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  • | death_place = [[w:East Lake Weir, Florida|East Lake Weir]], [[w:Marion County, Florida|Marion County]], [[w:Florida|Florid ...news|title=Obituary: Tessie O'Shea|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-tessie-oshea-1616990.html|author=Denis Gifford |date=24 April 1995
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  • | birth_place = [[Canning Town]]<!--Canning Town East London prior to 1965-->, England ...at the nearby [[Star Lane DLR station|Star Lane]] Primary School in [[West Ham]] and after leaving school at 14, he worked as a messenger boy and a page b
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  • '''Alfred Edward "Alf" Garnett''' is a [[fictional character]] from the [[Television in the United Kingdom|British]] [[Situation comedy|sitcom] ...d 1968, according to the film ''The Alf Garnett Saga'', despite resistance from Alf, the Garnetts were rehoused in a tower block in a new town on the edge
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  • ...d St. Mary the Virgin, [[Fletching, East Sussex|Fletching]], [[East Sussex|East Sussex]], England ...er and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in ''[[Take It from Here]]'' and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in ''[[Whack-O!]]''.
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  • {{short description|Restaurant critic, television celebrity cook and writer from England}} | death_place = [[w:Hailsham|Hailsham]], [[w:East Sussex|East Sussex]], England
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  • ...edy]], and later [[television comedy|television comedy]] series, broadcast from 1954 to 1961 and written by [[Galton and Simpson|Ray Galton and Alan Simpso ...-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in [[Cheam|East Cheam]].
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  • ...six episodes, calling it ''[[Till Death...]]''. The BBC produced a sequel from 1985 until 1992, ''[[In Sickness and in Health]]''. ...ike Rawlins ([[Tony Booth (actor)|Anthony Booth]]) is a socialist layabout from [[Liverpool]] who frequently locks horns with Garnett. Alf Garnett became a
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  • ...his best-remembered work (including "[[The Blood Donor]]" and "[[The Radio Ham]]"). After breaking with his scriptwriters [[Galton and Simpson|Ray Galton
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  • | birth_place = [[Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire|Cottingham]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire]], England ...House of Lords]] as a crossbencher in 1992 and was president of [[Mencap]] from 1998 until his death.
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  • .... The series is a sitcom sequel to ''[[Open All Hours]]'', which broadcast from 1973 to 1985. There have so far been a total of six series and forty-one ep ...vis, Gastric needs more help with his love life and Leroy arouses jealousy from Nikki's rather large boyfriend, prompting him to go into hiding. Meanwhile
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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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  • | resting_place = St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, East Preston, Arun District, West Sussex, England ...an actor and reciter of comic monologues were soon recognised. Characters from his monologues such as Sam Small, invented by Holloway, and Albert Ramsbott
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  • ...r Joy who was an English teacher at Claverham Community College in Battle, East Sussex, and a younger brother Leon (1927–2015), likewise an actor.<ref>{{ ...results/3475/Donald%20Alfred+SINDEN.aspx |date=17 July 2011}}, ''Debrett's People of Today''; accessed 15 December 2013.</ref> and later trained as an actor
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  • ...er Michael Bentine, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and I cooked up whenever people asked us to explain ourselves,’ wrote Harry Secombe in his newspaper colu From 3.30pm to 4.15pm on Wednesday 26 April 1949, a trial recording of a new BBC
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  • ...of his universe|date=19 April 2005|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/douglas-adams-master-of-his-universe-495422.html}}</ref> technolog ...The family moved a few months after his birth to the [[East End of London|East End of London]], where his sister, Susan, was born three years later.<ref n
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