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  • ...e British Empire|Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)]] in 1979.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id ...historyoffamilyo00stan|title=History of the Stansfeld Family of Stansfield in the Parish of Halifax and its numerous branches|year=1885|location=Leeds|pa
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  • ...] and sister [[w:Sheila Mercier|Sheila Mercier]], who became the matriarch in ''[[w:Emmerdale|Emmerdale Farm]]''. ...hers. He entered the [[w:House of Lords|House of Lords]] as a crossbencher in 1992 and was president of [[w:Mencap|Mencap]] from 1998 until his death.
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  • ...he film adaptation|It's That Man Again (film){{!}}''It's That Man Again'' (film)}} | alt = A group of performers in 1940s clothes, dressed warmly for a visit to northern Scotland
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  • ...d for his work on three [[w:BBC Radio|BBC Radio]] series: ''[[Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh]]'' (1944–54), ''[[Beyond Our Ken]]'' (1958–64) and ''[[Round ...o his business career, and kept his broadcasting as a sideline. His career in industry flourished, and he later became the chairman and managing director
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  • | criminal_status = [[Released on licence]] in 2017 ...-date=19 April 2013 |publisher=Stylophone.com}}</ref> Harris was convicted in 2014 of the [[sexual assault#England and Wales|sexual assault]] of four und
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  • ...had appeared in nearly 140 cinema roles. His later work was predominantly in television and radio. ...reliable bit-part actor in many films, particularly in the [[war film|war film]] genre.
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  • ''The Goon Show'', '''series eight''' was a series of 26 shows aired between {{Date|1957-09-30}} and {{Date|1958-03-24}}. ...arious reasons this series had four writers and three different producers. In addition to [[Spike Milligan]], the writers were [[Larry Stephens]], [[John
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  • ...form of villainy, gaining the affection of an attractive middle-class girl in the process. ...n, Lancashire|Preston]] three weeks later, at the age of 56; he was buried in [[Warrington]], alongside his father.
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  • | caption = Lansbury in 1950 ...MOS:OVERLINK--> US<!--Do not change to "U.S.", as this article is written in British English.-->
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  • | image = Terry-Thomas in Where Were You When the Lights Went Out.jpg | caption = Terry-Thomas in ''[[w:Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?|Where Were You When the Ligh
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  • | caption = Chaplin in the early 1920s ...5 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.
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