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  • {{short description|British actor}} '''Fred Ferris''' (13 July 1905 – 25 January 1978) was a British actor, stage producer and playwright.
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  • ...n]], [[Teddy Knox]], [[Chesney Allen]] and [[Charlie Naughton]] a group of entertainers commonly known as [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]].<ref>Mayer p A group of [[United Kingdom|British]] [[American pioneer|pioneers]] decide to take part in the 1898 [[Alaska]]
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  • "'''Alternative Roots'''" is an episode of the [[w:United Kingdom|British]] [[w:comedy|comedy]] television series ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goo ...ie', 'Keltic Kilty' and 'Kinda Kinky', who were forced to work together as entertainers, including on "''The Black and White Minstrel Show''". They rebel against b
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  • ...in 1981.<ref>Halliwell p.312</ref> It portrays a family of [[music hall]] entertainers in the late 1920s and early 1930s, at the time of the [[Great Depression]] * [[Jonathan Adams (British actor)|Jonathan Adams]] as Brendan Sykes (6 episodes)
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  • | distributor = [[British Lion Film Corporation|British Lion]] {{small|(UK)}} ...son+bbc+radio&pg=PA276|title=The Daily Telegraph Third Book of Obituaries: Entertainers|first=Group Limited|last=Telegraph|date=1 June 1998|publisher=Pan|isbn=9780
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  • ...ite=British Comedy Guide}}</ref> A group of [[ENSA]] entertainers with the British army in the North Africa desert during the Second World War thwart a Nazi p An [[ENSA]] group tours around North Africa entertaining British troops. One night, Bert hears the tune (with no words) for "[[Lily Marlene]
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  • '''''Time Flies''''' is a 1944 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Walter Forde]] and starring [[Tommy Handley]] A professor invents a time sphere which takes a group of 1940s entertainers to Elizabethan London, where they encounter Queen Elizabeth and [[Sir Walte
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  • ...014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Its plot concerns a wartime group of musical entertainers who meet up a year after being [[demobbed]] and decide to reform their act. ...od introduction to the film business". Tempean would go on to produce many British [[B-movies]] throughout the 1950s and into the early 1960s <ref>{{Cite AV m
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  • ...d his wife Nellie Theresa Carr.<ref name=onshow/> O'Shea was reared in the British [[w:music hall|music hall]] tradition and performed on stage as early as ag ...d [[w:CBS|CBS]] [[w:variety show|variety show]] ''[[w:The Entertainers|The Entertainers]]'' (1964–65). In 1968, O'Shea was cast in the [[w:television movie|telev
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  • '''''I Thank You''''' is a 1941 [[black and white]] [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Marcel Varnel]] and starring [[Arthur Askey ...lms/I-Thank-You_1941 |title=I Thank You_1941 {{!}} Britmovie {{!}} Home of British Films |website=www.britmovie.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://we
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  • '''Terence A. Duggan''' (15 April 1932&nbsp;– 1 May 2008) was a British comedian and actor who had a successful career in cabaret and variety, and ...batics]] which led to film stuntman roles. Duggan was also a member of the entertainers' charity The [[w:Grand Order of Water Rats|Grand Order of Water Rats]].<ref
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  • ...melodic, following a binary verse–verse–chorus structure, with a small [[w:British dance band|dance band]] or orchestra providing the backing. The vocals were * ''[[Dreaming (1944 British film)|Dreaming]]'' (1944)
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  • '''''Welsh Rarebit''''' is a British [[radio]] [[variety show]] broadcast from [[Cardiff]] by the [[BBC]] betwee ''Welsh Rarebit'' featured a host of Welsh entertainers, many of whom became household names; regulars included [[Wyn Calvin]], [[M
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  • | nationality = British '''David Morris''' (5 July 1896 &ndash; 8 June 1960) was a British [[music hall]] comedian who made a successful transition to radio and telev
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  • ...].{{cn|date=March 2022}} In the 1960s, he was among Britain's highest-paid entertainers. In the 1970s, he owned the Swan, a noted inn at [[Streatley, Berkshire|Str ...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
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  • '''Pete and Dud''' were characters played by the comedians and entertainers [[Peter Cook]] and [[Dudley Moore]]. [[Category:Fictional British people]]
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] | nationality = British
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  • | nationality = British [[Category:English impressionists (entertainers)]]
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  • | honorific suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|MBE]] ...wards appeared occasionally on BBC TV's pre-school series ''[[Play School (British TV series)|Play School]]'' as a storyteller, in 1967 and from 1973 through
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[w:RSAMD|FRSAMD]] '''James Allan Short''', [[w:Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]], [[w:RSAMD|FRSAMD]] (4 April 1928 – 13 April 2001), known pr
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