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  • | birth_place = [[Johnstone]], [[Renfrewshire (historic)|Renfrewshire]], [[Scotland]] ...';<ref name=baker/> 24 July 1902 &ndash; 9 February 1980) was a [[Scottish people|Scottish]] comedy actress and [[revue]] artist who appeared in television a
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  • ...309&dat=19880925&id=2a1UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GJADAAAAIBAJ&pg=2478,2432896}}</ref> from which she graduated in 1952.<ref>[https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles?aos=actin ...ve-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819164004/https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/news/6980/josephine-tewson-rip/ |archive-date=19 August 2022 |access-date=1
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  • * ''[[Crazy People (1934 film)|Crazy People]]'' (1934) * ''[[Captain's Orders]]'' (1937) - Johnstone
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  • ...}}</ref> was an [[English people|English]] actor. He worked predominantly from the 1950s into the 1970s and became one of the most recognisable faces in [ ...of the war. He was assigned to work on the Burma Railway and was released from Changi at the end of the war by American troops, after which he returned to
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  • *{{Marriage|Beryl Johnstone|1939|1946|end=div}} ...1953), he appeared in many roles as a carefree, happy-go-lucky gent. Films from this period include ''[[Doctor in the House]]'' (1954), ''[[Raising a Riot
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  • ...n">{{cite web|last=Brooke|first=Michael|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/446920/ |title=BFI Screenonline: Calvert, Phyllis (1915–2002) Biograph ...argaret Morris (dancer)|Margaret Morris School of Dancing]], and performed from the age of ten, performing with [[Ellen Terry|Ellen Terry]] in ''Crossings'
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  • ...ember 2001) was an English actress. As a child, she found acting an escape from an unhappy home life. After playing in amateur productions, she was taken o Mount occasionally performed in comedies from the classical repertoire, including works by [[William Shakespeare|Shakespe
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  • ...[[Anglophobia|anglophobe]]. Wanda and Otto are lovers, but they hide this from George and Ken, pretending to be siblings, so Wanda can work her charms on ...a defense witness --> inadvertently calling her "darling". Wendy, watching from the public gallery, declares their marriage over.
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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 ...Web. Retrieved 13 March 2012. (Click on link at bottom for facsimile page from ''Daily News'' article, 7 March 1998.)</ref> His ability to write stories m
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  • ...e next several years, still wearing his dressing gown, helplessly launched from crisis to crisis while trying to straighten out his lifestyle. He rather en ...of many failed prototypes of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's GPP (Genuine People Personalities) technology, Marvin is afflicted with severe depression and b
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  • ...s around it, with the initial destruction of Earth being the only holdover from the "Ends of the Earth" proposal.<ref>{{cite book | last=Webb |first=Nick | ...Jeltz.<ref name=p98/> One character appearing in the pilot who was dropped from subsequent incarnations of the story was Lady Cynthia, an aristocrat who he
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  • ...edy drama consisting of 43 episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993. It was produced by Richmond Film & Television for [[Central I ...ties of a children's newspaper, the ''Junior Gazette'', produced by pupils from the local [[comprehensive school]]. In later series it was depicted as a co
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  • The following article is a list of episodes from the Primary and Secondary Phases. For information on its production, see '' ==The Primary Phase==<!-- This section is linked from [[Douglas Adams]] -->
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  • ...story of Brian Cohen (played by Chapman), a young [[Jews|Jewish]]-[[Roman people|Roman]] man who is born on the same day as—and next door to—[[Jesus]], ...the time of its release, drawing accusations of [[blasphemy]] and protests from some religious groups. Thirty-nine local authorities in the United Kingdom
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  • ...https://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/26485860 |title = Jo Kent saves cult hg2g game from scrapheap |access-date = 2014-06-24 |newspaper = Ariel |date = 2014-03-12 } ...unters [[Trillian (character)|Trillian]], another human who had been taken from Earth (before its destruction) by the two-headed President of the Galaxy [[
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