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  • ...inline|date=August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b3b5732|title=The Quare Fellow (1962)|website=BFI}}</ref> * ''[[The Wrong Arm of the Law]]'' (1963) as Misery Martin
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  • ...ilm director|film director]], best known for the long-running ''[[Carry On films|Carry On]]'' series of British film comedies. ...''[[w:Hamlet (1948 film)|Hamlet]]'' (1948). His editing work included many films directed by his older brother, [[w:Ralph Thomas|Ralph Thomas]]. His own dir
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  • | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] (UK)<br />[[Kingsley-International Pictures]] (US) ...Feeling]]'' by [[Kingsley Amis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b2302d3|title=Only Two Can Play (1962)|publisher=}}</ref> [
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  • ...ved his first television credit for an episode of ''Skyport'' (1959–60), a drama set in an airport broadcast on 24 March 1960. His former performing partner *"Being Nice to Bootsie" (co-written with Jack Rosenthal, 1963)
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  • ...&dq=Jill%2520Melford%252C%2520Actress&pg=PA554 |title=Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company |last=Maxford |first=Howard |date=2018-10-25 |p ...in ''Shoreditch'' in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jill Melford |work=Hammer Films |url=http://www.hammerfilms.com/productions/talent/artistid/986/filmid/257/
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  • | released = 13 September 1963 (United States)<ref name="lat" /> ...= $15,000,000<ref name="numbers">[http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1963/0VIPS.php Box Office Information for ''The V.I.P.s''] [[The Numbers (websit
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  • ...ccentricity (behavior)|eccentric]] roles. She made numerous performance in films and television series from the 1950s onwards.<ref>{{cite web|title=Doctor W ...tenham Ladies' College]]. Until the age of eighteen, Hayman attended local drama classes before going to the [[Royal Academy of Music]] and gaining a qualif
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  • | spouse = {{Marriage|[[Dilys Laye]]|1963|1972|end=div}} ...was an English actor who appeared mostly on television and occasionally in films.<ref name=obituaries/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/x
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  • .../ref> Although principally known for his comic roles, he appeared in drama films such as ''[[The Thirty Nine Steps (1978 film)|The Thirty-Nine Steps]]'' (19 ...e201e490fb|title=A New Year Party at The White Heather Club|date=1 January 1963|issue=2042|pages=21|via=BBC Genome}}</ref> one of which (''Into '85'') was
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  • ...r = [[w:Guildhall School of Music and Drama|Guildhall School of Music and Drama]]. ...[comedy]] actor. He appeared in four [[Carry On (film series)|''Carry On'' films]]: ''[[Don't Lose Your Head]]'' (1966), ''[[Follow That Camel]]'' (1967), '
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  • | based_on = {{based on|''[[The Assassination Bureau, Ltd]].''<br />1963 novel|[[Jack London]]<br />[[Robert L. Fish]]}} ...ed novel, ''[[The Assassination Bureau, Ltd]]'', posthumously published in 1963. Unlike the novel, which is set in the United States, the film is set in Eu
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  • ...Captain James Onedin in 91 episodes of the [[w:BBC|BBC]] television period drama ''[[w:The Onedin Line|The Onedin Line]]'' (1971–1980), created by [[w:Cyr ...''[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On]]'' films, and appeared in many British films including ''[[The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery]]'' (1966), ''[[Oh! What
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  • | released = {{film date|1963|11|7|df=yes}}<ref name="Art & Hue">{{cite web|url=http://artandhue.com/shop ...ies)|series of 31 ''Carry On'' films]] (1958–1992). Released on 7 November 1963,<ref name="Art & Hue" /> it was the first to have a screenplay written by [
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  • ...was an [[w:England|English]] character actor who appeared in nearly eighty films between 1947 and 1978. ...at the [[w:Central School of Speech and Drama|Central School of Speech and Drama]], and won his first film role in 1947, playing Mr Trafford in [[w:Alexande
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  • ...t/176719.stm | publisher=BBC News | title=The carry on behind the Carry On films | date=21 September 1998 | access-date=30 April 2010}}</ref> ...set of ''[[Carry On Cleo]]'', at [[Pinewood Studios|Pinewood Studios]] in 1963. Sid is depicted as a [[gambling|gambling]] womaniser with antipathy toward
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  • '''''Joseph Andrews''''' is a 1977 British [[historical drama|period]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Tony Richardson]]. It is based on th ...llow in the line of such films as ''[[Tom Jones (1963 film)|Tom Jones]]'' (1963), which was also directed by Tony Richardson.
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  • Dearden was promoted to associate producer on two more George Formby films, which he also co-wrote: ''[[To Hell with Hitler]]'' (1940) aka ''Let Georg ...rst began working as a director at [[Ealing Studios]], co-directing comedy films with [[Will Hay]], starting with ''[[Black Sheep of Whitehall]]'' (1942). T
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  • | known_for = [[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On]] films ...a Lovely Daughter]]''.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba7e503a7|title=Hugh Futcher|publisher=British Film Institute
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  • ...q=stars+and+garters+1965+queenie+watts&pg=PA847|title=Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company|first=Howard|last=Maxford|date=November 8, 2019 ...the Buses (1973)|website=BFI}}</ref> She was also a mainstay of the comedy drama series ''[[Beryl's Lot]]'', appearing as Beryl's neighbor Freda Mills from
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  • ...s best remembered for her roles in the [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' films]] series, as Betty Lewis in the [[w:ITV Thames|ITV Thames]] sitcom ''[[Bles ...the [[w:Guildhall School of Music and Drama|Guildhall School of Music and Drama]], and won a scholarship aged fifteen.<ref name=IndObit />
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