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  • ...= [[w:Ordsall, Greater Manchester|Ordsall]], [[w:County Borough of Salford|Salford]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]], England ...ll, Greater Manchester|Ordsall]] district of [[w:County Borough of Salford|Salford]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]], the son of Joseph and Elizabeth ({{nee}} Do
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  • | birth_place = [[Salford]], [[Lancashire]], England Kelly was born in [[Salford]], [[Lancashire]] on 19 December 1943 and abandoned; he was adopted by a co
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Hundred of Salford|Salford]], [[w:Lancashire]] ...ynn and Walls, and the two were ranked among the most popular British film actors of the 1930s. He continued his stage career during and after the Second Wor
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  • ...econd World War]], and was imprisoned in a German [[prisoner of war]] camp from 1942 to 1945, after being shot down in Avro Manchester R5840 of No.106 Squa ...tkin" in the early episodes of BBC Radio's long-running comedy ''[[The Men from the Ministry]]''.<ref name="BBC"/> He was succeeded by [[Ronald Baddiley]]
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  • |birth_place = [[Salford]], Lancashire, England ...AFTA]], [[Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe]], [[Emmy Award|Emmy]], [[Screen Actors Guild]], [[Silver Bear for Best Actor|Silver Bear]] and [[Volpi Cup for Bes
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  • ...as a screenwriter for many of Hay's films, recalled transposing Harbottle from school into other everyday situations.<ref name="bbc1976"/> He famously per ...be – in the cinema, theatre, or music-hall – we tend to identify with the actors we are watching. So that when a custard pie is thrown we fear for a moment
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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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  • ...roft also directed some episodes) and [[Jeremy Lloyd]], with contributions from [[Michael Knowles (actor)|Michael Knowles]] and [[John Chapman (screenwrite The idea for the show came from Lloyd's brief period in the early 1950s working at [[Simpsons of Piccadilly
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