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  • | distributor = [[Wardour Films]] | released = {{film date|df=yes|1934}}
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  • | image = Those Were the Days (1934 film) DVD boxart.jpg | released = April 1934
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  • | distributor = [[Wardour Films]] ...layed an uncredited role in the film, later became a famous foil to Hay in films later on alongside [[Graham Moffatt]], it was during the film of Dandy Dick
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  • ...for his career in the United States and England as a director of plays and films ...n moving in 1936 to [[Gainsborough Pictures]] – where he produced his best films. Among the performers he worked with were [[Will Hay]], [[Crazy Gang (comed
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  • ...the Dole]]'' (1941), and was the producer-director for the musical-comedy films of [[Flanagan and Allen]] during [[World War II]]. ...oduction company with his friend [[John Barter]]. He also acted in several films produced by [[Lance Comfort]].<ref name="google1"/>
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  • ...=BFI}}</ref> Born in Lambeth, south London in 1898, he directed over fifty films between 1919 from the [[silent era]] through to 1949 in the [[sound film|so ...films. Emerging as an established film director in the 1930s, he directed films for [[Gainsborough Pictures]] and [[Ealing Studios]].
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  • '''Old Mother Riley''' is a fictional character portrayed from about 1934 to 1954 by [[Arthur Lucan]] and from 1954 to the 1980s by [[Roy Rolland]] a ...ouple played music halls, theatres, and broadcast on radio and appeared in films. Lucan was voted sixth biggest British box-office star by the ''[[Motion Pi
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  • ...of light-hearted subject matter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba13473bc|title=John Paddy Carstairs|website=BFI}}</ref> He w ...tairs directed many British comedies including many of [[Norman Wisdom]]'s films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/590042/|title=
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  • ...rty years including many of the [[Aldwych Farces]] films, and [[Will Hay]] films such as ''[[Boys Will Be Boys (1935 film)|Boys Will Be Boys]]''. ...of his career he edited the [[Carry On (film series)|Carry On]] series of films alongside the director, [[Gerald Thomas]]. He retired in 1975 after editing
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  • ...h 1962) was an Anglo-Irish actor, probably best known for his roles in the films of [[Will Hay]] and other popular British comedians of the 1930s and 1940s. ...ies, taking in such films as ''[[w:The Iron Duke (film)|The Iron Duke]]'' (1934), ''[[w:Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)|Goodbye, Mr. Chips]]'' (1939), ''[[w
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  • ...h and American Film Press (1952)</ref> The marriage ended in divorce about 1934. ..., she played Peggy in ''Give Me a Ring'' (1933), Sally in ''Yes, Madam?'' (1934, with Howes, who later starred in [[Yes, Madam?|the film version]]), Anne i
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  • ...g many featuring [[Will Hay]], and some of director [[Carol Reed]]'s early films . * ''[[Wild Boy (film)|Wild Boy]]'' (1934)
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  • ...in 1974, and also an editor for ''[[Sheba, Baby]]'' in 1975. Three of his films were also books he wrote or co-wrote: ''[[Monte Carlo or Bust!]]'', ''[[Pap ===Films===
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  • ...edies. This was the start of his film career and he went on make around 26 films between 1930 and 1945, many of them "[[quota quickies]]". He leased the old With the outbreak of the [[Second World War]], fewer films were made, and Fuller's style of comedy was beginning to date. In 1945 he m
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  • ...ll p.297</ref> During the 1930s and 1940s he worked on a number of British films. * ''[[Music in the Air (film)|Music in the Air]]'' (1934)
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  • ...upporting roles, often characters with a supercilious demeanour, in his 91 films made between 1928 and 1969. ...name=screenonline/> He appeared less often on television, but many of his films have remained popular and are often shown.
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  • ...|John Darling]] in ''Peter Pan''.<ref name=screenonline/> He began to make films in his teens.<ref name=britishpictures>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishpic ...and the Huggetts films.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f390ab7|title=Jimmy Hanley|website=BFI}}</ref> He later wor
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  • | studio = [[British National Films]] ...a mother-daughter melodrama akin to [[Madame X]] and [[Imitation of Life (1934 film)|Imitation of Life]], with Mother Riley sacrificing her happiness so h
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  • ...and [[Ronald Adam (actor)|Ronald Adam]]. The film is an adaptation of the 1934 [[Spy fiction|espionage novel]] ''[[The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent [[Category:1938 films]]
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  • ...|Phonofilm]] sound-on-film process. He then appeared in several films from 1934, generally in supporting comic roles. His last film appearance was in the [ * ''[[Love, Life and Laughter (1934 film)|Love, Life and Laughter]]'' (1934)
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