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  • | birth_place = [[w:Nuneaton|Nuneaton]], Warwickshire, England ...pher Roderick Emmett''' (born 13 December 1938 in [[w:Nuneaton|Nuneaton]], Warwickshire) is a British actor and comedian best known for his work in the late 1970s
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  • He was born in [[Birmingham]], [[Warwickshire]], England but moved with his family at an early age to [[Cardiff]], [[Wale ...Guardian}}</ref> Most of his roles were designed for television, and apart from the "Doctor" series, his appearances included ''[[The Vault of Horror (film
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  • ...ace = [[w:Stratford-upon-Avon|Stratford-upon-Avon]], [[w:Warwickshire|Warwickshire]], England ...stage with the [[Bristol Old Vic]] and the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]]. From 25 May 1966 he appeared in ''Tango'', a play by [[Sławomir Mrożek]] at th
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  • | birth_place = [[Birmingham]], [[Warwickshire]], UK ...n to be Director of Productions at the [[Marlowe Theatre]], [[Canterbury]] from 1957 to 1958 and then at [[Manchester]]'s [[Library Theatre]] 1959 to 1960.
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  • ...n lived on the border of [[Gloucestershire]] and [[Warwickshire]]. He died from cancer on 23 April 2011, aged 88.<ref name=guardian/> [[Category:English male stage actors]]
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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 = [[Birmingham]], [[Warwickshire]], England ...m above the Trocadero [[public house]] in Temple Street, [[Birmingham]], [[Warwickshire]], the son of Doris Marguerite (née Jones) and Edward Leslie Britton.<ref>
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  • | birth_place = [[Warwickshire]], England [[Category:English male television actors]]
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  • ...|date=16 March 1945 |location=Rugby, Warwickshire |page=4}}</ref> [[Rugby, Warwickshire|Rugby]],<ref name="Rugby"/> [[Bexhill-on-Sea]]<ref name="Bexhill">{{cite ne ...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
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  • Hawthorne was born in [[Coventry]], Warwickshire, England, the second of four children of Agnes Rosemary (née Rice) and Cha They met in 1968 when Bentham was stage-managing the [[Royal Court Theatre]]. From 1979 until Hawthorne's death in 2001, they lived together in [[Radwell, Her
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  • ...11_b017c8gp.flac |title= Robert Hardy's voice |type= speech |descriptioon= from the BBC programme ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'', 20 November 2011.<ref name=" ...l'' in 1980 and ''Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years'' in 1982. Aside from acting, Hardy was an acknowledged expert on the medieval [[English longbow]
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  • ...ck's Half Hour]]'', first broadcast on radio from 1954, then on television from 1956, in which he soon formed a strong professional and personal bond with ...hs: JUN 1924 6d 231 KINGS N. - Anthony J. Hancock, mmn = Thomas</ref> but, from the age of three, he was brought up in [[w:Bournemouth|Bournemouth]] (then
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  • ...[[comedian|comic actor]] who starred in revue, variety, film and pantomime from the 1920s to the mid-1980s. His trademark rubber-neck dance, skeletal frame ...programme ''The Symbol of Entertainment Supreme'', consisting of extracts from shows running in [[Blackpool]] at the time, including the revue ''Out of th
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  • | birth_place = [[Birmingham]], [[Warwickshire]], England ...m producer]] known for his leadership of [[Ealing Studios]] in West London from 1938 to 1955. Under his direction, the studio became one of the most import
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  • ...apped'', Starr gives speech problems as the reason he spent two years away from home as a child.<ref>{{cite web |title=Freddie Starr reveals misery of chil Starr was encouraged by his mother to perform from the age of 12 working in clubs and pubs. For five years, he was a member of
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  • ...vision|science-fiction television]] series ''[[w:Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]'' from 1966 to 1969; he reprised the role in 1972–1973, 1983 and 1985. ...n]], the ship carrying him struck a [[sea mine]] off the coast of Britain, from which he escaped in a lifeboat as the vessel foundered. On arrival back in
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  • ...the role on television five years later. He often appeared in film, rising from a [[bit part|bit part]] actor in the late 1930s to a member of the main cas ...ears later. Hordern suffered from kidney disease during the 1990s and died from it in 1995 at the age of 83.
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