• Betty Driver
  ...895 |title=BBC News - Coronation Street actress Betty Driver dies, aged 91 from kidney failure. |work=BBC |date=2011-10-15 |access-date=2011-12-11}}</ref> ...tood out so much that Manders asked her to come forward and sing with him. From then on, Driver's mother began taking her to talent contests in Manchester,
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• Peggy Mount
  ...ember 2001) was an English actress. As a child, she found acting an escape from an unhappy home life. After playing in amateur productions, she was taken o Mount occasionally performed in comedies from the classical repertoire, including works by [[William Shakespeare|Shakespe
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• Margaret Rutherford
  ...al Lunatic Asylum]]. Seven years later, on 26 July 1890, he was discharged from Broadmoor and reunited with his wife. He legally dropped his surname. ...on|Wimbledon]], South London, after her [[pregnant]] mother hanged herself from a tree.
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• Googie Withers
  ...d a [[Dutch resistance]] fighter who helps British airmen return to safety from behind enemy lines.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|last=Arthur|first=Nigel|url=htt ...and John and her daughter, [[Joanna McCallum|Joanna]] - the play a success from New York starring [[Nancy Marchand]], the previous year. In 1990, she appea
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• John Challis
  | birth_place = [[Clifton, Bristol|Clifton]], [[Bristol]], England ...in-off ''[[The Green Green Grass]]'' (2005–2009), as well as Monty Staines from the seventh series onwards in the ITV sitcom ''[[Benidorm (British TV serie
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• Anna Neagle
  ...st a mere £23,000 to produce, it was a hit at the box office, with profits from its Australian release alone being £150,000.<ref name="bfireleases">[https ...as ''The Show Goes On''. The film, with a script featuring a contribution from [[Herman J. Mankiewicz]] (later to co-write ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' with [[Ors
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• Barbara Windsor
  ...iliated by this, Windsor was sent back to London in 1944 along with a note from her dance teacher which read: "Barbara is a born show-off who loves to perf ...as chosen to appear in the chorus of the musical ''[[w:Love From Judy|Love From Judy]]'' in the [[w:West End theatre|West End]] in 1952 which ran for a su
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• Dudley Moore
  ...f the four writer-performers in the comedy revue ''[[Beyond the Fringe]]'' from 1960 that created a boom in satiric comedy, and with a member of that team, ...a Francis (née Hughes), a secretary, and John Moore, a railway electrician from Glasgow.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/13
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• Monty Python
  ...-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed from the television series into something larger in scope and influence, includi ...th America, it has coloured the work of [[cult following|cult]] performers from the early editions of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' through to more recent [[
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