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  • ...ack Song" on ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' in December 1969, as well as the song "[[Spam (Monty Python)|Spam]]" in 1970 while dressed as [[Vikings]].<r ...in the late 1960s.<ref name=nytimes/> He married his wife, Pamela, during the mid-1950s.<ref name=nytimes/>
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  • ...ation = [[Royal Central School of Speech and Drama|Royal Central School of Speech and Drama]]}} ...to 1973, in which she also spoke the programme's first line of dialogue in the inaugural episode.
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  • ...er Film Productions]]. ''[[The Man with the Golden Gun (film)|The Man with the Golden Gun]]'' (1974) was his one appearance in a James Bond film.<ref>{{ci ...url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7a855581|title=The Jewel in the Crown Episode 5 Regimental Silver (1984)|work=BFI}}</ref>
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  • ...v-and-radio/2013/sep/17/bill-wallis|accessdate=17 September 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|date=17 September 2013}}</ref> ...Wallis discusses his work as a reader for audiobooks.</ref> as well as in the theatre.
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  • ...living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per [[WP:DOB]]. For people who h ...h comedy series. He is a former lecturer and fellow at the [[University of Cambridge]] where he taught social and political theory. McCann has become noted for
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  • ...DOVER - Erik Chitty</ref> – 22 July 1977 Brent, Middlesex<ref>GRO Register of Deaths: SEP 1977 11 0672 BRENT - Erik Chitty, born 8 July 1907</ref>), was ...esus College, Cambridge, where he was one of the founders of the Cambridge University Mummers, before training at [[RADA]] and becoming a professional actor.<ref
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  • ...lights|Cambridge Footlights]]. He was one of the earliest famous alumni of the comedy club. ...Hulbert was expecting to be conscripted into the army for the remainder of the conflict.
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  • ...obituary |title=Donald Hewlett obituary |first=Anthony |last=Hayward |work=The Guardian|date=7 June 2011 |accessdate=12 June 2011}}</ref> was a British ac ...Parliament constituency)|Manchester Exchange]] from 1940 to 1945 and owned the Anchor Chemical Company based in [[Clayton, Greater Manchester|Clayton]], [
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  • |honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] ...|John Snagge (r) with [[w:Frits Thors|Frits Thors]] during a conference in the Netherlands with [[w:Radio Oranje|Radio Oranje]] in 1946]]
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  • ...d Gordon (1935–2015)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Jan 2019 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.0 ...= [[Marlborough College|Marlborough College]]<br>[[St. John's College, Cambridge|St. John's College]]
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  • | resting_place = The Parish Church of St. Andrew and St. Mary the Virgin, [[Fletching, East Sussex|Fletching]], [[East Sussex|East Sussex]], ...ge|St John's College]], where he sang in the [[Choir of St John's College, Cambridge|college choir]].
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  • | birth_place = [[Jhansi]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]],<br />[[India]] | alma_mater = {{nowrap|[[St Catharine's College, Cambridge]]}}
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  • |alma_mater = [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]] ...br /> ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' (1972–2020) <br/> ''[[One Foot in the Grave]]'' (1997)
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  • | education = [[The Marches School|Oswestry Boys' High School]] ...was an English television presenter. He was best known as the former host of [[BBC]] sports and current affairs shows including ''[[Grandstand (BBC)|Gra
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  • | honorific_prefix = [[w:The Right Honourable|The Right Honourable]] | name = The Baroness Bakewell
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  • ...|Croydon]], [[w:Surrey|Surrey]], [[w:England|England]], [[w:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|UK]] ...e of Truth'', ''[[w:Tartuffe|Tartuffe]]'' and ''[[w:The Imaginary Invalid|The Imaginary Invalid]]'').
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  • ...nington Crescent (game)#Origins|one of the people credited]] with creating the bizarre panel game [[Mornington Crescent (game)|Mornington Crescent]] for ' ...nny-business-1526516.html |title=Media: Serious about funny business |work=The Independent |date=1995-12-19 |access-date=2013-12-13}}</ref> He took an ear
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  • | alma_mater = [[King's College, Cambridge]] ...[El C.I.D.]]'' and ''[[Chambers (series)|Chambers]]''. He also featured in the long-running ''[[Bremner, Bird and Fortune]]'' (1999–2010), on [[Channel
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  • ...End theatre|West End]] and on tour. He made his first radio broadcast for the [[BBC]] in 1932 and in 1937 and 1938 he featured in early television broadc ...o 1954. Murdoch's last long-running radio programmes were ''[[The Men from the Ministry]]'' (1962–1977) in which he played a well-meaning but disaster-p
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[W:Order of the British Empire|CBE]] | alma_mater = [[w:St John's College, Cambridge|St John's College]] ([[w:MB BChir|MB BChir]], 1959)
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