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  • {{Infobox television '''''Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!''''' is a 2006 [[BBC Four]] [[television play]] starring [[Michael Sheen]] as the English comic actor [[Kenneth Will
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  • | studio = Stanley Donen Films ...&cp=1&pos=3#3 |title=Staircase - Details |website=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]] |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=November 20, 2018 }}<
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ...on before joining the [[w:BBC|BBC]]. He appeared in a variety of radio and television satirical shows and theatre shows, some of which he also directed.
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  • | nationality = British ...introducing the underground language [[polari]] to the [[w:United Kingdom|British]] public.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ptop/alabaster/A1035
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  • | image = If British poster.jpg | caption = British cinema poster
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  • | awards = [[w:British Comedy Awards|British Comedy Awards]]<br />1997 [[w:Lifetime Achievement Award|Lifetime Achieveme ...on [[w:BBC Scotland|BBC Scotland]] and later became known for his British television comedy shows ''[[The Stanley Baxter Show]]'', ''[[The Stanley Baxter Pictur
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  • ...rtrayal of the omniscient valet [[Jeeves]] in [[The World of Wooster|1960s television adaptations]] of [[P. G. Wodehouse]]'s stories. ...3)"], BFI screenonline, reprinted from MacFarlane (ed.) ''Encyclopaedia of British Cinema'', London: Methuen/BFI, 2003, p. 534</ref>
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  • ...r K. Furse|Roger]], became a stage designer and painter who also worked in films.<ref name="Brief">{{cite web|url=http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/ ...rry McKenzie]]'' (1972).<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba2e9db72|title=Judith Furse}}</ref>
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  • ...1912 – 1 February 1975) was an English actor, co-starring in many popular British [[Comedy film|comedies]] of the 1950s and 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http:// ...e and the Showgirl]]'' (1957). He broke from this typecasting in his later films, such as his starring role in ''[[Games That Lovers Play (film)|Games That
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  • ...ish actor, best known for playing womanising café owner René Artois in the television comedy series ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]''. ...had appeared in a radio play directed by [[Alan Ayckbourn]] and also in a television play from Manchester. Ayckbourn suggested that he audition for the [[Octago
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  • ...mbered for his lead role in the [[Television in the United Kingdom|British television]] sitcom ''[[Father, Dear Father]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screeno ...dhurst. Cargill became a commissioned officer in the [[British Indian Army|British Indian Army]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt
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  • {{short description|British actor}} | birth_place = [[w:Kuala Lumpur|Kuala Lumpur]], [[w:British Malaya|Malaya]]
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  • | television = ''[[Coronation Street]]'' (1981–1982, 1988–2001)<br>''[[Bad Girls ( ...Girls (TV series)|Bad Girls]]''. She has since enjoyed a varied stage and television career.
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  • ...hout his 50-year career, including the three 1960s [[The Beatles|Beatles]] films ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'', ''[[Help! (film)|Help ...c.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18148017 "Victor Spinetti, actor and star of Beatles films, dies"], BBC News, 19 June 2012</ref> But Harrison also later told him, "Yo
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  • ...Albert Steptoe alongside [[Harry H. Corbett]] in the long-running [[BBC]] television sitcom ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'' (1962–65, 1970–74). He achieved internat ...Obituary, 19 January 1985</ref> In the [[Second World War]], he joined the British military forces entertainment organisation [[Entertainments National Servic
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  • ...July 1988) was an [[England|English]] comedy writer and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in ''[[Take It from Here]]'' and as headmaster "Prof ===Radio and television===
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  • ...(TV series)|Worzel Gummidge]]'' (1979–81) and [[Magic Grandad]] in the BBC television series ''Watch'' (1995).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/ce ...0727-72-6|title=Who's Who on Television, 1st Edition|publisher=Independent Television Books Ltd}}</ref>
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  • * [[Film4 Productions|Channel Four Films]] * [[Working Title Films]]
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  • {{Infobox television '''''Are You Being Served?''''' is a [[British sitcom]] created and written by executive producer [[David Croft (TV produc
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  • | medium = Radio, television ...ped his trademark voices and surreal characters which he later adapted for television.
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