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- |''[[Bullshot (film)|Bullshot]]'' || 1983 || American Scientist || [[Category:English male television actors]]7 KB (1,089 words) - 10:34, 13 December 2022
- ....blogspot.com/2008/07/eagle-writers-charles-chilton-1917.html |title=Eagle Writers – Charles Chilton (1917 – ) |date=30 July 2008 |work=eagle-times.blogsp [[Category:British comics writers]]13 KB (1,769 words) - 19:29, 1 January 2023
- ...Moon in 1969, and spells in [[New York City|New York]] working on Frost's American talk show as a "creative consultant".<ref name="Times050618"/> [[Category:British comedy writers]]6 KB (795 words) - 08:09, 29 March 2023
- ...(1960-65)|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> Speight was one of many writers on that series which also included Sykes, [[John Antrobus]] and [[Spike Mil ....com/anglophenia/2015/01/5-classic-american-sitcoms-british-first |title=6 American Sitcoms Based on British Originals |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=5 Januar10 KB (1,418 words) - 12:33, 18 February 2023
- ...'. In 1955 Bill was chosen for the [[Royal Variety Performance]], and when American stars such as [[Frankie Laine]], [[Lena Horne]], [[Billy Daniels]] and [[Do ...audition for the role of Percy Sugden as it was created for him, with the writers aware of his of comedy roles. In one autobiography Waddington agrees that h9 KB (1,393 words) - 12:24, 22 February 2023
- ...tributor to [[BBC]] programmes, his work made him one of the most prolific writers of televised output from [[ITC Entertainment]]. ...ite web|url=http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/crguide/vcw.html|title=Writers|work=space1999.net|access-date=26 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archiv22 KB (3,276 words) - 08:38, 20 February 2023
- ...nson Family'' serial about an ordinary family in London on the BBC's North American Service. In 1941 he enlisted in the [[RAF]] where he reached the rank of [[ [[Category:English male television actors]]10 KB (1,382 words) - 16:21, 11 April 2023
- ...co-starring [[Griff Rhys Jones]], its title being a pun on the name of the American television series ''[[Alias Smith and Jones]]''. In 1982, he starred as the [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]18 KB (2,587 words) - 14:38, 6 March 2023
- ...ars. By this time they were living in [[California]], where they wrote the American version of ''Porridge'', ''[[On the Rocks (U.S. TV series)|On the Rocks]]'' ...and co-created ''[[Spender]]'' with [[Jimmy Nail]]. In America, they were writers and supervising producers for [[HBO]]'s [[Emmy Award|Emmy]]-winning show, '10 KB (1,539 words) - 23:33, 17 February 2023
- ...e 1950s, Nation worked with [[John Junkin]] and [[Johnny Speight]] for the writers' agency [[Associated London Scripts]],<ref name="screenonline.org.uk"/> whe ...h Clemens claiming to have registered the ''Survivors'' concept with the [[Writers' Guild of Great Britain]] in 1965; Nation denied the allegations. Although20 KB (2,802 words) - 13:56, 11 March 2023
- ...t otherwise had limited success despite [[Mel Brooks]] joining his regular writers [[Sid Green (writer)|Sid Green]] and [[Dick Hills]].<ref name="Leigh"/> On ...Cerney]] in Gloucestershire. His hobbies included [[model railway]]s and [[American folklore]].9 KB (1,243 words) - 22:40, 15 March 2023
- ...by others.) This work placed Feldman and Took 'in the front rank of comedy writers', according to [[Denis Norden]].<ref name="six" /> ...-Taylor, [[John Junkin]] and [[Roland MacLeod]], with Cleese as one of the writers.<ref name="six" /> Feldman won two [[w:British Academy of Film and Televisi22 KB (3,284 words) - 23:45, 2 February 2023
- {{short description|American filmmaker (1922–2010)}} ...(born '''William Blake Crump'''; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.30 KB (4,205 words) - 17:53, 21 December 2022
- Much of Lynch's material was self-written, but he also covered songs by writers of the [[Brill Building (genre)|Brill Building]].<ref name="AMG"/> ...Black]]'s No. 5 UK hit "Love's Just a Broken Heart", in collaboration with American songwriter [[Mort Shuman]].<ref name="AMG"/> "You'd Better Believe It" (co-11 KB (1,583 words) - 09:01, 6 February 2023
- ...], where they wrote ''[[On the Rocks (U.S. TV series)|On the Rocks]]'', an American version of ''Porridge'', and ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda (1979 film)|The Pris In the US, he and Clement were writers and supervising producers on [[HBO]]'s [[Emmy Award|Emmy]]-winning show ''[11 KB (1,628 words) - 23:25, 15 January 2023
- He was one of the first generation of writers who established television, taking over from radio, as the most popular med ...h]], he became a journalist, then took a job as a security officer for the American Officers' Club in [[Regent's Park, London|Regent's Park]]. One of his tasks10 KB (1,398 words) - 23:28, 17 February 2023
- ...d his suave, superior, and somewhat threatening air made him in demand for American films for years to come.<ref>Sanders 1960, p.117</ref> ''Lloyd's of London' ...aying Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert and dying in a duel with [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]] after professing his love for Jewish maiden Rebecca,23 KB (3,363 words) - 11:29, 23 December 2022
- {{short description|American actress, singer, dancer, writer, producer (1901–1971)}} ...a''' "'''Bebe'''" '''Daniels''' (January 14, 1901 – March 16, 1971) was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer, and producer.23 KB (3,385 words) - 11:22, 23 November 2022
- ...s of expertise is American culture, and in 1993 he lectured on "Aspects of American Culture" at the university.<ref name="Inglis2004">{{cite book|last=Inglis|f ...or=Girgus, Sam B. |title=Review: Minimal Males: Men in the Movies |journal=American Studies |volume=37 |issue=2 |date=Fall 1996 |pages=175–84 |jstor=4064283215 KB (2,132 words) - 14:16, 19 December 2022
- ...nch night programme for [[Granada Television|Granada Television]]. In 1957 writers [[Sid Colin]] and [[Talbot Rothwell]] revived the ''Band Waggon'' format fo ...e book|author=Adrian Wright|title=West End Broadway: The Golden Age of the American Musical in London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6-TvZ0O5NHQC&pg=PA215 KB (2,289 words) - 22:24, 28 March 2023