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  • ...We Who Are About To...'' (with [[Anton Rodgers]]) in 1968 at the Hampstead Theatre Club.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://countdown.alanayckbourn.net/Countdown_Prod ...]], and the two of them ran their own company for five years at the Little Theatre in [[w:Aberystwyth|Aberystwyth]].<ref name=Edna>[https://www.theguardian.co
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  • {{Short description|English actress, director, and playwright (1936–2022)}} '''Denise Dorothy Coffey''' (12 December 1936 – 24 March 2022) was an English actress, director and playwright.
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  • '''Sheila Fearn''' (born 3 October 1940 in [[Leicester|Leicester]]) is an English retired [[actress|actress]] best known for playing [[Audrey Collier]], the ...ountain, leaving her with a prominent limp, which made her believe casting directors would no longer be inclined to employ her.
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  • ...21 April 1930, [[w:London|London]] &ndash; 4 June 2006) was an [[w:England|English]] [[w:actor|actor]] who appeared in a number of stage and television roles. ...career as a professional actor in 1955 in [[w:repertory theatre|repertory theatre]] in [[w:Farnham|Farnham]], then in [[w:York|York]], [[w:Bromley|Bromley]]
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  • ...BC]]. He appeared in a variety of radio and television satirical shows and theatre shows, some of which he also directed. ....stm|publisher=BBC|access-date=21 April 2014}}</ref> he became involved in theatre at [[w:University of Oxford|Oxford]] and joined British television in 1956
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  • ...people who were scriptwriters or were behind the camera were suddenly made directors. It wasn't that Crabtree was an unsatisfactory director, just that we found ...2017 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and was one of the directors on ''[[Quartet (1948 film)|Quartet]]'' (1948).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://
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  • | occupation = {{hlist|Actor|theatre manager|director|producer}} ...rofessionally '''Lupino Lane''', was an English actor and [[Actor-manager|theatre manager]], and a member of the famous [[Lupino family|Lupino family]], whic
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  • '''Melvyn Kenneth Smith''' (3 December 1952 – 19 July 2013) was an English comedian, actor and director. Smith worked on the [[sketch comedy]] shows ' ...f [[Sheffield]]'s [[Crucible Theatre]] for two years. Later, he directed a theatre production of ''Not in Front of the Audience''.<ref name=debretts>{{cite we
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  • '''Thomas Kirby Walls''' (18 February 1883 – 27 November 1949) was an English stage and film actor, producer and director, best known for presenting and ...er which Walls commissioned and staged a series of farces at the [[Aldwych Theatre]] that ran almost continuously over the next decade. He and his co-star [[R
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  • | nationality = English ...{{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (born 5 September 1937) is an English writer, director and producer. He became known for his writing partnership
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  • ...Shakespeare plays at [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] and [[Regent's Park Open Air Theatre]].<ref name="auto"/> ...a <!-- Not the Oliviers until 1984.-->[[Olivier Award|Society of West End Theatre Award]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olivierawards.com/winners/view/item9
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  • {{Use British English|date=October 2014}} * [[Katie Johnson (English actress)|Katie Johnson]]
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  • | language = English ...er on 30 August 1954, subsequently opening at the [[Novello Theatre|Strand Theatre]] in London's West End on 25 November. Directed by Murray Macdonald, it sta
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  • ...dian whose performing career covered [[music hall]], films, television and theatre.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ef ...In 1925 he was a speciality dancer in the [[London Revue]] at the [[Lyceum Theatre, London|Lyceum]]. He became determined not to rely on his father's name, s
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  • | nationality = English ...>BRITISH FILM IDOL CASTS ORAL BRICKS: James Mason Says Rank Is Leading the English Movie Industry Into Trouble Outspoken Critic
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  • ...roup who presented a different stage play each week at the Croydon 'Grand' theatre. She is best known for playing the role of Mina Holmwood in the horror film ...ead throughout the film.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rigby|first1=Jonathan|title=English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema|publisher=Reynolds & Hearn|year=2004|pag
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  • | language = English ...level of verbal invention, the flow of the action is further broken by the directors' repetitive habit of employing close-ups for every punchline; and the origi
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  • ...://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/arts/24annakin.html}}</ref> was an [[England|English]] [[film director|film director]]. ...3), ''Make Fruitful the Land'' (1945), ''We of the West Riding'' (1945), ''English Criminal Justice'' (1946), ''[[It Began on the Clyde|It Began on the Clyde]
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  • ...John Andrew Sharland'''; 7 September 1922&nbsp;– 27 September 2011) was an English television comedy [[screenwriter|screenwriter]], [[television producer|prod ...Dance,'' she was also the first woman to own a [[West End theatre|West End theatre company.]] His first public appearance was at the age of seven, when he was
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  • '''Lionel Charles Jeffries''' (10 June 1926 – 19 February 2010) was an English actor, director, and screenwriter.<ref name="bbc">{{cite news |url=http://n ...He entered [[repertory]] at the [[Lichfield Garrick Theatre|David Garrick Theatre]], [[Lichfield]], [[Staffordshire]] for two years and appeared in early Bri
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