• Dirk Maggs
  | occupation = {{ubl|[[Radio producer]]|Writer}} | known_for = Radio Comedy, Radio Plays, Podcasts, Streamed Audio Productions
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• Vic Oliver
  {{short description|Austrian-born British actor and radio comedian (1898–1964)}} | occupation = {{hlist|Actor|radio comedian}}
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• Denise Coffey
  ...m'', London: Methuen, 2003, p.128. The source gives the Glasgow College of Drama, but the names appear to be interchangeable.</ref><ref name=":0" /> she beg ...e presenter was so impressed that he hired her as an interviewer for the [[BBC]] in Edinburgh, where she remained for three years.<ref name=":0" /> In the
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• Georgy Girl
  '''''Georgy Girl''''' is a 1966 British [[romantic comedy|romantic]] [[comedy-drama]], starring [[Lynn Redgrave]] in the titular role, with [[Charlotte Ramplin | [[19th Directors Guild of America Awards|Directors Guild of America Awards]]
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• Blake Edwards
  | style = [[Comedies]], [[Slapstick comedy]], [[Comedy drama]], [[Musicals]], [[Adventure films]], [[Action films]], [[Sex comedies]], [ ...n thought of as primarily a director of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films. Late in his career, he took up writing, prod
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• John Laurie
  ...date=29 April 2018}}</ref> Laurie appeared in scores of feature films with directors such as [[Alfred Hitchcock]], [[Michael Powell]], and [[Laurence Olivier]], ...ome an actor under [[Elsie Fogerty]] at the [[Central School of Speech and Drama]], then based at the [[Royal Albert Hall]], [[London]] and first acted on s
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• Beryl Vertue
  ...illigan's scripts for the Goon Show. Later she was tasked with phoning the BBC regarding contracts for Alan Simpson, and his colleague Ray Galton. Not onl ...04/06_june/16/coupling_beryl_vertue.shtml |title=Beryl Vertue |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=16 June 2004 |accessdate=9 January 2012}}</ref> Sykes and Milligan
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• Graham Crowden
  ...n why [[Ian Marter]] was originally hired for a role, as the producers and directors considered Crowden too old to be seen running about and taking on a larger ...lcoholic Dr Jock McCannon. In 1990, he appeared as a lecherous peer in the BBC comedy ''[[Don't Wait Up (TV series)|Don't Wait Up]]'' and in 1991 he playe
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• Val Guest
  ...Screenonline}} Reprinted from ''Reference Guide to British and Irish Film Directors''</ref> ...%22Film%20Talk%22%20%22Directors%20at%20Work%22%20Dixon&f=false Film Talk: Directors at Work], Retrieved 10 November 2014 (see page 26 paragraph two), {{ISBN|97
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• Caroline Aherne
  ...d the [[Hollies Convent FCJ School]] in [[West Didsbury]] and then studied drama at [[Liverpool John Moores University|Liverpool Polytechnic]].<ref name="ma ...a comedy [[Advice column|agony aunt]] across the north of England on the [[BBC Night Network]].<ref name="kelner" />
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• Jonathan Miller
  ...Theatre|Old Vic Theatre]]. As a writer and presenter of more than a dozen BBC documentaries, Miller became a television personality and public intellectu ...ore leaving secondary school, he performed comedy several times on the BBC radio programme ''Under Twenty Parade''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wilmut|first1=Rog
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• Lionel Jeffries
  ...ctor Lionel Jeffries dies, aged 83 |access-date=19 February 2010|publisher=BBC News|date=19 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://entertainment ...[[Burma Star]]. (He blamed the humidity there for his hair loss<ref name="BBC 10 Feb"/> at the age of 19.<ref name="Telegraph"/>) He also served as a cap
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• Press Gang
  | genre = [[Comedy drama]] '''''Press Gang''''' is a British children's television comedy drama consisting of 43 episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989
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• Victor Spinetti
  ...s educated at [[Monmouth School]] and the [[Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama]] in Cardiff, of which he became a Fellow. After various menial jobs, Spine ...s educated at [[Monmouth School]] and the [[Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama]] in Cardiff, of which he later became a Fellow. Early on, he worked as a w
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• Waiting for God (TV series)
  | network = [[BBC One|BBC1]] ...ost notably [[Gold (UK TV channel)|Gold]] and [[Drama (British TV channel)|Drama]]. Series one to five have run (and in some cases continue to run) on [[Pub
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• Dennis Potter
  | genre = [[Drama]] ...nies from Heaven]]'' (1978), ''[[The Singing Detective]]'' (1986), and the BBC television plays ''[[Blue Remembered Hills]]'' (1979) and ''[[Brimstone and
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• Tommy Cooper
  ...t|3|in|m}},<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3592301/Just-like-Tommy.html|title=Just like Tommy|first=Dominic|last=Caven ...old, I was getting very serious with a girl", much to the amusement of the BBC interviewer and himself.<ref name=":0" />
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• Eric Sykes
  | medium = Television, radio ...early 1960s when he appeared with [[Hattie Jacques]] in several popular [[BBC]] comedy television series.
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• Kind Hearts and Coronets
  ...archive-date=29 January 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Thirteen critics and directors voted for ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' in the 2012 BFI poll of The Greatest ...me.ch.bbc.co.uk/1799109b8ef843739de5575e411bfff0|work=BBC Genome|publisher=BBC|access-date=6 May 2017}}</ref>
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• Last of the Summer Wine
  | distributor = [[BBC Worldwide]] * [[BBC One|BBC1]]
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