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  • ...kshiremen sketch at ''[[w:Monty Python Live (Mostly)|Monty Python Live]]'' in 2014]] ...oup [[Monty Python]] (which included Cleese and Chapman), who performed it in their live shows, including ''[[w:Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl|M
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  • ...65–1966)<br />''[[Turn Out the Lights (TV series)|Turn Out the Lights]]'' (1967) ...Lights (TV series)|Turn Out the Lights]]'', making him a unique character in British soap opera.
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  • ...s an English [[w:actor|actor]] who is best remembered for supporting roles in many [[w:British sitcom|British sitcom]]s from the 1970s onwards. ...J.B. Priestley|J.B. Priestley]].<ref name="The Good Life"/> He then worked in [[w:Repertory|rep]].<ref name="The Good Life"/>
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  • | caption = Terry Collier in [[Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?]] | occupation = Electrician (by trade), corporal in the British Army, car washer, hospital porter, fork lift driver, taxi drive
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  • ...lie Garnett (father)<br>Michael Rawlins, Junior (grandson)<br>Maud (sister-in-law) ...[Till Death...]]'' and ''[[In Sickness and in Health]]''. He also appeared in the [[chat show|chat show]] ''The Thoughts of Chairman Alf''. The character
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  • ...le, curmudgeonly persona and [[w:Mother-in-law joke|jokes about his mother-in-law]] and wife. ...|id=51827|title=Dawson, Leslie [Les] (1931–1993)}}</ref> His first job was in the parcels department of the Manchester [[w:The Co-operative Group|Co-op]]
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  • {{Infobox television | company = [[BBC]]<br />[[Associated Television]]<br />[[Thames Television]]
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  • | released = {{Film date|1967|12|27|df=y}} (London) '''''Smashing Time''''' is a 1967 British [[satirical]] [[comedy film]] starring [[Rita Tushingham]] and [[Ly
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  • | image = Burt Kwouk in The Last of the Summer Wine.png | caption = Kwouk in ''Last of the Summer Wine''
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  • ...on and radio, and was known for playing [[The Monk (Doctor Who)|The Monk]] in ''[[Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]''. Butterworth was married to the actress and i ...line-up, something which offered inspiration to him when starting a career in acting.<ref name="what">{{cite web|url=http://www.carryon.org.uk/regulars_f
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  • | occupation = {{hlist|Dancer|singer|comedian|actor|television presenter|musician}} ...a performer on stage, television and film, he became best known to British television viewers as the long-running presenter of the children's series ''[[Record B
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  • ...(1969–73) and ''[[Romany Jones]]'' (1972–75). When their partnership began in the mid-1950s, Chesney was already known to the public as a [[harmonica]] p ...k trader, and Jeanne (''[[née]]'' Basset). He left the French Lycée school in London at the age of 16, and began using his English name.<ref name="Haywar
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  • | name = There's a Girl in My Soup ..._on = {{based_on|''[[There's a Girl in My Soup (play)|There's a Girl in My Soup]]''|Terence Frisby}}
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  • | television = ''[[The Goon Show]]'' (Radio)<br />The Harry Secombe Show, Secomb ...r! (film)|Oliver!]]'' (1968) – and, in his later years, was a presenter of television shows incorporating [[hymn|hymn]]s and other devotional songs.
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  • ...ldren's television from the 1960s to the present day. He has also appeared in pantomimes across the UK. ...Boom! Boom!]]", used after something he finds funny, and also for speaking in a "posh" accent and manner, referring to himself as a "fella". The characte
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  • | caption = Briers in 2009 ...rth_place = [[w:Raynes Park|Raynes Park]], [[w:Surrey|Surrey]],<!-- it was in Surrey when he was born --> England
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  • ...ings enjoying very lively audiences, particularly when familiar themes and characters were repeated; a tradition that continued into the spinoff show ''[[I'm Sor ...sodes. An hour-long 25th anniversary show was broadcast in 1989, comically introduced as "full frontal radio".
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  • | caption = Dodd in 2007 with his "tickling sticks" | medium = Stand-up comedy, theatre, radio, television and music
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  • | medium = Radio, television ...ped his trademark voices and surreal characters which he later adapted for television.
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  • ==Main regular characters== ...Feldman|2016|p=137}} [[w:Jonathan Rigby|Jonathan Rigby]], who played Horne in a stage show, ''Round the Horne&nbsp;... Revisited'', thought him "a stand-
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