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  • ...n ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'', ''[[Hugh and I]]'' and other [[sitcom]]s of the 1960s. ...hool]]. After leaving school he spent two years as a newspaper reporter on the ''Chester Chronicle''.<ref name=guardian>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguar
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[Commander of the British Empire|CBE]] ...s?|Any Questions?]]'' Earlier radio work included small acting parts: over the years he played himself or presenter characters in film, television and rad
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  • ...a [[w:character actor|character actor]] on stage and screen dating back to the 1930s. ...s Othello and well worthy of the formal designation 'a noble Moor'".<ref>''The Times'', Monday, 27 June 1938; pg. 20; Issue 48031; col A</ref>
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  • ...lights|Cambridge Footlights]]. He was one of the earliest famous alumni of the comedy club. ...Hulbert was expecting to be conscripted into the army for the remainder of the conflict.
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  • ...}</ref> He adopted the stage name Richard Coleman, to avoid confusion with the film star [[Ronald Colman]].<ref name=times>{{Cite web |url=http://www.time He then spent two years with the Worthing Repertory Company, appearing in many plays.
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  • ...75 TV series)|The Good Life]]'' (1975–78) and politician [[Jim Hacker]] in the sitcom ''[[Yes Minister]]'' (1980–84) and its sequel, ''[[Yes, Prime Mini ...ef name="Arts 2000, p. 65"/> Eddington attended [[w:Sibford School|Sibford School]], [[w:Sibford Ferris|Sibford Ferris]], [[w:Oxfordshire|Oxfordshire]]. In 1
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  • ...he late 1980s and early 1990s. His television shows were also broadcast in the United States, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Yugoslavia, Australia, and ...father died when Allen was 12 years old, and his mother subsequently moved the family to England when he was 14.
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  • ...The Railway Children}}</ref> and Inspector Charles Rose in ''[[The Odd Man|The Odd Man]]'' and its sequels. ...le/19th-february-1954/11/theatre|website=archive.spectator.co.uk|publisher=The Spectator Archive|access-date=4 September 2015|archive-date=19 February 195
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  • ...own to London audiences, was given the part when the play was presented in the [[West End theatre|West End]]. She became known for playing domineering mid ...Theatre]] and [[Royal Shakespeare Company|Royal Shakespeare]] companies in the 1960s, '70s and '80s, respectively.
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  • | resting_place= St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Denham ...]] who often portrayed guileless, wounded war heroes. In 1971, he received the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]] for his performance in ''[[Ryan
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  • |honorific_suffix=[[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] | caption = Sim as the Laird in ''[[Geordie (film)|Geordie]]'', 1955
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire#Current classes|CBE]] '''Kenneth Gilbert More''', [[Order of the British Empire#Current classes|CBE]] (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) w
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  • * [[Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]] ...ude ''[[To Sir, with Love]]'' (1967) and ''[[Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River]]'' (1968).
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  • ...from Heaven]]'' (1978)<br />''[[Blue Remembered Hills]]'' (1979)<br />''[[The Singing Detective]]'' (1986)<br />''[[Lipstick On Your Collar]]'' (1993) ...s and images from [[popular culture]]. Potter is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British televi
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  • | image = Terry Wogan at Cheltenham Literature Festival.jpg | caption = Wogan at the [[Cheltenham Literature Festival]] in 2015
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