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  • | birth_place = [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], England ...ooks?id=qEW5BAAAQBAJ&q=brian+oulton+carry+on+films&pg=PT726|title=Carry-On Actors|isbn=9781908382085|last1=Ross|first1=Andrew|date=19 October 2011}}</ref>
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  • | birth_place = [[Crumpsall]], [[Manchester]], [[Lancashire]], England ...I|Second World War]], at the age of eight, he was evacuated to [[Darwen]], Lancashire to escape the [[Manchester Blitz]].<ref name="Teleg2021">{{cite news|last=C
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  • ...ll|Robert Harper (Ball)]]'''<br>{{birth date|df=yes|1944|1|28}}<br>Oldham, Lancashire, England ...''<br>{{death date and age|df=yes|2020|10|28|1944|1|28}}<br>[[Blackpool]], Lancashire, England
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  • | birth_place = [[Rochdale|Rochdale]], [[Lancashire|Lancashire]], England Born at 96 Mitchell Street, [[Rochdale|Rochdale]], [[Lancashire|Lancashire]], Howarth was the son of comedian Bert Howarth, and went to school with th
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  • | birth_place = [[w:St Helens, Merseyside|St Helens]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]], England ...nd his mother was Mary Elizabeth Dorning, formerly Howard.<ref>Information from his entry in the Register of Births.</ref> He was educated at [[w:Cowley In
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  • | birth_place = [[Southport]], [[Lancashire]], England Born in Southport, Lancashire, England,<ref>{{cite news |title=Charles Victor to Repeat In Alfred P. Dool
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  • ...ce = [[w:Collyhurst|Collyhurst]], [w:[Manchester|]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]], England [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Ashton-under-Lyne|Ashton-under-Lyne]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]], England ...spite a long-standing reputation as one of the hardest drinking of British actors he was still working in his last years. He was perhaps best known as Basil
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  • | birth_place = [[Salford]], [[Lancashire]], England Kelly was born in [[Salford]], [[Lancashire]] on 19 December 1943 and abandoned; he was adopted by a couple who moved t
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  • ...t Riding of Yorkshire]]. He moved to [[Southport|Southport]], [[Lancashire|Lancashire]], with his family in 1929, and worked with his father as a builder. He joi ...s as host of the [[BBC Radio|BBC Radio]] show ''[[Have A Go]]'', which ran from 1946 to 1967 and launched such catchphrases as "How do, how are yer?", "Are
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Shaw and Crompton|Shaw and Crompton]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]] ...dvertiser]]|date=2008-10-02|last=Greer|first=Stuart}}</ref> He had decided from an early age to become an actor, but had his hopes dashed when his father d
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]], England Born in [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]], the son of a [[w:publican|publican]], Rossington was educated at Sefton
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  • ...son Crusoe]]'' in [[Barnsley]], at the age of four, worked with his father from the age of 10 and subsequently became stage manager for the family show. ...omime]]s for [[Howard & Wyndham Ltd]] at the Opera House, [[Blackpool]], [[Lancashire]].
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Preston, Lancashire|Preston]], England ...d?]]'', a [[British sitcom]] between 1972 and 1985, and was the only actor from that series to feature in the [[Are You Being Served? (Australian TV series
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  • | birth_place = [[Ashton-under-Lyne]], [[Lancashire]], England Though born in [[Ashton-under-Lyne|Ashton-under-Lyne]], [[Lancashire|Lancashire]],<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news |title=Brian Wilde (obituary)
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  • | birth_place = [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], England .../ref> He began his stage career at the Hippodrome Theatre in [[Bolton]], [[Lancashire]].<ref name=BBC/><ref name=Indy>{{cite news |title=Obituary:Derek Nimmo |au
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  • | birth_place = [[Oldham]], [[Lancashire]], England ...was an English actor, comedian and co-author who was born in [[Oldham]], [[Lancashire]]. In later life he achieved stardom as the [[pompous]] ex-serviceman [[Per
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Hundred of Salford|Salford]], [[w:Lancashire]] ...ynn and Walls, and the two were ranked among the most popular British film actors of the 1930s. He continued his stage career during and after the Second Wor
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  • | birth_place = [[Wigan]], [[Lancashire]], England ...onstrated his ad-libbing skills in his weekly radio show ''Ray's A Laugh'' from 1949 until 1961.<ref name="Stevens">{{cite book
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Rochdale|Rochdale]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]], England ...y 1954 |accessdate=29 August 2019 |work=Burnley Express |location=Burnley, Lancashire |page=4}}</ref><br />
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