• Eddie Leslie
  ...versity of Glasgow - MyGlasgow - Archives & Special Collections - Scottish Theatre Archive|website=www.gla.ac.uk}}</ref> He performed with Patrica Hartley, Ne [[Category:English male film actors]]
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• Jimmy Logan
  {{short description|Scottish performer, producer, impresario and director}} | occupation = Performer<br/>Theatrical producer<br/>Impresario<br/>Theatre director
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• Benny Lee
  ...December 1995|access-date=6 December 2020}}</ref> was a [[Scottish people|Scottish]] comedy actor and singer. He started his career in stage roles, and develo ...ple.theiapolis.com/actor-1QSY/benny-lee/|url-status=dead|title=Benny Lee - Scottish actor -Theiapolis|archivedate=19 April 2015}}</ref><ref name="Hrld19960113"
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• Sam Kelly
  ...Kelly''', was an English actor who appeared in film, television, radio and theatre. He is best known for his roles as [[Captain Hans Geering]] in ''[['Allo 'A In 1996, Kelly appeared at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] in [[Helen Edmundson]]'s adaptation of [[Leo Tolstoy]]'s ''[[War and Peac
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• Bill Fraser
  '''William Simpson Fraser''' (5 June 1908 – 9 September 1987) was a Scottish actor who appeared on stage, screen and television for many years.<ref name ...name="telegraph" /> Before the [[Second World War]], he ran the Connaught Theatre in [[Worthing]]; when called up he served in a [[Royal Air Force]] [[Ultra|
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• Jack Buchanan
  ...nuts]]." He is best known in America for his role in the classic Hollywood musical ''[[The Band Wagon]]'' in 1953. ...efore he became famous whilst on tour in 1915 in ''[[To-Night's the Night (musical)|Tonight's the Night]]''.<ref name="Larkin"/> He produced and acted in his
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• Peter Gilmore
  ...arge from the army he joined a singing group called the [[George Mitchell (Scottish musician)|George Mitchell]] singers. They appeared in a couple of stage pla ...for their portrayals.<ref>London Opera Diary : The Beggar's Opera. Apollo Theatre, September 16. ''[[Opera (British magazine)|Opera]]'', November 1968, Vol.1
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• Jerry Desmonde
  ...n Echo }}</ref> He built a career as a [[song and dance]] man in [[musical theatre]] and later toured parts of the United States in 1927-1928 with [[Beatrice ...tps://web.archive.org/web/20070404075445/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/genres/musical/filmography/001.html |archive-date=4 April 2007 }}</ref> an infamous flop,
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• Stratford Johns
  ...> he worked for a time in accountancy, but soon became involved in amateur theatre. ...playwrights, including [[John Osborne]], introduced new themes to British theatre. His most famous character, Barlow, was noted for his hard edges, owing muc
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• Max Wall
  ...dian whose performing career covered [[music hall]], films, television and theatre.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ef ...ssful [[music-hall]] entertainer [[Jack Lorimer|Jack (Jock) Lorimer]], a [[Scottish]] comedy actor from [[Forfar]], known for his songs and dancing, and his wi
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• Ron Moody
  ...e of London</ref> and again at the 1985 [[Royal Variety Performance]] in [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]] before Queen [[Elizabeth II]] and the [[Prince Philip, ...entary of the surviving cast of the film ''Oliver!'' Several of the film's musical numbers were reenacted. Moody, then 80 but still spry, and [[Jack Wild]] (s
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• Ronald Fraser (actor)
  ...spite a long-standing reputation as one of the hardest drinking of British actors he was still working in his last years. He was perhaps best known as Basil ...ctor at [[RADA]] until 1953 and soon appeared at [[Glasgow]]'s [[Citizens' Theatre]]. He joined the [[Old Vic]] repertory company in 1954, making his first Lo
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• Anton Rodgers
  ...ers and Leonore Victoria (née Wood).<ref name="Who's Who">Who's Who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the contemporary stage, seventeenth edition, ed. ...ef> and [[Robert Browning]], among others. He was a patron of the [[Angles Theatre]], Wisbech. At the time of his death, he was a resident of [[Whitchurch-on-
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• Mel Smith
  ...f [[Sheffield]]'s [[Crucible Theatre]] for two years. Later, he directed a theatre production of ''Not in Front of the Audience''.<ref name=debretts>{{cite we ...play initially caused some controversy, with Smith proposing to flout the Scottish ban on smoking in public places, but the scene was quickly adapted after ga
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• Glynn Edwards
  ...ucation = [[Royal Central School of Speech and Drama]]<br/>[[Theatre Workshop]] ...Drama]] in London, and was then hired as a [[stage manager]] at the King's Theatre in [[Gainsborough, Lincolnshire|Gainsborough]], [[Lincolnshire]].<ref name=
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• Ronnie Corbett
  {{Short description|Scottish comedian and writer (1930–2016)}} ...s|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (4 December 1930&nbsp;– 31 March 2016) was a Scottish actor, broadcaster, comedian and writer. He had a long association with [[R
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• Alastair Sim
  ...t the age of thirty and quickly became established as a popular [[West End theatre|West End]] performer, remaining so until his death in 1976. Starting in 193 ...stage work, including successful productions at the [[Chichester Festival Theatre|Chichester Festival]] and regular appearances in new and old works in the W
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• George Sanders
  ...who was born in Saint Petersburg, of mostly German, but also Estonian and Scottish (Sanders wrote of his mother's descent from "the Thomas Clayhills of Dundee ...r on Broadway in a production of [[Noël Coward]]'s ''[[Conversation Piece (musical)|Conversation Piece]]'' (1934), directed by Coward, which only ran for 55 p
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• Bruce Forsyth
  ...cords]]'' recognised Forsyth as having the longest television career for a male entertainer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/20 ...uce, the Mighty Atom".<ref name="Loxley"/> His first appearance was at the Theatre Royal in [[Bilston]], with ''The Great Marzo'' at the top of the bill.<ref
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• Jon Pertwee
  ...ed as a stage comedian, which included performing at the [[Glasgow Empire Theatre]] and sharing a bill with [[Max Wall]] and [[Jimmy James (comedian)|Jimmy J ...rcycle with a toothless lion in the sidecar. He then worked in [[repertory theatre]] before being contracted with the [[BBC]] at 18 as an actor.<ref>{{cite we
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