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  • | image = Charlie Chester, 1954.jpg ...io]] and television presenter and writer, broadcasting almost continuously from the 1940s to the 1990s. His style was similar to that of [[Max Miller (come
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  • | birth_place = [[Chester]], [[England]] ...[[Naunton Wayne]] as two [[cricket]]-obsessed Englishmen in several films from 1938 to 1949.
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  • | module = {{Infobox military person|embed=yes ...ame show ''[[Bullseye (British game show)|Bullseye]]'', which he presented from its beginning in 1981 through to the end of its original run in 1995.
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  • ...ogrom]]. Wolf and Yetta Weintrop intended to escape to the "[[New World]]" from Eastern Europe – they paid for a ticket to [[New York City|New York]], bu ...supplements/3709 |access-date=12 March 2013}}</ref> and received the award from the [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Duke of Edinburgh]] at [[Buckingham
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  • ...greying, Vernon settled into playing archetypal middle-aged [[lord]]s and military types while still in his 30s.<ref name="Independent 13 Dec 1997"/> He is pe ...Service Sir James Greenley in ITV political drama ''[[The Sandbaggers]]'' from 1978 to 1980. In 1986 he appeared in ''[[Paradise Postponed]]'', and voiced
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  • '''''Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh''''' was a comedy show broadcast from 1944 to 1950 and 1951 to 1954 by [[BBC radio]] and in 1950–51 by [[Radio Among the supporting cast were [[Sam Costa]] as the officers' [[Batman (military)|batman]], [[Maurice Denham]] in a multitude of roles, [[Diana Morrison (br
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  • ...963) and ''[[w:How to Murder Your Wife|How to Murder Your Wife]]'' (1965). From the mid-1960s on he also frequently starred in European films, in roles suc ...and, shortly before his death, was living in poverty, existing on charity from the Actors' Benevolent Fund. A charity gala was held in his honour, which r
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