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- | death_place = [[Kent]], England ...Loving Memory (TV series)|In Loving Memory]]'' ([[ITV Yorkshire|Yorkshire Television]]), and as the incompetent debt collector and golfer Morton Beamish in ''[[11 KB (1,698 words) - 17:39, 14 February 2023
- | birth_place = [[Tunbridge Wells|Tunbridge Wells]], [[Kent|Kent]], England ...d screen. He is best remembered for playing [[Major Gowen]] in the British television [[sitcom|sitcom]] ''[[Fawlty Towers]]''.11 KB (1,602 words) - 16:46, 18 February 2023
- |occupation = Writer, radio and television personality ...t Entertainment at the [[BBC]] in the 1960s, and was then [[London Weekend Television]]'s founding Head of Entertainment. His many writing credits include editor14 KB (2,065 words) - 11:40, 21 September 2024
- ...of stronger personalities. She was known for many roles on radio, film and television [[w:sitcom|sitcom]]s and Children's ITV's ''[[w:Playbox (1980s TV series)|P ...ttended the County School for Girls in [[w:Beckenham|Beckenham]], [[w:Kent|Kent]]. After leaving school, she began her working life as a student [[w:kinder11 KB (1,733 words) - 23:53, 19 November 2022
- ...stories himself, his first professional engagement. He continued to write from the timber yard, his short stories, poems, manuscripts sometimes being acce ...ville play)|Full Circle]]'' (1952, previously ''Dear Charles'' and adapted from ''Les Enfants d'Edouard'' by [[Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon]] and [[Frederick J. J10 KB (1,382 words) - 16:21, 11 April 2023
- | occupation = {{hlist|Actor (radio, stage, television and film)|comedian|vaudevillian}} ...e for performers moving to Britain at this time, he was billed as "the boy from Wagga Wagga." A spokesman for the Australian town's museum said that this "18 KB (2,663 words) - 11:36, 4 August 2024
- | birth_place = [[Tenterden]], [[Kent]], England * Television presenter42 KB (5,950 words) - 00:03, 13 February 2023
- ...d from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. Morecambe took his stage name from his home town, the [[seaside resort|seaside resort]] of [[Morecambe|Morecam He was the co-star of the [[BBC1|BBC1]]'s television series ''The Morecambe & Wise Show'', which for the 1977 Christmas episode23 KB (3,453 words) - 12:20, 18 February 2023
- ...ng critical acclaim for his dramatic role of a dying cancer patient in the television play ''Going Gently'' in 1981. He toured Australia and South Africa.<ref na After a period in a [[Foster care|children's home]] in [[Deal, Kent]], Wisdom ran away when he was 11 but returned to become an [[errand boy]]50 KB (7,368 words) - 22:33, 24 August 2024
- | death_place = [[Aldington, Kent]], England ...tly dropped the character and in the 2000s became the presenter of various television and radio shows, including ''[[The Paul O'Grady Show]]''.110 KB (14,760 words) - 19:34, 27 September 2024
- | medium = Radio, television ...ped his trademark voices and surreal characters which he later adapted for television.41 KB (6,029 words) - 08:58, 6 February 2023
- ...lar journalist (a fore-runner of ''Private Eye''{{'}}s Lunchtime O'Booze), from bizarre skulduggery in the British colonies (where the soldiers holding bac ''[[That Was the Week That Was]]'' (aka "TW3") ran from November 1962 until December 1963. It drew audiences of up to 13 million, m34 KB (5,049 words) - 19:26, 4 September 2024
- {{Infobox television ...October 1989 to 24 December 1998, then revived on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] from 2 January 2014 to 24 December 2020. The series stars [[Pauline Quirke]] and71 KB (10,031 words) - 10:49, 25 August 2024
- | death_place = [[Ramsgate]], [[Kent]], United Kingdom | resting_place = Saint George's Church, Ramsgate, Kent66 KB (10,031 words) - 19:40, 15 August 2024
- ...Dors: A Life in Pictures|publisher=BBC}}</ref> at the Haven Nursing Home, Kent Road, Swindon, Wiltshire. Her mother Winifred Maud Mary (Payne) was married ...small private school, Selwood House. She enjoyed the cinema; her heroines from the age of eight onwards were [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] act86 KB (13,434 words) - 23:28, 12 February 2023
- ...https://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/26485860 |title = Jo Kent saves cult hg2g game from scrapheap |access-date = 2014-06-24 |newspaper = Ariel |date = 2014-03-12 } ...unters [[Trillian (character)|Trillian]], another human who had been taken from Earth (before its destruction) by the two-headed President of the Galaxy [[94 KB (14,389 words) - 22:52, 24 August 2024