• John Paddy Carstairs
  ...writer and painter, Mr. John Paddy Carstairs, fills a large room with his gay Mediterranean scenes...}}</ref> ...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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• Julian and Sandy
  ...dio 4|BBC Radio 4]] programme on the characters, they were named after the writers [[w:Sandy Wilson|Sandy Wilson]] and [[w:Julian Slade|Julian Slade]].<ref>{{ ...ly politicised identity adopted by members of the [[w:Gay Liberation Front|Gay Liberation Front]]".{{sfn|Baker|2003|p=96}}
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• Ned Sherrin
  | 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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• Alan Melville (writer)
  ...55]], and the book and lyrics for the musical ''[[Gay's the Word (musical)|Gay's the Word]]'' (1950, music by [[Ivor Novello]]). The musical premiered at *''[[Weekend at Thrackley]]'' (London, Skeffington & Son, 1934, Re-published British Library Publishing Division, 2018, {{ISBN|978-0712352116}})
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• Loot (1970 film)
  | 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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• Stanley Baxter
  | 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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• Not On Your Nellie
  '''''Not On Your Nellie''''' is a British [[sitcom]] that ran from 1974 until 1975. It starred veteran actress [[Hyld ...being assaulted in the line of duty; George (David Raynor), an effeminate gay man who runs a nearby fashion boutique; and Gilbert (Roger Howlett), his fl
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• Mel Smith
  | spouse = {{marriage|Pamela Gay-Rees|1 May 1988}} ...//www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/526237/ |title=Smith, Mel |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] | access-date= 20 July 2010}}</ref>
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• Jimmy Edwards
  Edwards and Sykes toured British theatres with their farce ''[[Big Bad Mouse]]'' which, while scripted, let [[Category:English radio writers]]
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• Graham Chapman
  '''Graham Chapman''' (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was a British actor, comedian and writer born in England. He was one of the six members o ...openly homosexual and a supporter of [[LGBT rights by country or territory|gay rights]], and was in a [[Domestic partnership|long-term partnership]] with
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• Wilfrid Brambell
  ...Obituary, 19 January 1985</ref> In the [[Second World War]], he joined the British military forces entertainment organisation [[Entertainments National Servic ...Son]]'', some episodes of which were almost exact remakes of the original British scripts.
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• Round the Horne main characters
  The persona adopted by the writers for Horne was not greatly different from his real-life one,{{sfn|Massingber ...end.{{sfn|Took|Coward|2000|pp=2, 5, 10 and 13}} As the show developed, the writers gave him more to do. In the second series Smith continually interrupts the
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• The Curse of Steptoe
  ...ews with colleagues, friends and family of the actors, and the ''Steptoe'' writers, [[Ray Galton]] and [[Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)|Alan Simpson]].<ref>[http ...ielgud|Gielgud]]. Meanwhile, across town at the [[BBC Television Centre]], writers [[Galton and Simpson]] are no longer working on scripts for comedian [[Tony
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• The Queen of Spain's Beard
  ...also deals with taboos surrounding [[premarital sex]], [[LGBT stereotypes|gay stereotypes]] and the practice of [[child marriage]]. ...der |series-link=The Black Adder |credits=Rowan Atkinson & Richard Curtis (writers) |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=6 July 1983 |series-no=1 |numb
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• Victor Spinetti
  ...including productions staged in Europe. His many television appearances on British TV, include ''Take My Wife'' in which he played a London-based booking agen ...Two drama about Anne Frank. In 1992, he voiced the King of the Rats in the British children's animated programme ''[[Tales of the Tooth Fairies]]'' (in the ep
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• Goodness Gracious Me (TV series)
  ...[[South Asian stereotypes]]. In the television series, most of the [[White British|white]] characters were played by [[Dave Lamb]] and [[Fiona Allen]]; in the ...rofessional. (In her 1996 novel ''[[Anita and Me]]'', Syal had referred to British parodies of south Asian speech as "a goodness-gracious-me accent".)
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• Desmond's
  ...ondon, and features a predominantly black [[Guyanese in the United Kingdom|British Guyanese]] cast. With 71 episodes, ''Desmond's'' became Channel 4's longest ...insight into black family life different from what had been seen before on British television.<ref name="screenonline">{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline
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• George Grossmith Jr.
  ...was not successful, but he wrote another (also unsuccessful piece), ''The Gay Pretenders'' (1900), in which he included roles for both himself and his fa ...French comedies (like ''The Spring Chicken'') or collaborations with other writers (such as ''The Girls of Gottenberg''), but he wrote the libretto to ''Peggy
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• The Navy Lark
  ...}}</ref> is a radio [[sitcom|sitcom]] about life aboard a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Royal Navy|Royal Navy]] [[Frigate#Modern Age|frigate]] named HMS ''Trou ...] of ''Tratvia'' and was concerned with the various (mis)adventures of the British [[Ambassador|Ambassador]] Sir Jeremy Crichton-Buller (Francis) and his [[Di
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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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