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  • {{Infobox television | company = [[London Weekend Television|London Weekend]]
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  • ...ayed the role of the [[antagonist|antagonist]] [[Chief ARP Warden Hodges]] in the sitcom ''[[Dad's Army]]''.<ref name="Stevens">{{cite book .... The family moved home many times during Pertwee's childhood and he lived in [[Hereford|Hereford]], [[Glasbury|Glasbury]], [[Colnbrook|Colnbrook]], [[Ne
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  • ...television, with programmes for [[London Weekend Television]] and [[Thames Television]]. ...age of 63 after suffering a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] live on television.<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=[[The Times]] | title=Obituary: Tommy Cooper |
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  • | caption = Fraser in 2015 ...as '''Liz Fraser''', was a British film actress, best known for being cast in provocative comedy roles.
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  • {{short description|Restaurant critic, television celebrity cook and writer from England}} | caption = Cradock in 1976
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  • {{Infobox television '''''The Two Ronnies''''' is a British television [[British comedy|comedy]] [[sketch show]] starring [[Ronnie Barker]] and [[
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  • | birth_name = John Devon Roland Pertwee ...aval Intelligence Division]] during the [[World War II|Second World War]]. In his early career, he worked as a stage comedian, which included performing
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  • | birth_place = [[Torquay]], [[Devon]], England ...[[anti-establishment]] comedic movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s.
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  • {{Infobox television | caption = The "Fawlty Towers" sign in the background image varied (usually as an [[Wikt:anagram#Noun|anagram]]) b
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  • ...ll head of dark hair and the other bald; they are in front of a microphone in a recording studio, reading a script ...= [[Richard Murdoch]], left, and [[Kenneth Horne]] in ''Much-Binding-in-the Marsh'', 1948
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  • ...st remembered for his work on three [[BBC Radio]] series: ''[[Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh]]'' (1944–54), ''[[Beyond Our Ken]]'' (1958–64) and ''[[Round ...o his business career, and kept his broadcasting as a sideline. His career in industry flourished, and he later became the chairman and managing director
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  • | alt = The faces of Basil Radford and Joan Greenwood appear in a cartoon whisky bottle; the top of the bottle wears a Tam o' shanter and t ...nd, the inhabitants of which have run out of whisky because of [[Rationing in the United Kingdom|wartime rationing]]. The islanders find out the ship is
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  • | image = Peter Sellers at home in Belgravia, London, 1973.jpg | caption = Sellers in 1973
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  • | caption = Dors in 1968 ...names = Diana d'Ors<br>The Siren of Swindon<br>The Hurricane in Mink<br>The Blonde Bombshell
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