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  • {{short description|English actor and director}} ...orn '''Valmond Maurice Grossman'''; 11 December 1911 – 10 May 2006) was an English film director<ref name="Val Guest">{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk
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  • ...ctober 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> 1 January 1911 – 23 March 1971) was an English film director.<ref name=V>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1967/film/revi [[Category:English film directors]]
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  • {{Short description|English writer}} ...'' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (born 7 January 1937) is an English writer best known for his creative partnership with [[Dick Clement]]. They
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  • ...er 1925 – 21 March 1999), known by his stage name '''Ernie Wise''', was an English comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo [[Morecambe and Wise]], [[Category:20th-century English comedians]]
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  • Perkins read English literature while at [[Lincoln College, Oxford]]<ref name="Telegraphobit">{{ [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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  • ...all'ombra del lenzuolo]]'' (''Sex With a Smile'') || Alex, the "Bodyguard" male || (segment "La Guardia del Corpo") [[Category:20th-century British screenwriters]]
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  • '''William Miles Malleson''' (25 May 1888 – 15 March 1969) was an English actor and dramatist, particularly remembered for his appearances in British ...lso adapted a German play, ''Flieger'', by [[Hermann Rossmann]], under the English title ''The Ace''. This was later filmed as ''[[Hell in the Heavens]]''.
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  • ...|b|z}}; born '''John Theobald Clarke'''; 22 July 1926 – 8 May 2013) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist described as [[Category:English film directors]]
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  • ...ly in the [[Doctor in the House (TV series)|''Doctor''... series]]) as the English-Foreign Language teacher Mr Jeremy Brown, set in an adult education college [[Category:Male actors from Manchester]]
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  • {{short description|English screenwriter and television producer}} ...nals|country=GBR|OBE}} (30 July 1931 – 10 January 2015) was an [[w:England|English]] [[w:screenwriter|screenwriter]] and [[w:television producer|television pr
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  • ...://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/arts/24annakin.html}}</ref> was an [[England|English]] [[film director|film director]]. ...3), ''Make Fruitful the Land'' (1945), ''We of the West Riding'' (1945), ''English Criminal Justice'' (1946), ''[[It Began on the Clyde|It Began on the Clyde]
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  • ...nals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRAS}} (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian who wrote and acted in a [[schoolmaster]] sketch that later transf ...Hay's films has been described as subversive and similar to that of fellow English comedian [[Frank Randle]]. His films are often characterised as exhibiting
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  • {{Short description|British TV comedy screenwriters}} ...ft the French Lycée school in London at the age of 16, and began using his English name.<ref name="Hayward2018">{{cite news |last=Hayward |first=Anthony |url=
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  • ...5 November 2001), known collectively as the '''Boulting brothers''', were English filmmakers and [[identical twin]]s who became known for their series of sat ...[[Terry-Thomas]] and [[Ian Carmichael]] and co written by [[Frank Harvey (English screenwriter)|Frank Harvey]]. It was the second most commercially successfu
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  • ...ne 1995 |page=14 |supp=y}}</ref> (4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010) was an English actor, comedian, musician and singer best known for a series of comedy film ...the start of the Albania v England match wearing a half-Albanian and half-English football shirt. He was well received by the crowd, especially when he perfo
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  • {{short description|English TV dramatist, screenwriter, journalist}} ...ennis Christopher George Potter''' (17 May 1935&nbsp;– 7 June 1994) was an English television [[dramatist]], screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for
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  • ...t the 1998 Aspen Comedy Arts festival, the urn, brought onstage by a stiff English butler, was "accidentally" knocked over by Terry Gilliam, spilling the "ash [[Category:20th-century English medical doctors]]
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  • | language = English ...Swann (actor)|Robert Swann]]. A satire of [[Public School (United Kingdom)|English public school]] life, the film follows a group of pupils who stage a savage
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  • ...rcraft Is Missing]]'' (1942), in which he was required to deliver lines in English, Latin, and Dutch. In 1944, under the auspices of [[Entertainments National ...rot roles being undertaken by three actors). However, he provided only his English and German voices for [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney]]'s ''[[Robin
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  • ...graduating from [[w:Oxford University|Oxford University]] with a degree in English, Jones and writing partner [[w:Michael Palin|Michael Palin]] wrote and perf ...e interested in the medieval period through reading Chaucer as part of his English degree.<ref>{{cite web|first=Todd|last=Leopold|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2
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