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  • | birth_place = [[Bolton]], [[Lancashire]], England ...l=http://retromash.com/podcast/brian-jackson/|title=Brian Jackson: The Man from Del Monte|publisher=retromash.com|accessdate=12 November 2022}}</ref>
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  • ...ers, Lynne and Anne. He turned professional in 1947, taking his stage name from the [[River Lune|River Lune]] that flows through Lancashire, and his older ...circuit and took a pub, the Raglan, in [[Hulme|Hulme]], just a short step from [[Hulme Hippodrome|Hulme Hippodrome]]. The following year, he was called ou
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  • ...tar_of____Allo____Allo__who_launched_career_at_Bolton_theatre/|website=The Bolton News|access-date=24 January 2017}}</ref> ...en seen by [[Pat Phoenix]] in ''Little Malcolm'' by [[David Halliwell]] at Bolton, he was cast as Bernard Butler, the nephew of [[Elsie Tanner]] (Phoenix), i
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  • ...=obit/> He is the father of actor [[Ioan Meredith]] and the grandfather of actors [[Ifan Meredith]] and Rhys Meredith. * ''[[Law and Disorder (1958 film)|Law and Disorder]]'' (1958) – Sergeant Bolton
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  • ...bfi.org.uk |access-date=2014-04-23}}</ref> he performed on stage and radio from an early age. ...rved as a flight lieutenant with the [[w:Royal Australian Air Force|RAAF]] from 6 December 1941 to 1 July 1947, including service with [[w:No. 111 Air-Sea
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  • ...le/4ce2b9ee90d05|title=Francis Matthews|website=BFI}}</ref> On television, from 1969 to 1971, he played [[Francis Durbridge]]'s amateur private detective P ...QBAJ&dq=follow+me+francis+matthews&pg=PT101|title=Flying Visits: Postcards From The Observer 1976-83|first=Clive|last=James|date=6 April 2017|publisher=Pan
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  • ...he was brought up in the [[Lancashire]] town of [[County Borough of Bolton|Bolton]]. After boarding at [[St Bees School|St Bees School]], Cumberland,<ref>Old [[Category:English male film actors]]
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  • ...itfield]] and [[Peter Butterworth]]. It is a [[Spin-off (media)|spin-off]] from the television sitcom ''[[Bless This House (British TV series)|Bless This H The film starred many of the main actors from the TV series but some were replaced; most notably [[Robin Stewart]], who w
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  • ...title=Ian Lavender| access-date=28 July 2020| work=[[w:The Bolton News|The Bolton News]]}}</ref> ...gave him the great advantage of working alongside a number of experienced actors during his formative years, helping him to hone his acting skills. <ref>{{c
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  • ...ober 2011}}</ref> He began his stage career at the Hippodrome Theatre in [[Bolton]], [[Lancashire]].<ref name=BBC/><ref name=Indy>{{cite news |title=Obituary ...was felt that he seemed less at ease as a chat show host. Having been away from television for some time, he made an appearance in the Australian televisio
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  • |1971|| ''[[The Night Digger]]'' || Mr. Bolton || ...ent.co.uk/news/obituaries/graham-crowden-character-actor-whose-work-ranged-from-king-lear-to-the-sitcom-waiting-for-god-2116285.html Obituary in ''The Inde
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  • | birthname = Hilda Baker<ref>GRO Register of Births: Q1 1905 8c 406 BOLTON, Hilda Baker</ref> ...g, producing and performing her own shows. Her stage act included a gossip from the [[w:Northern England|North of England]], with a silent, sullen companio
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  • ...eemason]].<ref>He joined the Green Room Lodge No. 2957 on 6 April 1904, an actors' lodge which included [[Leedham Bantock]], [[Fred Terry]] and [[Gerald du M ...s given writing credits for some of the Gaiety pieces, usually adaptations from French comedies (like ''The Spring Chicken'') or collaborations with other
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  • ...tage, was best remembered for numerous appearances in films and television from the 1940s to the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b ...id |last=McGillivray |date=15 May 2000 |access-date=2 January 2011}}</ref> from cancer;<ref name=grave>{{cite web |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/
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  • ...ley was placed in the [[National Children's Home]] at [[Edgworth]], near [[Bolton]], Lancashire and four years later was moved to another children's home in ...hose three big film starring roles in 1960, she became one of the very few actors ever to have their name above the titles in all the major cinemas around Le
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  • ...and television series such as ''[[Pennies from Heaven (TV series)|Pennies from Heaven]]'' (1978), ''[[The Long Good Friday]]'' (1980), ''[[Mona Lisa (1986 ...'s disease]], with which he had been diagnosed the previous year, and died from [[pneumonia]] on 29 April 2014 at the age of 71.
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  • ...e=15 June 2013 }}</ref> He worked briefly as a journalist on the ''[[w:The Bolton News|Bury Times]]''.<ref name=Smurthwaite/> ...the quiz show ''[[w:Blankety Blank|Blankety Blank]]'', which he presented from 1984 until its cancellation in 1990. Dawson starred in ''[[Listen to Les]]'
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  • ...Mainwaring]] in the [[w:British sitcom|British sitcom]] ''[[Dad's Army]]'' from 1968 until 1977, was nominated for seven [[w:BAFTA|BAFTA]]s and became one ...is final years, he maintained a busy professional schedule until his death from a stroke on 15 April 1982, aged 66.
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  • ...Larbey|John Esmonde]] and [[Esmonde and Larbey|Bob Larbey]] and featuring actors [[John Alderton|John Alderton]], [[Deryck Guyler]], [[Penny Spencer]], [[Jo The title derives from the then-standard request phrase used in Britain when they wish to interrup
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  • ...] by [[Elizabeth II]] in 1976. In 2002, he received a [[BAFTA Fellowship]] from the [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] and was named a [[Disne ...(film)|This Happy Breed]]'' (1944), directed by [[David Lean]] and adapted from a [[This Happy Breed|Noël Coward play]].
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