• The Ghost of St. Michael's
  Typical of comedies made during the war, it has an anti-Nazi plot. ...middle England (St Michael's) recently transferred because of [[World War II]] evacuation policy to the remote Dunbain Castle on the [[Isle of Skye]], [
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• Let George Do It!
  ...edy from this studio to deal directly with the [[World War II|Second World War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/detail/movie.aspx?tvobjectid=1 At the beginning of the Second World War, before Germany invaded [[Norway]], a [[banjulele|ukulele]] player in a Bri
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• The Goose Steps Out
  ...earden]]. It is a comedy of mistaken identity, with Hay acting as a German spy and also an Englishman who is his double. It was the film debut of [[Peter ...ave just captured. Potts is flown into [[Nazi Germany]] to impersonate the spy and instructed to seek out and bring back details of a new German secret we
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• Where the Spies Are
  ...s Doctor Jason Love, who did some intelligence work for him in [[World War II]], to find out what is going on. As a doctor, Love can attend a medical con ..."Dove of Peace", a jet returning to Russia after a propaganda tour of the world, and tries to extract information from him. Love tells him the truth, but S
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• Two Thousand Women
  | distributor = [[Gainsborough Studios]]<br />Ellis Films (US) '''''Two Thousand Women''''' is a 1944 British comedy-drama [[war film]] about a German [[internment camp]] in [[Occupied France]] which hold
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• Very Important Person (film)
  ...xter]] in a dual role as a dour Scottish prisoner and a German prisoner-of-war camp officer, [[Eric Sykes]], [[John Le Mesurier]], [[Leslie Phillips]] and The film had its world premiere on 20 April 1961 at the [[Odeon West End|Leicester Square Theatre]
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• Back-Room Boy
  ...Hay moved from Gainsborough to [[Ealing Studios]] before the Second World War.<ref>Mayer, 2003, p. 16</ref> Filming took place at Gaunt-British Studios, ...c of homophobic and chauvinistic undercurrents in Great Britain during the war".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://governmentcheese.ca/index.php?option=com_conte
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• Dad's Army (2016 film)
  | studio = DJ Films ...in the television series. [[Catherine Zeta-Jones]] plays an elegant German spy, posing as a journalist, reporting on the [[Walmington-on-Sea]] [[British H
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• Jack Watson (actor)
  ...from the 1950s onwards.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fa677ad|title=Jack Watson|website=BFI}}</ref> During the [[w:World War II|Second World War|]] he was a [[w:physical training instructor|physical training instructor]]
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• Geoffrey Keen
  ...Frederick Gray|Sir Frederick Gray]] in the ''[[w:James Bond|James Bond]]'' films. ...t joined the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] in 1939 when [[World War II|the war]] started. Keen enlisted in the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]], though also m
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• Terry Scott
  ...[comedian]] who appeared in seven of the ''[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On films]]''.<ref name="Stevens">{{cite book |last= Stevens |first= Christopher |ti ...[[National Service]] in the [[Royal Navy|Navy]] at the end of [[World War II]], he briefly studied accounting.
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• Round the Horne episodes
  *The Clissold Saga 5: films *The Spy Who Came in with a Cold: Kenneth Horne meets Chou en Ginsberg
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• Marne Maitland
  ...14 – March 1992) was an [[w:Anglo-Indian|Anglo-Indian]] character actor in films and television programmes. ...6, p. 600</ref> He served in the Royal Artillery during the [[Second World War]], commissioned as a second lieutenant on 20 November 1941.<ref>Supplement
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• Ernest Clark
  ...ocal rep, he took it and apart from six years in the army during World War II, he remained in the profession. ...ite=British Comedy Guide}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b86e3cda9|title=Physician Heal Thyself (1974)|website=BFI}}</
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• William Franklyn
  ...He was evacuated to [[Luscombe Castle]] in [[Devon]] in the [[Second World War]]. His stage career began at the age of 18, when he appeared in ''[[My Sist ...age, on television and radio, and in several films. He appeared in several films in the 1950s, including ''[[Quatermass 2]]'' in 1957, and took a starring r
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• Lionel Jeffries
  ...y ''[[New York Times]]'', 20 February 2010.</ref> He appeared primarily in films and received a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Music ...]] at the [[Rangoon]] radio station during the [[World War II|Second World War]],<ref name="BBC 10 Feb"/> being awarded the [[Burma Star]]. (He blamed the
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• Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
  | genre = War memoirs ...ited Kingdom declaration of war on Germany (1939)|Britain's declaration of war on Germany]] to when Milligan lands in [[Algeria]] as a part of the [[Allie
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• Oh! What a Lovely War
  | name = Oh! What a Lovely War | based_on = {{based on|''[[Oh, What a Lovely War!]]''|[[Joan Littlewood]]}}
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• Ben Lyon
  ...[[w:20th Century-Fox|20th Century-Fox]] who later acted in British radio, films and TV. ...glo-Jewish History'', Palgrave Macmillan (2011), p. 626</ref> Lyon entered films in 1918 after a successful appearance on [[w:Broadway theatre|Broadway]] op
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• Blake Edwards
  ...ck comedy]], [[Comedy drama]], [[Musicals]], [[Adventure films]], [[Action films]], [[Sex comedies]], [[Western (genre)|Western]] ...rector of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films. Late in his career, he took up writing, producing and directing for theate
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