 22 September 1967 until his death in 2009. They had two sons, Laurence and Other theatre work that Thorne partook in was in ''Little Boxes'' - [[Hampstead Theatre]],<ref name="lady"/> She portrayed [[Io (mythology)|Io]] in ''[[Pro
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  • |death_place = [[Hampstead]], London, England ...ouse]]'' ([[Playhouse Theatre|Playhouse]], 1925) in the [[West End theatre|West End]], along with engagements at club theatres such as the [[Q Theatre]] an
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  • ...n,<ref name=marriage>Register of Marriages Solemnized at St Paul’s Church, Hampstead, [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/1623/31280_198927-00053 p. 94] (Ma ...idge]], the daughter of [[Robert Courtneidge]], a theatrical manager, in [[Hampstead]].<ref name=marriage/> On 2 March, the [[Military Service Act 1916]] came i
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Hampstead|Hampstead]], London, England ...y On (franchise)|Carry On]]'' films, and also regularly appeared on screen from the 1960s to the 1980s.
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  • ...Adjust Your Set]]'', ''[[At Last The 1948 Show]]'' and ''[[How To Irritate People]]''. On all these shows Vosburgh worked alongside members of what was to be From the 70s onwards he wrote for many comedy television shows starring [[Ronnie
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  • | death_place = [[w:Hampstead|Hampstead]], London, England, UK ...0 million.<ref>{{cite news|title=Writer of Horse Operas Will Finally Visit West|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ys8vAAAAIBAJ&pg=6557,2917841|news
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  • ...ams was an only child and in 1956 bought a house one and a half miles away from his parents' house.<ref name=":1"/> ...Jonathan Ross Salutes Dad's Army (2008)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8ccacf81|website=bfi.org.uk|publisher=[[British Film Institute|BFI]]|a
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  • ...[[Linda Clarke|Linda Clarke]] in ''[[EastEnders|EastEnders]]'' in 2006 and from 2008 to 2009, with a brief return in 2016. ...reer, she appeared in [[repertory theatre]] and several [[West End theatre|West End]] venues.<ref name="filmography">{{Cite web|url=https://www.gordonandfr
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  • ...sion sitcoms ''[[Fresh Fields]]'' in the 1980s and ''[[May to December]]'' from 1989 to 1994. He also had a long career both on stage and in film. His stage roles ranged from contemporary comedy and satirical farce to Restoration comedy, [[Henrik Ibs
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  • | death_place = [[Hampstead, London|Hampstead]], London, England ...' (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
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  • ...isher = [[Bowdoin College|]] | title = Actor Burt Kwouk '53 Receives Honor from English Crown | date = 28 July 2011 | access-date = 24 May 2016}}</ref> The ...22337b08c32b08c5b609516963223|archive-date=14 July 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> From 2002 to the series's end in 2010, he had a [[regular character|regular role
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  • ...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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  • ...gdom, achieving success playing comedic, often eccentric characters in the West End of London. She played the role of the cockney maid Ida in the original ...e film ''[[Murder, She Said]]'', based on Agatha Christie's novel ''[[4.50 From Paddington]]'' and starring [[Margaret Rutherford]] as Miss Marple.
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  • From 2000 to 2003, Bellingham played Pauline Farnell, the compassionate accounta ...a mother to her real-life son, actor and celebrity butler Michael Peluso (from ITV's fly-on-the-wall documentary series ''[[Savoy Hotel|The Savoy]]'').<re
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  • ...e of thirty and quickly became established as a popular [[West End theatre|West End]] performer, remaining so until his death in 1976. Starting in 1935, he ...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
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