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  • {{Short description|English actor}} * ''[[Child's Play (1954 film)|Child's Play]]'' (1954) - Police Superintendent
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  • He married Betty Kelly in 1938, with whom he had one child, Harriet. They later divorced and in 1949 he married the actress [[Peggy Ev [[Category:British male comedians]]
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  • {{short description|English actor, director and producer (1939–2011)}} ...n director|Director]], [[w:television producer|producer]], [[w:child actor|child actor]]
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  • ...March 2017|newspaper=Daily Mirror|accessdate=11 March 2017}}</ref>) was an English actor known for his television work, notably the role of businessman Frank ...inster]], Worcestershire, Forgeham moved to [[Erdington]], Birmingham as a child,<ref name=guardian>[https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/mar/13/jo
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  • | nationality = English * {{Marriage|Jayne Male|2010}}
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  • ...ion=Glasgow|date=23 September 1985|accessdate=17 April 2014}}</ref> was an English entertainer.<ref name=bfi/> [[Category:English entertainers]]
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  • ...ba123d1df|title=Christopher Beeny|website=BFI}}</ref> He had a career as a child actor, but was best known for his work as the footman Edward Barnes on the ...Christopher Beeny — RADA|last=Fabrique|website=www.rada.ac.uk}}</ref> As a child, Beeny began his career at the age of six when he danced for the [[Ballet R
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  • ...s-date=18 January 2020}}</ref> (2 September 1937 – 17 January 2020) was an English actor best known for his appearances as "Mr Derek" in ''[[Basil Brush#Basil ...stress Pamela]]'' (1974), prior to becoming familiar to British television child viewers as "Mr. Derek" in the children's series ''The [[Basil Brush]] Show'
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  • ...August 1931&nbsp;– 3 February 2013), known as '''Peter Gilmore''', was an English actor, known for his portrayal of Captain James Onedin in 91 episodes of th ...three times: to actress [[Una Stubbs]] (1958–1969), with whom he adopted a child; to [[Jan Waters]] (1970–1976); and to actress, and former ''Onedin Line'
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  • '''Eric Leslie Barker''' (12 February 1912 – 1 June 1990) was an English comedy actor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f591958|ar * ''[[Daddy (1917 film)|Daddy]]'' (1917) – John, as a child
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  • | spouse = [[Margo Johns]] (1952–1962) (1 Child)<br>Susannah Carroll (1969–2006) (2 Children) (his death) ...ur Rigby, Jr]], mother, Mary Rigby, and father, [[Leo Franklyn]], were all actors. He was taken to Australia as a baby, where his father toured with musical
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  • {{Short description|English actor}} {{Use British English|date=August 2011}}
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  • ...Stanley Watling''' (13 January 1923 – 22 May 2001) was an [[English People|English]] [[actor]].<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9ef ...aler, Watling trained at the [[Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts]] as a child; and made his stage debut in ''[[Where the Rainbow Ends]]'' at the [[Weston
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  • '''Jimmy Hanley''' (22 October 1918 – 13 January 1970) was an English actor who appeared in the popular [[Huggetts trilogy|Huggetts]] film series Born in [[Norwich]], [[Norfolk]], Hanley began his career as a [[child actor]] before becoming popular in juvenile roles.<ref name=allmovie/> He w
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  • ...s '''Ballard Berkeley''',{{efn|Berkeley is pronounced "bark-lee".}} was an English actor of stage and screen. He is best remembered for playing [[Major Gowen] |1954 || ''[[Child's Play (1954 film)|Child's Play ]]'' || Dr. Nightingale ||
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  • ...eaths: DEC 1966 5b 17 EALING&nbsp;— Arthur H. Haynes, aged 52</ref> was an English comedian and star of ''The Arthur Haynes Show'', a comedy sketch series pro Arthur Haynes was born in London, the [[only child]] of a [[Fulham]] baker.<ref name="BBC/BFI">Mark Lewisohn ''Radio Times Gui
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  • ...' (born '''Peter Ronald Gray''', 23 August 1949 – 11 December 2004) was an English [[actor]] and [[screenwriter]]. He is perhaps best remembered for starring ...hristopher Blake, because there was another Peter Gray registered with the actors' union, [[Equity (trade union)|Equity]]. He chose the surname Blake from th
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  • ...oughby Wittenham Rees Goddard''' (4 July 1926&nbsp;– 11 April 2008) was an English actor whose trademark rotund figure was well known on television and in fil * ''[[Heart of a Child]]'' (1958) - Scott
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  • ...35</ref> His two step-brothers (who were also his first cousins) were also actors. ...whom he had known previously in England<ref>''A Who's Who of British Film Actors'', by Scott Palmer, The Scarecrow Press 1981 p307</ref> (Livesey's sister M
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  • {{Short description|English comedian and actor (1909–1968)}} ...aths – Dec 1968 5a 202 Brent, Frederick Frinton aged 54 (59?)</ref> was an English [[comedian]], and [[music hall]] and television actor. He is primarily reme
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