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  • | studio = [[London Weekend Television]]<br />[[Working Title Films]] | distributor = [[Virgin Films|Virgin Vision]]
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] '''George Chisholm''' [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (29 March 1915&nbsp;– 6 December 1997) was a Scottish [[w:ja
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  • ...e and television actor.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba4925e35|title=Jack Allen|website=BFI}}</ref><ref name=theat ...edia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA1862|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|publisher=
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  • ...=PA81|title=Some Joe You Don't Know: An American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities|first=Anthony|last=Slide|date=19 May 1996|publishe .../tv/solo/|title=Solo - BBC1 Sitcom|first=British Comedy|last=Guide|website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref>
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  • {{short description|British actress}} ...(2 August 1918 – 31 July 1986) was an English actress who had a career on British television from 1939 to 1986. Born in [[Buckinghamshire]], she was sometime
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  • '''''Erik the Viking''''' is a 1989 [[Cinema of United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy film|comedy]]-[[fantasy film]] written and directed by [[Terry J ...ave it 3 out of 5 and wrote: "Doesn't measure up to the best of the Python films, but it consistently entertains through the occasional gags that do not wor
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  • "'''Hype Pressure'''" is an episode of the award-winning [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy]] television series ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]''. ...Be The Day'' and the TV series ''Happy Days''. This would go on until the 1980s with ''Grease'', ''Animal House'' and the TV programme ''Hi-De-Hi'' among o
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  • '''''Whoops Apocalypse''''' is a 1986 British comedy film directed by Tom Bussmann and starring [[Loretta Swit]], [[Herbe ...o kidnap the British Princess Wendy, to hold her for [[ransom]] to get the British out. Sir Mortimer then threatens that unless she is returned in 48 hours,
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  • {{short description|1982 British film by Lindsay Anderson}} ...ter]]<br />[[Graham Crowden]]<br />[[Joan Plowright]]<br />[[Jill Bennett (British actress)|Jill Bennett]]<br />[[Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1946)|Marsha Hunt
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  • Throughout film, television, and radio, '''British comedy''' has become known for its consistently peculiar characters, plots, ...cal cartoons." |source=—[[Punch and Judy]] showman Glyn Edwards.<ref name="British seaside">{{cite news|title=Punch and Judy around the world|url=https://www.
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  • ...ng Larry Simmonds in ''[[Man About the House]]'' (1973–1976), Sammy in the films ''[[w:The Stud (film)|The Stud]]'' (1978) and ''[[w:The Bitch (film)|The Bi ...ies)|Oliver Twist]]''.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0bb6249|title=Doug Fisher|website=BFI}}</ref>
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  • ...early 1950s to the early 1980s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba259dc19 |title=Lucy Griffiths profile|publisher=Bfi.org.uk| ...oks.google.com/books?id=lXnXDQAAQBAJ&dq=lucy+griffiths+The+Encyclopedia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA312 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |edi
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  • ...ho was best known for his appearances in the [[Carry On films|''Carry On'' films]]. Butterworth died in 1979 and Brown never remarried. ...Folly to Be Wise|Folly to Be Wise]]'' (1952), and then appeared in several British television series, such as ''The [[Eric Barker]] Half-Hour'' (1952), ''[[Ho
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  • | studio = [[HandMade Films]] '''''Water''''' is a 1985 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Dick Clement]] and starring [[Michael Caine]]
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  • ...film, the fourth in the [[Carry On (film series)|series of 31 ''Carry On'' films]] (1958–1992). It was released in February 1960. Of the regular team, it ..., thus beginning James's 19-film long membership of the [[List of Carry On films cast members|''Carry On'' team]].
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  • The British budget label Channel 5 Video released a compilation cassette of all six epi ...ng government (a parody of Foot's [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]). The British [[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs|Foreign Secretary
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  • '''''The Knack …and How to Get It''''' is a 1965 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Richard Lester]] and starring [[Rita Tushingh ...for Best Film]] and [[BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film|Outstanding British Film]]. Rita Tushingham was nominated for a [[Golden Globe Award for Best A
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  • ...uth house party genre typified by [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|John Hughes]]' films. The movie was directed by [[Terry Winsor]] and written by [[Daniel Peacock * [[Kate Williams (actress)|Kate Williams]] – Mum, stock British comedy mother, has to put up with a husband with a wandering eye.
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  • ...= 22 September 1925 aged 76</ref>), known as '''Stratford Johns''', was a British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for his starring ro ...when new playwrights, including [[John Osborne]], introduced new themes to British theatre. His most famous character, Barlow, was noted for his hard edges, o
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  • ...in her first of 9 appearances.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f4e8b23|title=Patsy Rowlands|website=BFI}}</ref> ...s the Wedded Bliss agency).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reelstreets.com/films/carry-on-again-doctor/|title=Reelstreets &#124; Carry On Again, Doctor|webs
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