• The Lavender Hill Mob
  '''''The Lavender Hill Mob''''' is a 1951 [[comedy film]] from [[Ealing Studios]], written by [[T. E. B. Clarke]], directed by ...rchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422064928/http://old.usccb.org/movies/vaticanfilms.shtml|archive-date=22 April 2012}}</ref>
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• Genevieve (film)
  '''''Genevieve''''' is a 1953 British comedy film produced and directed by [[Henry Cornelius]] and written by [[William ...Genevieve if I got it. He had turned it down because he didn’t want to do comedy again. They didn’t want Kenneth More, they wanted Guy Middleton; they wan
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• John Gregson
  ...7b3 |title=John Gregson }}</ref> He was best known for his crime drama and comedy roles. ...e was often cast as a police inspector or as a navy or army officer, or in comedy roles in [[Ealing Studios|Ealing]] and other British films.
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• St Trinian's School
  ...The series was Searle's most famous work and inspired a popular series of comedy films. In the 1950s, films were developed that were based on the cartoon series. These comedies
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• The Iron Petticoat
  ...ticoat''''' (aka '''''Not for Money''''') is a 1956 British [[Cold War]] [[comedy film]] starring [[Bob Hope]] and [[Katharine Hepburn]], and directed by [[R ...b/title/24950/Jet-Pilot/notes.html "Notes: 'Jet Pilot'."] ''Turner Classic Movies''. Retrieved: 29 March 2015.</ref>
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• Bob Monkhouse
  ...nealogy & Ancestry from Findmypast – findmypast.com}}</ref> at 168 Bromley Road, [[Beckenham]], [[Kent]], the son of chartered accountant Wilfred Adrian Mo ...and the two formed their own publishing company, Streamline, in the early 1950s. Among other writing, Monkhouse wrote more than 100 ''Harlem Hotspots'' ero
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• Edward Chapman (actor)
  ...[[Norman Wisdom]]'s character of Pitkin in many of his films from the late 1950s and 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/589379 ...lmovie.com/artist/edward-chapman-p12354/filmography|title=Edward Chapman – Movies and Filmography – AllMovie|website=AllMovie}}</ref>
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• Alastair Sim
  In the later 1940s and for most of the 1950s, Sim was a leading star of British cinema. They included ''[[Green for Dang ...the Peace]] and a successful tailor with a business on [[A700 road|Lothian Road]]. Sim was educated at Bruntsfield Primary school, [[James Gillespie's High
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• Michael Ripper
  ...eer in [[w:quota quickies|quota quickies]] in the 1930s and until the late 1950s was virtually unknown; he was seldom credited.<ref name=guardian>{{cite web ...=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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• Jean Kent
  ...Brixton]], London in 1921,<ref>John Walker, ''Halliwell's Who's Who of the Movies'', London: HarperCollins, 1999, pg. 229; {{ISBN|0-00-255905-6}}</ref> the o ...45) then back at Gainsborough she was in ''[[Waterloo Road (film)|Waterloo Road]]'' (1945) with John Mills and Granger.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https:/
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• Liz Fraser
  ...r''', was a British film actress, best known for being cast in provocative comedy roles. ...ed a [[w:corner shop|corner shop]] just off the [[w:New Kent Road|New Kent Road]]. Their family life was disrupted by the [[w:Second World War|Second World
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• Peter Sellers on stage, radio, screen and record
  ...nment, including film, radio and theatre. He appeared in the [[BBC Radio]] comedy series ''[[The Goon Show]]'', recorded a number of hit comic songs and beca Starting in the 1950s, Sellers appeared in over fifty films,<ref name="Sellers (DNB)" /> includin
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• Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)
  ...ash;1952) and his wife Alice (née Crow) (1880&ndash;1965), of 217 Cromwell Road, as George Frederick Joffre Hartree, he took his [[stage name]] from the th ...k. A review in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' commended Hawtrey for having "a comedy sense not unworthy of his famous name".
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• Norman Bird
  He was a familiar face to British cinema audiences of the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in nearly 50 films such as ''[[The Angry Silence]]'' ( .../www.allmovie.com/artist/norman-bird-p6283/filmography|title=Norman Bird - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie|website=AllMovie}}</ref>
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• Denis Gifford
  ...mics, early 20th Century comics, British/US comics of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, early film history, horror films, science-fiction films, early radio histo ...ious forms, including as radio scriptwriters. The two toured together as a comedy act in the south east of England in the late 1940s<ref name="Obituary: Deni
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• Barbara Windsor
  ...ton]], where Windsor attended St Mary's Infants' School in nearby Lordship Road.<ref name="Guardian Obit"/><ref name="St Mary's">{{Cite news |last=Brooke | ...ate=13 December 2020|website=BAFTA Awards}}</ref> She also appeared in the comedy films ''[[Crooks in Cloisters]]'' (1964) and ''[[San Ferry Ann]]'' (1965),<
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• Peter Sellers
  ...ctor and comedian. He first came to prominence performing in the BBC Radio comedy series ''[[The Goon Show]]'', featured on a number of hit comic songs and b ...lar performer on various [[w:BBC radio|BBC radio]] shows. During the early 1950s, Sellers, along with [[Spike Milligan]], [[Harry Secombe]] and [[Michael Be
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• Diana Dors
  ...: A Life in Pictures|publisher=BBC}}</ref> at the Haven Nursing Home, Kent Road, Swindon, Wiltshire. Her mother Winifred Maud Mary (Payne) was married to A ...''[[Worm's Eye View]]'' (1951), a comedy which was one of the most popular movies of 1951 in Britain; her fee was £250. She had a leading role in a TV movie
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• David Niven
  RKO borrowed him to play [[Ginger Rogers]]' leading man in the romantic comedy ''[[Bachelor Mother]]'' (1939), which was another big hit. Goldwyn used him ...948), then he appeared opposite [[w:Shirley Temple|Shirley Temple]] in the comedy ''[[w:A Kiss for Corliss|A Kiss for Corliss]]'' (1949). None of these films
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• Charlie Chaplin
  ...with audiences, but he was not satisfied with dancing and wished to form a comedy act.{{sfn|Chaplin|p=44}} ====Stage comedy and vaudeville====
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