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- {{Infobox television | genre = [[documentary television series|Documentary]]6 KB (811 words) - 16:28, 14 March 2023
- 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" />3 KB (410 words) - 15:35, 19 February 2023
- ...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-ham6 KB (914 words) - 14:27, 18 January 2023
- {{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 B9 KB (1,296 words) - 14:31, 11 March 2023
- | 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 [[r8 KB (1,155 words) - 19:57, 24 August 2024
- | occupation = Television producer, media executive, agent ...edia executive, and agent. She was founder and chairman of the independent television production company [[Hartswood Films]].17 KB (2,470 words) - 09:07, 3 February 2023
- ...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>15 KB (2,211 words) - 10:55, 14 December 2022
- ...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]]''.9 KB (1,335 words) - 16:14, 16 January 2023
- {{Infobox television ...tch]] show which ran on [[BBC Two|BBC2]] for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series from 1988 to 1991.10 KB (1,397 words) - 16:55, 15 September 2024
- | occupation = {{ublist|Radio & television writer|Television presenter|Radio personality}} |battles=[[Second World War]]12 KB (1,775 words) - 11:25, 24 August 2024
- ...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]], broa8 KB (1,218 words) - 00:02, 19 February 2023
- ...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), ''[[Ca11 KB (1,737 words) - 12:17, 26 December 2022
- ==Later television and film career== ...?]]'' in which he played Mr Franklyn, the Meldrum family solicitor; in the series he featured alongside many actors who he had previously worked with on ''[[11 KB (1,635 words) - 12:13, 2 September 2024
- ...ddle-aged men in [[sitcom]]s such as ''[[Please Sir!]]'' and ''[[Sykes (TV series)|Sykes]]''.<ref name="BBC19991008">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/ ...y Theatre and performed in numerous productions. During the [[Second World War]], he was called up and joined the [[Royal Air Force Police|RAF Police]] bu12 KB (1,737 words) - 08:10, 5 August 2024
- ...</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 Moonbase8 KB (1,154 words) - 08:08, 14 March 2023
- | 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 | acc13 KB (1,769 words) - 19:29, 1 January 2023
- {{Infobox television episode | series = [[Fawlty Towers]]15 KB (2,268 words) - 16:09, 25 August 2024
- | occupation = Actor, television producer, television presenter ...ginald Griffiths''', 12 October 1921 – 25 June 2006) was a Welsh actor and documentary filmmaker.18 KB (2,669 words) - 10:35, 25 August 2024
- ...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 19412 KB (1,827 words) - 20:19, 10 March 2023
- | 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]]". Mi13 KB (1,919 words) - 07:51, 11 September 2024