• Angela Douglas
  ...1959 in ''[[The Shakedown (1959 film)|The Shakedown]]'', and then appeared with [[Tommy Steele]] in ''[[It's All Happening (film)|It's All Happening]]''. S ...1960–1985: 25 years, CBC Enterprises, 1986. {{ISBN|0-88794-231-8}} photo with brief description of cameo role p203.</ref> and ''[[Doctor at Large (TV ser
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• Bill Waddington
  ...t Lockwood]] as early as 1946. In the 1970s he enjoyed a stage partnership with [[Sid James]], only ended by James's death in 1976.<ref name=":0" /> ...les in ''Coronation Street''. His first two parts were uncredited as a man with a pipe in a cafe scene in 1967 and a drunken businessman who laughed at one
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• Charlie Williams (comedian)
  ...that were."<ref name="times"/><ref name="telegraph"/> He ended his career with [[Skegness Town F.C.|Skegness Town]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Brown|first=Neil|t ...e they have the broken biscuits?". I think it was a huge culture shock for people. And Charlie exploited this to the full.|[[Lenny Henry]] in ''Windrush –
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• Neil McCarthy (actor)
  He died of [[motor neurone disease]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a5-fBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA2 [[Category:People from Lincoln, England]]
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• David Jacobs (broadcaster)
  ...rogramme ''[[Navy Mixture|Navy Mixture]]'' in 1944. He became an announcer with the [[British Forces Broadcasting Service|British Forces Broadcasting Servi ...consisted of [[easy listening music|easy listening music]] and interviews with guests. From December 1967 until July 1984, Jacobs chaired the Radio 4 topi
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• Thorley Walters
  ...F.O.]]'' and was shocked at his appearance (he was ill with [[Parkinson's disease]]). That visit resulted in the Terry-Thomas Gala held in the [[Theatre Roya * ''[[The People That Time Forgot (film)|The People That Time Forgot]]'' (1977) – Norfolk
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• Terence Alexander
  ...ter of a rival school.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7cf03543|title=The Honour of the School (1970)|publisher=British Film ...70 film)|Waterloo]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ba47193|title=Waterloo (1970)|publisher=British Film Institute}}</ref
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• Bob Hoskins
  ...reet]]''. He retired from acting in 2012 owing to [[Parkinson's disease]], with which he had been diagnosed the previous year, and died from [[pneumonia]] ...r=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=30 April 2014}}</ref> He left school at 15 with a single [[GCE Ordinary Level|O-Level]] and worked as a porter, lorry drive
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• Richard Vernon
  ...ependent 13 Dec 1997"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7f5efab7|title=Fellows [26/06/1967] (1967)|website=BFI}}</ref> He also ...series)|Persuasion]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7f6bead8|title=Persuasion Part 5 (1971)|website=BFI}}</ref> He played
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• Richard Briers
  ...e Glen (TV series)|Monarch of the Glen]]'' (2000–05). From the late 1980s, with [[Kenneth Branagh]] as director, he performed Shakespearean roles in ''[[He ...f Middlesex [[tenant farmer]]s; a gregarious and popular man, he contended with a nervous disposition, and drifted between jobs, spending most of his life
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• Freddie Starr
  ...''The Freddie Starr Show ''(1996–1998) and two episodes of ''[[An Audience with...]]'' in 1996 and 1997. In 1999, he presented the game show ''[[Beat the C ...-onstage-persona/ |title=Obituary: Freddie Starr – 'unpredictable comedian with an anarchic and dangerous onstage persona' |publisher=[[The Stage]] |date=1
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• Wendy Richard
  ...urnalism|tabloids]]. She was diagnosed with [[breast cancer]] in 1996; the disease returned in 2002 and again in 2008; this time it had spread throughout her ...er father's death, as Henry had been a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]], and help with fees was provided by the organisation. She found the school excessively str
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• List of The Brittas Empire characters
  ...in daughter with Carole Parkinson) <br /> Jessica Parkinson (twin daughter with Carole Parkinson) ...paperwork and forces his staff and customers to fill in thousands of forms with the most banal details, such as lost property claims. Throughout the entire
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• Bob Monkhouse
  ...ame="Guardian obit" /> He established a comics writing and art partnership with Dulwich schoolmate [[Denis Gifford]] and the two formed their own publishin ...National service]] with the [[Royal Air Force]] in 1948. He won a contract with the BBC after his unwitting RAF group captain signed a letter that Monkhous
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• Ronnie Corbett
  ...rt]]'' (with Barker) and subsequently starred in<!-- First series overlaps with TFR. --> sitcoms such as ''[[No – That's Me Over Here!]]'', ''[[Now Look ..., We're British (film)|''No Sex Please, We're British'']]. He first worked with Ronnie Barker in the BBC TV series ''[[The Frost Report]]'' in 1966, and th
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• Anna Neagle
  [[File:Sunny (1941 film) still 1.jpg|thumb|right|Neagle with [[Paul Hartman]] and [[Ray Bolger]] in the film [[Sunny (1941 film)|''Sunny ...amour and sophistication to [[Second World War|war-torn]] London audiences with her lightweight musicals, comedies and historical dramas. Almost all of her
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• Kenneth More
  ...]]'' (1958). He also played more serious roles as a leading man, beginning with ''[[The Deep Blue Sea (1955 film)|The Deep Blue Sea]]'' (1955), ''[[Reach f ...me – ''[[The Comedy Man]]'' (1964) and ''[[The Greengage Summer]]'' (1961) with [[Susannah York|Susannah York]], "one of the happiest films on which I have
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• Dudley Moore
  ...ly... But Also]]''. As a popular double act, Moore’s buffoonery contrasted with Cook’s deadpan monologues.<ref name="double act">{{cite news |title=Peter ...et in [[Swinging Sixties|Swinging Sixties London]] (in which he co-starred with Cook) and Hollywood productions ''[[Foul Play (1978 film)|Foul Play]]'' (19
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• Peter Ustinov
  ..., vol. 2, Wiesbaden 2005. Also, a family photo shows Ustinov's grandmother with her husband and their children, including Ustinov's father Jona.</ref> ...ther [[Alexandre Benois|Alexandre Benois]] was a stage designer who worked with [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]] and [[Sergei Diaghilev|Diaghilev]]. Their pa
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• Dirk Bogarde
  | nationality = [[English people|English]] ...try. He was art editor of ''[[The Times]]''. Margaret Niven was [[Scottish people|Scottish]], from [[Glasgow]], and was a former actress.
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