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  • ...etired from public life suffering from [[w:Alzheimer's disease|Alzheimer's disease]]. He died in December 1997, aged 82. [[Category:Musicians from Glasgow]]
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  • ...y Pay Corps due to ill-health.<ref name="auto"/> After the war, recovering from [[w:tuberculosis|tuberculosis]] in a British Legion Sanatorium, he publishe ...a Yorkshire [[family saga]] set in the textiles industry, shown on the BBC from 1967 to 1968. Ling wrote for ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]'', ''[[Sexton Blake]
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  • ...ormer]]'', ''[[Confessions of a Driving Instructor]]'' and ''[[Confessions from a Holiday Camp]]''.<ref name="Sky"/> From 1985 to 1986, Booth appeared as pub landlord Ted Pilkington in the short-li
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  • ...ormally cast as a solid, reliable character with a down-to-earth attitude. From 1977 to 1981 he played PC Wilmot in [[Roy Clarke]]'s series ''[[Rosie (TV s ...V series ''[[Where the Heart Is (British TV series)|Where the Heart Is]]'' from 1997 to 2002.
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  • ...started his career in the medium in the early 1930s. He appeared on screen from the late 1940s until retiring in 1978. ...Bentley as two of the three stars. The most memorable feature of ''Take It From Here'' was ''[[The Glums]]'', with Edwards playing the slightly seedy Pa Gl
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  • ...nt his last six months in a [[nursing home]], suffering from [[Alzheimer's disease]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/feb/03/guardian [[Category:2006 deaths]]
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  • ...n, and a son from his first marriage.<ref name="auto"/> He had Alzheimer's disease.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tobyhadoke.com/doctor-who/richard-davies-welsh-c [[Category:2015 deaths]]
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  • ...e Toreadors]]'' from 1956 to 1957, and ''[[Pickwick (musical)|Pickwick]]'' from 1963 to 1964.<ref name="Indy"/> Later, she was a member of the [[Royal Shak ...ad been diagnosed with [[Alzheimer's disease]] shortly after her departure from ''EastEnders'', and subsequently moved into a [[nursing home]] in [[Hove]].
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  • ...lace = [[w:Epsom|Epsom]], [[w:Surrey|Surrey]], England<ref>GRO Register of Deaths: MAY 1986 17 74 SURREY MID-EASTERN - Hylda Baker, DoB = 4 February 1905 age ...g, producing and performing her own shows. Her stage act included a gossip from the [[w:Northern England|North of England]], with a silent, sullen companio
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  • ...yth"}}</ref> she married unknown actor [[Errol Flynn]] in 1935 and retired from the screen. Flynn soon became one of Hollywood's biggest box office attract Damita died of [[Alzheimer's disease]] on 21 March 1994, in [[Palm Beach, Florida]], aged 89.<ref>{{Cite web|url
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  • | children = 6 (three with Blossom, three from extramarital affairs) ...Bygraves in the role of Archie's teacher. The idea for the programme came from record producer [[Wally Ridley]], who also produced Bygraves' records durin
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  • ...rk=Shropshire Star|date=4 July 2016|page=16}}Report by Mat Growcott.</ref> From the age of seven he lived in [[Staffordshire]],<ref>[http://www.shropshirem ...ed particular acclaim for his supporting role as the [[Alzheimer's disease|Alzheimer's]] sufferer Felix Hutchinson in ''[[Our Friends in the North]]'' ([[BBC Two]
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  • ...309&dat=19880925&id=2a1UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GJADAAAAIBAJ&pg=2478,2432896}}</ref> from which she graduated in 1952.<ref>[https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles?aos=actin ..., 2009) and as Marjorie Page, a woman in the early stages of [[Alzheimer's disease]] ("The Bespectacled Bounder", 2012). Tewson played a school teacher in a [
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  • ...iliated by this, Windsor was sent back to London in 1944 along with a note from her dance teacher which read: "Barbara is a born show-off who loves to perf ...as chosen to appear in the chorus of the musical ''[[w:Love From Judy|Love From Judy]]'' in the [[w:West End theatre|West End]] in 1952 which ran for a su
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  • ...al Lunatic Asylum]]. Seven years later, on 26 July 1890, he was discharged from Broadmoor and reunited with his wife. He legally dropped his surname. ...on|Wimbledon]], South London, after her [[pregnant]] mother hanged herself from a tree.
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  • ...mwell Road, as George Frederick Joffre Hartree, he took his [[stage name]] from the theatrical knight, [[Sir Charles Hawtrey]], whose surname was a differe ...That Fire?]]'' (1939). In all he appeared in more than 70 films, including from this period [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Sabotage (1936 film)|Sabotage]]'' (1
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  • ...me ''The Frost Interview'' from 2012. He received the [[BAFTA Fellowship]] from the [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] in 2005 and the [[Lifet Frost studied at [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]], from 1958, graduating with a Third in English.<ref>J. Hughes-Onslow, "Sir David
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  • ...nee}} Spiro) (1910–1965), was a novelist and biographer who was originally from [[w:County Cork|County Cork]], Ireland. Miller had an elder sister, Sarah ( ...''Under Twenty Parade''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wilmut|first1=Roger|title=From Fringe to Flying Circus: Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960–1
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