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  • {{short description|Scottish performer, producer, impresario and director}} | occupation = Performer<br/>Theatrical producer<br/>Impresario<br/>Theatre director
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  • ...roup who presented a different stage play each week at the Croydon 'Grand' theatre. She is best known for playing the role of Mina Holmwood in the horror film ...{{cite book|last1=Quinlan|first1=David|title=The illustrated guide to film directors|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=1983|page=70|url=https://books.google.c
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  • ...Edinburgh)|Gateway Theatre]] in [[Edinburgh]], then moved to the Palladium Theatre there. She appeared in as many as 12 shows a week, many with quick changes. ...op (director)|Frank Dunlop]]'s repertory company in London's [[Young Vic]] Theatre, appearing in several productions including ''[[Scapino (play)|Scapino]]''
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  • ...ary) |newspaper=[[The Times]] |date=21 October 2010 |page=65}}</ref> was a Scottish actor. He was best known for his many appearances in television comedy dram ...1}}</ref> and Anne Margaret (née Paterson).<ref name=":1">Who's Who In The Theatre: a biographical record of the contemporary stage, seventeenth edition, vol.
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...g a producer and director in 1969. At the time, he was one of the youngest directors work in television. His first directing role came with ''[[Dad's Army]]'' s After 38 years of working with the [[BBC]], Snoad returned to the Theatre and in 2009 directed the stage play ''Say Who You Are''. Later that year, h
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  • {{short description|Scottish actor (1897–1980)}} ...date=29 April 2018}}</ref> Laurie appeared in scores of feature films with directors such as [[Alfred Hitchcock]], [[Michael Powell]], and [[Laurence Olivier]],
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  • ...ly Reunion|The Family Reunion]]'' at the [[Phoenix Theatre, London|Phoenix Theatre]] in London. ...[Theatre Workshop|Theatre Workshop]] at the [[Theatre Royal Stratford East|Theatre Royal]] in [[Stratford, London|Stratford]], London.
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  • ...il]]. The story—based on a true event—concerns a shipwreck off a fictional Scottish island, the inhabitants of which have run out of whisky because of [[Ration ...tudio, was unimpressed by the initial cut of the film, and one of Ealing's directors, [[Charles Crichton]], added footage and re-edited the film before its rele
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  • ...he worked with actors including [[Kenneth Cranham]] and [[Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)|Richard Wilson]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Haverson |first=Neil |title= ...oyd-Pack began his acting career at Northampton's [[Royal & Derngate|Royal Theatre]], which he revisited when he appeared in the tour of ''[[Blue/Orange]]''.
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  • ...ected the sequence featuring Neagle, Milland, Smith and Rains, while other directors who worked on the film included [[René Clair]], [[Edmund Goulding]], [[Fra ...ry 1958 when she was surprised by [[Eamonn Andrews]] at the BBC Television Theatre, and in March 1983, when Andrews surprised her at London's Royal National H
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  • ...tish theatre performers, working for the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] and the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]]. On Broadway, she received Tony Awa ...my Fellowship Award|BAFTA Fellowship]] in 1996 and the [[Society of London Theatre Special Award]] in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BAFTA Awards Search {{!}} BA
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  • ...resolved to produce the film as a satire. The budget escalated as various directors and writers became involved in the production, and actors expressed dissati Much of filming for M's Scottish castle was done [[location shooting|on location]] in [[County Meath]], [[Ir
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  • ...episode featured comedian [[Bernard Manning]] and actor [[Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)|Richard Wilson]]. Manning clashed with Wilson and Aherne as she aske ...w.broadcastingpressguild.org/bpgawards/1999-2/|title=1999 Presented at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane| date=31 December 2007 |publisher=[[Broadcasting Press Gu
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  • | directors = {{Plainlist| ...ocations, but during the two weeks prior to [[principal photography]], the Scottish Department of the Environment declined permission for use of the castles in
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  • ...h]], Sellers made his stage debut at the [[w:Kings Theatre, Southsea|Kings Theatre]], when he was two weeks old. He began accompanying his parents in a variet ...viour was often erratic and compulsive, and he frequently clashed with his directors and co-stars, especially in the mid-1970s when his physical and mental heal
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  • ...n]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/marty-feldman-and-jeepers-creepers-why-terry-jones-is-celebr ...io broadcast of a [[Test cricket|Test match]], which played at the [[Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith]], in 1981.<ref>[[Christopher Martin-Jenkins]], "Bookshelf", '
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  • * [[theatre|theatre]] ...dy films. In a 2005 poll of over 300 comics, comedy writers, producers and directors throughout the [[English-speaking world]] to find "The Comedian's Comedian"
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