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  • ...actress who runs the Hot Coals Theatre, which specialises in plays for the deaf. The performers [[John Inman]] and [[Jack Douglas (actor)|Jack Douglas]] we [[Category:English male comedians]]
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  • ...l = http://www.prideofmanchester.com/comedy/ericsykes.htm |title=The Stone-Deaf Goon from Oldham who Became a National Treasure |access-date =11 January 20 ...er. Recovering from the second procedure he discovered he was [[profoundly deaf]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Traynor |first1=Robert |title=The Genius of Eric S
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  • ...aracter was one of the most appreciated in Hay's act, a dim-witted, nearly deaf old man who is still in school because he's so backward.<ref name="bbc1976" ...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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  • *[[Esma Cannon]] as Deaf old lady ...the ''Carry On'' films to cinemas. Unhappy seeing one of their contracted actors in a rival production, they threatened to stop distribution, so [[Peter Rog
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  • ...an era (lasting until [[Sexual Offences Act 1967|1967 in England]]) when male homosexual behaviour was illegal and punishable by a prison sentence.<ref>{ ...Let It Be]]'' album. John says: "I Dig a Pygmy, by Charles Hawtrey and The Deaf-Aids. Phase one, in which Doris gets her oats.”
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  • {{Short description|List of actors who have appeared in Carry On films}} This is a list of actors who have appeared in [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' films]].
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  • ...formed in the plays and two of them, Brian and Sheila, became professional actors. Sheila Mercier, as she became known, played [[w:Annie Sugden|Annie Sugden] ...ot'' went on tour with John Slater in the lead, he was joined by two young actors, [[Ray Cooney]] and Tony Hilton.
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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 ...Fiona and her brother, Tom; Gareth and his partner Matthew; and Charles's deaf brother, David, endure the festivities. At the reception, Charles is attrac
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  • ...d page 'Patsy' and the bridgekeeper at the Bridge of Death as well as the 'deaf and mad' jailer in ''Life of Brian''. It has also been claimed that he was ...zes"), [[Carol Cleveland]]'s narration of a Gilliam cartoon suddenly has a male voice dub '[[gangrene]]' over the word cancer (although this word was used
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