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  • | writer = [[Terry Johnson (dramatist)|Terry Johnson]] ...lay written by the English [[dramatist]] [[Terry Johnson (dramatist)|Terry Johnson]], who also directed the original production at the [[Royal National Theatr
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  • ...de Grunwald]] based on the play ''[[Quiet Wedding (play)|Quiet Wedding]]'' by [[Esther McCracken]]. The film was remade in 1958 as ''[[Happy Is the Bride * [[Charles Carson (actor)|Charles Carson]] as Johnson
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  • ...(1940). He also translated and adapted several of [[w:Molière|Molière]]'s plays (''[[w:The Misanthrope|The Misanthrope]]'', which he entitled ''The Slave o ...s'', (a children's play with a socialist message) was frequently performed by British amateur dramatic groups in the period after [[w:World War I|World W
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  • ...popular show had been written by [[Walter Slaughter]] in 1901, with a book by [[Seymour Hicks]] (providing part of the inspiration for [[J. M. Barrie]]'s ...lladium]] in 1931, Hawtrey played the First Twin, with leading parts taken by [[Jean Forbes-Robertson]] and [[George Curzon (actor)|George Curzon]]. This
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  • ...Briers asked Morna to stand in for his regular pianist for a performance; by this time his first marriage had collapsed and six months later they had en ...the [[Duke of York's Theatre]] 1959 production of ''Gilt And Gingerbread'' by [[Lionel Hale]].<ref name=bbcobit/><ref name="Coveney">{{cite news | url =
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  • * [[Terry Gilliam]] * [[Terry Jones]]
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  • ...Mathews (writer)|Arthur Mathews]] and [[Graham Linehan]], and was produced by [[Hat Trick Productions]] for [[Channel 4]]. It stars [[Dermot Morgan]], [[ '''Guest stars {{small|(in order as credited)}}:''' Gerard Lee as Terry MacNamee, [[Pat Shortt]] as Tom, Noelle Brown as Teaching Nun, Blanaid Irvi
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  • ...Performance]]. They worked together on other projects until the mid 1970s, by which time Moore had settled in Los Angeles to concentrate on his film acti His career as a comedy film actor was marked by hit films, particularly ''[[Bedazzled (1967 film)|Bedazzled]]'' (1967), set
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  • | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> ...[[drawing|draughtsman]] to a mapmaker. His apprenticeship was interrupted by [[the Blitz]], and he was evacuated to [[Bicester]], and the home of a bach
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  • ...niversity of Liverpool|University of Liverpool]].<ref>''Leonard Rossiter'' by Robert Tanitch; {{ISBN|0-947728-19-8}}</ref> Instead, he did his [[w:Conscr ...the next part. I developed a frightening capacity for learning lines. The plays became like [[w:Elastoplast|Elastoplast]], which you just stuck on and then
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  • ...nch line|punchlines]]. Live action segments were broken up with animations by Gilliam, often merging with the live action to form [[Segue#In film or broa *Italian Lesson – written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones
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  • ...BC Books, 2004, p. 11</ref> and Edith Eleanor (née Carter; known as "Cis", by virtue of being the youngest sister amongst her siblings).<ref name="Rememb ...ide stage doors to collect autographs, his first being the actress [[Celia Johnson]].<ref name=C36>{{harvnb|Corbett|Nobbs|2007|pp=36–37}}</ref>
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  • |[[Vivienne Johnson]] ...with the exception of Mike Berry, Penny Irving, Doremy Vernon and Vivienne Johnson.
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  • | director = [[Terry Jones]] * [[Terry Gilliam]]
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  • Terry Scott.jpg|[[Terry Scott]] ...only slightly larger role in the following film ''Abroad'', where he again plays his established ''Alf Ippititimus''-type character, his roles increased in
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  • ...the greatest ever British TV sitcom by a panel of comedy experts compiled by the ''[[Radio Times]]''.<ref name="The Guardian">Mattha Busby, 9 April 2019 ...Guardian"/> The BBC profile for the series states that "the British sitcom by which all other British sitcoms must be judged, ''Fawlty Towers'' withstand
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  • | [[Terry Gilkyson|Terry Gilkyson]] | [[Juventino Rosas|Juventino Rosas]]<br>Adapted by [[Irving Aaronson|Irving Aaronson]]
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  • ...rick George Troughton''' ({{IPAc-en|'|t|r|aʊ|t|ən}};<ref>See, for example, Terry Phillips's 1986 interview with Troughton.</ref> 25 March 1920 – 28 March ...nd 1971 were amongst those either never recorded or [[w:Wiping|destroyed]] by UK broadcasters, most notably his stint on ''Doctor Who''. Many of his appe
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  • Sellers was two weeks old when he was carried on stage by [[Dick Henderson]], the headline act at the [[w:Kings Theatre, Southsea|Kin ...g that "''Sellers was an immensely shy young man, inclined to be dominated by his mother, but without resentment or objection''".{{sfn|Evans|1980|p=57}}
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