• King Arthur Was a Gentleman
  | released = {{Film date|1942|12|28|df=y}} ...https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034943/|title = King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942) - IMDb| website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref> It was [[film producer|produced]] by [[E
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• Marcel Varnel
  ...for his career in the United States and England as a director of plays and films ...l started his working life on the Paris stage, soon becoming a director of musical comedies. In 1925 he moved to [[New York City]] working as director in seve
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• Leo Franklyn
  ...of his early career was in [[w:Edwardian musical comedy|Edwardian musical comedy]]; in his later career he was chiefly associated with [[w:farce|farce]]. ...British and American shows. He spent ten years performing in Australia in musical comedies. From the 1940s he appeared regularly in [[w:pantomime|pantomime]
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• Flanagan and Allen
  {{Infobox musical artist | genre = [[Comedy music]]
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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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• Charles Victor
  ...with his brother in an automobile agency before going into English musical comedy. In 1929, he joined the [[Birmingham Repertory Theatre]], which was headed ...ly. For example, in 1957 he played the lead role, with top billing, in the comedy ''[[There's Always a Thursday]]'', whilst in the same year he had a bit par
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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. ...of Albany Pope, receiving good notices, in the hit musical ''[[w:The Boy (musical)|The Boy]]'' in 1917.<ref>Findon, B.W. (ed.) "''The Boy''", ''The Play Pict
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• Arthur Askey
  ...starred in several [[Gainsborough Pictures|Gainsborough Pictures]] comedy films during the [[Second World War|Second World War]] including ''[[Charley's (B ...er role in the writing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishcomedy.org.uk/comedy/bandwagon.htm |title=Bandwaggon |website=Britishcomedy.org.uk |access-date=
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• Tom Walls
  ...years as an actor, from 1905, mostly in [[Edwardian musical comedy|musical comedy]], touring the British provinces, [[North America]] and [[Australia]] and i ...e specially-written comedies on similar lines, and there were also serious films, particularly later in Walls's career.
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• Issy Bonn
  {{Infobox musical artist ...to Canada to live with relatives. When he returned, he joined an existing comedy and singing group, the Three Rascals,<ref name=allmusic/> and used the stag
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• Val Guest
  ...his work for [[w:Hammer Film Productions|Hammer]], for whom he directed 14 films, and [[w:science fiction film]|]s. He enjoyed a long career in the film ind ...n]]'' (1936); ''[[O-Kay for Sound]]'' (1937) for Varnel with [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]; ''[[Alf's Button Afloat]]'' (1938) with Flanagan a
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• How I Won the War
  ...]], [[Roy Kinnear]], [[Lee Montague]], and [[John Lennon]] in his only non-musical acting role. The film, which was directed and produced by [[Richard Lester] ...e towards the conflict through the [[Western Desert Campaign]] in mid-late 1942 to the crossing of the last intact [[Ludendorff Bridge|bridge]] on the [[Rh
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• Jerry Desmonde
  ...Northern Echo }}</ref> He built a career as a [[song and dance]] man in [[musical theatre]] and later toured parts of the United States in 1927-1928 with [[B ...tps://web.archive.org/web/20070404075445/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/genres/musical/filmography/001.html |archive-date=4 April 2007 }}</ref> an infamous flop,
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• Ted Kavanagh
  ...adio scriptwriter and producer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bacf61e28|title=Ted Kavanagh|website=2.bfi.org.uk|access-date ...That Man Again (film)|It's That Man Again]]'' (1943) and science fiction/ comedy ''[[Time Flies (1944 film)|Time Flies]]'' (1944).
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• Leslie Henson
  ...irector]]. He initially worked in [[silent films]] and [[Edwardian musical comedy]] and became a popular [[music hall]] comedian who enjoyed a long stage car ...ed to the West End, playing in ''[[Kissing Time]]'' (1919) and a series of musical comedies and farces throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
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• Kenneth Connor
  | known_for = [[Carry On (film series)|''Carry On'' films]]<br/>''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'' | spouse = {{marriage|Margaret Knox|1942}}
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• Helen Fraser (actress)
  | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1942|06|15}} ...since the early 1960s.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba2b8baa6|title=Helen Fraser|website=BFI}}</ref> For internat
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• Ken Annakin
  ...ast]] comedies, [[Adventure films|Adventure films]], [[Action films|Action films]] ...60s he was noticed by critics with large-scale adventure epic and comedies films, like ''[[Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines]]'', ''[[Battle of
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• Thorley Walters
  ....uk |access-date=2014-04-14}}</ref> He is probably best remembered for his comedy film roles such as in ''[[Two-Way Stretch]]'' and ''[[Carlton-Browne of the ...scort]]'' by [[Patrick Hastings]] and the 1949 musical ''[[Her Excellency (musical)|Her Excellency]]'' at the [[London Hippodrome]].
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• Ronald Frankau
  ...way to radio and films.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f4db93a|title=Ronald Frankau|website=BFI}}</ref> ...017|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> Rosemary's son, [[Sam Bain]], became a comedy writer and co-created the Channel 4 sitcom [[Peep Show (British TV series)|
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