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  • {{Infobox television | genre = [[documentary television series|Documentary]]
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  • He debuted as a director with the war documentary ''Blitz on Britain'' (1960). His subsequent films include ''[[A King's Stor ...episodes of ''[[Here Come the Double Deckers]]'' (1970-1971), a children's series.<ref name=":0" />
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  • ...English character actor, perhaps best known for roles in British TV drama series of the 1970s and 1980s, and for his role as [[Socrates]] in ''[[Bill & Ted' ...the character of [[Justin Hammer]] in the first season of ''[[Iron Man (TV series)|Iron Man]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://comicvine.gamespot.com/justin-ham
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  • {{Infobox television ...at a different aspect of [[British culture]] and [[parody]]ing pre-[[World War II]] literature aimed at schoolboys. In the title, "ripping" is a chiefly B
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  • | television = ...nowles]] as a sequel to the [[television|television]] [[World War II|World War II]] sitcom ''[[Dad's Army]]'', for which Snoad and Knowles had written [[r
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  • | occupation = Television producer, media executive, agent ...edia executive, and agent. She was founder and chairman of the independent television production company [[Hartswood Films]].
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  • ...series ''[[Please Sir!]]'', the film of the same name, and the spin-off TV series ''[[The Fenn Street Gang]]''. ...t0064754/fullcredits#cast | title=Full cast and crew for Oh! What a Lovely War | publisher=IMDb | accessdate=22 November 2011}}</ref>
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  • ...ed a military canteen, but was discharged once it emerged that he had lied about his age.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/h ...he long-running BBC [[music hall]] show, ''[[The Good Old Days (British TV series)|The Good Old Days]]''.
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  • | occupation = {{ublist|Radio & television writer|Television presenter|Radio personality}} |battles=[[Second World War]]
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  • ...Wallis The radio companion] By Paul Donovan. HarperCollins, 1991</ref> and television roles,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=K-E2cAzsxwUC&pg=PA115&dq=%22B ...[By Jeeves|Jeeves]]'' in 1975. He presented and narrated a semi-dramatised documentary titled ''A Pleasant Terror'' on the life and works of [[M. R. James]], broa
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  • ...e, film and television actor. He is known to have performed in at least 77 television and film productions between 1940 and 1988. ...(1966 film)|Cul-de-Sac]]'' (1966), directed by [[Roman Polanski]], ''[[Man About the House]]'' (1974), ''[[Confessions of a Pop Performer]]'' (1975), ''[[Ca
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  • ...</ref> Before the Pink Panther, he appeared as a French officer in ''[[The War Lover]]'' (1962) and had a cameo role in the James Bond movie ''[[Thunderba ...r]] becomes UK Prime Minister), ''[[All Creatures Great and Small (1978 TV series)|All Creatures Great and Small]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who]]'' (''[[The Moonbase
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  • | television = ...writer who created classic BBC radio shows and inspired 'Oh! What A Lovely War' | work=The Independent | first=Cy | last=Young | date=4 January 2013 | acc
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  • {{Infobox television | genre = [[Documentary series|Documentary]]
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  • ...men in [[w:sitcom|sitcom]]s such as ''[[Please Sir!]]'' and ''[[Sykes (TV series)|Sykes]]''.<ref name="BBC19991008">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/ ...rmed in numerous productions. During the [[w:Second World War|Second World War]], he was called up and joined the [[w:Royal Air Force Police|RAF Police]]
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  • {{Infobox television episode | series = [[Fawlty Towers]]
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  • | occupation = Actor, television producer, television presenter ...ginald Griffiths''', 12 October 1921 – 25 June 2006) was a Welsh actor and documentary filmmaker.
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  • ...ear period from 1947 to 1957. Often considered to reflect Britain's [[post-war]] spirit,<ref name="Thorpe">{{cite web |last1=Thorpe |first1=Vanessa |title {{quotebox|width=30%|quote=In the immediate post-war years there was as yet no mood of cynicism: the bloodless revolution of 194
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  • | series = ...Train Robbery". Cook and Moore revived some of the sketches on their later television and stage shows, most famously the [[two-hander]] "[[One Leg Too Few]]". Mi
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  • ...b.archive.org/web/20160829161835/http://www.visitilife.com/why-classic-hot-series-may-never-be-screened-again-2/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and was [[mentione ...io, he played a variety of characters in the [[BBC]]'s long-running comedy series ''[[The Navy Lark]]'', including Able Seaman Ginger, Lieutenant Bates, Rear
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