• Turn Out the Lights (TV series)
  ...[Pardon the Expression]]'', itself a spin-off from the highly popular soap opera ''[[Coronation Street|Coronation Street]]''. The series directors were David Boisseau and Michael Cox, production designers were Dennis Parki
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• Alec Bregonzi
  ...levision director of ''Hancock's Half Hour'' recommended Bregonzi to other directors, so that he also appeared in 1950s/60s shows starring [[Benny Hill]], [[Cha ...Royal Scandal (1996 film)|A Royal Scandal]]'' (1997), and ''[[w:Happiness (British TV series)|Happiness]]'' (2001), his last screen role.
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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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• Vic Oliver
  {{short description|Austrian-born British actor and radio comedian (1898–1964)}} ...or Oliver von Samek''' (8 July 1898 – 15 August 1964) was an Austrian-born British actor and radio comedian.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce
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• Tom Walls
  ...next decade. He and his co-star [[Ralph Lynn]] were among the most popular British actors of their time. ...t Party (entertainment)|concert party]] and in musical comedy, touring the British provinces and North America as the Jester in ''The Scarlet Mysteries''.<ref
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• Mel Smith
  ...//www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/526237/ |title=Smith, Mel |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] | access-date= 20 July 2010}}</ref> ...e title role in the sitcom ''[[Colin's Sandwich]]'' (1988–90), playing a [[British Rail]] employee with aspirations to be a writer.
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• Simon and Laura
  '''''Simon and Laura''''' is a 1955 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Muriel Box]] and starring [[Peter Finch]] and ...ome. Presented by H M Tennent Ltd, the play began a provincial tour at the Opera House Manchester on 30 August 1954, subsequently opening at the [[Novello T
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• Jonathan Miller
  | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ...{hlist|Humorist|[[w:physician|physician]]|[[w:Theatre director|theatre and opera director]]|actor|television presenter|author}}
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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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• Michael Balcon
  ...Hollywood-style moguls, Balcon emerged as a key figure, and an obdurately British one too, in his benevolent, somewhat headmasterly approach to the running o ...Films, and later headed British Lion Films. He served as chairman of the [[British Film Institute]] production board to help fund and encourage new work.
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• The Ladykillers (1955 film)
  {{Use British English|date=October 2014}} '''''The Ladykillers''''' is a 1955 British [[black comedy]] [[crime film]] directed by [[Alexander Mackendrick]] for [
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• Max Wall
  ...tp://articles.latimes.com/1990-05-23/news/mn-33_1_max-wall|title=Max Wall; British Dancer-Comedian Gained Fame in Beckett Plays|first1=From|last1=Staff|first2 ...e=MTH Timeline}}</ref> Wall re-emerged during the 1970s when producers and directors rediscovered his comic talents, along with the expressive power of his trag
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• Beryl Vertue
  | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ...he was a co-executive producer of the cinema version of [[The Who]]'s rock opera ''[[Tommy (1975 film)|Tommy]]'', directed by [[Ken Russell]] and starring [
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• Miles Malleson
  ...nglish actor and dramatist, particularly remembered for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s. Towards the end of his career he also a ..., (a children's play with a socialist message) was frequently performed by British amateur dramatic groups in the period after [[w:World War I|World War I]].<
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• Captain Mainwaring
  ...[[Kevin McNally]]. Mainwaring is the [[bank]] [[Management|manager]] and [[British Home Guard|Home Guard]] [[military unit|platoon]] commander, in the [[ficti ...his quotes, such as, "You stupid boy!", are engrained in [[British culture|British popular culture]]. In a 2001 [[Channel 4]] poll Captain Mainwaring was rank
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• Lew Grade
  | nationality = Russian (1906–1912)<br />British (1912–1998) ...dia of Television''</ref> 25 December 1906&nbsp;– 13 December 1998) was a British [[media proprietor]] and [[impresario]]. Originally a dancer, and later a [
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• Terry Jones
  ...ing partner [[Michael Palin]] wrote and performed for several high-profile British comedy programmes, including ''[[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]'' and ''[[The Fro ...r ''[[The Frost Report]]'' and several other [[David Frost]] programmes on British television.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/thefrostreport
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• Kind Hearts and Coronets
  {{short description|1949 British crime black comedy film directed by Robert Hamer}} '''''Kind Hearts and Coronets''''' is a 1949 British [[crime film|crime]] [[black comedy film]]. It features [[Dennis Price]], [
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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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• Michael Hordern
  | honorific_suffix = [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] '''Sir Michael Murray Hordern''' [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (3 October 1911{{snds}}2 May 1995)<ref name=dnb>Morley, Sherid
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