• Princess Charming (film)
  | released = {{film date|1934|4|25|df=y}} ...rming''''', also known as '''''Alexandra''''', is a 1934 British [[musical comedy film]] directed by [[Maurice Elvey]] and starring [[Evelyn Laye]], [[Henry
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• Radio Parade of 1935
  | distributor = [[Wardour Films]] | released = {{film date|df=yes|1934}}
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• Those Were the Days (1934 film)
  | image = Those Were the Days (1934 film) DVD boxart.jpg | released = April 1934
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• Dandy Dick (film)
  | distributor = [[Wardour Films]] ...layed an uncredited role in the film, later became a famous foil to Hay in films later on alongside [[Graham Moffatt]], it was during the film of Dandy Dick
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• Marcel Varnel
  ...for his career in the United States and England as a director of plays and films ...ilms. Among the performers he worked with were [[Will Hay]], [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]], [[Arthur Askey]] and [[George Formby]].
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• Old Mother Riley
  | first_date = 1934 '''Old Mother Riley''' is a fictional character portrayed from about 1934 to 1954 by [[Arthur Lucan]] and from 1954 to the 1980s by [[Roy Rolland]] a
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• John Baxter (director)
  ...the Dole]]'' (1941), and was the producer-director for the musical-comedy films of [[Flanagan and Allen]] during [[World War II]]. ...oduction company with his friend [[John Barter]]. He also acted in several films produced by [[Lance Comfort]].<ref name="google1"/>
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• Walter Forde
  ...=BFI}}</ref> Born in Lambeth, south London in 1898, he directed over fifty films between 1919 from the [[silent era]] through to 1949 in the [[sound film|so ...films. Emerging as an established film director in the 1930s, he directed films for [[Gainsborough Pictures]] and [[Ealing Studios]].
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• The Black Sheep of Whitehall
  ...chive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310022732/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a55be4c/|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2016|title=' ...Sheep of Whitehall'') is a 1942 British [[black-and-white]] [[comedy film|comedy]] [[war film]], [[film director|directed]] by [[Will Hay]] and [[Basil Dear
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• Strange Boarders
  ...and [[Ronald Adam (actor)|Ronald Adam]]. The film is an adaptation of the 1934 [[Spy fiction|espionage novel]] ''[[The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent ''Halliwell's Film & Video Guide'' described the film as "[quite an] engaging comedy-thriller in the Hitchcock mould, with entertaining performances and inciden
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• Alfred Roome
  ...rty years including many of the [[Aldwych Farces]] films, and [[Will Hay]] films such as ''[[Boys Will Be Boys (1935 film)|Boys Will Be Boys]]''. ...ilm ''[[My Brother's Keeper (1948 film)|My Brother's Keeper]]'' (1948) and comedy film ''[[It's Not Cricket (1949 film)|It's Not Cricket]]'' (1949).
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• Old Mother Riley in Society
  | studio = [[British National Films]] ...other Riley in Society''''' is a low budget 1940 black and white British [[comedy film]], directed by [[John Baxter (director)|John Baxter]], and starring [[
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• Flanagan and Allen
  | genre = [[Comedy music]] '''Flanagan and Allen''' were a British singing and comedy [[double act|double act]] most active during the 1930s and 1940s. Its membe
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• Robb Wilton
  Wilton's comedy emerged from the tradition of English music halls. He was a contemporary of ...the [[w:British Home Guard|Home Guard]]. His gentle, if pointed, manner of comedy is similar to the wistful adventures of the more famous [[Walmington-on-Sea
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• Leslie Fuller
  '''Leslie Fuller''' (9 October 1888 – 24 April 1948) was a British comedy film actor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/7565 ...edies. This was the start of his film career and he went on make around 26 films between 1930 and 1945, many of them "[[quota quickies]]". He leased the old
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• Peter Gawthorne
  ...h 1962) was an Anglo-Irish actor, probably best known for his roles in the films of [[Will Hay]] and other popular British comedians of the 1930s and 1940s. ...]] and other well-known comedians such as [[George Formby]], [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]], the [[w:Aldwych farce|Aldwych farce]]urs, [[Jack H
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• Cecil Parker
  ...upporting roles, often characters with a supercilious demeanour, in his 91 films made between 1928 and 1969. ...name=screenonline/> He appeared less often on television, but many of his films have remained popular and are often shown.
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• Moore Marriott
  ...dy Dick]]'' (1935), but he was a significant supporting performer in Hay's films from 1936 to 1940, and while he starred with Hay during this period he play ...nally intended to train as an architect, but instead he became an actor in films.<ref name=Hay/> Rather like [[Clive Dunn]] and [[Wilfrid Brambell]] later,
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• Binnie Hale
  ...h and American Film Press (1952)</ref> The marriage ended in divorce about 1934. ..., she played Peggy in ''Give Me a Ring'' (1933), Sally in ''Yes, Madam?'' (1934, with Howes, who later starred in [[Yes, Madam?|the film version]]), Anne i
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• Frank Launder
  ...eenonline.org.uk}}</ref><ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba17b8221|title=Frank Launder}}</ref> ...in the 1930s, contributing the original story for the classic [[Will Hay]] comedy ''[[Oh, Mr Porter!]]'' (1937).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.o
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