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  • ..., he had many stories to tell of being a jobbing musician in London in the 1920s. He performed in a number of minor acting roles before becoming a producer. [[Category:1900 births]]
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  • ...'s ''Lead Kindly Light''. Haynes switched to directing silent films in the 1920s. He usually billed himself professionally as H. Manning Haynes. [[Category:1889 births]]
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  • [[File:Actress Binnie Hale.jpg|thumb|Hale, c. 1920s]] ...She was one of the most successful musical theatre stars in London in the 1920s and 1930s, able to sing leading roles in operetta as well as musicals, and
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  • Forde was the son of the [[music hall]] comedian Tom Seymour. During the 1920s, he was a silent film comedian, acting in a series of shorts before shiftin [[Category:1898 births]]
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  • ...io|BBC]] in Leeds in 1926, as Max Kester. He moved to London by the late 1920s, and worked for [[His Master's Voice]] records.<ref name=times/> He als [[Category:1901 births]]
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  • ...h dance band|dance band]] leader and [[clarinet|clarinet]] player from the 1920s to the 1960s. He performed several songs with suggestive lyrics, including ...ells, with Harry on saxophone and clarinet and Sidney on piano. During the 1920s, they performed in several prestige venues, such as the [[Alhambra Theatre|
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  • | yearsactive = 1920s&ndash;1970s [[Category:1901 births]]
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  • ...nd a good part of his chin. He dressed like a traditional workman from the 1920s, with a squashed and oil-grimed hat, hobnailed boots, collarless shirt with [[Category:1893 births]]
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  • ...rtner [[Teddy Knox]] in 1919. He made further appearances with them in the 1920s, his laconic stage persona contrasting with their frantic anarchy.<ref name During the 1920s Gray toured widely. He was a member of [[Harry Lauder]]'s company touring A
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  • ...BBC Radio]] for which he made more than 3,000 broadcasts, beginning in the 1920s. His career spanned more than sixty years and also included theatre, cinema [[Category:1903 births]]
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  • ...aracter actor|character actor]], Bacon was a drummer in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s.<ref name=jewishlives/> He was taught by the vocalist and drummer [[Category:1904 births]]
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  • ...ariety stages around London. Brough senior gave up performing in the early 1920s and concentrated on a textile business. Young Peter left school at 15 and [[Category:1916 births]]
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  • ...n|comic actor]] who starred in revue, variety, film and pantomime from the 1920s to the mid-1980s. His trademark rubber-neck dance, skeletal frame and pecul Nat Jackley began his career in the 1920s as a double act with his sister Joy, and later joined [[The Eight Lancashir
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  • ...ngs Theatre", ''Dundee Courier'', 1 September 1923, p. 3</ref> In the late 1920s he went to Australia for more than ten years,<ref name=who/> appearing in s [[Category:1897 births]]
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  • ...sar]]'' at the Theatre Royal in [[Halifax, West Yorkshire|Halifax]] in the 1920s.<ref>[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~calderdalecompanion/m [[Category:1904 births]]
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  • ...ct, written by [[Adele Rose]] and based on Jewel's father's company in the 1920s and 1930s. Also that year he performed onstage as Al Lewis in [[Neil Simon] [[Category:1909 births]]
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  • ...ul pantomime stars of his era and remained a popular performer through the 1920s and 1930s, though his style became increasingly outdated and it became more [[Category:1894 births]]
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  • ...ed the character in his "The fourth form at St. Michael's" sketches in the 1920s. [[Category:1885 births]]
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  • ...own as Auntie Vi, that epithet belonging only to Violet Fraser back in the 1920s. "I was never anyone's aunt," Carson exclaimed when Hill produced a BBC Rad [[Category:1898 births]]
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  • ...ira|Madeira]] before making her professional acting debut in the UK in the 1920s.<ref name="obituary"/> [[Category:1892 births]]
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