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  • | birth_place = [[w:Felixstowe|Felixstowe]], [[w:Suffolk|Suffolk]], England<ref>{{BFI|id= 4ce2ba3347528|name= Anthony Dawes}}</ref> ...er of roles in film, television and on stage during a career which spanned from 1951 to 2006.<ref>[https://www.bafta.org/heritage/in-memory-of/anthony-dawe
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  • * {{Marriage|Jayne Male|2010}} ...e and lives in [[Ryde]] on the [[Isle of Wight]]. Hayes has one child with Male.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gazillionmovies.com/Actor/M/Me/MelvynHayes.
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  • | birth_place = [[Hadleigh, Suffolk]], England The second son of Eric Llewellyn Newell, of High Lodge, Hadleigh, Suffolk,<ref>The Medical Directory, Part 2, J. & A. Churchill Ltd, 1957, p. 1611</r
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  • ...e an actor and when offered a job with the local rep, he took it and apart from six years in the army during World War II, he remained in the profession. ...or in the House (TV series)|Doctor in the House]]'' and its sequels, apart from ''Doctor at Sea'', in which he appeared as Captain Norman Loftus (the broth
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  • | death_place = [[Heveningham]], [[Suffolk]], UK ...uthend-on-Sea]] for almost five years. He began to appear in British films from the mid-1950s, including a bit part in the classic [[Ealing Studios|Ealing
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  • | death_place = [[w:Ipswich]], [[w:Suffolk]], England | resting_place = All Saints' Church, [[w:Crowfield, Suffolk|Crowfield]], Suffolk, England
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  • * ''[[Sink the Bismarck!]]'' (1960) – Able Seaman, Lookout 'Suffolk' (uncredited) * ''[[The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film)|The Spy Who Came in from the Cold]]'' (1965) – Lofthouse (uncredited)
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  • ...dependent]]'' described him upon his death as "one of Britain's best-loved actors".<ref name="independent"/> ...under the ring name "Leon Arras the Man From Paris". He adopted that name from a wrestler who didn't turn up to a match one night, for whom Glover stood i
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  • ...UK census: RG12/1494 f.56 p.47 & p.48 – 192 Clapham Road, [[Lowestoft|]], Suffolk</ref><ref>GRO Register of Births: MAR 1889 10a 49 STOCKTON – William Thom ...as a screenwriter for many of Hay's films, recalled transposing Harbottle from school into other everyday situations.<ref name="bbc1976"/> He famously per
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  • ...man, but also Estonian and Scottish (Sanders wrote of his mother's descent from "the Thomas Clayhills of Dundee, who went to Estonia in 1626 to establish a ...aced by Morton Lowry).<ref>George Sanders Suspended by Fox for Withdrawing From 'The Immortal Sargeant' New York Times 11 Sep 1942: 24.</ref> In November,
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  • | birth_place = [[Bury St Edmunds]], Suffolk, England ...and television series such as ''[[Pennies from Heaven (TV series)|Pennies from Heaven]]'' (1978), ''[[The Long Good Friday]]'' (1980), ''[[Mona Lisa (1986
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  • ...Cats]]'' from 2005 to 2015, and on ''[[8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown]]'' from 2012 until his death in 2021. ...ustry]]. His mother, Mary (née McCreesh),<ref name="Telegraph obit" /> was from [[Cullaville]], [[County Armagh]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.belfast
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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 He then lived in a modest house on Gainsborough Road, [[Felixstowe]], [[Suffolk]] until 1929. His elder sister was [[Annette Mills]], remembered as present
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  • ...ular-delivery-is-probably-the-funniest-man-on-television-where-did-he-come-from-1541587.html|url-status=live}}</ref> After leaving school, Merton worked at ...rg.uk/tv/id/476396/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On joining [[British Actors' Equity Association|Equity]] he found that the name Paul Martin was already
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  • ...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
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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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  • [[File:Ba4.jpg|thumb|250px|Main characters from ''Blackadder Goes Forth'': Darling (left), Melchett (centre), George Colthu ...Robinson]] as his [[sidekick]] [[Baldrick]], together with numerous other actors in one-off parts.
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