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  • | caption = Gwen Watts as Iris in ''[[On the Buses]]'' (1969) | birth_place = [[w:Carhampton, Somerset|Carhampton]], [[w:Somerset|Somerset]], England
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  • ...t to Get Married'''''<ref name="BFI">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b00ec52|title=Marry Me (1949)|website=BFI}}</ref>) is a 194 ...Street]] editor to go undercover and write about the people behind the ads in the ''Marriage Chronicle'', a weekly newspaper published by the H & E [[mar
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  • ...he names [[w:Titsey|Titsey]] and [[w:Limpsfield|Limpsfield]], two villages in [[w:Surrey|Surrey]] near Clarke's home at [[w:Oxted|Oxted]].<ref>{{Cite web ...[[w:Ealing Studios|Ealing Studios]] and was the first of its comedies shot in [[w:Technicolor|Technicolor]].
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  • ...Corporation|Associated British Picture Corporation]] (ABPC)<br />Guardsman Films<ref name="Brooke" /> ...lywood]] under the title ''[[Chhoti Si Baat|Chhoti Si Baat]]'' (1975), and in Hollywood as ''[[School for Scoundrels (2006 film)|School for Scoundrels]]'
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  • ...rary+sources+in+film&pg=PA443|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|first=Alan|last=Goble|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Walter de Gruyter| ...[[Wilfrid Lawson (actor)|Wilfrid Lawson]], and [[Tony Hancock]]. Included in the cast are other actors who later became more well-known, including [[Joh
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  • ...trie|first= Duncan James |year=2017|title= Bryanston Films : An Experiment in Cooperative Independent Production and Distribution|journal= Historical Jou A [[period piece]] set in 18th-century [[Somerset]] and [[London]], ''Tom Jones'' was a success both critically and at the bo
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  • ...she played the role of [[List of Bad Girls characters#Bev Tull|Bev Tull]] in the ITV prison drama, ''[[Bad Girls (TV series)|Bad Girls]]''. She has sinc ...lege, [[Lytham St Annes]], then trained at the [[Arts Educational School]] in London and later at [[Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]].
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  • ...ast]] comedies, [[Adventure films|Adventure films]], [[Action films|Action films]] ...ge-scale adventure epic and comedies films, like ''[[Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines]]'', ''[[Battle of the Bulge (1965 film)|Battle of th
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  • ...Ghost Train''''' is a stage comedy-[[thriller (genre)|thriller]], written in 1923 by the English actor and playwright [[Arnold Ridley]]. ...a railway scenario in constrained circumstances" thrillers, leading to the films such as ''[[The Lady Vanishes (1938 film)|The Lady Vanishes]]'' (1938), ''[
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  • ...n. He achieved international recognition for his role as Colonel Pickering in the film version of the musical ''[[w:My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]'' ...en -->was born in [[Bourton-on-the-Water]] in [[Gloucestershire]], England in 1903 to the Rev. William Edward White, [[Canon (priest)|canon]] of [[Glouce
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  • ...re, film, and television. She was a well-known actress and star of British films during the [[Second World War]] and postwar years. ...Walls|Within These Walls]]'' during the 1970s and continued to feature in films.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/arts/googie-withers
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  • *[[List of Carry On films cast members|''et al...'']]}} ...Douglas (actor)|Jack Douglas]], and [[Jim Dale]]. A 31st film was released in 1992, though featuring only four of the "irregular" cast members.
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  • * [[Film4 Productions|Channel Four Films]] * [[Working Title Films]]
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  • ...r playing [[Mildred Roper]] opposite [[Brian Murphy (actor)|Brian Murphy]] in the sitcom ''[[Man About the House]]'' (1973–1976) and its spin-off ''[[G ...04 }} {{paywall}}</ref> She was named "Yootha" after a New Zealand dancer in her father's touring company, a name she would later say she "loathed and d
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  • ...''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]''. At 85 he played Professor [[Herbert Marcuse]] in the Coen Brothers' film ''[[Hail, Caesar!]]'' (2016). ...ree's A Crowd''. He also devised and produced ''[[Gaslight Music Hall]]'', in which he starred.
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  • *[[Working Title Films]] *[[DNA Films]]}}
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  • ...erous theatre and television productions. He played [[Captain Mainwaring]] in the [[w:British sitcom|British sitcom]] ''[[Dad's Army]]'' from 1968 until ...the role led to further character roles. Despite increasingly poor health in his final years, he maintained a busy professional schedule until his death
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  • ...While all episodes were in colour, the pilot had originally survived only in [[black-and-white]] as a film transfer from the original colour source; how ...rainger refuses to take down his trousers and put Mrs Slocombe's underwear in its place. Undaunted, she goes over his head to Captain Peacock, and then t
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  • ...had appeared in nearly 140 cinema roles. His later work was predominantly in television and radio. ...sion debut, becoming a reliable bit-part actor in many films, particularly in the [[war film|war film]] genre.
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  • ...]], they are radio adaptations of the third, fourth, fifth and sixth books in [[Douglas Adams]]' ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' series: ''[ ...econdary Phases|the Primary and Secondary Phases]]) which originally aired in 1978 and 1980.
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