Avril Angers, the Glossary
Florence Avril Angers (18 April 1918 – 9 November 2005) was an English stand-up comedian and actress.[1]
Table of Contents
56 relations: Agatha Christie, All Creatures Great and Small (1978 TV series), Are You Being Served?, Arthur Askey, Be My Guest (film), Bill Naughton, Bond of Fear, Brass Monkey (film), Caedmon Audio, Confessions of a Driving Instructor, Coronation Street, Covent Garden, Dad's Army, Devils of Darkness, Don't Blame the Stork, Elsie Tanner, Entertainments National Service Association, Frankie Howerd, Hayley Mills, How Do You View?, I Started Something I Couldn't Finish, Judith Furse, Lancashire, List of Coronation Street characters (1961), Liverpool, London, Miles Malleson, Miss Marple, Miss Pilgrim's Progress, Mr. Forbush and the Penguins, Murder at the Vicarage (play), Music hall, Odd Man Out (British TV series), Palace Theatre, London, Rita Webb, Roger Livesey, Savoy Theatre, Staircase (film), Stand-up comedy, Straight man, Terry-Thomas, The Best House in London, The Daily Telegraph, The Family Way, The Green Man (film), The Six Men, The Smiths, The Stage, There's a Girl in My Soup, Three Bites of the Apple, ... Expand index (6 more) »
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
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All Creatures Great and Small (1978 TV series)
All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series made by the BBC and based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot.
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Are You Being Served?
Are You Being Served? is a British television sitcom that was broadcast from 1972 to 1985.
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Arthur Askey
Arthur Bowden Askey, (6 June 1900 – 16 November 1982) was an English comedian and actor. Avril Angers and Arthur Askey are 20th-century English comedians and comedians from Liverpool.
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Be My Guest (film)
Be My Guest is a 1965 British musical film.
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Bill Naughton
William John Francis Naughton (12 June 1910 – 9 January 1992) was an Irish-born British playwright and author, best known for his play Alfie.
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Bond of Fear
Bond of Fear is a 1956 British 'B' crime drama film directed by Henry Cass and starring Dermot Walsh, Jane Barrett, and John Colicos.
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Brass Monkey (film)
Brass Monkey is a 1948 British comedy thriller with musical asides, directed by Thornton Freeland.
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Caedmon Audio
Caedmon Audio and HarperCollins Audio are record label imprints of HarperCollins Publishers that specialize in audiobooks and other literary content.
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Confessions of a Driving Instructor
Confessions of a Driving Instructor is a 1976 British sex-farce film directed by Norman Cohen and starring Robin Askwith and Anthony Booth.
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Coronation Street
Coronation Street (colloquially referred to as Corrie) is a British television soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
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Covent Garden
Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane.
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Dad's Army
Dad's Army is a British television sitcom about the United Kingdom's Home Guard during the Second World War.
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Devils of Darkness
Devils of Darkness is a 1965 British horror film directed by Lance Comfort and starring William Sylvester, Hubert Noël and Carole Gray.
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Don't Blame the Stork
Don't Blame the Stork is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Ákos Ráthonyi and starring Veronica Hurst, Ian Hunter, Reginald Beckwith, and Patricia Laffan.
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Elsie Tanner
Elsie Tanner (also Howard) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played by Pat Phoenix from the series' inception in 1960 to 1973, and again from 1976 until 1984.
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Entertainments National Service Association
The Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) was an organisation established in 1939 by Basil Dean and Leslie Henson to provide entertainment for British armed forces personnel during World War II.
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Frankie Howerd
Francis Alick Howard (6 March 1917 – 19 April 1992), better known by his stage-name Frankie Howerd, was an English actor and comedian. Avril Angers and Frankie Howerd are 20th-century English comedians.
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Hayley Mills
Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is a British actress.
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How Do You View?
How Do You View? was the first comedy series on British television.
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I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
"I Started Something I Couldn't Finish" is a song by the English rock band The Smiths, written by singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr and released on the group's 1987 album Strangeways, Here We Come.
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Judith Furse
Judith Furse (4 March 1912 – 29 August 1974) was an English actress.
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Lancashire
Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.
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List of Coronation Street characters (1961)
Coronation Street is a British soap opera, initially produced by Granada Television.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Miles Malleson
William Miles Malleson (25 May 1888 – 15 March 1969) was an English actor and dramatist, particularly remembered for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s.
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Miss Marple
Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories.
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Miss Pilgrim's Progress
Miss Pilgrim's Progress is a 1949 black-and-white British comedy film by producer Nat Cohen and director Val Guest.
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Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
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Murder at the Vicarage (play)
Murder at the Vicarage is a 1949 play by Moie Charles and Barbara Toy based on the 1930 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie.
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Music hall
Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was most popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850, through the Great War.
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Odd Man Out (British TV series)
Odd Man Out is a British sitcom starring John Inman that aired for seven episodes on ITV from 27 October to 8 December 1977.
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Palace Theatre, London
The Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster in London.
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Rita Webb
Olive Rita Webb (25 February 1904 – 30 August 1981), later known as Olive Rita Thompson, was an English character actress, mainly in comedy roles.
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Roger Livesey
Roger Livesey (25 June 1906 – 4 February 1976) was a British stage and film actor.
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Savoy Theatre
The Savoy Theatre is a West End theatre in the Strand in the City of Westminster, London, England.
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Staircase (film)
Staircase (also known as L'Escalier) is a 1969 British comedy-drama film directed by Stanley Donen and starring Richard Burton and Rex Harrison.
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Stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy is a performance directed to a live audience, where the performer stands on a stage and delivers humorous and satirical monologues sometimes incorporating physical acts.
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Straight man
The straight man is a stock character in a comedy performance, especially a double act, sketch comedy, or farce.
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Terry-Thomas
Terry-Thomas (born Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens; 10 July 19118 January 1990) was an English character actor and comedian who became internationally known through his films during the 1950s and 1960s. Avril Angers and Terry-Thomas are 20th-century English comedians.
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The Best House in London
The Best House in London is a 1969 British comedy film directed by Philip Saville and starring David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet, George Sanders, Warren Mitchell, John Bird, Maurice Denham and Bill Fraser.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Family Way
The Family Way is a 1966 British comedy-drama film produced and directed by John and Roy Boulting, respectively, and starring father and daughter John Mills and Hayley Mills.
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The Green Man (film)
The Green Man is a 1956 black and white British black comedy film directed by Robert Day and starring Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas and Jill Adams.
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The Six Men
The Six Men is a 1951 British second feature ('B') crime film directed by Michael Law and starring Harold Warrender, Olga Edwardes and Peter Bull.
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The Smiths
The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982, composed of Morrissey (vocals), Johnny Marr (guitar), Andy Rourke (bass) and Mike Joyce (drums).
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The Stage
The Stage is a British weekly newspaper and website covering the entertainment industry and particularly theatre.
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There's a Girl in My Soup
There's a Girl in My Soup is a 1970 British romantic comedy film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn.
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Three Bites of the Apple
Three Bites of the Apple is a 1967 American romantic comedy film directed by Alvin Ganzer.
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Tiller Girls
The Tiller Girls were among the most popular dance troupes of the 1890s, first formed by John Tiller in Manchester, England, in 1889.
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Two a Penny
Two a Penny is a 1967 British film, released nationally in 1968, directed by James F. Collier and starring Cliff Richard.
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Victoria Wood (1989 TV series)
Victoria Wood (retitled Victoria Wood Presents from 2007 for its DVD release) is a series of six one-off situation comedies written by and starring Victoria Wood in 1989, who took a break from sketches, two years after her successful sketch series Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV.
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West End theatre
West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.
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Women Without Men (1956 film)
Women Without Men is a 1956 British second feature drama film directed by Elmo Williams and Herbert Glazer and starring Beverly Michaels, Joan Rice, Thora Hird and Hermione Baddeley.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril_Angers
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