• We Joined the Navy
  | image = We Joined the Navy.jpg |based_on = ''We Joined the Navy'' by [[John Winton]]
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• Watch Your Stern
  ...based on the play ''Something About a Sailor'' by Earle Couttie. The Royal Navy provided cooperation, allowing the producers to film in [[Chatham Dockyard] ...ies. It also has similarities to the long-running BBC radio series ''[[The Navy Lark]]''.
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• John Warner (actor)
  ...Salad Days]]'', which premiered in the UK at the [[Bristol Old Vic|Theatre Royal]] in 1954, and transferred to the [[Vaudeville Theatre|Vaudeville Theatre]] ...d War]] on board ''HMS Rattlesnake'' (he rose to the rank of [[Lieutenant (navy)|Lieutenant]]), which included working on the [[Arctic convoys of World War
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• The Navy Lark
  {{for|the 1959 film|The Navy Lark (film)}} | show_name = The Navy Lark
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• Donald Hewlett
  ....htm |date=28 September 2007 }}</ref> He was later assigned to the [[Royal Navy]] during North Atlantic action aboard the light cruisers Malaya and Galatea ...|demob]], rather than return to Cambridge University, Hewlett trained at [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art|RADA]] and gained his first professional acting job
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• Barnacle Bill (1957 film)
  ...omedy film]], starring [[Alec Guinness]]. He plays an unsuccessful [[Royal Navy]] officer and six of his maritime ancestors. This was the final [[Ealing co When he retires from the [[Royal Navy]] as a captain, he purchases a dilapidated late Victorian era [[Pier#Pleasu
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• The Bullet is Not for Firing
  ...tical, but Mainwaring reminds him that honesty is the best policy. The two officers overseeing the Inquiry, Captain Cutts and Captain Pringle, are keen to get ...ner]], and Frazer brings in a sword that he owned back in the [[Royal Navy|Navy]], as it was standard procedure for swords to be laid on the table during i
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• Danny La Rue
  |death_place = [[Royal Tunbridge Wells|Tunbridge Wells]], [[Kent]], England He served in the [[Royal Navy]] as a young man following in his father's footsteps, and for a time worked
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• Very Important Person (film)
  ...wever, no one must know who he is. He goes as Lieutenant Farrow, a [[Royal Navy]] [[public relations]] officer. The bomber is hit over [[Nazi Germany|Germa ...sent to a [[prisoner of war]] camp mostly occupied by [[Royal Air Force]] officers. His excellent command of German causes him to be suspected of being a spy,
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• Frank Thornton
  ...After that he served as an [[w:airman|airman]] in the [[w:Royal Air Force|Royal Air Force]] before ending the war as an officer. From the rank of [[w:leadi ...season of thirteen episodes. This was not strictly a spin-off from ''[[The Navy Lark]]'', other than being another "Lark" written by [[Lawrie Wyman]]. He
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• Ronald Shiner
  When he was seventeen, Shiner joined the [[North-West Mounted Police|Royal North-West Mounted Police]], after which he became a signalman and a wirele ...in ''[[Gentlemen's Agreement (film)|Gentlemen's Agreement]]'' (1935), ''[[Royal Cavalcade]]'' (1935), ''[[Squibs (1935 film)|Squibs]]'' (1935), ''[[Once a
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• Brian Wilde
  ...Richard Hale School|Hertford Grammar School]]. He trained as an actor at [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art|RADA]].<ref name="Telegraph"/> ...nt Halcro in a series of two-part thrillers about undercover Scotland Yard officers, ''The Men from Room Thirteen'' ([[BBC]], 1959–61). He had minor roles in
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• Peter Butterworth
  ...utenant]] in the [[Fleet Air Arm|Fleet Air Arm]] of the [[Royal Navy|Royal Navy]] during the [[Second World War|Second World War]].<ref name="Brown, p. 64" [[Category:Royal Navy officers of World War II]]
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• John Barron (actor)
  ...ate=21 April 2011}}</ref> After serving as a [[Lieutenant]] in the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[Second World War]], he returned to stage acting. In the 1950 [[Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]]
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• Peter Bull
  ...ment|6}}; he served as an officer in the [[w:Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve|Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve]], later commanding Landing Craft (Flak) 16 in the [[Category:Royal Navy officers of World War II]]
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• George Cole (actor)
  ...nd had an ambition to join the [[w:Merchant Navy (United Kingdom)|Merchant Navy]] but landed a part in a touring musical and chose acting as a career. ...by his [[w:national service|national service]] in the [[w:Royal Air Force|Royal Air Force]] from 1944 to 1947, where he was temporarily a radio operator.
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• Jeremy Lloyd
  ...roleum engineer father who served as an officer in the [[w:Royal Engineers|Royal Engineers]] at the beginning of [[w:World War II|World War II]].<ref>[https * ''[[We Joined the Navy]]'' (1962) – Dewberry Jr.
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• List of The Navy Lark episodes
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''The Navy Lark'' episodes}} This is a list of episodes of the BBC Radio comedy ''[[The Navy Lark]]''. All episodes were written by Laurie Wyman, except for Series 12-1
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• To Hull and Back
  ...be chased by the police just after Del has left Van Kleefe; two uniformed officers and a plain clothes man standing there start running and the Trotters flee,
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• Michael Bates (actor)
  ...variety of characters in the [[BBC]]'s long-running comedy series ''[[The Navy Lark]]'', including Able Seaman Ginger, Lieutenant Bates, Rear Admiral Iron [[Category:Royal Gurkha Rifles officers]]
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