• Old Mother Riley at Home
  | image = "Old Mother Riley at Home" (1945).jpg | studio = [[British National Films]]
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• I Didn't Do It (film)
  | image = "I_Didn't_Do_It"_(1945).jpg | released = 6 August 1945 (UK)
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• Three on a Spree
  ...previously filmed by [[Edward Small]] in [[Brewster's Millions (1945 film)|1945]].<ref name=NYT>{{cite news |title=Three on a Spree |author=Eugene Archer | [[Category:1961 films]]
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• The Middle Watch (1940 film)
  ...58 film)|adapted again in 1958]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b05ff97|title=The Middle Watch (1931)}}</ref><ref>http://ww This [[comedy film]] features battleship Captain Maitland ([[Jack Buchanan]]) celebrating
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• It's Not Cricket (1949 film)
  ...icket''] at [[BFI Film & TV Database]]</ref> It was also one of the final films made by [[Gainsborough Pictures]] before the studio was merged into the [[R ...|batman]] is actually wanted [[War crime#London Charter / Nuremberg Trials 1945|war criminal]] Otto Fisch. He vanishes on arrival in England and the two of
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• Old Mother Riley
  ...'The Old Woman who Lives in a Shoe'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Vintage British Comedy|url=http://www.vintagebritishcomedy.co.uk/#/old-mother-riley-theatre/454792 ...Previous to Old Mother Riley, drag was a mixture of singing acts and short comedy sketches in music halls across the UK.
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• Two Thousand Women
  | distributor = [[Gainsborough Studios]]<br />Ellis Films (US) ...1945-c22731925&usg=ALkJrhiPuUc4vZGBcb7OUARBcpu2dF_c5A French box office in 1945] at Box office story</ref>
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• Alfred Roome
  ...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]]''. ...ilm ''[[My Brother's Keeper (1948 film)|My Brother's Keeper]]'' (1948) and comedy film ''[[It's Not Cricket (1949 film)|It's Not Cricket]]'' (1949).
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• Marcel Varnel
  ...for his career in the United States and England as a director of plays and films ...ilms. Among the performers he worked with were [[Will Hay]], [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]], [[Arthur Askey]] and [[George Formby]].
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• Frank Launder
  ...eenonline.org.uk}}</ref><ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba17b8221|title=Frank Launder}}</ref> ...in the 1930s, contributing the original story for the classic [[Will Hay]] comedy ''[[Oh, Mr Porter!]]'' (1937).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.o
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• Dick Hills and Sid Green
  ...id Green''' and '''Dick Hills''', were a British partnership of television comedy writers, at their highest profile during the 1960s. ...th-east London. They were both school captains, Hills in 1943 and Green in 1945. Richard returned to the school as a teacher of English, Latin and French.
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• Arthur Crabtree
  .... He directed films with comedians such as [[Will Hay]], the [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|Crazy Gang]] and [[Arthur Askey]] and several of the [[Gainsborough Crabtree did some films for [[Michael Powell]], ''[[Lazybones (1935 film)|Lazybones]]'' (1935) and
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• Till Death Us Do Part (film)
  | studio = Associated London Films '''''Till Death Us Do Part''''' is a 1969 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Norman Cohen]], written by [[Johnny Speight]], and sta
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• Crazy Gang (comedy group)
  ...It was natural for them to get together as they shared a similar style of comedy and worked on the same bills at theatres. ...rriott]], who was a frequent co-star of Will Hay, often turned up in their films. Eddie Gray, their associate and equally crazy comic, appeared in the later
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• Leslie Fuller
  | yearsactive = 1930–1945 '''Leslie Fuller''' (9 October 1888 – 24 April 1948) was a British comedy film actor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/7565
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• Basil Radford
  ...haracter actor who featured in many [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British films]] of the 1930s and 1940s. ...ngside [[Naunton Wayne]] as two [[cricket]]-obsessed Englishmen in several films from 1938 to 1949.
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• Ealing comedies
  ...ough some sources list ''[[Davy (film)|Davy]]'' (1958) as the final Ealing comedy.<ref>http://www.britmovie.co.uk/studios/Ealing-Studios {{Webarchive|url=htt ...ar years there was as yet no mood of cynicism: the bloodless revolution of 1945 had taken place, but I think our first desire was to get rid of as many war
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• Charles Crichton
  ...-449-8 |url-access=registration }}</ref> For his final film, the acclaimed comedy ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'' (1988), Crichton was nominated for both the [[w ...y films, such as ''[[Things to Come]]'' (1936).<ref name=guardian2/> Other films he edited included those that were produced by [[Alexander Korda]], such as
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• Wallas Eaton
  ...ion]] and [[theatre]] [[actor]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba63e7437|title=Wallas Eaton|website=BFI}}</ref><ref name=the ...emembered for his voice roles between 1949 and 1960 in the [[BBC]] [[radio-comedy]] [[Serial (radio and television)|serial]] ''[[Take It From Here]]''.<ref n
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• Kitty McShane
  ...whom she appeared in a series of ''[[Old Mother Riley]]'' stage shows and films from the 1930s to the 1950s. McShane appeared in 14 of the 15 'Old Mother Riley' films. Lucan and McShane's marriage was difficult, possibly due to the rumors of
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