• Stan Stennett
  ...try=GBR|MBE}} (30 July 1925 – 26 November 2013) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[comedian|comedian]], [[actor|actor]] and [[jazz|jazz]] [[musician|music ...sident comedian on variety radio show, ''[[Welsh Rarebit (radio programme)|Welsh Rarebit]]'', and he gained further success as one of the regular comedy gue
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• Talfryn Thomas
  ...n Thomas''' (31 October 1922 &ndash; 4 November 1982) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[character actor|character actor]], best known for supporting roles on t ...y You for a Quid", appearing alongside [[Ronnie Barker]] in a community of Welsh gamblers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7f
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• Donald Houston
  ...d Daniel Houston''' (6 November 1923&nbsp;– 13 October 1991) was a [[Wales|Welsh]] actor whose first two films—''[[The Blue Lagoon (1949 film)|The Blue La ...Force]] during the [[World War II|Second World War]] as a rear gunner and radio officer.
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• Windsor Davies
  {{short description|Welsh actor (1930–2019)}} ...den]] in ''[[Never the Twain]]'' (1981–1991), and his deep [[Welsh English|Welsh-accented]] voice was heard extensively in advertising voice-overs.
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• Jack Smethurst
  ...02-22|title=Jack Smethurst obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/feb/22/jack-smethurst-obituary|access-date=2022-02-22|website=[[w:The Smethurst also starred in [[Vince Powell]]’s seven-part [[BBC Radio 2]] slice-of-life sitcom ''A Proper Charlie'' in 1984, as factory worker Ch
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• Frank Williams (actor)
  ...re]], [[Middlesex]], on 2 July 1931, to William Williams, a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|nonconformist]], and wife Alice (née Myl ...ter the show that made him famous|url=https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1459031/Dads-Army-Frank-Williams-comedy-vicar-captain-mainwaring-corporal-j
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• Harry Secombe
  | nationality = [[Welsh People|Welsh]] | television = ''[[The Goon Show]]'' (Radio)<br />The Harry Secombe Show, Secombe And Friends, [[Highway (TV series)|Hi
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• Arthur Askey
  ...ish Empire|CBE]] in 1981; he continued to appear frequently on television, radio and the stage until his death in 1982. ...0s before he rose to stardom in 1938 through his role in the first regular radio comedy series, ''[[Band Waggon]]'' on the [[BBC]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https
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• Dennis Price
  Price was born in [[Ruscombe]] in [[Berkshire]]. He had distant Welsh family connections, and was the son of [[Brigadier-General|Brigadier-Genera ...he Lost People]]'' (1949). In the same year, he was a guest judge on a BBC radio broadcast of the [[The Piddingtons|Piddingtons]] show. His role was to repr
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• Victor Spinetti
  {{short description|Welsh actor and theatre director}} .... WalesOnline (15 September 2010). Retrieved 3 September 2013.</ref> was a Welsh<ref name=obit/> actor, author, poet, and raconteur. He appeared in dozens o
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• Wilfrid Hyde-White
  Between 1962 and 1965, Hyde-White starred in the [[BBC]] radio comedy ''[[The Men from the Ministry]]''. In the 1970s and 1980s, he featur ...nt that, unlike American actors Falk and [[Richard Basehart]], and British actors appearing in the episode, [[Honor Blackman]], [[Bernard Fox (actor)|Bernard
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• David Jason
  ...yfanwy-talog-6175249|title=Sir David Jason opens up on tragic romance with Welsh actress|first1=Sion|last1=Morgan|date=13 October 2013|website=WalesOnline}} ...illingsgate Fish Market|Billingsgate Fish Market]], and his [[Welsh people|Welsh]] mother, Olwen Jones, was from [[Merthyr Tydfil|Merthyr Tydfil]], [[Glamor
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• Kenneth Williams
  ...ss-date=30 June 2014}}</ref> as well as being a regular panellist on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s comedy panel show ''[[Just a Minute]]'' from its second series in 196 Williams stated in his diaries that he believed he was of [[Welsh people|Welsh]] extraction because of his parents' surnames (Williams was later proven co
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• Ronnie Corbett
  ...s |series-link=Desert Island Discs |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]] |airdate=21 October 2007}}</ref> ...Ronnie Corbett dies aged 85}}</ref> Corbett was the castaway in the [[BBC Radio 4]] show ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'' on 21 October 2007. In 2007, he appear
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• Terry Jones
  ...fe of Brian director dies, aged 77|newspaper=The Independent}}</ref> was a Welsh comedian, director, historian, actor, writer and member of the [[Monty Pyth ...od's Finest Hour'', about an obstetrician distracted during a birth by the radio broadcast of a [[Test cricket|Test match]], which played at the [[Lyric The
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• Mervyn Johns
  ...[[né]] '''John'''; 18 February 1899{{spaced ndash}}6 September 1992) was a Welsh stage, film and television character actor who became a star of British fil ...us see the pleasure he is taking in the fellow's brutish gusto. There are actors who could make the man as unbearable to an audience as he was to his own ci
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• Tommy Cooper
  ...02-22}}</ref> [[prop comedian]] and [[Magic (illusion)|magician]] of Anglo-Welsh parentage. As an entertainer, his appearance was large and lumbering at {{c ...e family were lodging. His parents were Thomas H. Cooper, a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] recruiting sergeant in the [[British Army]] and later coal miner, and Cat
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• Willie Rushton
  ...don, the only child of publisher John Atherton Rushton (1908-1958) and his Welsh wife Veronica (née James, 1910-1977). He was educated at [[Shrewsbury Scho ==Films, television and radio==
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• List of The Goon Show cast members and characters
  This is a list of '''regular cast members''' of the 1950s British radio programme ''[[The Goon Show]]'' and the characters they portrayed. ...''[[The Greatest Mountain in the World]]''; he announces himself as 'Sex: male; name: Bogg F, Superintendent, Ministry of Works and Housing', and declares
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• Rolf Harris
  ...ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/rolf-harris/ Rolf Harris], BBC Welsh Arts. Retrieved 27 June 2014</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/2011040 ...inging backing vocals, for the first edition of the ''From Us to You'' BBC radio show in December 1963. Harris changed the original lyrics to create a versi
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