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  • | birth_place = [[Berwick-Upon-Tweed]], Northumberland, England ...stories himself, his first professional engagement. He continued to write from the timber yard, his short stories, poems, manuscripts sometimes being acce
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  • ...d Mother Riley]] on stage, radio and screen, with a series of comedy films from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. ...here is a memorial bust of Arthur Lucan, together with various memorabilia from his career. He is buried in Hull's Eastern Cemetery.<ref name=grave/>
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  • ...in the television series ''[[w:Dixon of Dock Green|Dixon of Dock Green]]'' from 1955 until 1976, but he was also for some years one of Britain's most popul ...nt to work as a mechanic in Paris. He drove completed chassis to the coast from where they were shipped to England, road-testing them ''en route''.<ref nam
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  • ...tive Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]] for [[Walsall]] from 1924 to 1929. ...servant Northbrook in ''[[The Prince and the Showgirl]]'' (1957). He broke from this typecasting in his later films, such as his starring role in ''[[Games
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  • ...ted in 1975 for a BBC radio adaptation of series 1, transmitted on Radio 4 from July to October that year. A feature film spin-off was made in 1976. Around ...Bob has also bought his own house on a new estate, further distancing him from his and Terry's pasts. Reflecting the distinctions now separating the two y
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  • ...achine Wreckers'' at the [[Novelty Theatre|Kingsway Theatre]] in May 1923. From 1923 to 1929, she appeared as the Principessa della Cercola in [[W. Somerse ...most lauded.<ref name="imdb"/> As [[Miss Havisham]], she reprised her role from the 1939 stage adaptation by [[Alec Guinness]] which provided the inspirati
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  • ...w]] of part of the ''[[Promenade (Pictures at an Exhibition)|Promenade]]'' from ''[[Pictures at an Exhibition]]'' by Russian composer [[Modest Mussorgsky]] ...sborough, Harrogate|Goldsborough]] were used to shoot the police car chase from the first series where the policeman's gun backfires. Some city scenes were
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