• Jack Hulbert
  ...ite web|title=Hulbert, Jack (1892-1978)|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/462536/index.html|website=screenonline.org.uk|publisher=BFI Screenonline [[image:Jack and Claude Hulbert cigarette card from Wills's album 'Radio Celebrities' circa 1934.JPG|thumb|Photo of card in Wil
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• Robert Hardy
  ...11_b017c8gp.flac |title= Robert Hardy's voice |type= speech |descriptioon= from the BBC programme ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'', 20 November 2011.<ref name=" ...l'' in 1980 and ''Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years'' in 1982. Aside from acting, Hardy was an acknowledged expert on the medieval [[English longbow]
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• Nicholas Parsons
  ...0b7bd1.flac |title = Nicholas Parsons' voice |type = speech |description = from the BBC programme ''[[Great Lives]]'', 13 May 2008.<ref>{{Cite episode |tit ...icholas-parsons-cbe|title=Oration for Nicholas Parsons CBE — University of Leicester|last=pt91|website=www2.le.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=27 May 2018}}</ref>
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• Shirley Anne Field
  ...s ever to have their name above the titles in all the major cinemas around Leicester Square simultaneously.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.express.co.uk/life-s ...ie on ''BBC Radio 4'' 15 April 2011] accessed 19 March 2013</ref><ref>VIEW FROM A LOCAL VANTAGE POINT
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• Robin Bailey
  ...tinghamshire]].<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f426b58|title=Robin Bailey}}</ref> ...so collaborated with Tinniswood on the television and radio series ''Tales from a Long Room'', playing the Brigadier, an eccentric [[cricket|cricket]]-love
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• Jack Buchanan
  ...sse]]. He suffered from spinal [[arthritis]], though this did not stop him from performing several dance numbers with Astaire in ''The Band Wagon''. {{Cita ...He was responsible, with partners, for the building and ownership of the [[Leicester Square Theatre]], London, and the Imperial in [[Brighton]]. He also control
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• Notting Hill (film)
  ...overing that her movie star boyfriend, Jeff King, has unexpectedly arrived from America. Over the next six months, Will's friends arrange a series of dates One day, a distraught Anna appears at Will's doorstep, needing to hide from a tabloid scandal. She apologises about King and says their relationship is
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• Lupino Lane
  ..., part of the [[Lupino family|Lupino family]]. He adopted the surname Lane from his great-aunt Sarah Lane (1822–1899, née Borrow), the director of the [ ...ollies]] of 1924'' at the [[New Amsterdam Theatre|New Amsterdam Theatre]], from June 1924 to March 1925, and subsequently played Ko-Ko in ''[[The Mikado]]'
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• Chuckle Brothers
  ...the Chuckle Brothers''. The comedy of the Chuckle Brothers usually derived from [[slapstick]], other [[visual gag]]s, and [[wordplay]], and their [[catchph | people = [[Eamonn Holmes]] and [[Ruth Langsford]] (Presenters), Paul Elliot (Guest
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• Terry Wogan
  ...dio4 Desert Island Discs 01 Jan 2012 b018w7rj.flac|Recorded January 2012]] from the BBC Radio 4 programme ''[[Desert Island Discs]]''}}}} ....co.uk/programmes/p007xvzk |archive-date=21 April 2013 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> From 2010 to 2015 he presented ''[[Weekend Wogan]]'', a two-hour Sunday morning
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• The Goodies
  ...Tim Brooke-Taylor]], [[Graeme Garden|Graeme Garden]] <br />in a screenshot from the title sequence <br />of the BBC television series ...rmed in their [[The Goodies (TV series)|eponymous television comedy show]] from 1970 until 1982, combining [[sketch comedy|sketches]] and situation comedy.
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• John Mills
  ...] by [[Elizabeth II]] in 1976. In 2002, he received a [[BAFTA Fellowship]] from the [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] and was named a [[Disne ...(film)|This Happy Breed]]'' (1944), directed by [[David Lean]] and adapted from a [[This Happy Breed|Noël Coward play]].
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• George Formby Sr
  ...04}} Formby also had a successful recording career and made the transition from music hall to [[revue]] in 1916. ...n|Formby was not alone in developing a chest complaint: the mortality rate from bronchitis was 20% higher in the north west than the rest of the country.{{
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• Tom Walls
  Walls spent his early years as an actor, from 1905, mostly in [[Edwardian musical comedy|musical comedy]], touring the Br Away from acting, Walls's passion was horse racing. He set up stables at his home in
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• Oliver! (film)
  ...https://web.archive.org/web/20200806100326/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b208402 |url-status=live }}</ref> ...es Dickens]]'s 1838 novel ''[[Oliver Twist]]''. Directed by [[Carol Reed]] from a screenplay by [[Vernon Harris]], the picture includes such musical number
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• Leslie Phillips
  ...or|director|producer<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f5e1afb | title=Leslie Phillips }}</ref>}} ...e=VE Day: Remembering Victory (2015) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/5553f58e0eaa1 |website=BFI |access-date=11 November 2022}}</ref><ref name="
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• Maggie Smith
  ...chive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130710172828/http://www.tribute.ca/people/maggie-smith/3122/|archive-date=10 July 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> ...les in the review ''New Faces of '56'', at the [[Ethel Barrymore Theatre]] from June to December 1956.<ref>Maggie Smith acceptance speech at the 44th Tony
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• George Grossmith Jr.
  ...performed together with diminutive comic [[Edmund Payne]].<ref name=obit/> From 1904, he was a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]].<ref>He joined the Green Room Lodg ...cluding the ''Rogues and Vagabonds'', ''Venus'', ''Oh! Indeed'', [[Empire, Leicester Square|Empire Theatre's]] ''Hullo ... London!'' (1910), ''Everybody's Doing
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• Alan Rickman
  ...9/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alan-rickman-british-actor-died-from-pancreatic-cancer-a6814686.html |archive-date=2016-01-15 |url-access=limite ...Bartlett)<ref name="Biography" /><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/alan-rickman-helen-mccrory-with-us-its-mostly-about-laughter-and-t
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• Mr. Bean
  ...nfluenced by [[physical comedy]] actors such as [[Jacques Tati]] and those from early [[silent film]]s.<ref name=cavendish/> ...al run, it uses very little intelligible dialogue, making it accessible to people who know little or no English.
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