• Climbing High
  | studio = [[Gaumont British|Gaumont British Picture Corporation]] '''''Climbing High''''' is a 1938 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Carol Reed]] and produced by [[Michael Balcon
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• Mario Zampi
  ...Films]], a British production company, he is most closely associated with British comedies of the 1950s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/fi ...<ref>{{cite book|last1=Harper|first1=Sue|last2=Porter|first2=Vincent|title=British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference|publisher=Oxford University P
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• Dirk Maggs
  {{Short description|British writer and director}} | nationality = British
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• Ned Sherrin
  | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ...became involved in theatre at [[w:University of Oxford|Oxford]] and joined British television in 1956 shortly after the founding of independent television, pr
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• Dinsdale Landen
  ...2604/dinsdale-landen|title=Family Announcements, Dinsdale Landen – Funeral Directors and services – Family Announcements Announcements|publisher=family-announ ...isode 6 of the 1971 [[London Weekend Television]] series, [[The Guardians (British TV series)|''The Guardians'']].
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• David Croft (TV producer)
  |honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] |awards = [[British Comedy Awards|British Comedy Awards]]<br>2003 Lifetime Achievement Award<br>[[Writers' Guild of G
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• Alec Bregonzi
  ...levision director of ''Hancock's Half Hour'' recommended Bregonzi to other directors, so that he also appeared in 1950s/60s shows starring [[Benny Hill]], [[Cha ...Royal Scandal (1996 film)|A Royal Scandal]]'' (1997), and ''[[w:Happiness (British TV series)|Happiness]]'' (2001), his last screen role.
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• Angela Lansbury on screen and stage
  British and American actress '''[[Angela Lansbury]]''' was known for her prolific w | Voice (uncredited)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2
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• Ken Annakin
  | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] '''Kenneth Cooper Annakin''', [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (10 August 1914 – 22 April 2009)<ref name=NYTObit>{{cite new
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• Britannia Hospital
  {{short description|1982 British film by Lindsay Anderson}} ...ter]]<br />[[Graham Crowden]]<br />[[Joan Plowright]]<br />[[Jill Bennett (British actress)|Jill Bennett]]<br />[[Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1946)|Marsha Hunt
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• Mel Smith
  ...//www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/526237/ |title=Smith, Mel |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] | access-date= 20 July 2010}}</ref> ...e title role in the sitcom ''[[Colin's Sandwich]]'' (1988–90), playing a [[British Rail]] employee with aspirations to be a writer.
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• Blake Edwards
  ...d the hugely successful [[The Pink Panther|Pink Panther]] film series with British actor [[Peter Sellers]]. Often thought of as primarily a director of comedi ...wn father, Jack McEdward".<ref name=Village>{{cite magazine|work=[[Village Voice]]|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1299&dat=19710805&id=VclHAAAAI
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• Lionel Jeffries
  ...nd Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]]<ref name="Telegraph"/> and served in [[British Burma|Burma]] at the [[Rangoon]] radio station during the [[World War II|Se ...re]], [[Lichfield]], [[Staffordshire]] for two years and appeared in early British television plays.
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• Caroline Aherne
  The Mrs Merton character originated as a voice on the 1988 [[Frank Sidebottom]] album titled ''5:9:88'', after Aherne work ...as funny. The series ran in various formats from 1994 to 1997, winning a [[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA for Best Talk Show]] in 1997.<ref name="Gua
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• Victor Spinetti
  ...l of ours really, isn't it John?" to which Lennon replied, assuming a camp voice, "It is, we're all one Victor, we're all one aren't we. I mean 'what's goin ...including productions staged in Europe. His many television appearances on British TV, include ''Take My Wife'' in which he played a London-based booking agen
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• Kryten
  '''Kryten''' is a [[w:fictional character|fictional character]] in the British [[w:science fiction|science fiction]] [[w:situation comedy|situation comedy David Ross later returned to voice [[Talkie Toaster]] in the series IV episode "[[White Hole (Red Dwarf)|White
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• Max Wall
  ...tp://articles.latimes.com/1990-05-23/news/mn-33_1_max-wall|title=Max Wall; British Dancer-Comedian Gained Fame in Beckett Plays|first1=From|last1=Staff|first2 ...r of his tragic clown face and the distinctive sad falling cadences of his voice. He secured television appearances and, having attracted [[Samuel Beckett]]
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• The Last Goon Show of All
  ...skewed humour. There is a spoof "warm-up" where Sellers, using a "dramatic voice" announces that the best way to warm up an audience is to have the gentleme ...ime. Actors [[Richard Burton]] and his wife [[Elizabeth Taylor]] were also directors.
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• Jabberwocky (film)
  ...ef name="Shail2007">{{cite book|last=Shail|first=Robert|title=British film directors: a critical guide|url=https://archive.org/details/britishfilmdirec0000shai| * [[Max Wall]] as King Bruno the Questionable / Voice of Red Herring
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• Bryan Forbes
  | honorific_suffix = [[Commander of Order of the British Empire|CBE]] .... Retrieved 9 May 2013</ref> and "one of the most important figures in the British film industry".<ref name=guardian_batty>Batty D. [https://www.theguardian.c
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