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  • '''''The Ghost Train''''' is a 1931 British [[comedy film|comedy]] [[thriller film]] directed by [[Walter Forde]] and starring [[Jack Hulbert]], [[Cicely [[Category:1930s comedy thriller films]]
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  • '''''Otley''''' is a 1968 British [[comedy film|comedy]] [[thriller film]], starring [[Tom Courtenay]] and [[Romy Schneider]].<ref>{{cite web|u [[Tom Courtenay]] plays Gerald Arthur "Gerry" Otley, a charming but feckless young drifter who scra
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  • '''''Smokescreen''''' is a 1964 British comedy crime drama film, written and directed by [[Jim O'Connolly]] and starring [ ...by Glynn Edwards. Above all, the general economy of the script makes this thriller much less improbable than many of its kind; there are no glaring loopholes
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  • ....com|accessdate=22 September 2017}}</ref> He performed in many Shakespeare plays at [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] and [[Regent's Park Open Air Theatre]].<ref name ...''.<ref>{{cite journal|title=TELEVISION TODAY; Reviews: In a rare class of comedy show|last=Bilbow|first=Marjorie|journal=[[The Stage and Television Today]]|
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  • '''''Nothing but the Best''''' is a 1964 British [[black comedy film]] directed by [[Clive Donner]] and starring [[Alan Bates]], [[Denholm ...sset, however, is its sprucely cheerful good looks: for a supposedly black comedy, ''Nothing But the Best'' keeps its spirits up remarkably."<ref>{{Cite jour
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  • | genre = Comedy-Thriller '''''The Ghost Train''''' is a stage comedy-[[thriller (genre)|thriller]], written in 1923 by the English actor and playwright [[Arnold Ridley]].
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  • ...ent/obituaries/article5548628.ece |title=Richard Coleman: Star of West End plays and TV comedies &#124; Times Online Obituary |access-date=8 September 2009 ...hen spent two years with the Worthing Repertory Company, appearing in many plays.
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  • | 1965 || ''[[The Nigel Barton Plays|Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton]]'' || Old man || TV play by [[Dennis Pot | 1973 & 1976 || ''[[Thriller (UK TV series)|Thriller]]'' || Old man/Blind man || Episodes: 'A Place To Die' and 'The Next Victim
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  • '''''The Ghost Train''''' is a 1941 British mystery thriller film directed by [[Walter Forde]] based on the [[The Ghost Train (play)|192 ''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' described it as "a classy thriller:.<ref>Ghost Train, ''The Monthly Film Bulletin''; London Vol. 8, Iss. 85,
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  • ...ex.html}}</ref> While he was a [[w:copywriter|copywriter]] there, he had a thriller [[w:screenplay|screenplay]] accepted and shot by [[w:BBC TV|BBC TV]] - ''Va He also wrote for [[w:ITC Entertainment|ITC Entertainment]]'s thriller series ''[[w:The Invisible Man (1958 TV series)|The Invisible Man]]'' (ITV,
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  • '''ISIRTA episodes and songs''': a list of episodes and sketches from the comedy radio series ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'', and the songs which w | rowspan="2" | [[ISIRTA plays, A-C|The Adventures of Little Martin Copperwick]] || rowspan="2" style="tex
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  • '''''Joseph Andrews''''' is a 1977 British [[historical drama|period]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Tony Richardson]]. It is based on the 1742 novel ''[[J The ballads were sung by [[Jim Dale]] who plays the gypsy in the movie.
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  • ...-acted-in-beckett-plays.html|title=Max Wall, 82, Is Dead; Acted in Beckett Plays|date=24 May 1990|work=The New York Times}}</ref> ...ic-hall]] entertainer [[Jack Lorimer|Jack (Jock) Lorimer]], a [[Scottish]] comedy actor from [[Forfar]], known for his songs and dancing, and his wife Stella
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  • ...TV series)#Dave Harris|Dave Harris]] in the 1970s–1990s British television comedy-drama ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]''.<ref name="bfi.org.uk">{{cite web|u ...]], appearing in its productions of ''[[The Good Soldier Švejk]]'' and two plays by [[Brendan Behan]], ''[[The Quare Fellow]]'' and ''[[The Hostage (play)|T
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  • ...1984</ref><ref>Amnon Kabatchnik ''Blood on the Stage, 1975–2000: Milestone Plays of Crime'' 2012 -. – Page 554 "A dastardly blackmailer is shot and poison ...017 }}, Doollee website</ref> and adapted for the [[Ealing Comedies|Ealing Comedy]] film ''[[Meet Mr. Lucifer]]'' (1953).
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  • ...recognised at an early age and he often played the leading roles in school plays. He briefly lived in [[Yalding|Yalding]] before moving to London. Evans att .../ref> In 1976, he had the lead role in [[Stanley Long|Stanley Long]]'s sex comedy ''[[Adventures of a Taxi Driver]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovi
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  • ...Easy Money (1948 film)|Easy Money]]'' (both 1948). He followed this with a thriller, ''[[Snowbound (1948 film)|Snowbound]]'', and a crime melodrama ''[[Good-Ti ...Dancing Years (film)|The Dancing Years]]'' (1950), a sizeable hit; and the thriller ''[[Murder Without Crime]]'' (1950), was less successful.
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  • ...thirty films between 1940 and 1970. He wrote [[West End theatre|West End]] plays, songs and sketches for [[revues]], and film scripts. Phipps was the author of the plays, "First Stop North", "Bold Lover", "The Burning Boat", and of numerous lyri
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  • ...''[[Bond Street (film)|Bond Street]]'' (1948) and was the female lead in a thriller ''[[Sleeping Car to Trieste]]'' (1948), playing a spy.<ref name=independent ...cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55188169 |title=Jean Kent plays five women in newest film |newspaper=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] |vol
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  • ...ref name="Bexhill">{{cite news |title="While the Sun Shines". Gay Rattigan Comedy at the De La Warr Pavilion |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/v |'' Objects of Affection'' ([[Alan Bennett]] plays)
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