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  • ...ever Been Gone'' when she died on 25 May 2002, aged 75, from [[w:emphysema|emphysema]] in [[w:Denville Hall]] actors' home, a west London nursing home to which [[Category:2002 deaths]]
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  • ...suffered a stroke in 2003 and after years of heavy smoking also developed emphysema.<ref>{{cite news |date=8 December 2012 |title=Lost and found |newspaper=[[S [[Category:2015 deaths]]
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  • Prior to his association with Hancock, Nation had declined an offer from scriptwriter [[David Whitaker (screenwriter)|David Whitaker]] to write for In 1973, following an eight-year absence from scriptwriting for the series, Nation returned to writing for the Daleks on
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  • With [[Barry Cryer]] Junkin wrote for [[Morecambe and Wise]] from 1978 to 1983 as well as two Christmas special in 1972 and 1976.<ref>{{cite ...ral miles from his home. A heavy smoker, he had also been suffering from [[emphysema]] and [[asthma]].<ref name="BBCa">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/h
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  • ...d Gaiters]],'' which ran for twenty episodes. In the series of adaptations from P. G. Wodehouse ''[[What Ho! Jeeves]]'' (1973–81) he played the recurring ...1 at [[Charing Cross Hospital]] in London, aged 72. He had suffered from [[emphysema]].<ref name=Billington/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/ar
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  • He died from [[emphysema]] in [[Bushey]], [[Hertfordshire]], aged 79, leaving a widow, the actress [ [[Category:1987 deaths]]
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  • ...6 April 1995) was an English television, film and stage actor and comedian from the [[w:music hall|music hall]] tradition. ..., pg18</ref> His first stage appearance was aged 10 when he joined a group from [[Gale & Polden]] called the 'Five O'clock Follies' as an acrobat.<ref name
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  • ...was an English [[jazz]] and [[blues]] singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973 he was a film and television critic for ''[[The Observer]]''; ...ften entered its tropical Palm House and there chatted to wounded soldiers from a nearby military hospital. It was the incongruity of this sight, men smoki
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  • ...in ''[[Monarch of the Glen (TV series)|Monarch of the Glen]]'' (2000–05). From the late 1980s, with [[Kenneth Branagh]] as director, he performed Shakespe ...red a relationship.<ref name=more/> The family occasionally received money from a wealthy relation, and Briers' maternal grandparents paid for his educatio
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  • ...ce=[[Chalfont St Peter]], [[Buckinghamshire]], England<ref>GRO Register of Deaths: JUN 1980 19 1081 CHILTERN/B - John Paton Laurie, DoB = 25 Mar 1897</ref> ...versary Souvenir 1923-1973|type=The page in the souvenir is a reproduction from the original journal, which was published in March 1933|publisher=BBC|pages
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  • ...hese years he was awarded a pair of drama masks, made by the [[Red Cross]] from barbed wire. Sam Kydd died of [[emphysema]] on 26 March 1982, aged 67. His son Jonathan Kydd has edited 4 volumes of
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