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| nationality = British ...tish TV scriptwriter of British [[w:sitcoms|sitcoms]]. He has also written novels, plays and drama series (for both television and radio).

<blockquote>A sort of British loss of face. He was our last casualty before we actually went into action. [[Category:1971 British novels]]

| honorific_suffix={{postnominal|country=GBR|size=100%|list=[[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]]}} ...ichael James Bentine" with a date of birth of 26 January 1922.</ref> was a British comedian, [[w:Comedy film|comic actor]] and founding member of [[The Goon S

...as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British television. ...in the [[Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)|Intelligence Corps]] of the [[British Army]]<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/8

| birth_place = [[Ahmednagar]], [[British India]] | citizenship = British (1918–1962)<br/> Irish (1962–2002)