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  • {{Short description|Welsh actor (1954–2010)}} ...obert Richard "Robin" Davies''' (16 January 1954 – 22 February 2010) was a Welsh television and film actor.<ref name ="Independent">[https://www.independent
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  • ...35</ref> His two step-brothers (who were also his first cousins) were also actors. ...whom he had known previously in England<ref>''A Who's Who of British Film Actors'', by Scott Palmer, The Scarecrow Press 1981 p307</ref> (Livesey's sister M
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  • ...chool]] (then Hendon County School).<ref name=":1" /> Williams was an only child and in 1956 bought a house one and a half miles away from his parents' hous [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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  • ...s Street, [[Dingle, Liverpool|Dingle]], [[Liverpool|Liverpool]] the eldest child and only son of Betsy (née Bowden, d. 1949), originally from [[Knutsford|K Askey served in the [[Royal Welsh Fusiliers|Royal Welsh Fusiliers]] in the [[First World War|First World War]] and performed in arm
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  • ...rt; they had two daughters, actresses Emma and Sophie Corbett. Their first child, Andrew, had a heart defect and died when he was 6 weeks old at [[St Thomas ...f Midlothian FC]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Comedian Ronnie Corbett launches Welsh Premier League |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/19258982 |work=BBC
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  • ...[[né]] '''John'''; 18 February 1899{{spaced ndash}}6 September 1992) was a Welsh stage, film and television character actor who became a star of British fil ...theatre company. While touring South Africa on 23 October 1923, their only child, [[Glynis Johns|Glynis Margaret Payne Johns]] was born; she would later bec
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  • .../2009/feb/19/best-actors-never-nominated-for-oscars|title=Oscars: the best actors never to have been nominated|work=The Guardian |location=UK |date=February ...odern)|Celt]], how you smell each other out, because my mother's family is Welsh. There's not a lot of English blood in me."<ref>{{cite web|last=White|first
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  • ...Britain had taken place at [[Alexandra Palace]]. The event included [[Alex Welsh]], [[Diz Disley]], [[Acker Bilk]], [[Chris Barber]], [[Kenny Ball]], [[Ken ...ref> He married twice and had a child from each marriage, though his first child Pandora was not known to be his until she was much older. He married his se
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  • ...tween 14 and 16 years old, and four counts alleging production of indecent child images in 2012.<ref name="guardian29" /> ...f the day at a swimming competition held to raise funds for the Bassendean Child Development Centre. He came a close second in the feature race, a handicap
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  • ...don, the only child of publisher John Atherton Rushton (1908-1958) and his Welsh wife Veronica (née James, 1910-1977). He was educated at [[Shrewsbury Scho [[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
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  • ...utory notice of his application for citizenship was published in a [[Wales|Welsh]] newspaper so as not to alert the Germans.<ref>According to Ustinov in his ...with the society into which he was born. For example, he took a test as a child, asking him to name a Russian composer; he wrote [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov|
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  • ...aint-half-hot-mum-obituary/|title=Windsor Davies, starred as the bellowing Welsh sergeant major in ‘It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum’ – obituary|newspaper=The ...eps them out of combat duty, but some do daydream of becoming world-famous actors when they leave the army.
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  • As a child, Moll lives in an orphanage but aspires to be a "gentlewoman". The story ju ...> Had Cilento appeared in the film, [[Sean Connery]] would have played the male lead.
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  • ...from the occasional wet sock."<ref>{{harvnb|McCabe|2005|p=14}}</ref> As a child, Barker enjoyed dressing up, particularly in his father's [[pierrot]] outfi ...pted to take on the persona of "Charlie" so as not to be himself. He and a male nurse often entertained the patients with comedy routines. He found work at
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  • ...'''[[Grace & Favour]]''''', from 1992 until 1993 with many of the original actors reprising their roles. An Australian version was also produced. John Inman ...tle is known about his personal life, except his marriage, an illegitimate child from the 1950s with "a girl from haberdashery", and a sister.
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  • ...|Turner Classic Movies]] calls Sellers "one of the most accomplished comic actors of the late 20th century".<ref>{{cite web|title=Peter Sellers |url=http://w ...but without resentment or objection''".{{sfn|Evans|1980|p=57}} As an only child though, he spent much time alone.<ref name="WT1002">{{cite web|url=https://
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