• George Chisholm (musician)
  | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] '''George Chisholm''' [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (29 March 1915 – 6 December 1997) was a Sco
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• Eric Merriman
  Born in [[w:Golders Green|Golders Green]], the son of musician [[w:Percy Merriman|Percy Merriman]], he attended [[w:Finchley Cath ...ast on [[w:BBC Radio 4|BBC Radio 4]] in 1996), based on Andy's bringing up of his then four-year-old daughter, Sarah (who appeared in the series), with [
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• Douglas Argent
  ...as shot down and he was held as a Japanese [[w:prisoner-of-war|prisoner-of-war]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Obituary-Douglas- ...{{subscription required}}</ref> In this role he supervised early episodes of ''[[Till Death Us Do Part]]'' (1965).
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• Robert Moreton
  ...no Lane]].<ref name=hudd/> He served in the [[w:Royal Air Force|Royal Air Force]], where he performed in [[w:Gang Show|Gang Show]]s with [[Tony Hancock]] a ...q=%22Get%20in%20there%20moreton%22&f=false Eric Partridge, ''A Dictionary of Catch Phrases'', Rowman & Littlefield, 1986, p.230]</ref>
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• Ronnie Stevens (actor)
  ...ur years in both the [[Royal Air Force]] (RAF) and the [[Royal Engineers]] of the [[British Army]].<ref name="guardian">[https://www.theguardian.com/news ...n the ''[[Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)]]'' episode (9/5) "The Facts of Life" (1988).
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• Talfryn Thomas
  ...est known for supporting roles on television in the 1970s, including those of Private Cheeseman in ''[[Dad's Army]]'' (1973&ndash;1974) and Tom Price in ...an actor in the [[London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art|London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]] (LAMDA).<ref name="DAAS">{{cite web|title=Other Ch
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• Eddie Braben
  ...[[Conscription in the United Kingdom|national service]] in the [[Royal Air Force]], during which he was posted to the kitchen at [[RAF Kenley]]. He then wor ...ian.com"/> and he wrote most of their BBC shows after that, including many of the Christmas specials. In 1980, he joined [[Thames Television]] to continu
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• Norman Hudis
  ...theatre and television, and is most closely associated with the first six of the ''[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On (series)]]...'' film series, for whic ...nee screenwriter. During the two years he spent there he failed to get any of his screenplays into production.
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• Donald Houston
  ...Vale]], near Tonypandy, [[Glamorgan|Glamorgan]] and was the elder brother of actor [[Glyn Houston|Glyn Houston]] and a sister, Jean.<ref>{{cite book | t ...ugust 2016|work=BBC News|date=28 January 2010}}</ref> Following the death of their mother at age 29, Donald and brother [[Glyn Houston|Glyn Houston]] we
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• Alan Melville (writer)
  ..., Alan (William Melville Caverhill)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press ...he sent the [[BBC North]] Region six short stories called ''The Adventures of the Pink Knight'' (1934), which were accepted and used on ''[[Children's Ho
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• Charles Chilton
  | honorific_suffix = [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]] ...:Bloomsbury|Bloomsbury]], [[w:London|London]], England, [[w:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|UK]]
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• Ray Ellington
  {{cite book |title = Who's Who of British Jazz | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited
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• David Tomlinson
  | branch = [[w:Royal Air Force|Royal Air Force]] | battles = [[w:Second World War|Second World War]]}}
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• Bob Todd
  ...ws of [[Benny Hill]] and [[Spike Milligan]]. For many years, he lived in [[Royal Tunbridge Wells|Tunbridge Wells]], Kent. Todd was born in [[Faversham|Faversham]], Kent. One of the stooges of television comedy, Todd was best known for his lugubrious expression and ta
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• Denis Norden
  | birth_place = [[Metropolitan Borough of Hackney|Hackney]], London, England |branch= {{air force|United Kingdom}}
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• Jimmy Edwards
  | resting_place = The Parish Church of St. Andrew and St. Mary the Virgin, [[Fletching, East Sussex|Fletching]], [ ...ohn's College, Cambridge|St John's College]], where he sang in the [[Choir of St John's College, Cambridge|college choir]].
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• Allan Cuthbertson
  ...was best known for playing stern-faced military officers in British films of the 1950s and 1960s. Born in [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]], son of Ernest and Isobel Ferguson (Darling) Cuthbertson,<ref>{{cite web|url=http:/
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• Frank Thornton
  | branch = {{air force|United Kingdom}} | battles = [[w:World War II|Second World War]]
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• Cardew Robinson
  ...jeffreymaynard.com/Harrow_County/Cardew_Robinson.htm| title=early writings of Cardew Robinson}}</ref> ....screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> Promoted to flight-sergeant and put in charge of the show, Robinson toured France, Belgium and the Netherlands.<ref name=ind
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• Bill Fraser
  ...telegraph+strathallan+school&pg=PA23 |title=The Daily Telegraph Third Book of Obituaries: Entertainers |author=Edited by Hugh M. Massingberd |publisher=P ...became friends with [[Eric Sykes]].<ref name="telegraph" /> Just after the war a chance meeting in a London street led to Fraser's giving Sykes his first
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