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| birth_place = [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], England ...was an English [[jazz]] and [[blues]] singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973 he was a film and television critic for ''[[The Observer]]'';

| birth_place = [[Morecambe|Morecambe]], Lancashire, England ...town, the [[seaside resort|seaside resort]] of [[Morecambe|Morecambe]] in Lancashire.

...[[w:Seaforth, Merseyside|Seaforth]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]]<!--It was Lancashire until 1 April 1974 and Merseyside thereafter-->, England Everett was dismissed from the BBC in 1970 after making remarks about a government minister's wife. He

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| birth_place = [[w:Ashton-under-Lyne|Ashton-under-Lyne]], [[w:Lancashire|Lancashire]] | death_place = [[w:Warrington|Warrington]], Lancashire

...895 |title=BBC News - Coronation Street actress Betty Driver dies, aged 91 from kidney failure. |work=BBC |date=2011-10-15 |access-date=2011-12-11}}</ref> ...tood out so much that Manders asked her to come forward and sing with him. From then on, Driver's mother began taking her to talent contests in Manchester,

| birth_place = [[Wigan|Wigan]], [[Lancashire|Lancashire]] | death_place = [[Lytham St Annes|Lytham St Annes]], [[Lancashire|Lancashire]]

...ust men and twenty-nine criminals finds you guilty of hiding your bald nut from your wife until after you had married her.... Therefore – I sentence you ...dreaded lurgi. He also uses the accent as a workman in ''[[The Last Tram (from Clapham)]]'', and as the Manager of the East Acton Labour Exchange in ''Wor

'My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen. Back from the dead. We present half an hour of continuous radio fighting. In both cor ...round-breaking comedy shows. In the four series, the programme had evolved from disparate sketches into a single narrative - broken into three by music num

...Arthur Askey]], [[Robb Wilton]], [[Tommy Handley]] and the "cheeky chappy" from [[Brighton]], [[Max Miller (comedian)|Max Miller]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http ...]], who had appeared in his stage act, were often played by local children from stage schools, and were revealed never to have been paid. Dodd was also rev

...industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and e ...imelight]]'' (1952), ''[[A King in New York]]'' (1957), and ''[[A Countess from Hong Kong]]'' (1967).