• Stratford Johns
  ...s from the mid-1950s, including a bit part in the classic [[Ealing Studios|Ealing comedy]] ''[[The Ladykillers (1955 film)|The Ladykillers]]'' (1955). He ran After several years of poor health, Johns died from heart disease in 2002, aged 76.<ref name="guardian2002"/>
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• 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> ...<ref>{{cite book|author=Stephen Butt|title=The History of Leicester in 100 People|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQyoAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT124|year=2013|publi
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• Dora Bryan
  ...)|The Fallen Idol]]'' (1948), one of her early films, and [[Ealing Studios|Ealing's]] ''[[The Blue Lamp]]'' (1950). She appeared in similarly stereotypical f * ''[[Files from Scotland Yard]]'' (1951) - Minnie Robinson
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• Whisky Galore! (1949 film)
  | studio = [[Ealing Studios]] '''''Whisky Galore!''''' is a 1949 British [[comedy film]] produced by [[Ealing Studios]], starring [[Basil Radford]], [[Bruce Seton]], [[Joan Greenwood]]
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• Arthur Mullard
  ...ch is probably him.</ref><ref>Date of birth of 19 September 1910 confirmed from 1939 Register.</ref> – 11 December 1995)<ref>GRO Register of Deaths: Arth ...onally. This ended after 20 fights over three years, following a knock-out from which he lost his memory. In 1939, he was a general labourer living with hi
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• Genevieve (film)
  ...t the studio's production schedule, and that he had not won any friends at Ealing by leaving, Balcon turned the film down, leaving Cornelius to have his film ...Cornelius could source the rest elsewhere; the director obtained the money from the National Film Finance Corporation.<ref>{{harvnb|Falk|1987|pp=92–93}}<
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• Will Hay
  ...ref name="stocktoncouncil">{{cite web |url=http://heritage.stockton.gov.uk/people/will-hay-3/ |title=Will Hay |publisher=Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council |ac ...as a screenwriter for many of Hay's films, recalled transposing Harbottle from school into other everyday situations.<ref name="bbc1976"/> He famously per
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• Back-Room Boy
  ...a remote Scottish island to monitor the weather, where he hopes to escape from women, but soon finds the island overrun by them. ...a boat from the mainland, his is warned by the locals that he will go mad from the isolation and the curse of a [[mermaid]] within a month, as his predece
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• William Mervyn
  ...web|author1=Tim Hughes|title=Michael Pickwoad: from Withal to the Doctor (From Herald Series)|url=http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/10121418.Michael_Pick Having taken the part of a Chief Inspector in the 1949 [[Ealing Studios|Ealing Studios]] film ''[[The Blue Lamp|The Blue Lamp]]'', in which PC George Dixo
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• Moira Lister
  ...umber of films over several decades. The most notable of these being for [[Ealing Studios]], such as ''[[Another Shore]]'' (1948), ''{{sortname|A|Run for You ...] television series ''The Whitehall Worrier'' and ''The Very Merry Widow'' from 1967 to 1968.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obi
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• Stephen Murray (actor)
  ...ded Triangle]]'' (1953).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9eee6636|title=Stephen Murray|publisher=}}</ref> He once again appeare ...ng role as [[Svengali]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7ee12bec|title=Trilby (1959)|publisher=}}</ref> In 1952 he returned to
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• Dennis Price
  He served in the [[Royal Artillery|Royal Artillery]] from March 1940 to June 1942 during the [[Second World War|Second World War]], b ...eople/id/448547/ "Price, Dennis (1915-1973)"], BFI screenonline, reprinted from MacFarlane (ed.) ''Encyclopaedia of British Cinema'', London: Methuen/BFI,
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• Harry Fowler
  ...hose Kids from Town]]'', a propaganda piece about wartime evacuee children from London. This role was given to him after film company executives heard him ...edies]]. Fowler later married [[Joan Dowling]], one of his co-stars in the Ealing film. Dowling committed suicide in 1954, aged 26.<ref name="Scotsman">{{cit
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• Dennis Price filmography
  ...chard II (play)|Richard II]]''. He appeared in several films produced by [[Ealing Studios]] and the [[Boulting brothers]]. Between 1965 and 1967, he appeared *''[[The Lost People]]'' (1949) as Ridley
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• The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
  ...duced from 1976 to 1979. Nobbs adapted the screenplay for the first series from the novel. Some of its subplots were considered too dark or risqué for tel ...from those around it only by having its streets named after famous poets. From references, it would have approximately coincided with [[Teddington]]. He c
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• Harry Secombe
  | nationality = [[Welsh People|Welsh]] ...untry=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] comedian, actor, singer and television presenter. Secombe was a mem
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• Arnold Ridley
  ...2009|author=Ridley, Nicholas |isbn=978-1-906132-98-9|title=Godfrey's Ghost From Father to Son|publisher=Mogzilla Life}}</ref> ...ivate Godfrey], BBC Radio 4, 2012-07-06.</ref> He was medically discharged from the army with the rank of [[Lance Corporal]] in 1916.<ref>Ridley's WW1 meda
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• Jack Warner (actor)
  ...in the television series ''[[w:Dixon of Dock Green|Dixon of Dock Green]]'' from 1955 until 1976, but he was also for some years one of Britain's most popul ...nt to work as a mechanic in Paris. He drove completed chassis to the coast from where they were shipped to England, road-testing them ''en route''.<ref nam
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• John Clive
  ...iveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091215185721/http://www.movietome.com/people/88473/john-clive/credits.html|archivedate=15 December 2009|df=dmy-all}}</re * ''[[The Magnet (film)|The Magnet]]'' (1950) - The people of Merseyside
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• Water (1985 film)
  ...t]]'' (1983) for HandMade.<ref>Sellers p 143</ref> "I guess it was like an Ealing film," said Clement, "but it was not a conscious effort to recreate that st ...1984. The same month ''A Private Function'' also went into production and people who worked on that film felt their budget was sacrificed in order to fund '
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