• The Huggetts (film series)
  ...ctional family who appear in a series of British films which were released in the late 1940s by [[w:Gainsborough Pictures|Gainsborough Pictures]]. The fi ...ctor)|John Blythe]] also appear, and return (playing different characters) in the three Huggetts films that followed.
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• Max Kester
  ...ecorded in 1933 and later sung by many artists including [[Frank Sinatra]] in 1957.<ref name=times/> ...bed by [[Denis Gifford]] as the "first radio family to appear in a regular series" on British radio.<ref name=gifford>[[Denis Gifford]], ''The Golden Age of
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• Appointment with Fear (radio)
  .../www.oocities.org/gregorym101/awf.html|title=Appointment with Fear/The Man in Black|accessdate=2014-07-16}}</ref> ...e=2014-07-16}}</ref> A tenth series was broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1976.
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• Sandy Powell (comedian)
  *{{Marriage|Katie Hughes|1942|1947|end=d.}} ...nned a cruise around the world with his wife, Kay White), he again said it in a Coventry theatre, for the last time.
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• Ealing comedies
  ...ogo.jpg|thumb|upright=1.30|right|The [[Ealing Studios]] logo as it appears in the opening credits of ''[[The Titfield Thunderbolt]]'' (1953)]] ...009. {{ISBN|978-0-9555886-2-4}}</ref> although some sources list ''[[Davy (film)|Davy]]'' (1958) as the final Ealing comedy.<ref>http://www.britmovie.co.uk
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• Ford Prefect (character)
  ...isode One of [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)|the BBC TV series]] ...radio and LP versions)<br />[[David Dixon]] (television)<br />[[Mos Def]] (film)
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• Susan Shaw
  Shaw was born '''Patsy Sloots''' in West Norwood, London. She had wanted to become a dress designer and was wor ...(1947). Shaw was in ''[[Holiday Camp (film)|Holiday Camp]]'' (1947) which introduced the Huggett family, although she did not play a Huggett.
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• Pat Dixon
  ...e="Times obit" /> (1891–1946) and Edith (née Wales, ?–1945).<ref name="WMD in WW" /> He was educated at [[w:Winchester College|Winchester College]] and [ ...at Dixon was "scholarly and intelligently humorous&nbsp;... and as radical in his approach to comedy as we were",{{sfn|Carpenter|2004|p=105}} while Muir
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• Crazy Gang (comedy group)
  ...y Gang''' were a group of British entertainers, formed in the early 1930s. In the mature form the group's six men were [[Bud Flanagan]], [[Chesney Allen] ...in a show called "The Big Crazy Gang" at the London Palladium and on tour in 1933.
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• Stanley Unwin (comedian)
  ...h in which many of the words were altered in playful and humorous ways, as in its description of [[Elvis Presley|Elvis Presley]] and his contemporaries a ...n and languages at [[University of Westminster|Regent Street Polytechnic]] in [[London|London]].<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.10
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• Take It from Here
  ...n programmes such as ''[[Round the Horne]]'' and in many television comedy series. ...on for a new weekly comedy series to star Edwards, Nichols and Bentley. He introduced Muir to Norden, and asked them if they would collaborate to write the scrip
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• Basil Dearden
  | occupation = Film director ...English film director.<ref name=V>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1967/film/reviews/only-when-i-larf-1200421591/ |title=Only When I Larf |publisher=Var
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• Burt Kwouk
  | image = Burt Kwouk in The Last of the Summer Wine.png | caption = Kwouk in ''Last of the Summer Wine''
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• Boulting brothers
  | occupation = [[Film producer]]s and [[film director|director]]s ...<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/company/co0103294/?ref_=ttco_co_4 IMDb: Charter Film Productions] Linked 2013-05-24</ref>
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• Sergeant Wilson
  | series = [[Dad's Army]] | portrayer = [[John Le Mesurier]]<br />[[Bill Nighy]] (2016 film)<br />[[Robert Bathurst]] (2019)
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• Joyce Grenfell
  ...our Life]]'' (1950) and Police Sergeant Ruby Gates in the [[St Trinian's]] series (from 1954). She was a well-known broadcaster on radio and television. As a ...uccess led to a career as an entertainer, giving her creations in theatres in five continents between 1940 and 1969.
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• Stanley Holloway on stage and screen
  [[File:Stanley Holloway Warner.webp|thumb|right|Stanley Holloway in a Warner Brothers promo head shot]] ...t the Deck (musical)|Hit the Deck]]'', a comic musical which appeared both in London and on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]. Reporting for ''[[The Guardia
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• The Goon Show series 1
  ...a one-cell brain. Anything not basically simple puzzles a goon. He thinks in the fourth dimension and his language is one step past babytalk. Goonery is ...ng each other laugh at the family-run pub of Grafton’s on Strutton Grounds in Westminster. The landlord-cum-theatrical agent [[Jimmy Grafton]] had co-wri
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• Hattie Jacques
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• Stanley Holloway
  ...e and screen|on stage and screen]], especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in ''[[My Fair Lady|My Fair Lady]]''. He was also renowned for his [[Songs and ...recordings of his many monologues. By the 1930s, he was in demand to star in [[variety show|variety]], [[pantomime|pantomime]] and musical comedy, inclu
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