• Laugh It Off (1940 film)
  | studio = [[British National Films]] ...t [[Walton Studios]] starting in November 1939, just after the outbreak of war.<ref>Wood p.100</ref>
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• The Ghost of St. Michael's
  ...with comedian [[Claude Hulbert]]. Hay and Hulbert would act together again in ''[[My Learned Friend]]'' two years later. Typical of comedies made during the war, it has an anti-Nazi plot.
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• Sailors Three
  ...ccidentally find themselves aboard a German ship during the [[Second World War]]. ...wise with ''Sailors Three'', following his comic misadventures in the army in ''[[Laugh It Off (1940 film)|Laugh It Off]]'' (dir. [[John Baxter (director
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• The Middle Watch (1940 film)
  ...58 film)|adapted again in 1958]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b05ff97|title=The Middle Watch (1931)}}</ref><ref>http://ww * Mackenzie, S. P. ''British War Films, 1939-1945''. Continuum, 2003.
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• On the Fiddle
  ...Winner]]'' by [[R.F. Delderfield]] who served in the [[RAF]] in World War II. ...enth film, released the year before his big breakthrough as [[James Bond]] in the 1962 film ''[[Dr. No (film)|Dr No]]''.
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• Back-Room Boy
  ...e is reprimanded, he tries to resign, but he is not allowed do that during wartime, so, when he says he wants to avoid all women, he is posted to a remote [[S ...en plus some crewmen arrive from Bobbie's ship. This makes it very crowded in the lighthouse, until people start to mysteriously disappear during the nig
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• Two Thousand Women
  | distributor = [[Gainsborough Studios]]<br />Ellis Films (US) ...ce-1945-c22731925&usg=ALkJrhiPuUc4vZGBcb7OUARBcpu2dF_c5A French box office in 1945] at Box office story</ref>
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• The Goose Steps Out
  '''''The Goose Steps Out''''' is a British film released in 1942, starring [[Will Hay]], who also co-directed with [[Basil Dearden]]. I Set during the Second World War, the film recounts the adventures of William Potts (Will Hay) after it is d
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• Bees in Paradise
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• Ealing comedies
  ...ogo.jpg|thumb|upright=1.30|right|The [[Ealing Studios]] logo as it appears in the opening credits of ''[[The Titfield Thunderbolt]]'' (1953)]] ...cle Bill]]'' (1957) the last,<ref>Parkinson, David. ''Radio Times Guide to Films 2010'', BBC Worldwide, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-9555886-2-4}}</ref> although some
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• Ian Carmichael
  ...[[w:The Royal|The Royal]]'' as TJ Middleditch, a role he originally played in parent show ''[[w:Heartbeat (British TV series)|Heartbeat]]''. ...ndent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ian-carmichael-actor-who-played-likeable-toffs-in-golden-age-of-british-comedy-1892294.html|access-date=17 October 2017|work=
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• Peter Butterworth
  ...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 ===Early life and war service===
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• Betty Box
  |caption = Betty Box in 1959 ...l Box|Muriel]] at [[Verity Films]], where she helped produce more than 200 wartime [[propaganda]] shorts.<ref name="box">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nl
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• Dad's Army (2016 film)
  | studio = DJ Films ...s directed by [[Oliver Parker]] and set in 1944, after the events depicted in the television series. [[Catherine Zeta-Jones]] plays an elegant German spy
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• The Americanization of Emily
  ...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& ...ber 2005.</ref> have considered the film their personal favourite of those in which they acted.
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• Dennis Price
  ...' (1949) and for his portrayal of the omniscient valet [[Jeeves]] in [[The World of Wooster|1960s television adaptations]] of [[P. G. Wodehouse]]'s stories. Price was born in [[Ruscombe]] in [[Berkshire]]. He had distant Welsh family connections, and was the son of
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• Ronald Frankau
  ...way to radio and films.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f4db93a|title=Ronald Frankau|website=BFI}}</ref> ...stage-famous '[[Charles Wyndham (actor)|Wyndham]]' onto the 'Ronald Hugh'" in Frankau's name.<ref>Gilbert Frankau, ''Self-Portrait'', Hutchinson 1940 p.
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• Harry Fowler
  ...]] in film and television. Over a career lasting more than six decades, he made nearly 200 appearances on screen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org ...ian Brian McFarlane, he was invited on to radio to speak about his life in wartime London.<ref name="Guardian"/>
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• Fulton Mackay
  ...le as [[w:Corrections officer|prison officer]] [[w:Mr. Mackay|Mr. Mackay]] in the 1970s television [[w:situation comedy|sitcom]] ''[[w:Porridge (1974 TV ...], [[w:Renfrewshire (historic)|Renfrewshire]], Scotland. He was brought up in [[w:Clydebank|Clydebank]] by a widowed aunt after the death of his mother f
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• Arnold Ridley
  | caption = Ridley in 1921 | battles = [[World War I|First World War]]
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