• Paul Shane
  | birth_place = [[Thrybergh]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], England | death_place = [[Rotherham]], [[South Yorkshire]], England
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• Jimmy Jewel
  | birth_place = [[Sheffield]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], England ...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.
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• Jimmy Hanley
  ...etwork|ITV]]'s most popular advertising magazine programme, ''Jim's Inn'', from 1957 to 1963.<ref name="obit" /> ...ring in several television series and hosting the ITV series ''Jim's Inn'' from 1957 to 1963, which combined advertising messages with the plot of a [[soap
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• A. E. Matthews
  ...= [[Bridlington|Bridlington]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire|East Riding of Yorkshire]], England ...eady middle-aged when films began production, he enjoyed increasing renown from [[World War II|World War II]] onwards as one of the British cinema's most f
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• Edward Chapman (actor)
  ...= [[w:Harrogate|Harrogate]], [[w:West Riding of Yorkshire|West Riding of Yorkshire]], [[w:England|England]], UK ...comic foil to [[Norman Wisdom]]'s character of Pitkin in many of his films from the late 1950s and 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk
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• Gorden Kaye
  | birth_place = [[Huddersfield]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], England Kaye was born on 7 April 1941 in [[Huddersfield]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], the only child of Harold and Gracie Kaye;<ref name=indy>{{cite news|url=
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• Keith Barron
  | birth_place = [[Mexborough]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], England ...ish actor and television presenter who appeared in films and on television from 1961 until 2017. His television roles included the police drama ''[[The Odd
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• George A. Cooper
  ..._place = [[w:Leeds|Leeds]], [[w:West Riding of Yorkshire|West Riding of Yorkshire]], England ...ff 1978-1990 - Grange Hill Cast|website=www.grangehillevents.co.uk}}</ref> from 1985 to 1992. He returned to the role of Geoffrey Fisher in the sitcom vers
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• Leslie Fuller
  ...Fuller married one of his fellow entertainers, the 26-year-old dancer and male impersonator Beatrice Witham. ...y gave some successful performances at the Coliseum Theatre in [[Whitby]], Yorkshire, and for a while Fuller became lessee of the theatre.
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• Christopher Beeny
  ...com ''[[In Loving Memory (TV series)|In Loving Memory]]'' ([[ITV Yorkshire|Yorkshire Television]]), and as the incompetent debt collector and golfer Morton Beam ...ap, the BBC TV series ''[[The Grove Family]]'', which was shown on Fridays from 1954 until 1957, (and named after the BBC Studios of [[Lime Grove Studios]]
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• Francis Matthews (actor)
  ...le/4ce2b9ee90d05|title=Francis Matthews|website=BFI}}</ref> On television, from 1969 to 1971, he played [[Francis Durbridge]]'s amateur private detective P ...QBAJ&dq=follow+me+francis+matthews&pg=PT101|title=Flying Visits: Postcards From The Observer 1976-83|first=Clive|last=James|date=6 April 2017|publisher=Pan
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• George Woodbridge (actor)
  ...as an English actor who appeared in films, television, and theatre ranging from the 1930s to the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/ Woodbridge was born in Liverpool to Canadian mother and his father was from [[County Donegal]] in Ireland. He was raised in [[Exeter, Devon]] where he
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• Ernie Wise
  ...ss-date=16 October 2021}}</ref> [[West Riding of Yorkshire|West Riding of Yorkshire]], England ...|title=South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough & Swinton Times |journal=South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough & Swinton Times |date=January 20, 1933 |page=16}}</ref
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• Bill Owen (actor)
  | resting_place =St John the Evangelist Churchyard, [[Upperthong]], [[West Yorkshire]], England ...)|Tom Owen]]. He is best known for portraying [[Compo Simmonite]] in the [[Yorkshire]]-based [[BBC]] comedy series ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'' for over a qu
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• Bill Waddington
  | death_place = [[Rotherham]], [[South Yorkshire]], England ...ealing two bananas from the harvest festival display. Having been expelled from his first school for being unruly, he finished his education, age 14, at gr
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• Stratford Johns
  ...uthend-on-Sea]] for almost five years. He began to appear in British films from the mid-1950s, including a bit part in the classic [[Ealing Studios|Ealing ...ss, the conniving brother of Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in the nostalgic [[Yorkshire Television]] series, ''[[Heartbeat (British TV series)|Heartbeat.]]''<ref>{
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• Brian Glover
  ...= [[w:Sheffield|Sheffield]], [[w:West Riding of Yorkshire|West Riding of Yorkshire]], England ...dependent]]'' described him upon his death as "one of Britain's best-loved actors".<ref name="independent"/>
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• Tony Melody
  ...rkshire]].{{efn|Prior to 1 April 1974 Goole was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire}} It was as a singer that he initially made his mark, starting out at the p ...on BBC regional radio, working in the North region of the BBC Home Service from 1958 with, among others, [[Jimmy Clitheroe]] (who he also appeared with on
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• Bernard Miles
  | death_place = [[Knaresborough|Knaresborough]], [[North Yorkshire|North Yorkshire]], England ...-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530181057/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/actors/Bernard-Miles |archive-date=30 May 2016 }}</ref>
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• Norman Mitchell
  Born in [[w:Sheffield|Sheffield]], [[w:South Yorkshire|South Yorkshire]], his father was a mining engineer and his mother a concert singer. He att * ''[[w:Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell|Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell]]'' (1974) - Police Sergeant
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