• John Wells (satirist)
  |''[[Bullshot (film)|Bullshot]]'' || 1983 || American Scientist || [[Category:English male television actors]]
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• Charles Chilton
  ....blogspot.com/2008/07/eagle-writers-charles-chilton-1917.html |title=Eagle Writers – Charles Chilton (1917 – ) |date=30 July 2008 |work=eagle-times.blogsp [[Category:British comics writers]]
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• Neil Shand
  ...Moon in 1969, and spells in [[New York City|New York]] working on Frost's American talk show as a "creative consultant".<ref name="Times050618"/> [[Category:British comedy writers]]
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• Johnny Speight
  ...(1960-65)|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> Speight was one of many writers on that series which also included Sykes, [[John Antrobus]] and [[Spike Mil ....com/anglophenia/2015/01/5-classic-american-sitcoms-british-first |title=6 American Sitcoms Based on British Originals |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=5 Januar
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• Bill Waddington
  ...'. In 1955 Bill was chosen for the [[Royal Variety Performance]], and when American stars such as [[Frankie Laine]], [[Lena Horne]], [[Billy Daniels]] and [[Do ...audition for the role of Percy Sugden as it was created for him, with the writers aware of his of comedy roles. In one autobiography Waddington agrees that h
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• Dennis Spooner
  ...tributor to [[BBC]] programmes, his work made him one of the most prolific writers of televised output from [[ITC Entertainment]]. ...ite web|url=http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/crguide/vcw.html|title=Writers|work=space1999.net|access-date=26 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archiv
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• Alan Melville (writer)
  ...nson Family'' serial about an ordinary family in London on the BBC's North American Service. In 1941 he enlisted in the [[RAF]] where he reached the rank of [[ [[Category:English male television actors]]
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• Mel Smith
  ...co-starring [[Griff Rhys Jones]], its title being a pun on the name of the American television series ''[[Alias Smith and Jones]]''. In 1982, he starred as the [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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• Dick Clement
  ...ars. By this time they were living in [[California]], where they wrote the American version of ''Porridge'', ''[[On the Rocks (U.S. TV series)|On the Rocks]]'' ...and co-created ''[[Spender]]'' with [[Jimmy Nail]]. In America, they were writers and supervising producers for [[HBO]]'s [[Emmy Award|Emmy]]-winning show, '
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• Terry Nation
  ...e 1950s, Nation worked with [[John Junkin]] and [[Johnny Speight]] for the writers' agency [[Associated London Scripts]],<ref name="screenonline.org.uk"/> whe ...h Clemens claiming to have registered the ''Survivors'' concept with the [[Writers' Guild of Great Britain]] in 1965; Nation denied the allegations. Although
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• Dave King (actor)
  ...t otherwise had limited success despite [[Mel Brooks]] joining his regular writers [[Sid Green (writer)|Sid Green]] and [[Dick Hills]].<ref name="Leigh"/> On ...Cerney]] in Gloucestershire. His hobbies included [[model railway]]s and [[American folklore]].
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• Marty Feldman
  ...by others.) This work placed Feldman and Took 'in the front rank of comedy writers', according to [[Denis Norden]].<ref name="six" /> ...-Taylor, [[John Junkin]] and [[Roland MacLeod]], with Cleese as one of the writers.<ref name="six" /> Feldman won two [[w:British Academy of Film and Televisi
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• Blake Edwards
  {{short description|American filmmaker (1922–2010)}} ...(born '''William Blake Crump'''; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.
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• Kenny Lynch
  Much of Lynch's material was self-written, but he also covered songs by writers of the [[Brill Building (genre)|Brill Building]].<ref name="AMG"/> ...Black]]'s No. 5 UK hit "Love's Just a Broken Heart", in collaboration with American songwriter [[Mort Shuman]].<ref name="AMG"/> "You'd Better Believe It" (co-
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• Ian La Frenais
  ...], where they wrote ''[[On the Rocks (U.S. TV series)|On the Rocks]]'', an American version of ''Porridge'', and ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda (1979 film)|The Pris In the US, he and Clement were writers and supervising producers on [[HBO]]'s [[Emmy Award|Emmy]]-winning show ''[
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• Dave Freeman (British writer)
  He was one of the first generation of writers who established television, taking over from radio, as the most popular med ...h]], he became a journalist, then took a job as a security officer for the American Officers' Club in [[Regent's Park, London|Regent's Park]]. One of his tasks
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• George Sanders
  ...d his suave, superior, and somewhat threatening air made him in demand for American films for years to come.<ref>Sanders 1960, p.117</ref> ''Lloyd's of London' ...aying Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert and dying in a duel with [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]] after professing his love for Jewish maiden Rebecca,
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• Bebe Daniels
  {{short description|American actress, singer, dancer, writer, producer (1901–1971)}} ...a''' "'''Bebe'''" '''Daniels''' (January 14, 1901 – March 16, 1971) was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer, and producer.
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• Graham McCann
  ...s of expertise is American culture, and in 1993 he lectured on "Aspects of American Culture" at the university.<ref name="Inglis2004">{{cite book|last=Inglis|f ...or=Girgus, Sam B. |title=Review: Minimal Males: Men in the Movies |journal=American Studies |volume=37 |issue=2 |date=Fall 1996 |pages=175–84 |jstor=40642832
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• Arthur Askey
  ...nch night programme for [[Granada Television|Granada Television]]. In 1957 writers [[Sid Colin]] and [[Talbot Rothwell]] revived the ''Band Waggon'' format fo ...e book|author=Adrian Wright|title=West End Broadway: The Golden Age of the American Musical in London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6-TvZ0O5NHQC&pg=PA2
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