• Claire Davenport
  ...Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9781526111968}}</ref> ...Caesar and Cleopatra]]'' at the [[Oxford Playhouse|Playhouse]] in [[Oxford|Oxford]].{{sfn|Noble|1982|p=356}}
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• Lucy Griffiths (actress, born 1919)
  ...April 1919 – 29 September 1982) was an English actress whose work spanned from the early 1950s to the early 1980s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org. ...s+The+Encyclopedia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA312 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |edition=fourth |date=16 May 2016 |isbn=9781526111975 |v
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• Gillian Raine
  ...s a British actress, singer and the wife of the actor [[Leonard Rossiter]] from 1964–1984 (his death), though they had been living together since 1962. T [[Category:British actresses]]
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• Ursula Howells
  ...nkwater (playwright)|John Drinkwater]]'s ''Bird in Hand'', then moved to [[Oxford]] in 1942 and three years later made her London debut at the [[Embassy Thea [[Category:English film actresses]]
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• Tessie O'Shea
  ...cess-date=29 October 2010|work=[[w:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]}}</ref> ...e|Weston-super-Mare]], one day on the beach, the young O'Shea wandered off from her mother into the tent of a troupe of travelling performers and was only
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• Judith Furse
  ...Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9781526111968}}</ref> By the end of that decade, she [[Category:English film actresses]]
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• Hy Hazell
  ...ute|British Film Institute]] cites 1920 and ''[[w:The Oxford Reference|The Oxford Reference]]'' cites 1922.}} ...Charlie Girl|Charlie Girl]]'' at the [[w:Adelphi Theatre|Adelphi Theatre]] from 1965 ; and as Mrs Peachum in a notable ''[[w:Beggar's Opera|Beggar's Opera]
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• Avis Bunnage
  ..., Night Waves – BBC Radio 3|publisher=BBC}}</ref> When Avis was on holiday from this production for two weeks, her role was taken over by [[Danny La Rue]]. [[Category:Actresses from Manchester]]
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• Diana Coupland
  ...as Jean Abbott, the wife of [[Sid James]] character Sid, which she played from 1971 to 1976. ...ilm)|Dr. No]]''.<ref>Jon Burlingame, ''The Music of James Bond'', page 10, Oxford University Press, 2014</ref> She gave up professional singing in the 1960s.
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• Jill Melford
  ...Film: Fourth edition|last=McFarlane|first=Brian|date=2016-05-16|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9781526111968|language=en}}</ref> She attended the Ba [[Category:English film actresses]]
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• Pauline Yates
  ..., a comedy sketch show for radio, which was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 15 February 1971.) In 1970 she appeared as Mme Arnoux in ''[[Sentimental Ed She appeared onstage in an Oxford Playhouse Company production of the [[Joe Orton]] play, ''[[What the Butler
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• Moira Lister
  ...] television series ''The Whitehall Worrier'' and ''The Very Merry Widow'' from 1967 to 1968.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obi |''[[Files from Scotland Yard]]''
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• Jane Hylton
  ...ne, Brian (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781526111968 – via Google Books.</ref> ...''[[The Adventures of Sir Lancelot|The Adventures of Sir Lancelot]]'' and from the early 1960s she spent her career entirely in television, where she feat
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• Beryl Reid
  ...Beryl Elizabeth (1919–1996)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/63264 av Reid died at the age of 77 from severe [[w:osteoarthritis|osteoarthritis]] and [[w:kidney failure|kidney fa
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• Melissa Stribling
  ...cent|title=British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2007|page=149|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X [[Category:Scottish film actresses]]
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• Patricia Hayes
  ...Patricia Lawlor (1909–1998)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/70907 av ...|Players' Theatre]] in London, an old time [[music hall|music hall]] club, from the 1950s onwards.
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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 ...of National Biography 2005-2008| page=1101| location=Oxford| publisher=OUP Oxford|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nbGcAQAAQBAJ&q=actress%2Fpoet+Pauline
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• Miriam Karlin
  ...a historical linguist responsible for the ''[[Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary]]''.<ref name="Brother">{{cite news|url=https://www.theg ...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
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• Rosalind Knight
  ...as Assistant Stage Manager at the Midland Theatre Company in [[Coventry]]. From Coventry, she moved to [[Ipswich]] Repertory Company, where [[Joe Orton]] w ....aspx?ActorID=9519|title=Rosalind Knight|website=www.aveleyman.com}}</ref> From 1999 to 2001, she co-starred in the sitcom ''[[Gimme Gimme Gimme (TV series
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• Martita Hunt
  ...achine Wreckers'' at the [[Novelty Theatre|Kingsway Theatre]] in May 1923. From 1923 to 1929, she appeared as the Principessa della Cercola in [[W. Somerse In Hunt's entry in the ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', Donald Roy wrote:<blockquote>"With an
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