• Unidentified Flying Oddball
  | based_on = ''[[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]]''; novel by [[Mark Twain]] | gross = $4.475 million (US/Canada [[theatrical rental|rentals]])<ref name=rentals/>
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• Ramsbottom Rides Again
  ...nd [[Jerry Desmonde]] in supporting roles. Pop singer [[Frankie Vaughan]], in his film debut, sings "This is the Night" and "Ride, Ride, Ride Again."<ref In his book, ''Great Hollywood Westerns'', author John Howard Reid included ''
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• Alan Melville (writer)
  ...entitled ''My Perfect Holiday'' and won the first prize; a return trip to Canada (1934). Soon afterwards he sent the [[BBC North]] Region six short stories ...1936 the BBC offered him a job as a scriptwriter in the variety department in London under [[Eric Maschwitz]] at £250 per year. After a three-month trai
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• The Man in the White Suit
  | name = The Man in the White Suit | image = The Man in the White Suit poster.jpg
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• Salt and Pepper (film)
  | gross = $1,750,000 (US/Canada rentals)<ref>"Big Rental Films of 1969", ''Variety'', 7 January 1970 p 15</ ...d [[location shooting|on location]] in [[London]] and at [[Elvetham Hall]] in [[Hampshire]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]] [[Don
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• Oxford Blues
  ...n-Mayer]] film ''[[A Yank at Oxford]]'' and was Lowe's first starring role in a feature. ...een two walls along a very narrow street. Thus begins Di Angelo's troubles in Britain.
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• Privilege (film)
  ...and [[Norman Bogner]] wrote the script. Some of it was filmed on location in [[Birmingham]], England, partly at [[Birmingham City F.C.]]'s [[St Andrew's ...d celebrity in the country. His stage show involves him appearing on stage in a jail cell with handcuffs, beaten by police, to the horror and sympathy of
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• Zaphod Beeblebrox
  ...er]] in the various versions of the [[comedy science fiction|comic science fiction]] series ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' by [[Douglas Adams]]. ...at-grandfather are actually his direct descendants (see [[Minor characters in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth|Zaphod Be
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• The Lumberjack Song
  ...rview in 2007, Palin stated that the scene and the whole song were created in about 15 minutes, concluding a day's work, when the Python crew was stuck a ...(New York, NY, 2002), p. 194.</ref> was recorded at the Work House studio in London on 3 October 1975 and mixed at Harrison's Friar Park home the follow
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• Stephen Murray (actor)
  A member of [[Clan Murray]] headed by the [[Duke of Atholl]], he was born in [[Partney]], [[Lincolnshire]], the son of the Reverend Charles Murray, Rect .../ref> He once again appeared under heavy make-up as the elderly Dr Manette in ''[[A Tale of Two Cities (1958 film)|A Tale of Two Cities]]'' (1958).<ref>{
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• Michael Bentine
  ...ess, he learned to manage a stammer and subsequently developed an interest in amateur theatricals, along with the Tomlinson family, including the young [ In [[w:World War II|World War II]], he volunteered for all services when the w
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• Kynaston Reeves
  ...as '''Kynaston Reeves''', was an English [[character actor]] who appeared in numerous [[film]]s and many [[Television#Genres|television]] [[play (theatr Reeves was born in London on 29 May 1893 and was the first of two sons of Arthur Robert Reeves
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• Dead Parrot sketch
  ...and [[Graham Chapman]] and initially performed in the show's first series, in the eighth episode ("Full Frontal Nudity", which first aired 7 December 196 ...title=The Dead Parrot sketch performed on ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' in 1969|description=Listen to a clip from the sketch.}}
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• Son of the Pink Panther
  ...ni died on June 14, 1994 and Edwards retired from film-making a year later in 1995. ...While investigating her disappearance in the South of France, he has a run-in with the kidnappers, and a local ''gendarme'', named Jacques Gambrelli ([[R
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• The Ministry of Silly Walks
  [[File:Ministry of Silly Walks.jpg|thumb|John Cleese as a civil servant in the halls of the Ministry]] ...larity. Cleese has cited the [[physical comedy]] of [[Max Wall]], probably in character as [[Professor Wallofski]], as important to its conception.
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• George Sanders
  ...[[Tom Conway]]), and [[Simon Templar]], ''The Saint'', in five films made in the 1930s and 1940s.<ref>George Sanders The Guardian 26 Apr 1972: 5.</ref> ...ers family were living at Saint Petersburg; the mother, Dagmar, was a lady-in-waiting to the Dowager Empress, and it was said to be through this connecti
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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)
  | format = [[Comic science fiction]] ...first radio comedy programme to be produced in stereo, and was innovative in its use of music and sound effects, winning a number of awards.<ref name="d
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• The Goodies
  ...Bill Oddie]], [[Tim Brooke-Taylor]], [[Graeme Garden|Graeme Garden]] <br />in a screenshot from the title sequence <br />of the BBC television series ...ll Oddie|Bill Oddie]] (b. 1941). The trio created, wrote for and performed in their [[The Goodies (TV series)|eponymous television comedy show]] from 197
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• The Abominable Dr. Phibes
  ...n}} Note: Figures are for [[distributor rentals]] in the United States and Canada.</ref> ...plagues were dropped, new ones added and they are ordered differently from in the Bible.
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• Will Hay
  ...h-produced film-comedy, and in 1938 he was the third highest-grossing star in the UK. Many comedians have acknowledged him as a major influence. Hay was ...CKTON – William Thomson Hay</ref> By his late teens, Hay had become fluent in Italian, French and German and secured employment as an interpreter.<ref na
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