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  • | death_place = [[Buckinghamshire|Buckinghamshire]], [[England|England]] ...Studios|Pinewood Studios]] in [[Iver Heath|Iver Heath]], [[Buckinghamshire|Buckinghamshire]], England. His other credits included ''[[Appointment with Venus (film)|Ap
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  • | death_place = [[w:Buckinghamshire|Buckinghamshire]], England ...21 April 2014.</ref> She lived with him for eighteen years until her death from [[breast cancer]].
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  • ..._place = [[w:Bourne End, Buckinghamshire|Bourne End]], [[w:Buckinghamshire|Buckinghamshire]], England ...so a [[Film criticism|film critic]] and [[playwright]] before the war, and from 1941–45, was a BBC [[war correspondent]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.a
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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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  • | death_place = [[w:Milton Keynes|Milton Keynes]], [[w:|Buckinghamshire]], England ...eatre to any other form of acting and spent most of his life on the stage, from his first role while at acting school in 1937<ref name="times">[https://web
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  • | birth_place = [[Amersham|Amersham]], [[Buckinghamshire|Buckinghamshire]], England Pertwee was born in [[Amersham|Amersham]], Buckinghamshire on 21 July 1926.<ref name=BBC>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-art
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  • ...th_place = [[w:High Wycombe|High Wycombe]], [[w:Buckinghamshire|Buckinghamshire]], England ...n [[w:Nairobi|Nairobi]], [[w:Kenya Colony|Kenya]]. His middle name derived from the illustrator Sir [[w:John Tenniel|John Tenniel]], a distant relation.<re
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  • | death_place = [[Aylesbury]], [[Buckinghamshire]], England ...'', in which he and [[Tim Brooke-Taylor]] played comedy writers (with both actors contributing scripts to the series as well).<ref name="Teleg">{{cite news|u
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  • ...eld, Manchester, St Anthony's preparatory school in [[Stony Stratford]], [[Buckinghamshire]], and went on to St Bernardine's Franciscan College in [[Buckingham]], whe ...eatured regularly in the BBC sitcom ''[[It Ain't Half Hot Mum]]'', running from 3 January 1974 to 3 September 1981.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonl
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  • ...with the counties of [[Hertfordshire|Hertfordshire]] and [[Buckinghamshire|Buckinghamshire]]. His pleasant rolling bass-baritone voice made him a regular presence on ...-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530181057/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/actors/Bernard-Miles |archive-date=30 May 2016 }}</ref>
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  • His stage career grew from amateur stage productions to his 1940 film debut in ''Quiet Wedding''. His ...-to-the-cast-of-mary-poppins/david-tomlinson-george-banksdespite-suffering-from-a-stammer-dav/| newspaper=The Telegraph |date=2 June 2016 |access-date=17 F
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  • ...h_place = [[w:Chalfont St Giles|Chalfont St Giles]], [[w:Buckinghamshire|Buckinghamshire]], England ...history, and joined the Cambridge [[Footlights]] Club.<ref name="fringe">''From Fringe to Flying Circus''&nbsp;– 'Celebrating a Unique Generation of Come
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  • | death_place = [[Wexham|Wexham]], [[Buckinghamshire|Buckinghamshire]], England ...d Wise's persona by making him pompous and naive. Wise's character changed from being a conventional straight man into a pretentious and self-satisfied buf
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  • ...in a play, while Rothwell's health prevented him from writing. The regular actors present are [[Kenneth Williams]], [[Kenneth Connor]], [[Jack Douglas (actor ...[[Diana Darvey]]) and Sally ([[Georgina Moon]]), two beautiful young women from the village. Some wet paint, some glue, heavy rain that causes the tunnels
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  • | death_place = [[Lee Common]], [[Buckinghamshire]], England ...ng his [[Conscription in the United Kingdom #After 1945|national service]] from 1946 to 1948, following which he briefly worked as an unpaid trainee assist
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  • | death_place = [[w:Gerrards Cross|Gerrards Cross]], [[w:Buckinghamshire|Buckinghamshire]], England ...st Riding of Yorkshire]]. The son of a railwayman, he was a [[tap dancer]] from an early age and trained at Nora Bray's school of dance with Audrey Spencer
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  • In 1945, he received a [[Queen's Commission|commission]] in the [[Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]]<ref name="Telegraph"/> and served in [[British Burma|Burma ...' and realised that television production values were now little different from those in the film industry; as a result he developed a belated career in te
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  • ...feminate foil. Other main roles are played by established and recognisable actors [[Judy Geeson]] and [[Patrick Mower]], both newcomers to the ''Carry On'' f ...However it still proved to be a major commercial failure and was withdrawn from some cinemas after just three days.<ref>Ross, Robert. ''The Carry On Compan
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  • ...untry, found his greatest success in England, starting with roles in films from 1947, he was cast in numerous small and supporting roles into the 1950s. He ...t in the radio series and later when it was adapted for television and ran from 1954 to 1960. Afterwards, he became known as a regular performer in the [[C
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  • |death_place = [[Chiltern District|Chiltern]], [[Buckinghamshire]], England ...s more men were called up, there were more opportunities for me. We worked from 7 a.m. until 10 or 11 at night. I learnt more in those two years than I wou
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