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  • | nationality = Australian ...Here]]'' for [[w:BBC Radio|BBC Radio]]. He was a staple of and pioneer of radio, having started his career in the medium in the early 1930s. He appeared on
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  • ...p=1&|website=IMDb|accessdate=2015-09-19}}</ref> was an English [[film]], [[radio]], [[television]] and [[theatre]] [[actor]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www ...oice roles between 1949 and 1960 in the [[BBC]] [[radio-comedy]] [[Serial (radio and television)|serial]] ''[[Take It From Here]]''.<ref name="Gifford">{{ci
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  • {{short description|Australian-British actor (1920–1988)}} '''Allan Darling Cuthbertson''' (7 April 1920 – 8 February 1988) was an Australian-born British actor. He was best known for playing stern-faced military offi
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  • {{short description|Australian actor}} ...lia/6159604/Veteran-Australian-actor-Ray-Barrett-dies.html|title = Veteran Australian actor Ray Barrett dies|website=Telegraph.co.uk}}</ref>
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  • ...Sandy Powell''', was an English [[w:comedian|comedian]] best known for his radio work of the 1930s and for his catchphrase "Can you hear me, mother?". He fi == Radio and film ==
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  • ...at series to feature in the [[Are You Being Served? (Australian TV series)|Australian Version]]. ...quity Card]],<ref name="I'm Free!"/> required at the time for professional actors.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutch
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  • {{short description|British and Australian actor, comedian, and vaudevillian}} | occupation = {{hlist|Actor (radio, stage, television and film)|comedian|vaudevillian}}
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  • ...s was seen in cabaret, revue, pantomime as well as straight dramas. In the Australian tour of ''[[Camelot (musical)|Camelot]]'' in 1963–1965 he played King Pel ...ter-Ellis"], British Film Institute. Retrieved 6 August 2021</ref> For BBC Radio he repeated his Teddy Brewster in 1973, with Thorndike and Seyler.<ref name
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  • ...ndash}}7 July 1988) was an [[England|English]] comedy writer and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in ''[[Take It from Here]]'' and as h ===Radio and television===
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  • ...'', a radio show that was broadcast from March 2003 to April 2004 on [[BBC Radio 4]]. Barron's performance in the BBC's ''Test the Nation'' IQ test show on ...arron-dies-aged-83.html Keith Barron dies, aged 83] [[107.8 Radio Jackie|''Radio Jackie News'']], 15 November 2017 Retrieved 14 January 2018</ref>
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  • ...b|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/tinniswood_season.shtml|title=BBC – Radio 4 – Celebrating Peter Tinnisood|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> ...ed in all three media, and Bailey became a voice actor for [[BBC Radio|BBC Radio]] as well.<ref>Obituary in [[The Independent|The Independent]], 18 January
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  • ...la.gov.au/nla.news-article32850992 |title=Film World |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |location=Perth |date=1 February 1935 |access-date=4 March 2013 |page=2 | ...[[Ronald Millar]]'s ''[[The Big Tickle]]''. In 1962 he appeared in the BBC radio sitcom ''Discord in Three Flats'', along with Courtneidge and [[Vic Oliver]
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  • ...evue]] in the [[West 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 ...ayed a well-meaning but disaster-prone civil servant, and ''[[Many a Slip (radio series)|Many a Slip]]'', a panel game that combined humour and erudition, i
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  • ...imdb.com/title/tt0639828/|series=Maigret|access-date=2022-01-02}}</ref> an Australian entrepreneur. He had roles in episodes of ''[[w:The Avengers (TV series)|Th ...e award-winning [[w:BBC Radio|BBC Radio]] series ''[[w:This Sceptred Isle (radio series)|This Sceptred Isle]]''; he died midway through the production, and
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  • ...driver<ref name=guardian>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jan/23/gorden-kaye-obituary|title=Gorden Kaye obituary|first=Stuart|la ...%20Kaye%20audio%20page.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> He worked in [[hospital radio]] in Huddersfield (interviewing [[Ken Dodd]] and then [[the Beatles]] in 19
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  • ...ving been away from television for some time, he made an appearance in the Australian television series ''[[Neighbours]]'' in 1990, playing [[Lord Ledgerwood]] a [[Category:Male actors from Liverpool]]
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  • ...'. This was adapted for radio the same year, and appeared on [[BBC Radio 2|Radio 2]] on Christmas Eve. Brambell's booming baritone voice surprised many list ...erences "fairly amicably", and in the spring of 1978 performed a short BBC radio sketch entitled ''Scotch on the Rocks''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.step
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  • {{short description|Australian actor (1929-2018)}} ...018|access-date=29 November 2018|via=www.bbc.com}}</ref> was a Polish-born Australian actor and comedian, noted for his six-decade career internationally in Aust
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  • | television = ''[[The Goon Show]]'' (Radio)<br />The Harry Secombe Show, Secombe And Friends, [[Highway (TV series)|Hi ...d television presenter. Secombe was a member of the British [[radio comedy|radio comedy]] programme ''[[The Goon Show]]'' (1951–1960), playing many charac
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  • ...John Fortune]]. Bird had an acting career in film, television, theatre and radio for over 55 years. He appeared in films including ''[[Take a Girl Like You ...m,<ref name = Coveney>{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/28/john-bird-obituary|title = John Bird obituary|newspaper = [[The
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