• Sheila Steafel
  {{short description|South African-born British actress}} | nationality = British
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• John Paddy Carstairs
  ...n Keys'''; 11 May 1910, in [[London]] – 12 December 1970, in London) was a British [[film director]] (1933–62) and television director (1962–64), usually ...ollywood film and British series of ''The Saint''. Carstairs directed many British comedies including many of [[Norman Wisdom]]'s films.<ref>{{cite web|url=ht
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• Danny La Rue
  ...t; La Rue later adopted the song as his theme tune.<ref>{{cite book |title=British Hit Singles |last=Rice |first=Tim |author2=Jo Rice |author3=Paul Gambaccini He was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in the 2002 [[Elizabeth II|Queen]]'s [[Orders, decorations, an
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• Paul Eddington
  ...5) was an English actor best known for playing Jerry Leadbetter in the [[w:British sitcom|television sitcom]] ''[[The Good Life (1975 TV series)|The Good Life ...n was made a [[w:Order of the British Empire|Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the 1987 New Year Honours.<ref name="Independent obituary
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• Frank Muir
  His aunt was [[Rose Muir]] (d. 1970), [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]]; she and her brother were orphaned at a young age, and when he ...echnician, was posted to Iceland, which was then a Danish possession under British occupation, and while there, he did some work for the forces radio station.
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• George Cole (actor)
  '''George Edward Cole''', [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (22 April 1925 – 5 August 2015) was an English actor whose c ...|author-link=Barry Took |title=Laughter in the Air: An Informal History of British Radio Comedy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zO4tAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA114 |
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• Mike Reid (actor)
  | nationality = British ...y which time the character of Frank Butcher was one of the most popular on British television, Reid took a long break from the show due to stress from acting
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• Rodney Bewes
  ...y.co.uk/the-likely-lads-the-movie-1976|title=The Likely Lads Movie|website=British Classic Comedy|date=28 February 2016|access-date=22 November 2017}}</ref> ...ng 1982, he served as spokesman for the now defunct trade organisation the British Onion Marketing Board, appearing in a number of print advertisements during
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• Nigel Hawthorne
  ...e, he won four [[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA TV Awards]] for [[British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance|Best Light Ente ...e Madness of King George]]'' (1994). He later won the BAFTA TV Award for [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]], for the 1996 series '
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• Lynda Bellingham
  | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] ...as the mother in the long-running series of "[[w:Oxo Family|Oxo Family]]" British TV advertisements between 1983 and 1999, and as a panellist on the ITV lunc
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• Freddie Starr
  {{short description|British stand up comedian and singer}} Freddie Starr was the subject of one of the best known British [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]] newspaper headlines. On 13 March 198
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• George Sanders
  {{Short description|British actor and singer (1906–1972)}} '''George Henry Sanders''' (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British actor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class
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• David Jason
  ...url = https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba16c38d9 | publisher = British Film Institute | access-date = 14 January 2021}}</ref> known professionally ...Awards]] (BAFTAs), (1988, 1991, 1997, 2003), four [[British Comedy Awards|British Comedy Awards]] (1990, 1992, 1997, 2001) and seven [[National Television Aw
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• Margaret Rutherford
  ...was appointed an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire|Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in 1961 and a Dame Commander (DBE) in 1967. ...scene of their recent troubles, the Rutherfords emigrated to [[Madras]], [[British India|India]], but Margaret was returned to Britain when she was three year
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• Donald Sinden
  ...en-obituary.html |work=The Telegraph |date=12 September 2014}}</ref> was a British actor.
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• Eric Sykes
  ...heir father was a labourer in a [[cotton mill|cotton mill]] and a former [[British Army|army]] [[sergeant|sergeant]]. When Sykes was two, his father remarried ...ure (1962 film)|Kill or Cure]]'', starring [[Terry-Thomas]] with a cast of British comedy stalwarts including one of the first film appearances by [[Ronnie Ba
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• Barbara Windsor
  ...tEnders'' in 1994 and won the 1999 [[w:British Soap Award for Best Actress|British Soap Award for Best Actress]], before ultimately leaving the show in 2016 w ...web.archive.org/web/20200930185719/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1964/film/british-actress|archive-date=30 September 2020|access-date=13 December 2020|website
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• John Le Mesurier
  ...] Le Mesurier was posted to [[British Raj|British India]], as a [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] with the [[Royal Tank Regiment]]. Followi ...Punch and Judy Man]]''. In 1971, Le Mesurier received his only award: a [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] "Best Television Actor" award for his
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• David Niven
  {{Short description|British actor and novelist (1910–1983)}} ...= [[File:Flag of the British Army.svg|25px]] [[w:British Army|British Army]]
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• Diana Dors
  ...nt on her lodgings, by posing for the London Camera Club for one [[Guinea (British coin)|guinea]] (£1, 1s in "old money", £1.05 in "new") an hour. Signed to ...Lean.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27894613|title=British Film News|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|issue=34,204|date=7 Augus
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