• The Wildcats of St Trinian's
  ...' is the fifth British [[comedy film]] set in the fictional [[St Trinian's School]]. Directed by [[Frank Launder]], it was released in 1980.<ref>[https://web Derek Malcolm of ''The Guardian'' called it "one of the worst films I've ever seen... Please don't do anything like it again. Ever."<ref>Being
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• Clockwise (film)
  | studio = Moment Films ...=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>
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• Dino Shafeek
  ..._mater = [[University of Dhaka|Dhaka University]]<br />[[Guildhall School of Music and Drama]] ...sh) in 1958 and appeared in several [[sitcom]]s during the 1970s and early 1980s. He is best remembered for playing the part of Chai Wallah Muhammed in the
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• Dilys Laye
  ...True|Trottie True]]''.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f3eedd1|title=Dilys Laye|website=BFI}}</ref> ...ames Garner]].<ref name="thestage.co.uk"/> In 1957, she began appearing in films more regularly, including one of the schoolgirls in ''[[Blue Murder at St T
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• Peter Jones (actor)
  ...nes, mmn = Francis</ref> was educated at [[Thomas Adams School|Wem Grammar School]] and [[Ellesmere College]], making his first appearance as an actor in [[W ...tor and producer working in British theatre and film from the 1940s to the 1980s; the stories being partially based on his own career.<ref>According to the
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• Ian Carmichael
  ...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) ...rborough College]] in North Yorkshire and [[w:Bromsgrove School|Bromsgrove School]] in Worcestershire,<ref name="Guardian obituary"/> before training as an a
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• Madeline Smith
  ...ries and stage productions, plus comedy and horror films, in the 1970s and 1980s. ..., ''[[The Amazing Mr. Blunden]]'' (1972) and the musical film ''[[Take Me High]]'' (1973) with [[Cliff Richard]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google
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• Irene Handl
  ...was a British [[character actress]] who appeared in more than 100 British films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f4c4272|archive-url=htt ...87491-752963078.1621020919&pId=9180982 Irene Handl in the London, England, School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911: Ancestry.com {{subscription}}]</ref>
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• Pat Coombs
  ...lm and television [[w:sitcom|sitcom]]s and Children's ITV's ''[[w:Playbox (1980s TV series)|Playbox]]'' and ''[[w:Ragdolly Anna|Ragdolly Anna]]''. Her autho ...ng school, she began her working life as a student [[w:kindergarten|infant school]] teacher, but soon a keenness to act prompted her to take drama lessons du
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• John Bird (actor)
  ...r in film, television, theatre and radio for over 55 years. He appeared in films including ''[[Take a Girl Like You (film)|Take A Girl Like You]]'' (1970) a ...im transferred, aged 12, to [[New College Nottingham|High Pavement Grammar School]]. In 1956 he passed the entrance exam for [[King’s College, Cambridge]];
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• Patsy Rowlands
  ...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 ...ing. She applied for 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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• Stanley Baxter
  ...land|Scotland]]. He was educated at [[w:Hillhead High School|Hillhead High School]], Glasgow, and schooled for the stage by his mother. He began his career a Baxter appeared in a number of films, including ''[[Geordie (film)|Geordie]]'' (1955), ''[[Very Important Person
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• Boulting brothers
  ...of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced many of their films through their own production company, '''Charter Film Productions''', which ...uith]]'s 1931 film ''[[Tell England (film)|Tell England]]'' while still at school.<ref name=odnb>{{Cite ODNB|id=30836|title=Boulting, John Edward (1913–198
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• Amanda Barrie
  ...ppeared in two of the ''[[Carry On series on screen and stage|Carry On]]'' films before being cast as [[Alma Halliwell]] in [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] [[soap ...Arts Educational School]] in London and later at [[Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]].
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• Lynda Bellingham
  ...School]] and trained at the [[w:Central School of Speech and Drama|Central School of Speech and Drama]].<ref name="teleg-obit"/> ...nd Up, Virgin Soldiers]]'' (1977) and ''[[w:Riding High (1981 film)|Riding High]]'' (1981) with [[w:Eddie Kidd|Eddie Kidd]]. She also appeared in the comed
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• Nat Jackley
  ...ho starred in revue, variety, film and pantomime from the 1920s to the mid-1980s. His trademark rubber-neck dance, skeletal frame and peculiar speech impedi ...g school, Jackley worked as a seed packer, later recalling: "I'd just left school and I had an idea I wasn't going to be any good in show business, so I went
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• High & Dry (1987 TV series)
  | image = High & Dry (1987 TV series).jpg ...eb|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092370/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv|title = High & Dry (TV Series 1985– ) - IMDb|website = [[IMDb]]}}</ref> and [[Michael
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• Kenneth Griffith
  ...yn Ward, who recognised his writing and acting talent. Before Kenneth left school, his headmaster J. T. Griffith suggested that he drop the "s" from his surn Griffith left school and moved to [[Cambridge]] in 1937, taking a job at an [[ironmonger]]'s wei
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• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
  * Celandine Films ...tle=Monty Python's the Meaning of Life (1983) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6e742e39 |access-date=26 July 2021 |agency=BFI}}</ref>
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• Ronnie Corbett
  ...rjack'']] and [[The Saint (TV series)|''The Saint'']], and appeared in the films [[You're Only Young Twice (film)|''You're Only Young Twice'']], ''[[Rockets ...2016 | access-date = 31 March 2016 | work = BBC News}}</ref> After leaving school, he decided he wanted to be an actor while performing in amateur theatrical
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