• Peggy Ann Clifford
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• Buster Merryfield
  | death_place = [[Poole|Poole]], Dorset, England ...'The World–My Canvas'' by Ruth Dixon and ''[[A View from the Bridge|A View from the Bridge]]'' by [[Arthur Miller|Arthur Miller]], for the now defunct amat
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• David Croft (TV producer)
  |birth_place = [[Sandbanks|Sandbanks]], [[Poole|Poole]], Dorset, England ...(with Lloyd). His last full series ''[[Oh, Doctor Beeching!]]'', broadcast from 1995 to 1997, was co-written with [[Richard Spendlove]]. He created a telev
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• Pauline Yates
  ...er stage debut in a dramatised version of ''[[Jane Eyre]]'', playing Grace Poole. ..., a comedy sketch show for radio, which was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 15 February 1971.) In 1970 she appeared as Mme Arnoux in ''[[Sentimental Ed
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• John Fraser (actor)
  ...or and author.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f9c18ae|title=John Fraser|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]}}</ref ...ser|website=www.aveleyman.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/people/john-fraser/|title=John Fraser|last=TV.com|website=TV.com}}</ref>
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• Lionel Jeffries
  | death_place = [[Poole]], [[Dorset]], England ...' and realised that television production values were now little different from those in the film industry; as a result he developed a belated career in te
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• Whoops Apocalypse (film)
  ...es ''[[Whoops Apocalypse]]'', but uses an almost completely different plot from the series. ...ce, is shown to be incompetent, especially when trying to handle questions from the press. Her husband runs a weapons company which hired Lacrobat to start
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• Dennis Price filmography
  *''[[The Lost People]]'' (1949) as Ridley *''[[Tamahine]]'' (1963) as Charles Poole
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• Gwendolyn Watts
  Married to actor [[w:Gertan Klauber|Gertan Klauber]] from 1959 until her death, Watts gave up full-time acting in the early 1970s to Gwendolyn Watts died in 2000, aged 62, from a heart attack.
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• Betty Box
  ...s more men were called up, there were more opportunities for me. We worked from 7 a.m. until 10 or 11 at night. I learnt more in those two years than I wou ...[Gainsborough Pictures]] that year, he named her Head of Production at the Poole Street, [[Hoxton]] studio, where she produced ten films during the next two
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• Alastair Sim on stage and screen
  ...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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• Barry Cryer
  ...r BBC Radio4 Great Lives 11 Jan 2011 b00x95hm.flac|Recorded January 2011]] from the BBC Radio 4 programme ''[[w:Great Lives|Great Lives]]''</center>}} ...ted to laughter|date=27 January 2022|work=BBC News}}</ref> He was released from his contract by Van Damm and concluded that a performing career was not a w
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• George Cole (actor)
  ...al service|national service]] in the [[w:Royal Air Force|Royal Air Force]] from 1944 to 1947, where he was temporarily a radio operator. ...mes Television]] series ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]'', which he played from 1979 to the show's conclusion in 1994. Prior to this, he had played a strug
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• George Sanders
  ...man, but also Estonian and Scottish (Sanders wrote of his mother's descent from "the Thomas Clayhills of Dundee, who went to Estonia in 1626 to establish a ...aced by Morton Lowry).<ref>George Sanders Suspended by Fox for Withdrawing From 'The Immortal Sargeant' New York Times 11 Sep 1942: 24.</ref> In November,
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• The Ministry of Silly Walks
  "'''The Ministry of Silly Walks'''" is a sketch from the [[Monty Python]] comedy troupe's television show ''[[Monty Python's Fly ...shed in [[The BMJ|British Medical Journal]]<ref>Glenn A. Gaesser, David C. Poole, Siddhartha S. Angadi [https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/379/bmj-2022-072833.
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• Val Guest
  ...le=Guest, Val (1911-2006) Biography|publisher=BFI Screenonline}} Reprinted from ''Reference Guide to British and Irish Film Directors''</ref> ...and. His parents divorced when he was young, but this information was kept from him. Instead he was told that his mother had died.<ref name="Val Guest"/> H
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• Nicholas Parsons
  ...0b7bd1.flac |title = Nicholas Parsons' voice |type = speech |description = from the BBC programme ''[[Great Lives]]'', 13 May 2008.<ref>{{Cite episode |tit ...[[The Daily Telegraph]], 24 September 2013, page 11</ref> He also suffered from [[migraine]]s but nevertheless excelled at school.<ref name = "DID 9 Nov 20
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• Stanley Holloway
  ...an actor and reciter of comic monologues were soon recognised. Characters from his monologues such as Sam Small, invented by Holloway, and Albert Ramsbott ...9 July 2012</ref> George left Florence in 1905 and was never seen or heard from again by his family.<ref name="Holloway and Richards, p. 68">Holloway and R
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• One Foot in the Grave
  ...x half-hour shows) and seven Christmas specials over a period of ten years from early 1990 to late 2000. The first five series were broadcast between Janua ...inspired a novel, published in 1992, featuring the most memorable moments from the first two series and the first Christmas special.
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• I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
  ...pt was most recently written by [[Iain Pattinson]], who worked on the show from 1992 until his death in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amandahowardas ''I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue'' developed from the long-running radio [[sketch show]] ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]
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