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  • ...t Stafford Woodall''' (6 April 1929 – 19 May 1982), was an [[English people|English]] [[news presenter|newsreader]] for the [[British Broadcasting Corp ...educated as an Oppidan scholar at [[Eton College]] where he also excelled at sports. He worked in the 1950s for the [[New Zealand Broadcasting Corporati
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  • ...ww.bl.uk/projects/theatrearchive/cecil.html Interview with Jonathan Cecil] at bl.uk</ref> ...and a woman who sells pigs.<ref name=theatrearchive/> Of his early acting at Oxford, Cecil said {{quote|I was still stiff and awkward, but this was rath
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  • ...law. He then joined the BBC, taking up the position of assistant director at [[w:Stoke-on-Trent|Stoke-on-Trent]]'s new relay station 6ST.<ref name="Stre ...that Allied Armies have started landing "on the northern coast of France" at 9.32&nbsp;am on 6 June, but without giving the actual location (Normandy).
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  • ...f name="WMD in WW" /> He was educated at [[w:Winchester College|Winchester College]] and [[w:Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church, Oxford]].<ref name="Times ob ...y Hill]] in the cast.{{sfn|Carpenter|2004|p=96}}{{sfn|Secombe|1997|p=166}} At the end of 1948 he produced the radio series ''[[Third Division]]'', which
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  • ...usic]]'' for another 35. Muir became Assistant Head of Light Entertainment at the [[BBC]] in the 1960s, and was then [[London Weekend Television]]'s foun ...y and loading stores onto naval vessels; he finally took a job with a firm at Leyton, supervising their machinery, and died of pneumonia when Frank Muir
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  • ..., drowned at [[Widemouth Bay|Widemouth Sands]] near [[Bude]], [[Cornwall]] at the age of 44.<ref>The Times (Monday, 4 September 1922), p. 5; (Wednesday, ..., keeping wicket for his college team, Oxford Authentics, and also for the Eton Ramblers and [[I Zingari]], but he never managed to progress to the [[Varsi
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  • | education = [[w:Eton College|Eton College]] ...[w:Folkestone|Folkestone]], Kent. He was educated at [[w:Eton College|Eton College]]. With the help of speech trainer, Harry Burgess, he learned to manage a s
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  • ...dio and films.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f4db93a|title=Ronald Frankau|website=BFI}}</ref> ...<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1960/11/19/the-lady-at-the-old-bailey|title="Lady Chatterley’s Lover" on Trial|first=Mollie|last
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  • ...tion = [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge|Gonville and Caius College]] ...in 2005 and the [[Lifetime Achievement Emmys|Lifetime Achievement Award]] at the [[Emmy Awards]] in 2009.
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  • | education = [[Llandovery College]]<br />[[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] ...and ''[[Dead of Night]]'' (1945). In the postwar era, he worked regularly at [[Ealing Studios]], first with starring roles in such films as ''[[They Kne
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  • | alma_mater = [[w:Royal Military College, Sandhurst|Royal Military College]] ...hool]] and [[Stowe School]] before gaining a place at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]. After Sandhurst, he joined the [[British Army]] and was commi
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