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- | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited ...vello Awards|Ivor Novello Award]] in 1966 for [[List of Ivor Novello Award winners|the Year's Outstanding Novelty Composition]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://the6 KB (803 words) - 12:54, 22 December 2022
- ...nglish actress of stage, television and film having performed roles in ''[[World in Ferment]]'' (1969), ''[[Get Some In!]]'' (1976), ''[[The Good Life (1975 ...Denis? (video)|Anyone for Denis?]]'' at the [[Trafalgar Theatre|Whitehall Theatre]].8 KB (1,192 words) - 15:16, 24 February 2023
- ...and the 1982 [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actress|BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress]] for ''[[Smiley's People (TV series)|Smiley's People]]''. ...formal training but later worked at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] and the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]]. Her first big success came in the10 KB (1,393 words) - 14:51, 15 January 2023
- ...rd]]<br />1 [[British Academy Television Awards|British Academy Television Award]] ...]] series ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', for which he held the [[Guinness World Record]] for the most character voices for an audiobook by an individual.19 KB (2,752 words) - 08:57, 6 February 2023
- ...BC]]. He appeared in a variety of radio and television satirical shows and theatre shows, some of which he also directed. ....stm|publisher=BBC|access-date=21 April 2014}}</ref> he became involved in theatre at [[w:University of Oxford|Oxford]] and joined British television in 195612 KB (1,743 words) - 09:03, 6 February 2023
- ...n a Leading Role]] (1982)<br />[[w:Raymond Longford Award|Raymond Longford Award]] (2005) ...ymondLongfordAward/AFI_RaymondL_Winners_1968-2009.pdf AFI Raymond Longford Award] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090920010400/http://www.afi16 KB (2,404 words) - 08:56, 29 December 2022
- ...ademy Television Awards|BAFTA TV Awards]] for [[British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance|Best Light Entertainment Performance]]. ...He was also an [[Olivier Award]] and [[Tony Award]] winner for his work in theatre.25 KB (3,624 words) - 17:05, 18 February 2023
- ...Shakespeare plays at [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] and [[Regent's Park Open Air Theatre]].<ref name="auto"/> ...livierawards.com/winners/view/item98513/olivier-winners-1979|title=Olivier Winners 1979|publisher=olivierawards.com|accessdate=22 September 2017}}</ref>11 KB (1,620 words) - 14:55, 24 February 2023
- ...pages=23–25 |isbn=0330367757}}</ref> In 1986 he won the [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance]] for his stage role in the play ''[[When We Ar ...name="telegraph" /> Before the [[Second World War]], he ran the Connaught Theatre in [[Worthing]]; when called up he served in a [[Royal Air Force]] [[Ultra|10 KB (1,595 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2023
- ...anuary 1900{{spaced ndash}}13 June 1969) was an [[Argentine]]-born British theatre and film actress. She had a dominant stage presence and played a wide range ...re]] and a short 1926 [[Anton Chekhov|Chekhov]] season at the small Barnes Theatre under [[Theodore Komisarjevsky]] (playing Charlotta Ivanovna, in ''[[The Ch15 KB (2,194 words) - 10:51, 25 August 2024
- ...was an [[Irish people|Irish]] actor. He was twice nominated for the [[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play]] for his performances in ''[[Staircase (play)|Sta ...]'s ''[[Caesar and Cleopatra (play)|Caesar and Cleopatra]]'' at the [[Gate Theatre]]. He later studied music and drama at the [[Guildhall School of Music and17 KB (2,423 words) - 15:09, 18 January 2023
- ...Drama]], at that time based at the [[Royal Albert Hall]], London.<ref>V&A, Theatre and Performance Special Collections, Elsie Fogerty Archive, THM/324</ref> ...Theatre]]. She worked on stage in London's [[West End of London|West End]] theatre, making her debut in ''Penny for a Song''. She attracted attention on TV ap18 KB (2,707 words) - 20:32, 7 February 2023
- ...my Television Award|BAFTA TV Award]] winner and twice a [[Laurence Olivier Award]] winner. ...reated by [[Johnny Speight]], which won him a [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actor|Best TV Actor]] [[BAFTA]] in 1967. He reprised the role in t25 KB (3,696 words) - 15:24, 18 August 2024
- ...= Helen Hayes Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Lifetime Achievement Award ...wakes-up-to-grandpa-joe-nj2g5f9l862 Profile: David Kelly: At long last the world wakes up to Grandpa Joe] The Sunday Times, November 6, 2005.</ref> and went16 KB (2,171 words) - 16:03, 25 August 2024
- ...or Best Actor]] for the same role. In 2009, he won an [[International Emmy Award for Best Actor]] for his appearance on the BBC One drama ''[[The Street (UK ...e=13 August 2018}}</ref> A year later, while waiting in the bar at [[Unity Theatre, London]], for his friend the actor Roger Frost, Hoskins found himself bein36 KB (4,989 words) - 09:08, 24 January 2023
- ...erself on the stage as an adult, playing in comedy, drama and experimental theatre, and radio broadcasting. She found her milieu in revue, which she played fr ...sons, the younger of whom, [[Stephen Joseph|Stephen]], became a pioneer of theatre in the round in Britain.<ref name=dnb/>21 KB (3,220 words) - 08:05, 30 March 2023
- ...n [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] and a [[Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe Award]] for her role as the Duchess of Brighton in ''[[The V.I.P.s (film)|The V.I ...d called her Aunt Bessie her "adoptive mother and one of the saints of the world".<ref name="W. H. Allen">{{cite book |last1=Rutherford |first1=Margaret |fi27 KB (3,944 words) - 08:06, 11 September 2024
- ...fringe_pig_ham_fist_awards_2015/ |title=Inaugural FringePig Ham Fist Prize Winners Announced|publisher=British Comedy Guide|date=1 September 2015|access-date= ...tps://web.archive.org/web/20130608134525/http://www.radioacademyawards.org/winners/index.cfm?winners_year=2013|archive-date=8 June 2013}}</ref>45 KB (6,507 words) - 10:46, 20 October 2022
- ...da Bruce|work=BFI|access-date=27 March 2015}}</ref> She was focused on the theatre, radio, film and television. ...r0000robe/page/91 91]|quote=brenda bruce happy days.|title=The Royal Court Theatre and the Modern Stage|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=97805214796217 KB (2,551 words) - 14:22, 10 January 2023
- ...arpenter who left the family shortly after the [[w:Second World War|Second World War]], and his mother, who had a history of mental health problems, died by He made his professional debut as a comedian at the Streatham Hill Theatre on 27 October 1957, in a show in aid of the Sir [[Philip Game#Metropolitan19 KB (2,804 words) - 17:56, 13 January 2023