• Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick
  [[Category:1998 plays]] [[Category:Comedy plays]]
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• Nigel Hawthorne
  ...t Actor]], for the 1996 series ''[[The Fragile Heart]]''. He was also an [[Olivier Award]] and [[Tony Award]] winner for his work in theatre. ...ed at the [[University of Cape Town]], where he met and sometimes acted in plays with [[Theo Aronson]],<ref>[Aronson, Theo, Royal Subjects (2001), p.152]</r
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• Albert Finney
  ...in ''[[Coriolanus]]'', replacing an ill [[Laurence Olivier]].<ref>Laurence Olivier, ''Confessions of an Actor'', Orion, 1994, p. 243</ref> Finney guest starre ...tainer]]'' (1960), with Laurence Olivier. Finney and [[Alan Bates]] played Olivier's sons. He made his film breakthrough in the same year with his portrayal o
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• Dave Freeman (British writer)
  ...[[Amanda Barrie]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = ROB WILTON THEATRICALIA – Other Plays 1980–89|url = http://www.phyllis.demon.co.uk/theatricalia/08plays/plays80 All three plays have since been performed all over the world.<ref name=":0" />
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• Patricia Routledge
  ...y]]'', and the 1988 [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical|Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical]] for ''[[Candide (operetta)|Candide]]' ...a number of less successful vehicles. She was nominated for the [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role]] for her work in ''[[And a Nig
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• Max Wall
  ...-acted-in-beckett-plays.html|title=Max Wall, 82, Is Dead; Acted in Beckett Plays|date=24 May 1990|work=The New York Times}}</ref> ..._1_max-wall|title=Max Wall; British Dancer-Comedian Gained Fame in Beckett Plays|first1=From|last1=Staff|first2=Wire|last2=Reports|date=23 May 1990|newspape
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• Donald Sinden
  ...ge (film)|Doctor at Large]]'' (1957). He then became highly regarded as an award-winning Shakespearean and West End theatre actor and television sitcom star, winnin ...rmance! You work for them 'for the honour' of doing the greatest classical plays, not for the money, so you have to make up the financial short-fall somewhe
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• Maggie Smith
  ...in the mid-1950s, Smith has appeared in more than sixty films and seventy plays. She is one of the few performers to achieve the [[Triple Crown of Acting]] ...face during a production of ''[[Othello]]'' in 1964. She appeared opposite Olivier in Ibsen's ''[[The Master Builder]]'', and played comedic roles in ''[[The
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• Dora Bryan
  ...)|Martin Donovan]] and starred [[Hart Bochner]] and [[Colin Firth]]. Bryan plays the role of one of two eccentric characters (the other was played by [[Liz ...n of her services to acting and the same year she was awarded a [[Laurence Olivier Award]] for her role in the West End production of the [[Harold Pinter]] pl
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• Anton Rodgers
  *Withers and Tim in [[John Osborne]]'s double-bill, ''Plays for England'', [[Royal Court Theatre|Royal Court]], July 1962 ...th [[George Melly]] at [[Hampstead Theatre]], February 1969; eight one-act plays presented in a modified form as ''Mixed Doubles'' at the [[Comedy Theatre]]
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• Jonathan Miller
  ...hant of Venice]]'' starring [[Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier|Sir Laurence Olivier]]. He later resigned as associate director. ...'' project (1978–85). He became producer (1980–82) and directed six of the plays himself, beginning with a well received ''[[Taming of the Shrew]]'' starrin
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• Alan Rickman
  ...]'' and ''[[A View from the Bridge|A View from the Bridge]]'', among other plays. While working with the [[Royal Shakespeare Company|Royal Shakespeare Compa ...nal Theatre]]'s production at the [[Royal National Theatre#Olivier Theatre|Olivier Theatre]] in London, which ran from October to December 1998. Rickman appea
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• Barry Humphries
  ...miered at Melbourne University's Union Theatre on 12 December 1955. In his award-winning autobiography, ''More Please'' (1992), Humphries relates that he had create .... In 1997 Humphries reprised the role of Fagin in [[Cameron Mackintosh]]'s award-winning revival at the [[London Palladium]].
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• Wilfrid Hyde-White
  ...is period. He continued to act on the stage and played opposite [[Laurence Olivier]] and [[Vivien Leigh]] in the repertory performance of ''[[Caesar and Cleop * ''[[Crooks Anonymous]]'' (1962) as Laurence Montague
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• Dirk Bogarde
  ...e [[Venice Film Festival]], directed by [[Jack Clayton]], in which Bogarde plays a ne'er-do-well father who descends upon "his" seven children on the death ...t a Lovely War]]'' (1969), co-starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir [[Laurence Olivier]] and directed by [[Richard Attenborough]]; ''[[Justine (1969 film)|Justine
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• Victor Spinetti
  ...tor, author, poet, and raconteur. He appeared in dozens of films and stage plays throughout his 50-year career, including the three 1960s [[The Beatles|Beat ...[[Jim Davidson]] Adult Pantomime of Babes In The Wood (Boobs In The Wood) plays as Friar Tuck where he been taking weed and been told by The Sheriff Of Not
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• Ian Lavender
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• Ronnie Barker
  ...aw was ''[[Cottage to Let]]'' and he once skipped school to see [[Laurence Olivier]] in ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]''.<ref name=C36/> He frequently stood out ...me he had made it to the West End, Barker had appeared in an estimated 350 plays.<ref name=C39/>
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• Richard Beckinsale
  ...in [[Chilwell|Chilwell]], Beckinsale appeared in his first of many school plays, playing Dopey in ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.''<ref name=Clayton>{{c ...y impressive foil to both. There are similarities in the two characters he plays – the young listener having his ear bent by two would-be veterans of life
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• Michael Hordern
  ...e career spanned nearly 60 years. He is best known for his [[Shakespeare's plays|Shakespearean]] roles, especially that of [[King Lear|King Lear]], which he ...of his life. His credits include ''[[Paradise Postponed]]'', the [[BAFTA]] award-winning ''[[Memento Mori (novel)|Memento Mori]]'', and the [[BBC]] adaptation of ''
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