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  • | birth_place = [[Dublin]], [[Irish Free State|Ireland]] | death_place = [[Goatstown]], Dublin, Ireland
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Dublin|Dublin]], [[w:County Dublin|County Dublin]], Ireland O'Conor was born in Dublin<ref name=independent>Alan Strachan, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obi
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Dublin|Dublin]], Ireland O'Shea was born and brought up in [[Dublin]] and educated by the [[Congregation of Christian Brothers|Christian Brothe
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  • ...a German [[U-boat|U-boat]] commander attempting to kidnap a British agent from a ship in the Atlantic, while his father played the ship's captain. ..., he played the witch Jethrow Keane in ''[[The City of the Dead (film)|The City of the Dead]]'' (known as ''[[Horror Hotel|Horror Hotel]]'' in the United S
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  • | birth_place = [[Dublin]], Ireland ...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
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  • ...t. He was best known for being a regular face on television for many years from the 1970s onwards, appearing in series such as ''[[The Comedians (1971 TV s ...o rest in Belfast | date=3 March 2012}}</ref> with his grandmother hailing from [[Sicily]]. In his early days Carson was a choirboy at St Patrick's Catholi
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  • ...ather owned property in Prague and Šumava, with his income deriving mainly from two restaurants and a guest house. Lom's father, as a younger son, inherite ...efore they divorced after separating between 1961 and 1976. He had a child from a relationship with Brigitta Appleby. He later married Eve Lacik; they divo
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  • ...ed the role of a detective disguised as a [[teuchter]] (person originating from the Scottish West Highlands or Western Isles) in the stage production ''The ...humb|right|340x180px|alt=Still from Down on the Farm (1920)|[[Film still]] from ''Down on the Farm'' (1920)]]
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  • | birth_place = London, England<!--Only major city and country name, no districts or boroughs per instructions on Template:Inf ...9/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alan-rickman-british-actor-died-from-pancreatic-cancer-a6814686.html |archive-date=2016-01-15 |url-access=limite
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  • ...rly in [[w:Albania|Albania]] where his films were the only ones by Western actors permitted by dictator [[w:Enver Hoxha]] to be shown.<ref name="TelegraphObi ...hObit" /> In 1995, he was given the [[w:Freedom of the City|Freedom of the City]] of London and of [[w:Tirana|Tirana]].<ref name="TelegraphObit" /> The sam
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  • ...Reginald Perrin in the BBC's ''[[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]'' from 1976 to 1979.<ref name=obit/> ...ned the [[w:Bristol Old Vic|Bristol Old Vic]] and was there for two years, from 1959 to 1961, a time he described as "the bedrock of his career", followed
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  • ...] by [[Elizabeth II]] in 1976. In 2002, he received a [[BAFTA Fellowship]] from the [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] and was named a [[Disne ...(film)|This Happy Breed]]'' (1944), directed by [[David Lean]] and adapted from a [[This Happy Breed|Noël Coward play]].
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  • ...)|the Doctor]] in the science fiction television series ''[[Doctor Who]]'' from 1974 to 1981.<ref name="Scott2006">Scott, Danny. (17 December 2006). [https ...lic]]. His father, John Stewart Baker, was a seaman and was largely absent from the family due to being away at sea.<ref name="BFI">{{cite web|url=http://w
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  • .../100britishfilms/ |access-date=4 September 2019}}</ref> A 2017 poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers, and critics for ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Tim ...tish fiancé. During the reception, Charles experiences further humiliation from several ex-girlfriends, including the distraught Henrietta, who angrily cla
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  • * United States (from 1951) * Ireland (from {{Circa|1970}})
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  • ...small private school, Selwood House. She enjoyed the cinema; her heroines from the age of eight onwards were [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] act ...ned [[J. Arthur Rank]]'s "[[The Company of Youth|Charm School]]" for young actors, subsequently appearing in many of their films.<ref name=Bret/> The Charm S
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  • ...1980 to 1984. A sequel, '''''Yes, Prime Minister''''', ran for 16 episodes from 1986 to 1988. All but one of the episodes lasted half an hour, and almost a ...|last=Cockerell |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Cockerell |title= Live from Number 10: The Inside Story of Prime Ministers and Television |year=1988 |p
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  • ...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
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