• Wilfrid Brambell
  ...[[Steptoe and Son (film)|two feature film spin-offs]], a stage show and an American incarnation titled ''[[Sanford and Son]]'', some episodes of which were alm ...pair leaving the country on separate planes. This claim is disputed by the writers of ''Steptoe and Son'', [[Galton and Simpson|Ray Galton and Alan Simpson]],
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• Herbert Lom
  ...ure Hollywood contract after [[World War II]], but was unable to obtain an American visa for "political reasons".<ref>[[BBC Radio 4]] Interview, 31 October 200 [[Category:20th-century British male writers]]
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• Will Hay
  ...idekick instead; the film was a somewhat unsuccessful attempt to crack the American market.<ref name="reglegend3">{{cite web |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk ...due to his film ''[[Hey! Hey! USA]]'' being somewhat unsuccessful that the writers and producers successfully talked him into bringing Moffatt and Marriott ba
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• Val Guest
  ...y married to Pat Watson, the couple divorced after Guest fell in love with American actress [[Yolande Donlan]] who eventually became his wife in 1954; Donlan a [[Category:English male film actors]]
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• Sid James
  ...Having seen him in ''The Lavender Hill Mob'', it was the idea of Hancock's writers, [[Galton and Simpson]], to cast James. He played a character with his own ...part as "The Rumpo Kid". (James had previously played an American (with an American accent) in the films ''[[w:Give Us This Day (1949 film)|Give Us This Day]]'
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• Ronnie Corbett
  ...first worked with [[Ronnie Barker]] in ''The Frost Report'' (1966–67). The writers and cast were mostly [[w:Oxbridge|Oxbridge]] graduates from the [[w:Footlig ...in ''[[No – That's Me Over Here!]]'', a sitcom written by ''Frost Report'' writers [[Barry Cryer]], [[Graham Chapman]] and [[w:Eric Idle|Eric Idle]] ([[ITV (T
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• Tom Jones (1963 film)
  | [[American Cinema Editors|American Cinema Editors Awards]] | [[American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical|Bes
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• Ken Annakin
  ...by [[Darryl F. Zanuck]] to direct the British and (uncredited) French and American interior segments in ''[[The Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day]]'' (1962), [[Category:English male screenwriters]]
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• Eric Sykes
  ...ntly wrote for and performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including [[Tony Hancock]], [[Spike Milligan]], [[Tommy Coop ...ing nor the script has survived. Sykes and Milligan are credited as the co-writers of all but the first six of the 26 episodes in Series 5 (1954–55)<ref>{{c
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• Graham Chapman
  ...uently left Britain for Los Angeles, where he attempted to be a success on American television, speaking on the college circuit and producing the pirate film ' [[Category:20th-century English medical doctors]]
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• Tim Brooke-Taylor
  ...Yorkshiremen sketch|Four Yorkshiremen]]" sketch was co-written by the four writers and performers of the series.<ref name="BrightRoss2001">{{Cite book ...t would later be recognised as the [[Monty Python]] style of comedy to the American market.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dangerousminds.net/tag/John-Cleese|title
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• Jimmy Perry
  ...was aired on 10 August 1976, and received overwhelming poor feedback from American audiences and did not develop into a series. In an interview Perry said tha [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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• And Now for Something Completely Different
  | writers = [[Monty Python]] ...were recreated for the film without an audience, and were intended for an American audience which had not yet seen the series. The announcer ([[John Cleese]])
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• George Grossmith Jr.
  ...French comedies (like ''The Spring Chicken'') or collaborations with other writers (such as ''The Girls of Gottenberg''), but he wrote the libretto to ''Peggy ...ps://www.gsarchive.net/AMT/tonight/index.html "''To-Night's the Night''"], American Musical Theatre pages at the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, 15 April 2017, r
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• Tony Hancock
  ...e film had to be retitled, and the new title, ''Call Me Genius'', inflamed American critics. [[w:Bosley Crowther|Bosley Crowther]] in ''[[w:The New York Times| ...hat he chose to separately develop something previously discussed, and the writers were ultimately commissioned to write a ''Comedy Playhouse'' series for the
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• Donald Sinden
  ...e man who, so far, has shared star billing with some other more boisterous male idols. He has usually been left, crestfallen and jilted, in the last reel.< ....<ref name="Debrett 2007"/> In 2007, Sinden embarked on a UK, European and American theatre tour to talk about his life, work and anecdotes in ''An Evening wit
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• Eric Morecambe
  ...and Canada. It was taped in colour and starred international guests, often American. Prior to its British run, it was broadcast in North America by the ABC net .... Morecambe and Wise were in [[Barbados]] at the time and learned of their writers' departure only from the steward on the plane. [[John Ammonds]], the show's
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• Terry Jones
  ...hapman]], [[w:John Cleese|John Cleese]], and [[w:Eric Idle|Eric Idle]] and American animator-filmmaker [[w:Terry Gilliam|Terry Gilliam]]. Jones was largely res ...eb |title=Terry Jones |url=http://welshwriters.co.uk/terry-jones/ |website=Writers of Wales |access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="Fantastic Fiction">
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• George Melly
  * ''The Psychological Significance Of Animal Symbolism In American Negro Folk Music And All That Jazz'' (Columbia SEG 8093) (1961): "Monkey An [[Category:English male journalists]]
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• Dennis Potter
  ...company (Pennies Productions), the casting of Sting piqued the interest of American investors. As a result, references to Mr Bates' membership of the [[British ...y Park]]'' (1983) led to him gaining an [[Edgar Award]] from the [[Mystery Writers of America]], although it emerged as a shadow of [[Martin Cruz Smith]]'s [[
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