| death_place = [[w:Lyme Regis|Lyme Regis]], [[w:Dorset|Dorset]], England ...d 14 February 2021.</ref> was an English actor and writer for films and TV from the 1950s.

| death_place = [[w:Dorset|Dorset]] <br /> United Kingdom [[Category:British male film actors]]

| birth_place = [[Parkstone|Parkstone]], [[Dorset|Dorset]], England ...o an English father and Danish mother in [[Parkstone|Parkstone]], [[Dorset|Dorset]]. He studied painting at [[Chelsea College of Arts|Chelsea College of Arts

| death_place = [[Poole|Poole]], Dorset, England ...'The World–My Canvas'' by Ruth Dixon and ''[[A View from the Bridge|A View from the Bridge]]'' by [[Arthur Miller|Arthur Miller]], for the now defunct amat

| death_place = [[Poole]], [[Dorset]], England ...orne Minster|Queen Elizabeth Grammar School]] in [[Wimborne Minster]] in [[Dorset]].<ref name="Telegraph"/>

...=Google Books}}</ref> He is probably best remembered as Charlie Hungerford from the detective series ''[[w:Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]'', though he was ...appeared in all but two episodes of ''[[Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]'' from 1981 to 1991.<ref name=bergeracscreenonline>{{Cite web|url=http://www.scree

...was born in London.<ref name=bbc/> He was educated at [[Canford School]], Dorset, and the Institute Fischer, [[Montreux]], Switzerland.<ref name=guardian>{{ ...Butler Saw]]''.<ref name="Savoyprog">Biographical note for Michael Medwin, from programme for ''[[Noises Off]]'', [[Savoy Theatre]], December 1984.</ref> A

...9780198614128-e-111886}}</ref> and was educated at [[Sherborne School]] in Dorset, where he learnt to play the guitar. He then did [[Conscription in the Unit ...><ref>{{cite news |title=Percival to pay £5,200 |quote=The court increased from £18,331 to £25,531 damages awarded to Mrs. Jillian Young, aged 31, for th

He received his early formal education at [[Clayesmore School]] in [[Dorset]].<ref name=telegraph/> In his childhood he read [[Arthur Ransome|Arthur Ra ...w]]'' and ''[[The Hostage (play)|The Hostage]]'', all of which transferred from the [[Theatre Royal Stratford East]] to the [[West End theatre|West End]].

...''. When the plays were published in book form in 1916, copies were seized from the printers by the police, who described them as "a deliberate calumny on ...00 {{ISBN|9780521624077}} (pgs. 162-189).</ref> His 1934 play ''Six Men of Dorset'' (written with Harvey Brooks), about the [[w:Tolpuddle Martyrs|Tolpuddle M

| children = 6 (three with Blossom, three from extramarital affairs) ...Bygraves in the role of Archie's teacher. The idea for the programme came from record producer [[Wally Ridley]], who also produced Bygraves' records durin

...ry 1953 |location=Portsmouth, Hampshire |page=5}}</ref> [[Bournemouth]] in Dorset,<ref name="Advert">{{cite journal |title=Advertisement: John Barrett, Produ ...ying, "The director, Peter Gill, elicits admirable style and even ensemble from a first-rate cast including John Barrett as the collier, Anne Dyson as his

| death_place = [[Poole]], [[Dorset]] ...Carolina|year=2019|ISBN=9781476670072}}</ref> was an English actor, active from the 1930s. He was born on 19 December 1905 in London, England. He appeared

...AFTA]], [[Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe]], [[Emmy Award|Emmy]], [[Screen Actors Guild]], [[Silver Bear for Best Actor|Silver Bear]] and [[Volpi Cup for Bes ...Salford Grammar School]] and the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] (RADA), from which he graduated in 1956.<ref name=InCharacter>{{cite book|year=1993|auth

...itish Academy Television Award for Best Actor]] in three consecutive years from 1994 to 1996. In 2006, Coltrane came eleventh in ITV's poll of [[w:TV's 50 ...World Is Not Enough]]'' (1999), a supporting role in ''[[From Hell (film)|From Hell]]'' (2001), as well as half-giant [[Rubeus Hagrid]] in the [[Harry Pot

...r=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-861388-1|pages=215–216}}</ref> He came from humble beginnings and left school at the age of twelve. At the outbreak of Demobilised from the army, Miller found work to be in short supply, and he had lost his moth

...olled at the [[w:Fay Compton|Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art]] in 1933. From there he took a position in [[repertory theatre]] and made his stage debut ...rinker of alcohol for most of his life, Le Mesurier died in 1983, aged 71, from a stomach haemorrhage, brought about as a complication of [[cirrhosis]] of

...Screenonline Biography}}</ref> Pertwee's mother, Avice Scholtz, separated from his father Roland when Pertwee was young. His father remarried, and his mot ...]] in Surrey, at [[Sherborne School]] in Dorset, and at some other schools from which he was expelled. After school, he was admitted to the [[Royal Academy

...an actor and reciter of comic monologues were soon recognised. Characters from his monologues such as Sam Small, invented by Holloway, and Albert Ramsbott ...9 July 2012</ref> George left Florence in 1905 and was never seen or heard from again by his family.<ref name="Holloway and Richards, p. 68">Holloway and R

...emiered on 5 October on [[BBC1]], with 45 episodes airing over four series from 1969 to 1974, plus two episodes for German TV. ...tual circus and more like something [[Manfred von Richthofen#Flying Circus|from World War&nbsp;I]]. The group was coming up with their name at a time when