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  • ...rwich]], [[w:Norfolk|Norfolk]] on 22 February 2010 of [[w:lung cancer|lung cancer]],<ref name=thestage/> and was interred at St Peter's Church, [[w:Walsingha [[Category:2010 deaths]]
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  • ...ing July 6 at Ayr Camp. Much as I love the profession, I am not resigning from a well-paid all-the-year-round job for a 10-week season" he told me. Just ...rm bell and telling the audience to "give order" when making announcements from "the committee" in between acts. He wrote his own scripts, with occasional
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  • ...ar = 2004}}</ref> (1 May 1924 &ndash; 20 January 1997)<ref>GRO Register of Deaths: JAN 1997 A1B 212 WEST SURREY - Dennis Main Wilson, DoB = 1 May 1924, aged Main Wilson died of lung cancer at the age of 72.
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  • ...– Roy Castle, mmn = Swallow</ref> – 2 September 1994)<ref>GRO Register of Deaths: "SEP 1994 B13A 237 CHILTERN & SOUTH BUCKS – Roy Castle, DoB = 31 Aug 193 ...st Riding of Yorkshire]]. The son of a railwayman, he was a [[tap dancer]] from an early age and trained at Nora Bray's school of dance with Audrey Spencer
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  • ...y production of ''[[The Boy Friend (musical)|The Boy Friend]]''; clockwise from left: Stella Claire, Lyn Connorty, [[Eric Berry (actor)|Eric Berry]], Dilys From 1950, Laye appeared in numerous [[West End theatre|West End]] revues, inclu
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  • ...surname and was known as '''Jane Evans.'''<ref name="g" /> She graduated from the [[Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama|Cardiff College of Music and D ...eld]] in 1958, followed by [[Birmingham Repertory Theatre|Birmingham Rep]] from 1968. Her stage appearances include Margaret More in the Welsh Theatre Comp
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  • ...ogglebox]]'' from its inception in 2013 until 8 April 2016. Aherne died of cancer at the age of 52. ...bs/broadcasters1.html |archive-date=19 July 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> From the age of two, Aherne was brought up in [[Wythenshawe]], [[Manchester]].<r
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  • ...] and [[Kenny Dorham]], [[Oscar Pettiford]], and, later, [[Carmen McRae]]. From 1954 to 1955, he was part of the [[J. J. Johnson]]/[[Kai Winding]] Quintet. He died in Manhattan of lung cancer at the age of 85.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/ar
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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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  • ...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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  • ...(World War II)|British Expeditionary Force]] to France and made broadcasts from the [[First Battle of El Alamein|battle of El Alamein]]<ref>{{cite web |url ...a special programme in July 1962 showing the first live television signal from the [[United States|United States]] via the [[Telstar|Telstar]] satellite.
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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 ...], several miles from his home. A heavy smoker, he had also been suffering from [[emphysema]] and [[asthma]].<ref name="BBCa">{{cite news|url=http://news.b
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  • ...inburgh]] in 1925. He also ran his own private elocution and drama school, from which, with the help of the playwright [[John Drinkwater (playwright)|John ...al association with the author [[James Bridie|James Bridie]], which lasted from 1939 until the dramatist's death in 1951. Sim not only acted in Bridie's wo
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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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  • ...rs such as [[Will Hay]] and [[Arthur Askey]]. He also produced early films from [[Carol Reed]] and [[Alfred Hitchcock]] and was an early supporter of write ...e news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article184389126 |title=Film Gossip From London |newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Brisbane)|The Telegraph]] |location=Quee
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  • ...895 |title=BBC News - Coronation Street actress Betty Driver dies, aged 91 from kidney failure. |work=BBC |date=2011-10-15 |access-date=2011-12-11}}</ref> ...tood out so much that Manders asked her to come forward and sing with him. From then on, Driver's mother began taking her to talent contests in Manchester,
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  • ...Sinden was an Associate Artist of the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] (RSC) from 1967. Outstanding among his many stage appearances for the RSC, both at [[S ...d received advice about the character's costume and mannerisms in the role from the Regency novelist [[Georgette Heyer]].<ref>Jennifer Kloester, "Fine and
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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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  • ...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 ...|George Formby]] (he is now known as George Formby Sr). Formby Sr suffered from a chest ailment, identified variously as [[bronchitis]], [[asthma]] or [[tu
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