• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  {{Short description|1980 novel by Douglas Adams}} | release_date = October 1980 (UK)
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• Dick Sharples
  | nationality = British ...tish TV scriptwriter of British [[w:sitcoms|sitcoms]]. He has also written novels, plays and drama series (for both television and radio).
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• Barbara Murray
  ...films-tv-people/4ce2b6b3a784a |title=The Punch and Judy Man (1963) |work=[[British Film Institute]]}}</ref> .../www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba1944c77|title=Barbara Murray |work=[[British Film Institute]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist
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• Eric Chappell
  ...ate=24 April 2022|access-date=24 April 2022}}</ref> He had written several novels which were rejected by publishers, before deciding to become a playwright.< ...nd won several [[Evening Standard British Film Awards|''Evening Standard'' British Film Awards]], although he admitted the screenplay was based on television
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• Bryan Forbes
  | honorific_suffix = [[Commander of Order of the British Empire|CBE]] .... Retrieved 9 May 2013</ref> and "one of the most important figures in the British film industry".<ref name=guardian_batty>Batty D. [https://www.theguardian.c
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• Citizen Smith
  | last_aired = {{End date|1980|12|31|df=y}} ...by [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Sullivan]], first broadcast from 1977 to 1980.<ref>{{Cite web|title=BFI Screenonline: Citizen Smith (1977-80)|url=http://
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• Bernard Woolley
  ...)|MA (Oxon)]] is one of the three main fictional characters of the 1980s [[British sitcom]] ''[[Yes Minister]]'' and its sequel, ''Yes, Prime Minister''. He w ...Hacker]]. However, his loyalties are split between his Minister and his [[British Civil Service|Civil Service]] boss, Sir [[Humphrey Appleby]]. Whilst he is
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• Irene Handl
  ...er 1987) was a British [[character actress]] who appeared in more than 100 British films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f4c4272|archive-u ...n wife, Maria ''née'' Schiepp (1875&ndash;before 1924), also a naturalised British subject. Theirs was a comfortable middle-class life, with a German cook and
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• Michael Aldridge
  ...'[[The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (play)|The Last of Mrs Cheyney]]'', Cambridge, 1980; [[Noises Off]], Lyric, Hammersmith and Savoy, 1982; ''[[The Biko Inquest]] ...a Cold Climate]]'' - [[Simon Raven]]'s adaptation of the [[Nancy Mitford]] novels ''[[Love in a Cold Climate]]'' and the ''[[Pursuit of Love]]'' for Thames T
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• Cecil Parker
  ...s first film appearance in 1933 and subsequently became a familiar face in British and occasionally American films until his death.<ref name=screenonline/> He ...ple/id/446568/credits.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Hitchcock, Alfred (1899-1980) Credits|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> Other roles were in ''[[St
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• Herbert Lom
  | nationality = {{hlist|British|Czech}} ...professionally as '''Herbert Lom''' ({{IPA-cs|ɦɛrbɛrt lom}}), was a Czech-British actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939. In a career lasting more tha
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• Michael Bentine
  | honorific_suffix={{postnominal|country=GBR|size=100%|list=[[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]]}} ...ichael James Bentine" with a date of birth of 26 January 1922.</ref> was a British comedian, [[w:Comedy film|comic actor]] and founding member of [[The Goon S
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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)
  ...he Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Stage shows|stage shows]], in 1979 and 1980, making it the fifth iteration of the guide. ...n Society Award]] as Most Original Programme of 1981, as well as several [[British Academy Television Awards]] for its graphics and editing.<ref>{{cite web|ur
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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)
  ...to the Galaxy (TV series)|television]]. This was followed by three further novels, a [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)|computer game]], ...adaptation as well as adaptations of the remaining ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' novels ''[[So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish]]'' and ''[[Mostly Harmless]]''.<r
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• June Whitfield
  ...ation]] of all twelve of [[Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie]]'s Miss Marple novels on [[BBC Radio 4|BBC Radio 4]].<ref name="EpiList">{{cite web |title=Miss M .../archives/etv/W/htmlW/whitfieldju/whitfieldju.htm |title=Whitfield, June – British Comedy Actor |publisher=The Museum of Broadcast Communications |access-date
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• Wendy Richard
  *{{marriage|Will Thorpe|1980|1984|end=div.}} ....com/soaps/news/a58280/the-british-soap-awards-2007-the-winners/|title=The British Soap Awards 2007: The Winners|first=Kris|last=Green|website=Digital Spy |ac
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• Willie Rushton
  ...years of [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|national service]] in the [[British Army|army]], where he failed officer selection.<ref name=Sherrin/> He later ...''Private Eye''{{'}}s Lunchtime O'Booze), from bizarre skulduggery in the British colonies (where the soldiers holding back the politicised rabble bear a str
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• Leonard Rossiter
  ...Insurance Company]].<ref>Interview on BBC R4 Desert Island Discs 12 April 1980</ref> ...book|title=Some Joe You Don't Know: An American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_S4f-nobIxEC
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• Eric Sykes
  ...heir father was a labourer in a [[cotton mill|cotton mill]] and a former [[British Army|army]] [[sergeant|sergeant]]. When Sykes was two, his father remarried ...ure (1962 film)|Kill or Cure]]'', starring [[Terry-Thomas]] with a cast of British comedy stalwarts including one of the first film appearances by [[Ronnie Ba
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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  <!-- This article uses BRITISH ENGLISH. Please do not change to American spellings! --> ...he Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases]]'' (1978–1980)
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