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  • [[Category:British television documentaries]] [[Category:Documentary films about actors]]
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  • | studio = Pyramid Films '''''Can You Keep It Up For A Week?''''' is a 1974 British sex comedy film.<ref>CAN YOU KEEP IT UP FOR A WEEK?
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  • | distributor = [[British Lion Film Corporation]] '''''Loot''''' is a 1970 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Silvio Narizzano]]. It is based on the [[Loot
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  • | studio = Stanley Donen Films ...&cp=1&pos=3#3 |title=Staircase - Details |website=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]] |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=November 20, 2018 }}<
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  • [[Category:2006 television films]] [[Category:2006 films]]
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  • ...date=10 November 2020}}</ref> He is best known for his performances in the films ''[[The Dam Busters (1955 film)|The Dam Busters]]'' (1955), ...d Companions (1957)|website=BFI}}</ref> Later, Fraser had leading roles in films such as ''[[El Cid (film)|El Cid]]'', ''[[Tunes of Glory]]'', ''[[The Trial
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  • | image = If British poster.jpg | caption = British cinema poster
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ...became involved in theatre at [[w:University of Oxford|Oxford]] and joined British television in 1956 shortly after the founding of independent television, pr
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  • ...r K. Furse|Roger]], became a stage designer and painter who also worked in films.<ref name="Brief">{{cite web|url=http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/ ...rry McKenzie]]'' (1972).<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba2e9db72|title=Judith Furse}}</ref>
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  • | nationality = British ...introducing the underground language [[polari]] to the [[w:United Kingdom|British]] public.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ptop/alabaster/A1035
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  • ...3)"], BFI screenonline, reprinted from MacFarlane (ed.) ''Encyclopaedia of British Cinema'', London: Methuen/BFI, 2003, p. 534</ref> ...Own]]'' (1945) starring [[James Mason]]. [[British National Films Company|British National]] borrowed him for ''[[The Echo Murders]]'' (1946), a Sexton Blake
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  • ...1912 – 1 February 1975) was an English actor, co-starring in many popular British [[Comedy film|comedies]] of the 1950s and 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http:// ...e and the Showgirl]]'' (1957). He broke from this typecasting in his later films, such as his starring role in ''[[Games That Lovers Play (film)|Games That
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  • | awards = [[w:British Comedy Awards|British Comedy Awards]]<br />1997 [[w:Lifetime Achievement Award|Lifetime Achieveme ...actor]] on [[w:BBC Scotland|BBC Scotland]] and later became known for his British television comedy shows ''[[The Stanley Baxter Show]]'', ''[[The Stanley Ba
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  • ...re mill drama ''[[Champion House]]'' (1968) and played small roles in such films as ''[[The Party's Over (1965 film)|The Party's Over]]'' (1965), starring [ ...siccomedy.co.uk/the-waterloo-bridge-handicap-1978|title=The Race Is On.. – British Classic Comedy|date=16 January 2016|publisher=britishclassiccomedy.co.uk|ac
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  • ...Stratford East]], he played an instrumental role in the 1960s birth of the British musical theatre scene after an era when American musicals had dominated the ...imes]]|date=April 5, 1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fe1bdd1|title=Lionel Bart|website=Bfi.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{
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  • ...tor remembered for his lead role in the [[Television in the United Kingdom|British television]] sitcom ''[[Father, Dear Father]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http:// ...dhurst. Cargill became a commissioned officer in the [[British Indian Army|British Indian Army]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt
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  • ...hout his 50-year career, including the three 1960s [[The Beatles|Beatles]] films ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'', ''[[Help! (film)|Help ...c.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18148017 "Victor Spinetti, actor and star of Beatles films, dies"], BBC News, 19 June 2012</ref> But Harrison also later told him, "Yo
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  • * [[Film4 Productions|Channel Four Films]] * [[Working Title Films]]
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  • ...ppeared in two of the ''[[Carry On series on screen and stage|Carry On]]'' films before being cast as [[Alma Halliwell]] in [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] [[soap ...in two of the [[Carry On films]], a long-running series of British comedy films: she had a supporting part as a cab driver in ''[[Carry On Cabby]]'' (1963)
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  • ...ans Revival" style jazz were very popular in Britain. In January 1963, the British music magazine ''[[NME]]'' reported that the biggest trad jazz event to be ...of the [[National Secular Society]] and a Distinguished Supporter of the [[British Humanist Association]]. Melly was President of the BHA 1972–4, and was al
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