• The Farmer's Wife (1941 film)
  | released = {{Film date|1941|01|24|df=yes}} ...9dc1a3|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 August 2017|title=The Farmer's Wife (1941)|website=BFI}}</ref> It is based on the play ''[[The Farmer's Wife (play)|T
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• A Girl Must Live
  ...aumont British Deals Block-Booking a Lusty Blow By Announcing 12 "Class A" Films for Sale Singly: British Producing Company Stresses Quality Rather Than Qua *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160503164229/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/A-Girl-Must-Live_1939 ''A Girl Must Live''] at Britmovie
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• Raymond Huntley
  ...}}</ref> He also appeared in the [[ITV Network|ITV]] [[period piece|period drama]] ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)|Upstairs, Downstairs]]'' as the ...citor to the Bellamys in [[London Weekend Television|LWT's]] popular 1970s drama series ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)|Upstairs, Downstairs]]''.
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• Kenneth Connor
  | known_for = [[Carry On (film series)|''Carry On'' films]]<br/>''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'' ...prominence with his appearances in the [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' films]].
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• Cyril Chamberlain
  ...arry On]]'', ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' and ''[[St. Trinian's]]'' films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.carryon.org.uk/irregularly_c.htm|title=Carry ...ttps://books.google.com/books?id=qEW5BAAAQBAJ&q=cyril+chamberlain+carry+on+films&pg=PT242|title=Carry-On Actors|isbn=9781908382085|last1=Ross|first1=Andrew|
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• Phyllis Calvert
  | spouse = {{marriage|[[Peter Murray-Hill|Peter Murray-Hill]]|1941|1957|reason=died}} ...time she drew what looked like the short straw, playing the 'good girl' in films that revelled in the exploits of her wicked opposite number, and it says mu
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• Gorden Kaye
  | birth_date = 7 April 1941 | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|01|23|1941|04|07|df=yes}}
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• Edward Chapman (actor)
  ...r and comic foil to [[Norman Wisdom]]'s character of Pitkin in many of his films from the late 1950s and 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.o ...Formby]] in the [[Ealing Studios]] comedy ''[[Turned Out Nice Again]]'' in 1941.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/edward-chapman-p12354/f
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• The Ghost Train (play)
  ...a railway scenario in constrained circumstances" thrillers, leading to the films such as ''[[The Lady Vanishes (1938 film)|The Lady Vanishes]]'' (1938), ''[ The story then resolves from a socio-suspense drama into a spy adventure, when it is revealed that the "ghost train" is quite r
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• A. E. Matthews
  ...roles on the stage and in film for eight decades. Already middle-aged when films began production, he enjoyed increasing renown from [[World War II|World Wa ...d [[Barry Morse|Barry Morse]], and was later cast in the extremely popular films ''[[Carry On Admiral]], [[Doctor at Large (film)|Doctor at Large]]'' and ''
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• Irene Handl
  ...was a British [[character actress]] who appeared in more than 100 British films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f4c4272|archive-url=htt She appeared in supporting roles in more than 100 British films, mostly comedy character parts such as slightly eccentric mothers, grannies
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• Val Guest
  ...his work for [[w:Hammer Film Productions|Hammer]], for whom he directed 14 films, and [[w:science fiction film]|]s. He enjoyed a long career in the film ind ...''[[Ask a Policeman]]'' (1939). He wrote ''[[Hi Gang! (film)|Hi Gang!]]'' (1941) for [[Ben Lyon]] and [[Bebe Daniels]].<ref name="Hawtree" />
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• Michael Balcon
  ...a production company known as Ealing Films, and later headed British Lion Films. He served as chairman of the [[British Film Institute]] production board t ...as described in his obituary in ''[[The Times]]'' as a "pioneer of British films" who "had courage, energy and flair for showmanship".<ref name=":1">{{Cite
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• Blake Edwards
  ...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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• Esma Cannon
  ...xt 26 years. She had small parts in three early [[Powell and Pressburger]] films: ''[[The Spy in Black]]'' (1939), ''[[Contraband (1940 film)|Contraband]]'' ...(1961–1963), and also appeared in four [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' films]]: ''[[Carry On Constable]]'' (1960), ''[[Carry On Regardless]]'' (1961), '
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• Bill Fraser
  He also appeared in the comedy films ''[[The Amorous Milkman]]'' and ''[[Doctor at Large (film)|Doctor at Large] ...ame="telegraph" /> In the early 1980s, he was in two series of a straight drama on BBC1, ''Flesh and Blood''; his performance in its first episode of an in
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• Kynaston Reeves
  ...er popular productions, such as the police serial ''[[No Hiding Place]]'', drama anthologies ''[[Armchair Theatre]]'' and ''[[The Wednesday Play]]'' and as ...ww.imdb.com/title/tt0034065/fullcredits#cast | title=''The Prime Minister (1941)'' | publisher=[[Internet Movie Database|IMDB]] | access-date=2008-01-05 }}
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• George Cole (actor)
  ...Flash Harry (St Trinian's)|Flash Harry]] in the early ''[[St Trinian's]]'' films. ...tributed his career success to Sim, with whom he appeared in a total of 11 films, ending with a filmed version for television of ''The Anatomist'' (1956), f
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• Anna Neagle
  ...right|Neagle with [[Paul Hartman]] and [[Ray Bolger]] in the film [[Sunny (1941 film)|''Sunny'']]]] ...er lightweight musicals, comedies and historical dramas. Almost all of her films were produced and directed by [[Herbert Wilcox]], whom she married in 1943.
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• Boulting brothers
  *{{marriage|Angela Warnock|1936|1941|reason=divorced}} ...of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced many of their films through their own production company, '''Charter Film Productions''', which
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