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  • '''''Time Flies''''' is a 1944 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Walter Forde]] and starring [[Tommy Handley]], [[Evely A professor invents a time sphere which takes a group of 1940s entertainers to Elizabethan London, where they encounter Queen Elizabeth an
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  • | studio = [[British Lion Films]] | gross = £138,510<ref>Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', ''Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'', Vol 20 No 4, 2000</ref>
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  • | studio = [[Ealing Films]] '''''Fiddlers Three''''' is a 1944 British black-and-white musical comedy. It includes a number of musical sections, mainly focussing on replacing th
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  • | studio = [[Two Cities Films]] | distributor = [[General Film Distributors]] (UK)<br />[[Eagle-Lion Films]] (US)
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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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  • Griffith began his film career in British films during the late 1940s, and by the 1950s was also working in [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywo He played the funeral director Caradog Lloyd-Evans in the 1978 comedy ''[[Grand Slam (1978 film)|Grand Slam]]''. While visibly unwell at the time
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  • ...and [[Simon Templar]], ''The Saint'', in five films made in the 1930s and 1940s.<ref>George Sanders The Guardian 26 Apr 1972: 5.</ref> ...ve, superior, and somewhat threatening air made him in demand for American films for years to come.<ref>Sanders 1960, p.117</ref> ''Lloyd's of London'' was
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  • ...tain in 1939. He made numerous appearances in British films throughout the 1940s, usually in villainous roles, although he later appeared in comedies as wel ...961 film)|Mysterious Island]]'' (also 1961), as Captain Nemo; and [[Hammer Films]]' remake of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (1962 film)|The Phantom of the Op
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  • | genre = {{ubl|[[Situation comedy|Situation comedy]]|[[Historical fiction|Historical fiction]]}} ...in new Dad's Army |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=9 November 2018 |website=comedy.co.uk |access-date=9 November 2018 }}</ref>
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  • ...4) for the [[Rank Organisation]], he later acted in [[Art film|art-house]] films. In a second career, he wrote seven best-selling volumes of memoirs, six no Bogarde came to prominence in films including ''[[The Blue Lamp]]'' in the early 1950s, before starring in the
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  • ...oped the Tramp persona and attracted a large fan base. He directed his own films and continued to hone his craft as he moved to the [[Essanay Studios|Essana ...ve the U.S. and settle in Switzerland. He abandoned the Tramp in his later films, which include ''[[Monsieur Verdoux]]'' (1947), ''[[Limelight (1952 film)|L
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