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  • | birth_place = [[Belfast]], Ireland | death_place = [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]
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  • | birth_place = [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]] | notable_work = ''[[The Comedians (1971 TV series)|The Comedians]]''
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  • ...d Wise's persona by making him pompous and naive. Wise's character changed from being a conventional straight man into a pretentious and self-satisfied buf After Morecambe's death from a third heart attack on 28 May 1984, Ernie Wise spent some of his time at [
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  • ...r BBC Radio4 Great Lives 11 Jan 2011 b00x95hm.flac|Recorded January 2011]] from the BBC Radio 4 programme ''[[w:Great Lives|Great Lives]]''</center>}} ...ted to laughter|date=27 January 2022|work=BBC News}}</ref> He was released from his contract by Van Damm and concluded that a performing career was not a w
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  • ...Cats]]'' from 2005 to 2015, and on ''[[8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown]]'' from 2012 until his death in 2021. ...ustry]]. His mother, Mary (née McCreesh),<ref name="Telegraph obit" /> was from [[Cullaville]], [[County Armagh]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.belfast
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  • ...], on 24 March 1909, the son of Thomas Henry Trinder, a London tram driver from [[Shilton, Oxfordshire|Shilton]], Oxfordshire, and his wife Jennie Georgina ...{{cite journal |last1=Shephard |first1=Roy |title=Programme Guide |journal=Belfast Telegraph |date=27 August 1980 |page=8 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarc
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  • ...creen-8916513.html "Graham Stark: Actor, author and director who graduated from music hall to the big screen"], ''The Independent'', 31 October 2013</ref> ...Again]]''. Stark, as well as Lom and Kwouk, each appeared in seven titles from the series.
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  • ...nson following his death aged 68 |first=Keiran |last=Southern |newspaper=[[Belfast Telegraph]] |date=15 February 2021 |access-date=16 February 2021}}</ref> ''I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue'' developed from the long-running radio [[sketch show]] ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]
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  • ...' (1964), ''[[The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (film)|The Spy Who Came In from the Cold]]'' (1965), ''[[The Assassination Bureau]]'' (1969) and ''[[Norman ...15 December 2006 }}</ref> (originally surnamed "Misell"<ref>Davis, Barry. "From the BBC with Love", ''The International Jerusalem Post'', 2–8 January 201
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  • ...hat she "hated" her time in Petersfield, she and the other female evacuees from Battersea would use the local church hall there for acting, dancing and sin ...hy"/> Starting back at RADA in September 1945, Joyce dropped the "Needham" from her name and began using the stage name "Yootha Joyce" saying "it seemed le
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  • ...is films, and his performances had a strong influence on a number of later comedians. Sellers was nominated three times for an [[w:Academy Award|Academy Award]] ...ed four times and had three children from his first two marriages. He died from a heart attack, aged 54, in 1980. English filmmakers the [[Boulting brother
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  • ...came president of the [[British Music Hall Society]], taking over the role from [[Roy Hudd]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishmusichallsociety.com/pat
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  • ...e ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the la ...s first properly home-grown screen comedian. He was an influence on future comedians—particularly [[Charlie Drake]] and [[Norman Wisdom]]—and, culturally, o
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