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  • | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|MBE]] | birth_place = [[Skipton]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], [[England]]
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  • {{Short description|British actress (1919–2013)}} ...via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba9f490d0|title=Olga Lowe|publisher=}}</ref>
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  • {{short description|British actor}} | birth_place = [[w:Kuala Lumpur|Kuala Lumpur]], [[w:British Malaya|Malaya]]
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  • {{short description|Austrian-born British actor and radio comedian (1898–1964)}} | death_place = [[w:Johannesburg|Johannesburg]], [[w:Union of South Africa|South Africa]]
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  • {{Short description|British actress and singer (1898–1983)}} {{Use British English|date=August 2011}}
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  • ...ho also wrote, directed and painted|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/olaf-pooley-versatile-character-actor-especially-adept-at-portraying-restra ...''The Johnstown Monster''. He also wrote the screenplay for a film version of [[Bernard Taylor (author)|Bernard Taylor]]'s novel ''The Godsend'' (1980).
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  • ...er 1987) was a British [[character actress]] who appeared in more than 100 British films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f4c4272|archive-u ...alised British subject. Theirs was a comfortable middle-class life, with a German cook and housekeeper living in the family home.<ref>[https://www.ancestry.c
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  • ...Giggle in Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era. ...Ivor Cogan. Mark's work as a [[haberdasher]] entailed frequent moves. One of Cogan's early homes was over his shop in [[Worthing]], Sussex.
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  • ...s appointed an [[w:Order of the British Empire|Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in 1959. ...ty) Weintrop (1856–1935) were Polish [[Jew]]s who were married in the city of [[Radom]], Poland, and fled to [[Łódź]] on their wedding day to avoid a
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  • ...ottenham was part of Middlesex when Moody was born, it did not become part of London until 1965-->, England ...[The Twelve Chairs (1970 film)|The Twelve Chairs]]'' (1970) and ''[[Flight of the Doves]]'' (1971), in which Moody shared the screen with ''Oliver!'' co-
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  • {{short description|British actor (1943–2014)}} | alma_mater = [[London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]]
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  • | last = ''The Thoughts of Chairman Alf'' (1998) | nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]]
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  • | birth_place = [[Prague]], [[Kingdom of Bohemia]], [[Austria-Hungary]] | nationality = {{hlist|British|Czech}}
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  • {{Short description|British actor and singer (1906–1972)}} | alma_mater = [[w:University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology|Manchester Technical College]]
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  • ...[:File:Andrew Sachs, audio description of London Zoo.ogg|audio description of London Zoo]] for [[VocalEyes]] }} ...s name on British television and found his greatest fame for his portrayal of the comical Spanish waiter [[Manuel (Fawlty Towers)|Manuel]] in ''[[Fawlty
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  • ...Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]], [[Officer of the Order of Australia|AO]] |birth_place = [[Karachi]], [[British Raj|British India]]
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  • |name = John Sullivan <br /> <small>[[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]</small> ...=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222162606/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/578834/|archive-date=22 February 2017}}</ref>
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  • {{Short description|British actor}} {{Use British English|date=August 2012}}
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  • ...on and theatre.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9efee33a|title=Max Wall}}</ref> ...who was looking after them, were killed by a bomb dropped from a [[Germany|German]] [[Zeppelin]] which also destroyed their house.<ref name=maxwallsociety>{{
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  • ...Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] for his portrayal of King [[Louis XVI]] in ''[[Marie Antoinette (1938 film)|Marie Antoinette]]'' ...eman" roles – as a doctor, lawyer, accountant or other professional member of society.
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