| birth_place = [[w:Thorney, Cambridgeshire|Thorney, Cambridgeshire]], England ...[[w:actor|actor]] who appeared in many British films and television dramas from the 1950s onwards.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films

| death_place = [[w:Peterborough|Peterborough]], [[w:Cambridgeshire|Cambridgeshire]] ...dvertiser]]|date=2008-10-02|last=Greer|first=Stuart}}</ref> He had decided from an early age to become an actor, but had his hopes dashed when his father d

| birth_place = [[w:Ely, Cambridgeshire|Ely]], England Born in [[Ely, Cambridgeshire|Ely]], Cambridgeshire, he was the elder and more successful son of Henry Harper Hulbert, a physic

...sion sitcoms ''[[Fresh Fields]]'' in the 1980s and ''[[May to December]]'' from 1989 to 1994. He also had a long career both on stage and in film. His stage roles ranged from contemporary comedy and satirical farce to Restoration comedy, [[Henrik Ibs

...04}} Formby also had a successful recording career and made the transition from music hall to [[revue]] in 1916. ...his name to [[George Formby]]; Formby Jr went on to become the top British male star in box office takings between 1937 and 1943.

...|Turner Classic Movies]] calls Sellers "one of the most accomplished comic actors of the late 20th century".<ref>{{cite web|title=Peter Sellers |url=http://w ...ed four times and had three children from his first two marriages. He died from a heart attack, aged 54, in 1980. English filmmakers the [[Boulting brother

...e ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the la ...|George Formby]] (he is now known as George Formby Sr). Formby Sr suffered from a chest ailment, identified variously as [[bronchitis]], [[asthma]] or [[tu

a [[BBC television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] shown on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from 1 January 1980 to 30 January 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk ...around the lives of the camp's entertainers, most of whom were struggling actors and has-beens.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk