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  • | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_place = [[w:Haslington|Haslington]], [[w:Cheshire|Cheshire]]
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Stockport|Stockport]], [[w:Cheshire|Cheshire]], England ...d 14 February 2021.</ref> was an English actor and writer for films and TV from the 1950s.
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  • | birth_place = [[Wallasey]], [[Cheshire]], [[England]] Born in [[Wallasey|Wallasey]], [[Cheshire|Cheshire]], he starred as the eponymous policeman in the BBC radio series ''[[The Ad
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  • | birth_place = [[Stockport]], [[Cheshire]], England [[Category:People educated at Roundhay School]]
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Stockport|Stockport]], [[w:Cheshire|Cheshire]], England [[Category:People from Stockport]]
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  • ...UK<ref>{{cite web|title=Charles Crichton|work=People.theiapolis|url=http://people.theiapolis.com/director-20NN/charles-crichton/|access-date=16 December 2015 Born in [[w:Wallasey|Wallasey]], [[w:Cheshire|Cheshire]], he became best known for directing many comedies produced at [[w:Ealing
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  • | birth_place = [[Sale, Greater Manchester|Sale]], [[Cheshire]], England ...was born on 24 April 1933 in [[Sale, Greater Manchester|Sale]], [[Cheshire|Cheshire]], and began acting in 1961 with a theatre role in ''[[Caesar and Cleopatra
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Dukinfield|Dukinfield]], [[w:Cheshire|Cheshire]], England ...she adopted the surname as her stage name, hence Kathy Staff. She retired from the stage at this point to raise her family, but started working as an extr
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  • | birth_place = [[Dukinfield]], [[Cheshire]], England ...a [[cotton mill]] for £1 a week.<ref name="Indy"/><ref name="Tele Obit"/> From 1947 to 1949 he did his [[National service#United Kingdom|National Service]
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  • ...of [[British Railways]]''. Born Honour Fuller, her stage name was derived from her favourite measurement of alcohol, a gill, and her favourite time of yea ...ial". Amongst Summers' possessions were "a whole file of complaint letters from [[working men's club]]s." The complaints were generally that she was too r
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  • | birth_place = [[Wallasey|Wallasey]], [[Cheshire|Cheshire]], England<ref name="wirral-born-star">{{cite news|title=Tributes to Wirral ...in the sitcom ''[[The Royle Family|The Royle Family]]'', playing the part from 1998 to 2000, and reprising his role for the specials in 2006 and 2008.
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  • | birth_place = [[Wallasey]], [[Cheshire]], England ...d joined the [[Royal Air Force Police|RAF Police]] but was later invalided from service, whereupon he joined [[Entertainments National Service Association]
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  • ...=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311235854/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f6003ba |url-status=live }}</ref> was an Anglo-Indian actor. He was b ...Stuart "Harry" Bates (1893–1985), son of Albert Bates, of [[Congleton]], [[Cheshire]],<ref name=kelly>Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Class
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  • | birth_place = [[Heswall]], [[Cheshire]],{{efn|Part of Merseyside since 1974}} England ...ame show ''[[Bullseye (British game show)|Bullseye]]'', which he presented from its beginning in 1981 through to the end of its original run in 1995.
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  • | birth_place = [[Cheadle, Greater Manchester|Cheadle]], [[Cheshire]], England ...when she first entered [[show business]], she adopted the surname "Davey" from her mother's second husband (the "r" was added years later).
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  • ...ing "wasp-waist and swivel-hippy". Unwin claimed that the inspiration came from his mother, who once told him that on the way home she had "falolloped (fal ...n's Home|National Children's Home]] in [[Congleton|Congleton]], [[Cheshire|Cheshire]]. In the late 1920s, he studied radio, television and languages at [[Unive
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  • | birth_place = [[Bramhall|Bramhall]], [[Stockport|Stockport]], [[Cheshire|Cheshire]], England ...accommodate them and the last half desperately trying to save the building from a flood, and whilst all this is going on, put up with his nagging wife ([[H
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  • ...Master's Voice]] include "The Bee Song" (1938), a lasting part of his act. From the 1950s, Askey was a prominent television presence and made regular appea ...(née Bowden, d. 1949), originally from [[Knutsford|Knutsford]], [[Cheshire|Cheshire]] and Samuel Askey (d. 1958), company secretary of Sugar Products of Liverp
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  • | birth_place = [[Wallasey]], [[Cheshire]], England ...ctober 2013</ref> (part of [[Wallasey]]) in [[Wirral Peninsula|Wirral]], [[Cheshire]], England. He attended Wallasey Grammar School and made his professional s
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  • ...isher = [[Bowdoin College|]] | title = Actor Burt Kwouk '53 Receives Honor from English Crown | date = 28 July 2011 | access-date = 24 May 2016}}</ref> The ...22337b08c32b08c5b609516963223|archive-date=14 July 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> From 2002 to the series's end in 2010, he had a [[regular character|regular role
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