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  • ...esented ''The Big Top Variety Show'', a television series of variety shows from a circus ring. In 1984 he presented the second series of the game show ''Wh ...discomfort and stomach pains, he had a nine-hour operation on his stomach. Cancer was removed. However, though he was never told, Winters' condition was alre
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  • ...TV series)|Crossroads]]'' soap opera as occasional character Archie Gibbs from 1967 to 1982 and a couple of cinema films. He achieved his greatest success ...89, Haig became too ill to work and later died of [[stomach cancer|stomach cancer]]. His wife was revue actress Sybil Dunn, who had died the previous year,
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  • ...t. He was best known for being a regular face on television for many years from the 1970s onwards, appearing in series such as ''[[The Comedians (1971 TV s ...o rest in Belfast | date=3 March 2012}}</ref> with his grandmother hailing from [[Sicily]]. In his early days Carson was a choirboy at St Patrick's Catholi
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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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  • ...[[w:Clydebank|Clydebank]] by a widowed aunt after the death of his mother from [[w:diabetes|diabetes]]. His father was employed by the [[w:NAAFI|NAAFI]].< ...t 2014.</ref> He returned to the role of Mr Mackay, now nearing retirement from the Prison Service, in the first episode of ''[[Going Straight]]'' (1978),
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  • ...s, arrived in Britain from Russia, while her mother's family were refugees from Romania.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Mantel |first=Hilary |url=http://www.nybo ...o]] comedy programme ''[[Take It From Here]]'', replacing [[Joy Nichols]], from 1953 to the end of its run in 1960.
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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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  • ...small private school, Selwood House. She enjoyed the cinema; her heroines from the age of eight onwards were [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] act Dors often played characters suffering from unrequited love, and by the mid-1950s, she was known as "the English [[Mari
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  • ...everything so cold and grey." After moving to Brockley, south east London from the age of 12 in 1931, he attended Brownhill Road School (later to be renam ...]]. The Milligan-Stephens partnership was finally ended by Stephens' death from a brain haemorrhage in January 1959; Milligan later downplayed and disparag
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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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  • * United States (from 1951) * Ireland (from {{Circa|1970}})
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