• The Runaway Bus
  | distributor = [[Eros Films]] '''''The Runaway Bus''''' is a 1954 British [[comedy film]] produced, written, and directed by [[Val Guest]]. It stars [[Frankie
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• The Telegoons
  | creator = [[Grosvenor Films]] ...ppet show, adapted from the highly successful BBC radio comedy show of the 1950s, ''[[The Goon Show]]'' produced for BBC television and first shown during 1
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• Jane Hylton
  ...n English actress who accumulated 30 film credits, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, before moving into television work in the latter half of her career in the ...ut most alumni only had modest film careers, regularly employed in British films but rarely if ever receiving star-billing. Female graduates of the program
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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 ...n]]'' (1936); ''[[O-Kay for Sound]]'' (1937) for Varnel with [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]; ''[[Alf's Button Afloat]]'' (1938) with Flanagan a
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• Shirley Eaton
  ...tus. Eaton also had roles in the early [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' films]]. ...atre]] in London in her own solo singing act, as well as appearing in many films. Eaton participated in the British heat of the 1957 [[w:Eurovision Song Con
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• Brian Clemens
  From the mid-1950s onward Clemens was a staff writer for the Danzigers, churning out dozens of ...ot.<ref name="Classic Images"/> His output was so prolific during the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s that he frequently used the [[w:pseudonym|pseudony
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• George Woodbridge (actor)
  ...ayed publicans, policemen or yokels, most prominently in horror and comedy films alongside [[Christopher Lee]] and [[Peter Cushing]].<ref>{{cite web|url=htt ...is film debut in 1940 in ''[[The Big Blockade]]'', he went on to appear in films such as ''[[Green for Danger (film)|Green for Danger]]'' (1946), ''[[The Fa
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• Jerry Desmonde
  ...status=live }}</ref> at the [[Prince of Wales Theatre]], London and in two films, ''[[London Town (1946 film)|London Town]]'' (1946),<ref name="londonTownBr ...quiz/whatsmyline.htm |title=What's My Line? |work=Jerry George's Memories, 1950s British Television Nostalgia, Whirligig |access-date=25 January 2007 |archi
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• Patricia Hayes
  She was featured in many radio and television comedy shows between 1940 and 1996, including ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'', ''[[Ray Hayes was cast in supporting roles for films including ''[[The Bargee|The Bargee]]'' (1964), ''[[The NeverEnding Story (
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• Robert Dorning
  ...)|Mona Lisa]]'' (1986).<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fcd80f1|title=Robert Dorning|website=BFI}}</ref> ...ick]]'' for the [[BBC]] in 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b757a831c|title=Pickwick (1969)|website=BFI}}</ref> In 1974 h
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• Dennis Price
  ...Place of One's Own]]'' (1945) starring [[James Mason]]. [[British National Films Company|British National]] borrowed him for ''[[The Echo Murders]]'' (1946) ...borough's ''[[The Magic Bow]]'' (1946) with Granger and Kent. [[Two Cities Films]] used him in one of its melodramas, ''[[Hungry Hill (film)|Hungry Hill]]''
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• Allan Cuthbertson
  ...st known for playing stern-faced military officers in British films of the 1950s and 1960s. ...y]]'' (1960) as well as being cast as more stuffy regimental types in such films as ''[[The Guns of Navarone (film)|The Guns of Navarone]]'' (1961) and ''[[
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• John Barrett (actor)
  ...ord">{{cite book |last1=Maxford |first1=Howard |title=Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company |date=2018 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978147667 ...ref name="Bexhill">{{cite news |title="While the Sun Shines". Gay Rattigan Comedy at the De La Warr Pavilion |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/v
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• James Robertson Justice
  ...rtraying pompous authority figures in comedies including each of the seven films in the ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' series. He also co-starred with ...(1954), playing the role for which he is possibly best remembered. In his films he was sometimes credited as ''Seumas Mòr na Feusag'' (Scottish Gaelic, tr
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• Stanley Black
  ...conducted the [[BBC Dance Orchestra|BBC Dance Orchestra]] for the popular comedy show ''[[Ray's a Laugh]]'', starring [[Ted Ray (comedian)|Ted Ray]].<ref na In the early 1950s, he regularly topped the ''[[Melody Maker|Melody Maker]]'' lists of the mos
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• John Laurie
  ...ica|access-date=29 April 2018}}</ref> Laurie appeared in scores of feature films with directors such as [[Alfred Hitchcock]], [[Michael Powell]], and [[Laur ...2012|title=Dad's Army uncovered: 35 things you need to know about the BBC comedy classic|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/dads-army-uncovered-35-thin
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• Michael Ripper
  ...7).<ref name=guardian/><ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fb7e804|title=Michael Ripper|website=BFI}}</ref> ...=BFI}}</ref> (His last Hammer role was as a railway worker in the atypical comedy ''[[That's Your Funeral]]'' two years later.)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ww
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• Bryan Forbes
  ...964) and ''[[King Rat (film)|King Rat]]'' (1965). He also scripted several films directed by others, such as ''[[The League of Gentlemen (film)|The League o ...o act, appearing on stage and playing numerous supporting roles in British films, in particular ''[[An Inspector Calls (1954 film)|An Inspector Calls]]'' (1
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• Hermione Gingold
  ...ermione Baddeley]]. Later she played formidable elderly characters in such films and stage musicals as ''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]'' (1958), ''[[Bell, Book From the early 1950s Gingold lived and made her career mostly in the U.S. Her American stage wor
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• Wilfrid Hyde-White
  ...Wilfrid Hyde White" (without the hyphen). He also appeared in some earlier films as plain "Hyde White". He later added the hyphen, as well as his first name ...lyn Monroe]] in the film ''[[Let's Make Love]]'' (1960), followed by other films, including ''[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]'' (1964).<ref name="obit2
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