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  • {{short description|British television, radio, and comic strip author}} ...creenwriter)|Hazel Adair]], he co-created the soap opera ''[[w:Crossroads (British TV series)|Crossroads]]''.
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]] | employer = [[w:British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]]
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  • ...was a Welsh screenwriter and novelist. Especially known for his work in [[British television science fiction]], he created the [[Dalek]]s and [[Davros]] for ...becoming a prolific writer for drama, working on many of the most popular British series of the 1960s and 1970s such as ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Aven
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  • ...i.org.uk/sift/series/32481 | title=Bremner, Bird and Fortune | publisher=[[British Film Institute]] | work=Film & TV Database | access-date=31 December 2013 | ...es Minister]]'', as an army officer who brings the minister's attention to British-made weapons getting into the hands of terrorists. In 1999, he starred wit
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  • ...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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  • ...had long-lasting professional working relationships with a number of other British screenwriters and producers, notably [[Brian Clemens]], [[Terry Nation]], [ ...web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/551046/index.html|title= British Film Institute profile of Dennis Spooner}}</ref>
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  • | 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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  • ...ise]]'' to ''[[service à la russe]]'' and hailed Escoffier as a saviour of British cooking. ...t show you now." Fanny advocated bringing Escoffier-standard food into the British home and gave every recipe a French name. Her food looked extravagant, but
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  • ...|KBE|DL}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|w|oʊ|g|ən}}; 3 August 1938 – 31 January 2016) was a British-Irish radio and television broadcaster who worked for the [[BBC]] in the UK In 2005, Wogan acquired [[British nationality law|British citizenship]] in addition to his [[Irish nationality law|Irish nationality]
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  • | branch = [[w:British Army|British Army]] ...[[Bayeux]]. As an air photographic interpreter with the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]], he was later with the headquarters of th
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  • ...[[Mount Kilimanjaro|Mount Kilimanjaro]] while wearing a rhino suit for the British charity organisation [[Save the Rhino|Save the Rhino International]]. Puppe ...ww.nbcnews.com/id/6867061 Asteroid named after 'Hitchhiker' humorist: Late British sci-fi author honored after cosmic campaign] by Alan Boyle, NBC News, 25 Ja
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  • |nationality = British ...|(|j|)|uː|s|t|ɪ|n|ɒ|f}}; 16 April 1921{{spaced ndash}}28 March 2004) was a British actor, filmmaker and writer. As an internationally known raconteur, he was
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  • {{Short description|British actor and novelist (1910–1983)}} ...= [[File:Flag of the British Army.svg|25px]] [[w:British Army|British Army]]
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