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  • ...=Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing|website=British Film Institute|date=2005}}</ref> ...lthough the ban was lifted two months later). At the time, there were four films that were banned in Ireland, and Jones had directed three of them (''Person
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  • ...lspet+gray+stage+career&pg=PA81|title=Some Joe You Don't Know: An American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities|first=Anthony|last=Slide|date ...te=HeraldScotland}}</ref> ''[[The Crezz]]'', ''[[Catweazle]]'', and in the 1980s with ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[Arc of Infinity]]'' and the [[World War I
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  • ...screen and radio in a career spanning 70 years. He found prominence in the films of the [[w:Boulting brothers]], including ''[[Private's Progress]]'' (1956) ...]]'' (1957), and ''[[I'm All Right Jack]]'' (1959). He appeared in similar films for other producers including ''[[School for Scoundrels (1960 film)|School
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  • ...English actor with [[w:achondroplasia|achondroplasia]]. He appeared in the films ''[[w:Time Bandits|Time Bandits]]'' and ''[[w:The Bride (1985 film)|The Bri ...net.nl/~motinni/biographical/bio-index.html |title=David Rappaport Pages – biographical |access-date=7 February 2009}}</ref> Rappaport studied [[w:psychology|psych
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  • ...of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced many of their films through their own production company, '''Charter Film Productions''', which ...<ref name="bfi1">{{cite web |title=Ripe Earth |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69d70b54 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=8 Apri
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  • ...when [[PBS]] television stations began airing [[rerun]]s of it in the mid-1980s, along with other [[British sitcom]]s. In 2004, it was ranked 20th in a tel ...channel)|YTV]]. The show aired on Saturday evening prime time from the mid 1980s to late 1990s. It also available to Canadian viewers from most border PBS s
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  • In 1941, he made his debut in the first of more than 80 films, being ''[[Love on the Dole (film)|Love on the Dole]]''.<ref name="IndpObit He appeared in many British films between the 1940s and 1980s, notably as Archie Fellows in ''[[The Shop at Sly Corner]]'', Jenkins in ''
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  • She also appeared in the films ''[[Two for the Road (1967 film)|Two for the Road]]'' (1967) alongside [[Al ...y ''[[The Blue Boy (film)|The Blue Boy]]'', and also appeared in the BBC's biographical TV movie ''[[Saint-Ex]]'' in 1996. She also narrated an episode on ''[[Wild
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  • ...ermione Baddeley]]. Later she played formidable elderly characters in such films and stage musicals as ''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]'' (1958), ''[[Bell, Book ..., Alan. "Lady of Laughter", ''The Guardian'', 25 May 1987, p. 9</ref> In a biographical sketch, [[Ned Sherrin]] writes "Gingold became a special attraction for Ame
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  • ...s long-running roles in the television sitcoms ''[[Fresh Fields]]'' in the 1980s and ''[[May to December]]'' from 1989 to 1994. ...e|Wilde]] and [[Peter Nichols (playwright)|Peter Nichols]]. He appeared in films such as ''[[The Man Who Haunted Himself]]'' (1970), ''[[Scrooge (1970 film)
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  • ...erformance as [[Winston Churchill]] in the 2002 [[BBC]]–[[HBO]] television biographical film ''[[The Gathering Storm (2002 film)|The Gathering Storm]]''. ...don, England|date=3 January 1964|page=4}}</ref> Finney received 10% of the films earnings, which made him over $1 million.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Va
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  • ...o.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26787448 |title=Walliams revives Charley Says films – BBC News |work=BBC News |date=28 March 2014 |access-date=2017-06-02}}</ ...h at the House of Death]]'', a spoof of [[w:Hammer Studios|Hammer]] horror films, which was penned by Everett's usual writing partners [[Barry Cryer]] and R
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  • ===Works for the BBC in the 1980s=== Potter's career in the early 1980s was spent as a screenwriter for the cinema. He returned to the BBC for a co
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  • ...vengers)|Dressed to Kill]]", 1963). Among his early film credits were four films directed by [[Bryan Forbes]], namely ''[[King Rat (film)|King Rat]]'' (1965 ...h Film Institute|access-date=18 December 2017}}</ref> as well as the short films ''The Waterloo Bridge Handicap'' (1978), and the [[Galton and Simpson]]-scr
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  • ...html |title=Dors, Diana (1931–1984)|encyclopedia=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia |publisher=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=31 May 2015}}</ref> M ===First films===
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  • ...03"}} It was an instant success with the viewers, and led to three feature films ''[[On the Buses (film)|On the Buses]]'' (1971), ''[[Mutiny on the Buses]]' In the 1980s, he suffered from [[Mood disorder|depression]], [[bipolar disorder]] and ot
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  • ...?id=Bck6oHB6_AwC&q=%22Jeffrey+Richards%22+%22robb+wilton%22&pg=PA356|title=Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad's Army|date=15 September ==Films==
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  • ...oped the Tramp persona and attracted a large fan base. He directed his own films and continued to hone his craft as he moved to the [[Essanay Studios|Essana ...ve the U.S. and settle in Switzerland. He abandoned the Tramp in his later films, which include ''[[Monsieur Verdoux]]'' (1947), ''[[Limelight (1952 film)|L
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