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  • '''''Three for All''''' is a 1975 British [[musical film|musical]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Martin Campbell]] and starring [[Adrienne Posta]], [[R ...[[music group]] named Billy Beethoven for a tour through Spain to promote Spanish tourism but stipulates that the members of the group must adopt a cowboy im
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  • ...d by Peter Frazer Jones.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bbc3ed1|title=George and Mildred (1980)|publisher=}}</ref> ...|publisher=}}</ref> One critic has described the film as "one of the worst films ever made in Britain . . . so strikingly bad, it seems to have been assembl
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  • ...film, the eighth in the [[Carry On (film series)|series of 31 ''Carry On'' films]] (1958–1992). Most of the usual ''Carry On'' team are missing from this ...as incorporated into the series.<ref>Gerrard, Steven (2017) ''The Carry On Films'', Springer, p.35</ref>
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  • ...he Movies'''" is an episode of the [[w:United Kingdom|British]] [[w:comedy|comedy]] television series ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]''. ...films. They then fire all the directors, whom they consider to be making films which are either "''very boring or extremely pretentious in many cases both
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  • | studio = Celandine Films <br />[[Python (Monty) Pictures|The Monty Python Partnership]] ...urance''''' is a 1983 British [[Swashbuckler|swashbuckling]] [[comedy film|comedy]] [[short film]] that plays as the beginning of the feature-length motion p
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  • | native_name = <!--(for non-English films: film's name in its native language)-->
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  • ...isadventures of doctors at sea.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/doctor4/|title=Doctor At Sea (Summary)|website=www.phill.co.uk}}</ref> The ...Ship (1974)|website=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b82ab0d04|title=Sir John and Baby Doc (1974)|website=BFI}}</r
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  • ...English actor who specialised in supporting roles, mainly in [[television comedy]]. He was best known for playing [[Monsieur Roger Leclerc]] in the British ...t appearance was in the final episode of series 5, where he impersonated a Spanish guitarist, alongside [[Kenneth Connor]] ([[Monsieur Alfonse]]), who had an
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  • '''''The Likely Lads''''' is a 1976 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Michael Tuchner]], starring [[James Bolam]] and [[Rodn ...y]]'' plus ''[[Aces High (film)|Aces High]]'', ''[[Spanish Fly (1975 film)|Spanish Fly]]'' and ''[[Evil Under the Sun (1982 film)|Evil Under the Sun]]''.<ref>
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  • ...film, the sixth in the [[Carry On (film series)|series of 31 ''Carry On'' films]] (1958–1992). It was based on an original story by [[Eric Barker]]. [[P& ...rting off from England, the ''Happy Wanderer'' calls at unnamed ports in [[Spanish State|Spain]], Italy and North Africa before going home again.
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  • '''''The Bobo''''' is a 1967 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Robert Parrish]] and starring [[Peter Sellers]] and [[ ...Carol Channing Signed ror Play: Musical Star Gets Lead in 'King's Mare,' a Comedy. By Sam Zolotow. ''The New York Times'' 23 May 1962: 38.</ref> but the play
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  • | studio = [[London Films]] | distributor = [[British Lion Films]]
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  • | genre = [[Comedy|Comedy]] ...[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On]]'' films, it was an attempt to address the films' declining cinema attendance by transferring the franchise to television. M
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  • ...the founder of the eponymous ghost hiring agency in the [[BBC]] children's comedy series ''[[Rentaghost]]'' and as Sid Abbott’s neighbour Trevor, in the si He also did voices in live-action shows and films including ''[[The Storyteller (TV series)|The Storyteller]]'', ''[[Labyrint
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  • '''Leslie Fuller''' (9 October 1888 – 24 April 1948) was a British comedy film actor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/7565 ...edies. This was the start of his film career and he went on make around 26 films between 1930 and 1945, many of them "[[quota quickies]]". He leased the old
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  • '''''How I Won the War''''' is a 1967 British [[black comedy]] film starring [[Michael Crawford]], [[Jack MacGowran]], [[Roy Kinnear]], ...Southern Spain|date=13 January 2017|access-date=25 January 2020}}</ref> A Spanish film, ''[[Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed]]'' (2013), revolves around the f
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  • ...Howerd]], [[Harry Worth]], [[Reg Varney]] and [[Spike Milligan]] in their comedy shows and appeared in five episodes of ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'' during its f ...ing another "Lark" written by [[Lawrie Wyman]]. He continued to appear in films, mostly comedies, during the 1960s and 1970s, including ''[[Carry On Scream
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  • ...of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced many of their films through their own production company, '''Charter Film Productions''', which ...<ref name="bfi1">{{cite web |title=Ripe Earth |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69d70b54 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=8 Apri
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  • ...rtraying pompous authority figures in comedies including each of the seven films in the ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' series. He also co-starred with ...sibly up to 20) including [[English language|English]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[French language|French]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Danish language|
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