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  • '''Samuel Gabriel Costa''' (17 June 1910 &ndash; 23 September 1981) was an English singer, entertainer and broadcaster. Initially a popular singer in the [[B ...jlp>[https://www.jewishlivesproject.com/profiles/sam-costa "Sam Costa", ''Jewish Lives Project'']. Retrieved 16 March 2021</ref>
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  • {{cite book |title = Who's Who of British Jazz ...ll speaking role in many episodes, often as a parodic [[Indigenous peoples of Africa|African]], Native American or [[Arab|Arab]] [[Tribal chief|chieftain
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  • ...>{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publi ...inning a ''[[Melody Maker|Melody Maker]]'' competition for his arrangement of a jazz chorus the next year.<ref name="Telegraphobit">{{cite news|url=https
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  • ...Giggle in Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era. ...Ivor Cogan. Mark's work as a [[haberdasher]] entailed frequent moves. One of Cogan's early homes was over his shop in [[Worthing]], Sussex.
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  • {{short description|English actor, composer, singer and writer}} ...ottenham was part of Middlesex when Moody was born, it did not become part of London until 1965-->, England
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  • ...century. Aubrey attended Portsmouth Municipal College and [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art|RADA]]. His first stage appearance in 1944 was at the [[Regent ...tomania]]'' (1975),<ref name=NYT/> and [[Gene Wilder]]'s ''[[The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother]]'' (1977).<ref name=NYT/>
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  • | post-nominals = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] | birth_place = [[Metropolitan Borough of Hackney|Hackney]], London, England
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  • '''Bernard John Manning''' (13 August 1930 – 18 June 2007) was an English comedian and nightclub owner.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pr-inside.com/c ...result that Manning was rarely seen on television in the last few decades of his career.<ref name="Timesobit">{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk
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  • ...a creative organization. He is known for his leadership, and his guidance of young Alfred Hitchcock. ...s Ealing Films, and later headed British Lion Films. He served as chairman of the [[British Film Institute]] production board to help fund and encourage
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  • ...yearofbirth_offset=0|last=Find my past|title=Arthur Howard}}</ref>) was an English stage, [[film actor|film and television actor]].<ref name=mcfarlane/><ref>{ ...clopedia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA369|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|pu
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  • | death_place = [[London Borough of Barnet|Barnet]], London, England ...]]|pages=14}}<!--|access-date=2006-12-13--></ref> He appeared in a variety of stage, film, television and radio productions throughout his career.
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  • ...ty Python]] would perform) and ''[[Marty (TV series)|Marty]]'', the latter of which won Feldman two [[w:British Academy Television Awards|British Academy ...ps://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/04/obituaries/marty-feldman-film-comic-victim-of-heart-attack-at-48.html |access-date=12 November 2021 |newspaper=The New Yo
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  • ...n he was appointed an [[w:Order of the British Empire|Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in 1959. ...ty) Weintrop (1856–1935) were Polish [[Jew]]s who were married in the city of [[Radom]], Poland, and fled to [[Łódź]] on their wedding day to avoid a
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  • | birth_place = [[Prague]], [[Kingdom of Bohemia]], [[Austria-Hungary]] Lom was noted for his precise, elegant enunciation of English.<ref name=DTObit>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituari
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  • ...[:File:Andrew Sachs, audio description of London Zoo.ogg|audio description of London Zoo]] for [[VocalEyes]] }} ...s name on British television and found his greatest fame for his portrayal of the comical Spanish waiter [[Manuel (Fawlty Towers)|Manuel]] in ''[[Fawlty
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  • ...niversity College]] <br /> [[w:Royal Academy of Dramatic Art|Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] ...or roles in several films. In the 1960s, he rose to prominence in the role of bigoted [[cockney]] [[Alf Garnett]] in the [[BBC]] television sitcom ''[[Ti
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  • | alma_mater = [[w:University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology|Manchester Technical College]] ...two-parter episode of [[Batman (TV series)|''Batman'']] (1966), the voice of [[Shere Khan]] in Disney's ''[[The Jungle Book (1967 film)|The Jungle Book]
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  • | birth_place = [[Maida Vale]], [[County of London|London]], England ...State Athletics}}</ref> 9 December 1897{{spaced ndash}}24 May 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric character.
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  • ...th_date = 16 January 2014 (age 69)<ref>https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0da66e4</ref> ...mic|John Lumic]] in the episodes "[[Rise of the Cybermen]]" and "[[The Age of Steel]]". He was sometimes credited without the [[hyphen]] in his surname.
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  • | resting_place = [[w:Liberal Jewish Cemetery, Willesden|Liberal Jewish Cemetery]], London ...Holmes à Court then deposed him in a boardroom coup and purged the company of all his staff, even, Lord Grade noted sadly, his tea lady. Later, he observ
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