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  • | birth_place = [[w:Stoke Newington|Stoke Newington]], [[w:London|London]] ...n) was a British actor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba604b2b8|title=Eddie Malin|website=BFI}}</ref> He is perhaps most famo
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  • | birth_place = [[Stoke Newington|Stoke Newington]], London, England ...ée}} Sawer), and was of [[Sephardic Jewish|Sephardic Jewish]]-[[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] ancestry &mdash; ''Costa'' is a Jewish Portuguese surname.<re
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Stoke Newington|Stoke Newington]], [[w:London|London]], England ...' (1964), ''[[The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (film)|The Spy Who Came In from the Cold]]'' (1965), ''[[The Assassination Bureau]]'' (1969) and ''[[Norman
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  • ...[[comedian|comic actor]] who starred in revue, variety, film and pantomime from the 1920s to the mid-1980s. His trademark rubber-neck dance, skeletal frame ...//www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/57/a6336957.shtml |title=WW2 People's War: Una Bracey Remembers |publisher=BBC |url-status=dead |archiveurl=htt
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  • Walls spent his early years as an actor, from 1905, mostly in [[Edwardian musical comedy|musical comedy]], touring the Br Away from acting, Walls's passion was horse racing. He set up stables at his home in
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  • ...Cats]]'' from 2005 to 2015, and on ''[[8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown]]'' from 2012 until his death in 2021. ...ustry]]. His mother, Mary (née McCreesh),<ref name="Telegraph obit" /> was from [[Cullaville]], [[County Armagh]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.belfast
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  • ...iliated by this, Windsor was sent back to London in 1944 along with a note from her dance teacher which read: "Barbara is a born show-off who loves to perf ...as chosen to appear in the chorus of the musical ''[[w:Love From Judy|Love From Judy]]'' in the [[w:West End theatre|West End]] in 1952 which ran for a su
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  • a [[BBC television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] shown on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from 1 January 1980 to 30 January 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk ...es of Jimmy Perry, one of the programme's writers. After being demobilised from the [[British Army|Army]], he was a [[Butlins Redcoats|Redcoat]] at [[Butli
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