• Hulme Hippodrome
  ...ppodrome from 1905 onwards|the earlier Hulme Hippodrome|Playhouse Theatre, Manchester}} |city = [[Manchester]]
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• Harry Korris
  | caption = Korris in ''[[Happidrome (film)|Happidrome]]'' (1943) ...]]'', and of the [[Happidrome (film)|1943 film version]]. He also appeared in several [[Frank Randle]] films.<ref>Richards p.275</ref>
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• Don Estelle
  | caption = Estelle as Lofty in ''[[It Ain't Half Hot Mum]]'' | birth_place = [[Crumpsall]], [[Manchester]], [[Lancashire]], England
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• Bernard Holley
  ...his first professional stage appearance at the [[Theatre Royal, Lincoln]], in 1963. ...[The Feast of Axos]]'', opposite [[Colin Baker]], which was released on CD in February 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gallifreyannewsroom.com/?p=20
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• 'Monsewer' Eddie Gray
  | caption = In stage make-up as<br />"Monsewer" Eddie Gray ...''{{'}}Monsewer' Eddie Gray''', was an English stage comedian. He appeared in [[music hall]]s as a solo act and also as a member of [[Crazy Gang (comedy
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• James Casey (variety artist)
  ...BBC in the 1980s, he resurrected the act and toured the surviving variety theatres performing it with Woods for the following twenty five years. ...ssionally as [[Hinge and Bracket]], each of whom he launched into a career in radio light entertainment with their own BBC series.
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• Guest appearance
  {{short description|Participation of an outsider performer in an event or a movie}} ...etails/danceencyclopedi00chuj/page/434 434] |chapter= Guest Artist}}</ref> In [[performance art]], the terms '''guest role''' or '''guest star''' are als
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• Leo Franklyn
  ...rly career was in [[w:Edwardian musical comedy|Edwardian musical comedy]]; in his later career he was chiefly associated with [[w:farce|farce]]. ...ng in Australia in musical comedies. From the 1940s he appeared regularly in [[w:pantomime|pantomime]] as the [[w:Pantomime dame|Dame]].
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• The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club
  ...sion]] from 1974 to 1977. It was set in a fictional [[working men's club]] in the [[Northern England|North of England]] and was hosted by comedian [[Coli ...nd be served beer and snacks, join in a [[singalong]] and otherwise engage in [[audience participation]].
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• The Ghost Train (play)
  ...Ghost Train''''' is a stage comedy-[[thriller (genre)|thriller]], written in 1923 by the English actor and playwright [[Arnold Ridley]]. ...ntury dramatic genre of "strangers stranded together in a railway scenario in constrained circumstances" thrillers, leading to the films such as ''[[The
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• Crazy Gang (comedy group)
  ...y Gang''' were a group of British entertainers, formed in the early 1930s. In the mature form the group's six men were [[Bud Flanagan]], [[Chesney Allen] ...in a show called "The Big Crazy Gang" at the London Palladium and on tour in 1933.
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• Jimmy Clitheroe
  | height = {{convert|4|ft|2|in|m}} ...erred to [[w:Barrowford|Barrowford]] Board School for his final two years, in an era when education was compulsory only up to the age of 14.<ref name="bl
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• Jill Summers
  | caption = Jill Summers as Phyllis Pearce in ''Coronation Street'' | birth_place = [[Eccles, Greater Manchester|Eccles]], [[Lancashire]], England
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• Jimmy James (comedian)
  ...or jokes as such, preferring to say things in a humorous manner, sometimes in surreal situations and as such was seen by some as well ahead of his time. Many sources state he was born in [[Portrack]], [[Stockton-on-Tees]],<ref name="JimmyOxfordBio"/><ref name="S
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• Early Doors
  ...st friends. ''Early Doors'' is set at The Grapes, a small [[public house]] in [[Heaton Norris]], [[Stockport]], where daily life revolves around comical ...ng Houldsworth Square in central [[Reddish]] and the [[McVitie's]] factory in [[Heaton Chapel]].
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• The Clitheroe Kid
  | record_location = [[Hulme Hippodrome]], [[Manchester]], UK ...me Project]]}}</ref><ref name=rt1755>{{Cite magazine|title=Jimmy Clitheroe in The Clitheroe Kid |date=1957-06-28|magazine=[[Radio Times|Radio Times]]|url
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• Sam Kelly
  ...1974 TV series)|Porridge]]'', Sam in ''[[On the Up]]'', and Ted Liversidge in ''[[Barbara (TV series)|Barbara]]''. ...sic and Dramatic Art]]. After graduating in 1967, he appeared in repertory theatres around the UK.<ref name=Porridge>{{cite book|year=2001|author1=Richard Webs
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• Cicely Courtneidge
  <!-- Cicely-courtneidge-mousmé-1911.jpg Courtneidge in ''The Mousmé'', 1911--> ...End]] by the age of 16, and was quickly promoted from minor to major roles in his [[Edwardian musical comedies]].
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• Helen Fraser (actress)
  | image = Helen Fraser in Cardiff.jpg | caption = Fraser in 2011
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• Jimmy Edwards
  ...m in ''[[Take It from Here]]'' and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in ''[[Whack-O!]]''. ...lar]] at [[St John's College, Cambridge|St John's College]], where he sang in the [[Choir of St John's College, Cambridge|college choir]].
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