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  • | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> ...itty in a recreation of the Lucan and McShane sketch "Bridget's Night Out" from the 1930s.<ref name=Obit/> Rolland appeared as himself in the television do
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  • ...esults | title=Search probate records for documents and wills (England and Wales) }}</ref> ...esults | title=Search probate records for documents and wills (England and Wales) }}</ref> (7 April 1941{{snd}}23 January 2017), known professionally as '''
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  • ...ace = [[w:Cwm, Blaenau Gwent|Cwm]]|df=y, [[w:Ebbw Vale|Ebbw Vale]], Wales ...place = [[w:Monmouth|Monmouth]], [[w:Monmouthshire|Monmouthshire]], Wales
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  • ...h Marks (1879–1965), a former opera singer. The family surname was changed from "Bramble" by Wilfrid's grandfather Frederick William Brambell. His two olde Brambell had roles in film and television from 1947, first appearing (uncredited) in ''[[Odd Man Out]]'' as a tram passeng
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  • ...eatre to any other form of acting and spent most of his life on the stage, from his first role while at acting school in 1937<ref name="times">[https://web *''[[The Impresario From Smyrna]]'' (1954) [[Arts Theatre]]
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  • ...er and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in ''[[Take It from Here]]'' and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in ''[[Whack-O!]]''. ...ghts]] revue. He gained wider exposure as a radio performer in ''[[Take It From Here]]'', co-starring [[Dick Bentley]], which first paired his writer [[Fra
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  • ...1963 and 1971 on [[BBC One]], and ''[[The Stanley Baxter Picture Show]]'' from 1972 to 1975 on [[ITV Network|ITV]]; the six-part ''Stanley Baxter Series'' ...[[Humphrey Carpenter]], a children's show about a magic teacher, expelled from Walpurgis (the wizard land) for failing his professional examinations. He l
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  • ...ry|bawdy humour]] also deals with taboos surrounding [[premarital sex]], [[LGBT stereotypes|gay stereotypes]] and the practice of [[child marriage]]. ...d commands his son, [[Harry, Prince of Wales (Blackadder)|Harry, Prince of Wales]], to marry the Spanish [[Infanta]].<ref name="episode"/> Harry reveals tha
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  • ...interview as saying that [[Marc Sinden]] and he "are the only two British actors I am aware of who have ever worked with Winner more than once, and it certa ...slavski's system]] of acting, saying, "I mistrust and am rather bored with actors who are of the Stanislavski school who think about detail."<ref name="Los A
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  • ...ton Mowbray]]. He enjoyed science, acting and comedy and, after graduating from [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Emmanuel College, Cambridge]] and [[St Bartho In his personal life, Chapman was openly homosexual and a supporter of [[LGBT rights by country or territory|gay rights]], and was in a [[Domestic partne
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  • ...was an English [[jazz]] and [[blues]] singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973 he was a film and television critic for ''[[The Observer]]''; ...ften entered its tropical Palm House and there chatted to wounded soldiers from a nearby military hospital. It was the incongruity of this sight, men smoki
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  • ...fred William<ref name=McCann/> (1887–1934)<ref name="ReferenceB">England & Wales, Death Index: 1916–2005</ref> and Edith Florence Howard<ref name=McCann/> ...but was stuck on a boat off Normandy.<ref name=McCann/> Despite suffering from [[stage fright]], he continued to work after the war, beginning his profess
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  • ...mwell Road, as George Frederick Joffre Hartree, he took his [[stage name]] from the theatrical knight, [[Sir Charles Hawtrey]], whose surname was a differe ...That Fire?]]'' (1939). In all he appeared in more than 70 films, including from this period [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Sabotage (1936 film)|Sabotage]]'' (1
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  • Everett was dismissed from the BBC in 1970 after making remarks about a government minister's wife. He ...988|Local Government Act]] which made it illegal for councils to promote [[LGBT rights in the United Kingdom|gay rights and issues]]. He was diagnosed with
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  • ...n [[w:United Kingdom|Britain]] and [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] by some actors, circus and fairground showmen, [[Professional wrestling|professional wrest ...nt]]. Later it expanded to contain words from the [[Yiddish language]] and from 1960s [[drug subculture]] slang. It was a constantly developing form of lan
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  • | birth_name = Kenneth Charles Williams<!-- only use if different from name --> ...lar panellist on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s comedy panel show ''[[Just a Minute]]'' from its second series in 1968 until his death 20 years later.
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  • ...d be avoided when the country to which the subject belongs can be inferred from the country of birth." --> ...astic 1960s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa; [[Paddington, New South Wales|Paddington]] socialist academic Neil Singleton; sleazy trade union official
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