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  • | starring = {{ubl|[[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]|[[Moore Mariott]]|[[Carl Jaffe]]}} ...] as well as [[Moore Marriott]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aad71e8|title=Gasbags (1941)}}</ref> The film was a morale-
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  • | distributor = {{ubl|[[General Film Distributors|GFD]] (UK)|[[Eagle-Lion Films]] (US)}} ...lwyn Pike. While reading one part of the latest story, Joe finds the comic adventure being repeated exactly in real life when he comes across two men carrying a
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  • ...ast]] comedies, [[Adventure films|Adventure films]], [[Action films|Action films]] ...60s he was noticed by critics with large-scale adventure epic and comedies films, like ''[[Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines]]'', ''[[Battle of
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  • ...films of [[Will Hay]] and other popular British comedians of the 1930s and 1940s. Gawthorne was one of Britain's most called-upon supporting actors during t ...]] and other well-known comedians such as [[George Formby]], [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]], the [[w:Aldwych farce|Aldwych farce]]urs, [[Jack H
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  • ...ck comedy]], [[Comedy drama]], [[Musicals]], [[Adventure films]], [[Action films]], [[Sex comedies]], [[Western (genre)|Western]] ...rector of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films. Late in his career, he took up writing, producing and directing for theate
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  • ...ost of St. Michael's]]''), through the [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' films]], and television. ...k. A review in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' commended Hawtrey for having "a comedy sense not unworthy of his famous name".
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  • ...1930s, 1940s and 1950s, early film history, horror films, science-fiction films, early radio history. ...ar programmes for [[radio]] and [[television]]; and directed several short films. Gifford was also a major comics collector, owning what was perhaps the lar
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  • ...ish character actress.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba246ddb5|title=Noël Dyson|website=BFI}}</ref> Dyson played a number of roles in theatre and films (including in telemovies) but is best remembered as a versatile television
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  • ...geles|Hollywood]]. There, he hired an agent and had several small parts in films through 1935, including a non-speaking role in [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]'s '' ...Zenda]]'' (1937). By 1938, he was starring as the leading man in other 'A' films. Upon the outbreak of the [[Second World War]], Niven returned to Britain a
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