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  • * Babes in the Wood at the London Palladium as the Sheriff of Nottingham [[Category:Male actors from London]]
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  • ...tle=Peter Bowles - Honorary graduates - Your Alumni Association - Alumni - Nottingham Trent University }}</ref> ...children together, Guy, Adam and Sasha. He died on 17 March 2022, aged 85, from cancer.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-6
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  • '''Bryan Pringle''' (19 January 1935 – 15 May 2002) was an [[English people|English]] character actor who appeared for several decades in television, f ...r Plays {{!}} Theatricalia}}</ref> He then moved to [[Nottingham Playhouse|Nottingham Playhouse]], where he appeared in the [[Willis Hall|Willis Hall]] drama ''B
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  • | colspan="4" |When Hoover, a visitor from America, starts displaying his telepathic powers, Stan decides that he and ...said, "[It] could have been funny, but the script by Janey Preger, was far from that... [The cast] tried very hard to make this trite offering as funny as
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  • ...mour Utterthwaite in the television series ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'' from 1986 to 1990 and he had a long career as a [[w:character actor|character ac ...(play)|French Without Tears]]''. A few days later, World War II broke out. From 1939 to 1940, he was in [[repertory theatre|rep]] at [[Bristol]], [[Blackpo
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  • ...unless the exact date is already widely published, as per [[WP:DOB]]. For people who have died, use . --> :Come where the heat from the sun's burning rays<br>Gets you so gaga you tear off your stays!<br>I'm
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  • ...rn]] headmaster managed to have him transferred, aged 12, to [[New College Nottingham|High Pavement Grammar School]]. In 1956 he passed the entrance exam for [[K ...house]] in 1973, as well as at the [[Lyric Theatre, London|Lyric Theatre]] from 1973 to 1974.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/play
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  • He became famous from his appearances on [[Granada Television]]'s ''[[The Comedians (1971 TV seri ...ad come to [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]] in 1914 from [[Barbados]],<ref name="guardian"/><ref name="times"/><ref name="telegraph"
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  • ...tinghamshire]].<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f426b58|title=Robin Bailey}}</ref> ...so collaborated with Tinniswood on the television and radio series ''Tales from a Long Room'', playing the Brigadier, an eccentric [[cricket|cricket]]-love
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  • ...comic foil to [[Norman Wisdom]]'s character of Pitkin in many of his films from the late 1950s and 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk ...uno and the Paycock]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6adc392f|title=Juno and the Paycock (1930)}}</ref> In the same year he
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  • ...career. I turned down quite a few offers afterwards because I thought the people didn't come close to those I'd worked with on ''[[Oliver! (film)|Oliver!]]' ...le in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', following the departure of [[Patrick Troughton]] from the part.<ref name="Stevens">{{cite book
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  • ...d joined the [[Royal Air Force Police|RAF Police]] but was later invalided from service, whereupon he joined [[Entertainments National Service Association] From 1946, Guyler became a regular on the immensely popular radio series, ''[[It
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  • | children = 6 (three with Blossom, three from extramarital affairs) ...Bygraves in the role of Archie's teacher. The idea for the programme came from record producer [[Wally Ridley]], who also produced Bygraves' records durin
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  • ...se. There was a bit of a scandal and one of the girls had a baby. The only people who really know are two elderly aunts and they don't tell me. Strange thoug ...in ''Lady Precious Stream'', which earned him a positive review in the ''[[Nottingham Evening Post]]''.{{r|Clayton|p=23}} Beckinsale left school at 15 with ambit
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  • ...it is not a transcription of the show, therefore there will be differences from any transcripts, or even the shows themselves, e.g. adlibs aren't included, |style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| But, to the poor people of England, hope is kindled by a magic name - Robin Hood!
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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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  • .../793929220/?terms=%22john%20davis%22%20%22rank%20film%22&match=1|newspaper=Nottingham Evening Post|date=22 Nov 1956|page= 9|first=Thomas|last=Wiseman|title=Mr Da Willie is the bad seed of a family of thieves. One day, he steals a briefcase from a dodgy clergyman, which is full of pound notes. Unfortunately, the notes a
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  • | nationality = [[Welsh People|Welsh]] ...untry=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] comedian, actor, singer and television presenter. Secombe was a mem
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  • ...theatre, film and television.<ref name="Times: Obit" /> His career spanned from 1930 until his death. During that time he was a "memorable character player ! scope="row" | ''You of all People''
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  • ...lsh]] and Italian descent from a grandfather who was said to have 'walked' from Italy to Wales to work as a coal miner, just to earn enough money to buy a ...all appearance in the promotional video for McCartney's song "London Town" from the 1978 [[London Town (Wings album)|album of the same name]]. Spinetti's
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