• Joan Hickson
  | awards = [[Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play]]<br />1979 ''[[Bedroom Farce]]''}} ...her, "I hope one day you will play my dear [[Miss Marple]]."<ref>Haining, Peter. ''Agatha Christie – Murder in Four Acts'' (Page 140). 1990. Virgin Books
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• To the Manor Born
  | creator = [[w:Peter Spence|Peter Spence]] | starring = [[w:Penelope Keith|Penelope Keith]]<br />[[Peter Bowles]]<br />[[w:Angela Thorne|Angela Thorne]]<br />[[w:John Rudling|John
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• Julian Holloway
  | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> |2009 || ''[[A Christmas Carol (2009 film)|A Christmas Carol]]'' || Fat Cook/Portly Gentleman/Businessman ||
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• Willie Rushton
  ...(magazine)|Punch]]'' but none had been accepted. After being knocked over by a bus, he gave up his job as a clerk, determined not to waste another day.< ...vates Rushton and Ingrams), travelogues through the US, and the hazards of by-electioneering as the independent candidate for the constituency of Gumboot
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• List of Porridge characters
  ...ish sitcom, starring [[Ronnie Barker]] and [[Richard Beckinsale]], written by [[Dick Clement]] and [[Ian La Frenais]], and broadcast on [[BBC One|BBC1]] ...ates, Norman Stanley Fletcher (played by Barker) and Lennie Godber (played by Beckinsale), who are serving time at the fictional [[HM Prison|HMP]] Slade
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• David Frost
  ...e class of the Sunday school at his father's church (Byron Road Methodist) by David Gilmore Harvey, and subsequently started training as a Methodist [[lo ...he was a lay preacher, following his witnessing of an event presided over by Christian evangelist [[Billy Graham]].<ref name="Jeffries" />
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• Graham Chapman
  ...sonal life, Chapman was openly homosexual and a supporter of [[LGBT rights by country or territory|gay rights]], and was in a [[Domestic partnership|long ...force in the 1930s.<ref name="Pythons' Autobio">The Pythons' Autobiography By The Pythons, ed. Bob McCabe, Orion, 2003</ref>
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• List of Only Fools and Horses characters
  ! rowspan="3" width="22%"|Played by | [[Peter Woodthorpe]]
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• Dame Edna Everage
  ...ften known simply as '''Dame Edna''', is a character created and performed by Australian comedian [[Barry Humphries]], known for her lilac-coloured ("[[w ...s. Barry Humphries has claimed that they were inspired by the glasses worn by Melbourne eccentric, beautician, radio broadcaster, actor and dancer [[Step
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• Barry Humphries
  ...-the-dame-20100914-15ar3.html "Absurd moments: in the frocks of the dame"] by Steve Meacham, ''[[Brisbane Times]]'' (15 September 2010)</ref> ...te-pilgrim/2005/10/06/1128562941049.html "Return of a passionate pilgrim"] by Barry Humphries, ''[[The Age]]'' (7 October 2005)</ref> the son of Eric Hum
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• Keeping Up Appearances
  ...ppearances''''' is a [[British sitcom|British sitcom]] created and written by [[Roy Clarke|Roy Clarke]]. It originally aired on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from 199 ...those she considers [[upper class]]. Her attempts are constantly hampered by her [[Underclass|lower class]] extended family, whom she is desperate to hi
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• Blackadder
  ...n a different historical period, with the two [[protagonist]]s accompanied by different characters, though several reappear in one series or another, e.g ...ols and Horses]]''. It was also ranked as the 9th-best TV show of all time by ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine.<ref name="empire">{{cite web |ur
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• List of George and Mildred episodes
  ...on Wick]] on "a small rather exclusive development". They are shown around by the [[snob]]bish [[estate agent]] Jeffrey Fourmile, who could also be their ...y (UK)|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]] (played by [[Diana King (actress)|Diana King]]), and her husband. However, the Ropers
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• Albert Finney
  ...uting with ''[[The Entertainer (film)|The Entertainer]]'' (1960), directed by [[Tony Richardson]], who had previously directed him in the theatre. He mai ...[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' (1959) directed by [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall]].
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• Douglas Adams
  ...[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was publi ...o an [[RSPCA|RSPCA]] animal shelter in [[Brentwood, Essex|Brentwood]], run by his maternal grandparents.<ref>Webb 2005a, p. 32.</ref> Each remarried, giv
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• Dad's Army
  ...|Home Guard]] during the [[World War II|Second World War]]. It was written by [[Jimmy Perry]] and [[David Croft (TV producer)|David Croft]], and original ...ilitary service, either because of age (hence the title ''Dad's Army'') or by being in professions exempt from conscription. Most of the platoon characte
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• List of Blackadder characters
  ...dentally kills his great-uncle, King Richard III and is repeatedly visited by his ghost. He becomes Duke of Edinburgh and Lord of the Privy. It is a moot ...a ship. He is eventually murdered (along with everybody else in the court) by Prince Ludwig the Indestructible.
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• David Niven
  | caption = Niven in 1973.<br />Photograph by [[w:Allan Warren|Allan Warren]] ...parate Tables]]'' (1958). Niven's other roles included [[Squadron Leader]] Peter Carter in ''[[A Matter of Life and Death (film)|A Matter of Life and Death]
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• One Foot in the Grave
  ...he next five years, the show appeared only as Christmas specials, followed by one final series in 2000. ...ish actor)|Richard Wilson]], and his long-suffering wife, Margaret, played by [[Annette Crosbie]]. Wilson initially turned down the part of Meldrew and D
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• Terry Jones
  ...es-91466-28274298/ |title=The life and times of Monty Python's Terry Jones by Nathan Bevan, Western Mail at |publisher=Walesonline.co.uk |date=5 March 20 ...]]'', his depictions of middle-aged women (or "ratbag old women" as termed by the BBC, also known as "pepper-pots" or "grannies from hell") are among the
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