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  • | birth_place = [[w:Brixton|Brixton]], London, England ...spent 13 months.<ref name=independent>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/how-we-met-ray-galton-alan-simpson-1219717.html How we met, Alan
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  • ...itcom written by [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Sullivan]], first broadcast from 1977 to 1980.<ref>{{Cite web|title=BFI Screenonline: Citizen Smith (1977-80 ...merely a small bunch of his friends), the goals of which are "Power to the People" and "Freedom for Tooting". In reality, he is an unemployed [[slacker|slack
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  • ...on and theatre.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9efee33a|title=Max Wall}}</ref> ...heir Aunt Betty, who was looking after them, were killed by a bomb dropped from a [[Germany|German]] [[Zeppelin]] which also destroyed their house.<ref nam
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  • | birth_place = {{nowrap|[[w:Brixton|Brixton]],<ref name="theguardian.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv ...haracter Charlie Quick, in the slapstick children's TV series ''Grandad'', from 1979 to 1984.
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  • | birth_place = [[Brixton|Brixton]], [[London|London]], England ...n Mildred Field''' (sometimes incorrectly cited as '''Summerfield''') in [[Brixton]], London in 1921,<ref>John Walker, ''Halliwell's Who's Who of the Movies''
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  • ...or born in [[w:Ceylon]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f8974d1|title=Colin Gordon|website=BFI}}</ref> ...36 to 1939 he was a director with the Fred Melville Repertory Company in [[Brixton]]. He served in the [[British Army|army]] during the [[Second World War]] f
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  • ...Moonraker]]''.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fdd2d69|title=Arthur Howard|website=BFI}}</ref> ...|location =London |ref=CS103899331 |quote=Howard,... had spent a week in [[Brixton Prison|]] after pleading guilty to a charge of persistently importuning for
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  • ...olled at the [[w:Fay Compton|Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art]] in 1933. From there he took a position in [[repertory theatre]] and made his stage debut ...rinker of alcohol for most of his life, Le Mesurier died in 1983, aged 71, from a stomach haemorrhage, brought about as a complication of [[cirrhosis]] of
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  • ...ainment-arts-26889405 | work=BBC News | title=Sir Bruce Forsyth steps down from Strictly Come Dancing | date=4 April 2014}}</ref> In 2012, ''[[Guinness Wor ...films at the age of eight, he trained in dance in [[Tottenham]] and then [[Brixton]].<ref name="Guard1" />
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  • ...rs to it as ''the Goon Show'' (or that ''Goon Show'') but never as ''Crazy People'' (which quite frankly could be applied to almost any comedy show).’ ...e show would be pre-empted on Tuesday 26 February to make way for speeches from the ''Pilgrims’ Dinner''. The Stargazers were also announced as appearing
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  • ...[[Breakthrough role|big break]] was a lead in the radio comedy ''[[Take It from Here]]'', which aired on the [[BBC Light Programme|BBC Light Programme]] in ...)|Happy Ever After]]'' (1974–1979) and ''[[Terry and June]]'' (1979–1987). From 1992 to 2012, Whitfield played Edina Monsoon's mother in [[Jennifer Saunder
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  • ...actory at Bill Gates. Among the artists are those three sons of fun, fresh from their triumphant Palladium failure, Sellers, Secombe and Milligan in… ''[ ...on Show'' continued as before with tapings in Studio I of the Aeolian Hall from 9pm to 9.45pm on Sundays. Earlier the same day, [[Harry Secombe]] was makin
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