• Amelia Bayntun
  | birth_place = [[Bristol]], [[England]] Bayntun started her stage career in 1937, when she joined the [[Bristol]] Unity Players. During [[World War II]], she was in ''[[Stars in Battledre
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• Betty Warren
  ...lly as '''Betty Warren''', was a [[British people|British]] actress active from the 1930s to the 1950s, best known for her comedy roles in ''[[Champagne Ch ...ind-you.com/princesbristol.html |title=It's Behind You - Prince's Theatre, Bristol |website=www.its-behind-you.com |accessdate=21 August 2017}}</ref> and in t
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• Joan Sanderson
  | birth_place = [[w:Bristol|Bristol]], England ...4 May 1992) was a British television and stage actress born in [[w:Bristol|Bristol]].<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9
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• Dilys Watling
  ...school. She acted in [[repertory theatre|repertory theatre]] and at the [[Bristol Old Vic]]. Watling was nominated for the [[Tony Award]] for Best Leading Ac ...g had been married twice: her first husband was Australian Bruce Anderson, from whom she divorced. After a relationship with actor Christopher Matthews, sh
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• Patricia Brake
  ...heatre School]], before joining the [[Salisbury Playhouse]] for two years, from 1960 to 1961. She moved then to [[Harrogate]] for a year, where she was a m ...died in 2011.<ref name="Hayward" /><ref name="Times20220531" /> Brake died from cancer on 28 May 2022, one month before her 80th birthday.<ref>{{cite news|
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• Phyllida Law
  ...d hours"; when the war broke out, he went into the air force and separated from his wife, later divorcing. Law would not see her father again until she was ...erature, but disliked the experience and left. She then auditioned for the Bristol Old Vic School, intending to train as a stage designer, and discovered - by
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• Angela Douglas
  ...[[Kenneth More]] on the set of ''[[Some People (film)|Some People]]'' in [[Bristol]] in 1962. After starting an affair, More divorced his wife, and the couple [[Category:Actresses from Buckinghamshire]]
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• Binnie Hale
  ...ruary 2015</ref> Her recording of the song "[[Spread a Little Happiness]]" from that musical is possibly her best remembered recording. ''Mr. Cinders'' was From 1933 to 1937, Hale made five films. On stage during these years, she played
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• June Laverick
  ...llowed an acting career in theatre, film and television and after retiring from acting in her 30s June moved back to [[w:Redcar|Redcar]], marrying an [[w:I ...rl=http://www.78rpm.co.uk/tvw.htm |title=1950's Filmed Drama Series: Tales from Dickens |accessdate=20 August 2008 |work=78rpm}}</ref>
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• Miriam Karlin
  ...er]]'', in a production at the [[Sherman Cymru|Sherman Theatre, Cardiff]]. From 1992 to 1994, she appeared as a Jewish ghost, Yetta Feldman, in the BBC sit ...http://www.bristol.ac.uk/theatre-collection/explore/theatre/ University of Bristol Theatre Collection].
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• Hermione Baddeley
  ..., 21 August 1986.</ref> She found her milieu in revue, in which she played from the 1930s to the 1950s, co-starring several times with the English actress ...s}}</ref> She was survived by two children, [[Pauline Tennant]] and David, from her first marriage.
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• Amanda Barrie
  ..., then trained at the [[Arts Educational School]] in London and later at [[Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]]. ...rls]]'', playing inmate [[List of Bad Girls characters#Bev Tull|Bev Tull]] from the fifth series to the last, along with [[List of Bad Girls characters#Phy
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• Brenda Bruce
  She died in London on 19 February 1996 from undisclosed causes, aged 76.<ref name=independent/> | ''The Man from Haven''
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• Glynis Johns
  ...ers (1960 film)|The Sundowners]]''. She is one of the last surviving stars from the [[Classical Hollywood cinema|Golden Age of Hollywood]] and class years ...Strangers (1945 film)|Perfect Strangers]]'' (1945) (also titled ''Vacation from Marriage'').
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• Joyce Grenfell
  ...]]'' (1950) and Police Sergeant Ruby Gates in the [[St Trinian's]] series (from 1954). She was a well-known broadcaster on radio and television. As a write ...e,'' Spring 2010, p. 11</ref> and lived in a cottage on the estate, a mile from the main house, in the early years of her marriage.<ref>Hampton (2002), p.
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• June Whitfield
  ...[[Breakthrough role|big break]] was a lead in the radio comedy ''[[Take It from Here]]'', which aired on the [[BBC Light Programme|BBC Light Programme]] in ...)|Happy Ever After]]'' (1974–1979) and ''[[Terry and June]]'' (1979–1987). From 1992 to 2012, Whitfield played Edina Monsoon's mother in [[Jennifer Saunder
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• Joan Hickson
  ...e film ''[[Murder, She Said]]'', based on Agatha Christie's novel ''[[4.50 From Paddington]]'' and starring [[Margaret Rutherford]] as Miss Marple. ...highly rated TV series ''[[Our Man at St. Mark's|Our Man at St Mark's]]''. From 1970 to 1971 she played Mrs Pugsley in ''[[Bachelor Father (UK TV series)|B
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• Patricia Routledge
  * [[Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]] ...ent]]|date=26 November 1999}}</ref> After graduating, she trained at the [[Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]] and returned to Liverpool to begin her acting care
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• Irene Handl
  ...1911 England Census for Irene Handl: Ancestry.com {{subscription}}]</ref> From 1907 to 1915 she attended the Paddington and Maida Vale High School.<ref>[h ...s most avid champions of [[Chihuahua (dog)|Chihuahuas]], being inseparable from the pair that she owned.<ref name=":0" />
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• Cicely Courtneidge
  ...e [[West End theatre|West End]] by the age of 16, and was quickly promoted from minor to major roles in his [[Edwardian musical comedies]]. ...World War]], her father had a series of failures and temporarily withdrew from production. No other producers offered the young Courtneidge leading roles
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