• Pete and Dud
  ...e Good Evening 1974.JPG|thumb|Peter Cook ('Pete') and Dudley Moore ('Dud') in 1974]] '''Pete and Dud''' were characters played by the comedians and entertainers [[Peter Cook]] and [[Dudley Moore]
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• Humphrey Appleby
  ...Secretary (United Kingdom)|Cabinet Secretary]], the most powerful position in the service and one he retains during ''Yes, Prime Minister''. Hawthorne's ...nder of the Order of the British Empire|KBE]] award early on in the series in "The Official Visit". The Dean of Baillie describes him as "too clever by h
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• Burt Kwouk
  | image = Burt Kwouk in The Last of the Summer Wine.png | caption = Kwouk in ''Last of the Summer Wine''
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• The Americanization of Emily
  | released = {{Film date|1964|10|27|US|1965|04|15|UK<ref>''The Times'', 15 April 1965, page 17: Film revi ...is set in London during World War II in the weeks leading up to [[D-Day]] in 1944.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=B0IEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&
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• Chesney and Wolfe
  ...(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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• Joyce Grenfell
  ...)|The Happiest Days of Your Life]]'' (1950) and Police Sergeant Ruby Gates in the [[St Trinian's]] series (from 1954). She was a well-known broadcaster o ...uccess led to a career as an entertainer, giving her creations in theatres in five continents between 1940 and 1969.
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• I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
  | first_aired = {{start date|1964|04|03|df=yes}} ...ings enjoying very lively audiences, particularly when familiar themes and characters were repeated; a tradition that continued into the spinoff show ''[[I'm Sor
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• Ken Dodd
  | caption = Dodd in 2007 with his "tickling sticks" | medium = Stand-up comedy, theatre, radio, television and music
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• Dave Allen (comedian)
  | caption = Allen in 1968 | spouse = {{marriage|Judith Stott<br />|1964|1983|end=divorced}}<br />{{marriage|Karin Stark<br />|2003}}
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• Richard Briers
  | 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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• Bruce Forsyth
  | caption = Forsyth in 2006 ...Forsyth steps down from Strictly Come Dancing | date=4 April 2014}}</ref> In 2012, ''[[Guinness World Records]]'' recognised Forsyth as having the longe
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• Fanny Cradock
  | caption = Cradock in 1976 .../ref> She frequently appeared on television, at cookery demonstrations and in print with her fourth husband Major [[w:Johnnie Cradock|Johnnie Cradock]] w
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• Carry On (franchise)
  ...Douglas (actor)|Jack Douglas]], and [[Jim Dale]]. A 31st film was released in 1992, though featuring only four of the "irregular" cast members. ...films|''James Bond'' film series]] is the longest-running, having started in 1962, four years after the first ''Carry On'', though with fewer films.)
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• Stanley Holloway
  ...e and screen|on stage and screen]], especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in ''[[My Fair Lady|My Fair Lady]]''. He was also renowned for his [[Songs and ...recordings of his many monologues. By the 1930s, he was in demand to star in [[variety show|variety]], [[pantomime|pantomime]] and musical comedy, inclu
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• Ronnie Barker
  | medium = Books, film, stand-up comedy, television, theatre ...er 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer. He was known for roles in British comedy television series such as ''[[Porridge (TV series)|Porridge]
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• The Goon Show
  ...r Sellers]] (top), [[Spike Milligan]] (left) and [[Harry Secombe]] (right) in a 1950s [[BBC]] publicity shot | record_location = [[KOKO (venue)|Camden Theatre]], London
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• Round the Horne
  |rec_location = [[Paris Theatre|Paris Theatre]], London ...BBC Radio]] comedy programme starring [[Kenneth Horne]], first transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The show was created b
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• Hattie Jacques
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• List of Blackadder characters
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''Blackadder'' characters}} [[File:Ba4.jpg|thumb|250px|Main characters from ''Blackadder Goes Forth'': Darling (left), Melchett (centre), George C
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• Monty Python's Flying Circus
  ...raditional sketch show format. The Pythons play the majority of the series characters themselves, along with supporting cast members including [[Carol Cleveland] ...unlike anything else on British television at the time. Much of the humour in the series' various episodes and sketches targets the idiosyncrasies of [[C
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