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  • | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | death_place = [[w:Salisbury|Salisbury]], [[w:Wiltshire|Wiltshire]]
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  • ...est known for his appearances as "Mr Derek" in ''[[Basil Brush#Basil Brush from 1963 to 1984|The Basil Brush Show]]'' (1969–1973), [[Bernard Woolley]] in ...2. The character first appeared as the local police sergeant, then retired from the force and ran the post office before becoming a [[w:pub|pub]]lican.<ref
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  • ...co.uk/wiltshire/entertainment/films_and_tv/michaelsheard.shtml|title=BBC - Wiltshire - Films - Interview with Michael Sheard (Real Audio)|website=www.bbc.co.uk} ...olf Hitler]] five times in his career: in ''[[Rogue Male (1976 film)|Rogue Male]]'' (1976), ''[[The Tomorrow People]]'' (1978), ''[[The Dirty Dozen: Next M
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  • | birth_place = [[Durrington, Wiltshire]], England ...Mulberry Smith in the long-running sitcom ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'', from 2003 until it ended its run in 2010.
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  • ..., and then by his father and stepmother, who ran a pub in [[Salisbury]], [[Wiltshire]].<ref name=Guardian060618/><ref name=Metro7612606>{{cite news |url=https:/ ...w]]'' and ''[[The Hostage (play)|The Hostage]]'', all of which transferred from the [[Theatre Royal Stratford East]] to the [[West End theatre|West End]].
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  • | birth_place = [[Semley]], [[Wiltshire]], England ...12-06-12|last1=Morley |first1=Margaret |year=1979 }}</ref> His mother came from a German family that had emigrated to South Africa. Morley attended [[Welli
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  • ...on|South East London]], in 1907. Educated at [[Marlborough College]] in [[Wiltshire]], Justice studied science at [[University College London]], but left after ...rapnel shell|shrapnel]] from a German shell), he was honourably discharged from the service with a pension.
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  • ...t recording for children, as well as the recipient of governmental honours from, amongst others, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He also displayed ...significant contributions Ustinov had made as chancellor of the university from 1992 until his death.
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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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  • | birth_place = [[Swindon|Swindon]], [[Wiltshire|Wiltshire]], England ...tures|publisher=BBC}}</ref> at the Haven Nursing Home, Kent Road, Swindon, Wiltshire. Her mother Winifred Maud Mary (Payne) was married to Albert Edward Sidney
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  • ...everything so cold and grey." After moving to Brockley, south east London from the age of 12 in 1931, he attended Brownhill Road School (later to be renam ...]]. The Milligan-Stephens partnership was finally ended by Stephens' death from a brain haemorrhage in January 1959; Milligan later downplayed and disparag
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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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