• Up the Front
  ...film spin-off from the television series ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'' (the previous films being ''[[Up the Chastity Belt]]'' set in the Middle Ages which followed on [[Category:1972 films]]
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• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
  '''''The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer''''' is a 1970 British [[satire|satirical]] film starring [[Peter Cook]], and co-written by Cook, [[John Cleese]], [[ ...other two years before funding could be secured. It was the third of three films Cook was contracted to make for Columbia, the previous two being ''[[The Wr
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• All You Need Is Cash
  [[Category:British mockumentary films]] [[Category:1978 films]]
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• Ian La Frenais
  ...composing songs for a weekly [[List of satirical television news programs|satirical programme]] on [[Tyne Tees Television]] and then moved to London where he w ...Lads]]'', and by the end of the decade they had also written three feature films: ''[[The Jokers]]'', ''[[Otley (film)|Otley]]'' (directed by Clement) and '
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• Jabberwocky (film)
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• O Lucky Man!
  ...-02-09 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ycba.yale.edu/programs/programs-films.asp |title= Yale Center for British Art |access-date=9 February 2007 }}</re ''[[Britannia Hospital]]'' (1982) completes the trilogy of films featuring Mick Travis,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.d
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• Privilege (film)
  The story is presented as a narrated documentary, set in a near-future 1970s England, and concerning a disillusioned pop singer, Steven Shorter ([[Paul ...de|Flipside]] imprint. The disc included two of [[Peter Watkins]]'s short films: ''[[The Forgotten Faces]]'' (1961) and ''[[The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
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• British comedy
  ...to as the father of the political cartoon.<ref name="Guardian"/> With his satirical works calling the king (George III), prime ministers and generals (especial ''See'' [[w:British comedy films|British comedy films]] ([[w:Cinema of the United Kingdom|Cinema of the United Kingdom]]).
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• Sheila Steafel
  ...to the Secret Garden]]'' (2001).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba04b523c|title=Sheila Steafel}}</ref> ...70s and 1980s, she was a cast member on the weekly [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]] satirical show ''[[Week Ending]]'', providing the voices of many characters and imper
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• Malcolm McFee
  ...ase Sir! (film)|Please Sir!]]''. McFee had made his film debut in the 1969 satirical anti-war musical ''[[Oh! What a Lovely War]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https: ...ned for seasons two and three. He appeared on television many times in the 1970s but was only rarely seen after this, until 1993.
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• Lance Percival
  ...ish actor, comedian and singer, best known for his appearances in [[Satire|satirical comedy]] television shows of the early 1960s and his ability to improvise c ...he also appeared in several British comedy films including the [[Carry On films|Carry On]] film ''[[Carry On Cruising]]'' (1962) (replacing [[Charles Hawtr
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• Willie Rushton
  ...ish cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the satirical magazine ''[[Private Eye]]''. ...view/article/63998, accessed 23 Aug 2015]</ref> He also contributed to the satirical magazine ''The Wallopian'', (a play on the school magazine name ''The Salop
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• Rutland Weekend Television
  ...s' 1968 single "I'm the Urban Spaceman", while Harrison founded [[HandMade Films]] for the purpose of financing Python's ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian|Li ...f television critics for a while, but [[Henry Woolf]] informs him that his satirical invective has won him a rave review. Idle changes tack and begins praising
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• Roy Kinnear
  ...ber 1988) was a British [[character actor]]. He was known for his roles in films directed by [[Richard Lester]]; including Algernon in [[The Beatles]]' ''[[ Kinnear made his stage debut in 1955, and came to prominence in the [[BBC]] satirical comedy series ''[[That Was the Week That Was]]'' in 1962. He went on to app
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• Till Death Us Do Part
  ...ught to no longer exist, having been destroyed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as was [[Lost television broadcast|the policy at the time]]. In a demonstration of Speight's satirical skills—after a successful libel action brought against Speight by Mary Wh
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• George Melly
  ...ater sang with [[Digby Fairweather]]'s band. He released six albums in the 1970s including ''Nuts'' in 1972 and ''Son of Nuts'' the next year.<ref>McGregor, ...Two]] broadcast ''George Melly's Last Stand'' (produced by [[Walker George Films]]), an intimate portrayal of Melly's last months. His sister [[Andrée Mell
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• Peter Cook
  ...67). Cook and Moore returned to television projects continuing to the late 1970s, including co-presenting ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' in the United States. ...Eight]]'', before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, ''[[Beyond the Fringe]]'', alongside [[Jonathan Miller]], [[Ala
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• Dame Edna Everage
  ...ooks including an autobiography, ''My Gorgeous Life'', appeared in several films and hosted several television shows (on which Humphries has also appeared a ...wing film appearances and an elevation to [[Dame (title)|damehood]] in the 1970s, the character evolved to "Housewife and Superstar", then "Megastar" and fi
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• Barry Humphries
  ...international renown, and he also appeared in numerous stage productions, films, and television shows. Originally conceived as a dowdy [[Moonee Ponds, Vict Humphries' other satirical characters include the "priapic and inebriated cultural attaché" Sir Les P
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• Dudley Moore
  ...inment Performance]]. They worked together on other projects until the mid 1970s, by which time Moore had settled in Los Angeles to concentrate on his film His career as a comedy film actor was marked by hit films, particularly ''[[Bedazzled (1967 film)|Bedazzled]]'' (1967), set in [[Swin
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