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Richard Wattis, the Glossary

Richard Cameron Wattis (25 February 1912 – 1 February 1975) was an English actor, co-starring in many popular British comedies of the 1950s and 1960s.^[1]

134 relations: A Touch of the Sun (1956 film), A Yank at Oxford, A Yank in Ermine, An Alligator Named Daisy, Appointment in London, Appointment with Venus (film), Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film), As Long as They're Happy, Background (1953 film), Barnacle Bill (1957 film), Blood Orange (1953 film), Blue Murder at St Trinian's, Bon Voyage! (1962 film), Bromsgrove School, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Carry On Spying, Casino Royale (1967 film), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Civil service, Colonel March Investigates, Colonel March of Scotland Yard, Come Fly with Me (film), Comedy film, Confessions of a Window Cleaner, Conservative Party (UK), Croydon, Danger Man, Dentist on the Job, Derby Day (1952 film), Diamonds on Wheels, Dick and the Duchess, Doctor in the House (film), Escapade (1955 film), Eyewitness (1956 film), Father, Dear Father, Follow a Star, Follow That Horse!, Games That Lovers Play (film), Hancock's Half Hour, Helter Skelter (1949 film), High Flight (film), Hobson's Choice (1954 film), I Am a Camera (film), I Thank a Fool, Ian Fleming, Innocents in Paris, It's a Wonderful World (1956 film), Jackanory, James Bond, Jumping for Joy, ... Expand index (84 more) »
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A Touch of the Sun (1956 film)

A Touch of the Sun is a 1956 British comedy film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Frankie Howerd, Ruby Murray and Dennis Price.

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A Yank at Oxford

A Yank at Oxford is a 1938 comedy-drama film directed by Jack Conway and starring Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Vivien Leigh and Edmund Gwenn.

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A Yank in Ermine

A Yank in Ermine is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Peter Thompson, Noelle Middleton, Harold Lloyd Jr. and Diana Decker, and featuring Jon Pertwee and Sid James.

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An Alligator Named Daisy

An Alligator Named Daisy is a 1955 British comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Donald Sinden, Jeannie Carson, James Robertson Justice, Diana Dors, Roland Culver and Stanley Holloway.

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Appointment in London

Appointment in London (known as Raiders in the Sky in the U.S.) is a 1953 British war film set during the Second World War and starring Dirk Bogarde.

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Appointment with Venus (film)

Appointment with Venus is a 1951 British war drama film, a film adaptation of the 1951 Jerrard Tickell novel of the same name.

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Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)

Around the World in 80 Days (sometimes spelled as Around the World in Eighty Days) is a 1956 American epic adventure-comedy film starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton and Shirley MacLaine, produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists.

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As Long as They're Happy

As Long as They're Happy is a 1955 British musical comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Jack Buchanan, Susan Stephen and Diana Dors.

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Background (1953 film)

Background (U.S. Edge of Divorce) is a 1953 British domestic drama film dealing with the effects of divorce, directed by Daniel Birt and starring Valerie Hobson, Philip Friend and Norman Wooland.

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Barnacle Bill (1957 film)

Barnacle Bill (U.S. title: All at Sea) is a 1957 Ealing Studios comedy film directed by Charles Frend and starring Alec Guinness.

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Blood Orange (1953 film)

Blood Orange is a 1953 British crime film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Tom Conway and Mila Parély.

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Blue Murder at St Trinian's

Blue Murder at St Trinian's is a 1957 British comedy film, directed by Frank Launder, co-written by Launder and Sidney Gilliat, and starring Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Lionel Jeffries and Richard Wattis; the film also includes a brief cameo of Alastair Sim, reprising his lead role in the 1954 film, The Belles of St.

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Bon Voyage! (1962 film)

Bon Voyage! is a 1962 American comedy film directed by James Neilson and produced by Walt Disney Productions.

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Bromsgrove School

Bromsgrove School is a co-educational boarding and day school in the Worcestershire town of Bromsgrove, England. Richard Wattis and Bromsgrove School are people educated at Bromsgrove School.

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Bunny Lake Is Missing

Bunny Lake Is Missing is a 1965 psychological mystery thriller film, directed and produced by Otto Preminger and starring Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea and Laurence Olivier.

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Carry On Spying

Carry On Spying is a 1964 British spy comedy film directed by Gerald Thomas.

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Casino Royale (1967 film)

Casino Royale is a 1967 spy parody film originally distributed by Columbia Pictures featuring an ensemble cast.

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 musical fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes and produced by Albert R. Broccoli.

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Civil service

The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.

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Colonel March Investigates

Colonel March Investigates is a 1953 British film directed by Cy Endfield.

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Colonel March of Scotland Yard

Colonel March of Scotland Yard is a British television series consisting of a single series of 26 episodes first broadcast in the United States from December 1954 to Spring of 1955.

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Come Fly with Me (film)

Come Fly with Me is a 1963 British Jet Age romantic comedy film directed by Henry Levin and released by MGM.

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Comedy film

Comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor.

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Confessions of a Window Cleaner

Confessions of a Window Cleaner is a 1974 British sex comedy film, directed by Val Guest.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Croydon

Croydon is a large town in South London, England, south of Charing Cross.

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Danger Man

Danger Man (retitled Secret Agent in the United States for the revived series, and Destination Danger and John Drake in other overseas markets) is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968.

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Dentist on the Job

Dentist on the Job (U.S. title Get On with It!) is a 1961 British comedy film directed by C. M. Pennington-Richards, and starring Bob Monkhouse, Kenneth Connor, Ronnie Stevens and Eric Barker It is the sequel to Dentist in the Chair (1960), and was co-written by Hugh Woodhouse and Hazel Adair.

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Derby Day (1952 film)

Derby Day (U.S. title: Four Against Fate) is a 1952 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Googie Withers, John McCallum, Peter Graves, Suzanne Cloutier and Gordon Harker.

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Diamonds on Wheels

Diamonds on Wheels is a 1973 British family comedy film directed by Jerome Courtland and starring Peter Firth, Patrick Allen, George Sewell, Derek Newark, George Woodbridge and Barry Jackson.

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Dick and the Duchess

Dick and the Duchess is an American television situation comedy that was broadcast on CBS from September 28, 1957, to May 16, 1958.

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Doctor in the House (film)

Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston and James Robertson Justice.

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Escapade (1955 film)

Escapade is a 1955 British comedy drama film directed by Philip Leacock and starring John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell and Alastair Sim.

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Eyewitness (1956 film)

Eyewitness (also known as Point of Crisis) is a 1956 British thriller film directed by Muriel Box and starring Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Nigel Stock and Richard Wattis.

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Father, Dear Father

Father, Dear Father is a British television sitcom produced by Thames Television for ITV from 1968 to 1973 starring Patrick Cargill.

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Follow a Star

Follow a Star is a 1959 British black and white comedy musical film directed by Robert Asher and starring Norman Wisdom.

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Follow That Horse!

Follow That Horse! is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Alan Bromly and starring David Tomlinson, Cecil Parker, Richard Wattis, Mary Peach and Dora Bryan.

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Games That Lovers Play (film)

Games That Lovers Play (U.S. titles: Lady Chatterley Versus Fanny Hill and Lady Chatterley vs Fanny Hill) is a 1971 British softcore comedy film written and directed by Malcolm Leigh and starring Joanna Lumley, Penny Brahms and Richard Wattis.

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Hancock's Half Hour

Hancock's Half Hour was a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy series, broadcast from 1954 to 1961 and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

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Helter Skelter (1949 film)

Helter Skelter is a 1949 British romantic comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson and Mervyn Johns.

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High Flight (film)

High Flight is a 1957 CinemaScope British Cold War film, directed by John Gilling and starring Ray Milland, Bernard Lee and Leslie Phillips.

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Hobson's Choice (1954 film)

Hobson's Choice is a 1954 British romantic comedy film directed by David Lean.

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I Am a Camera (film)

I Am a Camera is a 1955 British comedy-drama film based on the 1945 book The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood and the 1951 eponymous play by John Van Druten.

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I Thank a Fool

I Thank a Fool is a 1962 British Metrocolor crime film directed by Robert Stevens and starring Susan Hayward and Peter Finch.

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Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels.

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Innocents in Paris

Innocents in Paris is a 1953 British-French international co-production comedy film produced by Romulus Films, directed by Gordon Parry and starring Alastair Sim, Ronald Shiner, Claire Bloom, Margaret Rutherford, Claude Dauphin, and Jimmy Edwards, and also featuring James Copeland.

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It's a Wonderful World (1956 film)

It's a Wonderful World is a 1956 British musical film directed by Val Guest and starring Terence Morgan, George Cole, Mylène Demongeot (in her first English-language film and listed in the credits as Mylène Nicole) and Kathleen Harrison.

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Jackanory

Jackanory is a BBC children's television series which was originally broadcast between 1965 and 1996.

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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Jumping for Joy

Jumping for Joy is a 1956 British comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Frankie Howerd, Stanley Holloway, Joan Hickson and Lionel Jeffries.

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Kensington

Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around west of Central London.

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Kind Hearts and Coronets

Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British crime black comedy film directed by Robert Hamer.

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King Edward's School, Birmingham

King Edward's School (KES) is an independent day school for boys in the British public school tradition, located in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

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Lady Godiva Rides Again

Lady Godiva Rides Again (U.S. title: Bikini Baby) is a 1951 British comedy film starring Pauline Stroud, George Cole and Bernadette O'Farrell, with British stars in supporting roles or making cameo appearances.

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Lease of Life

Lease of Life is a 1954 British drama film made by Ealing Studios and directed by Charles Frend.

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Left Right and Centre

Left Right and Centre is a 1959 British satirical comedy film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Ian Carmichael, Patricia Bredin, Richard Wattis, Eric Barker and Alastair Sim.

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Libel (film)

Libel is a 1959 British drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Olivia de Havilland, Dirk Bogarde, Paul Massie, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Robert Morley.

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List of Jackanory episodes

Jackanory is a BBC children's television series which was originally broadcast between 13 December 1965 to 24 March 1996.

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List of SOE establishments

The following is an incomplete list of training centres, research and development sites, administrative sites and other establishments used by the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War.

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Made in Heaven (1952 film)

Made in Heaven is a 1952 British Technicolor comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs which stars David Tomlinson, Petula Clark and Sonja Ziemann.

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Marry Me! (1949 film)

Marry Me! (alternative title: I Want to Get Married) is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Terence Fisher, and starring Derek Bond, Susan Shaw, Patrick Holt, Carol Marsh and David Tomlinson.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.

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Ministry of Education (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Education (1944–1964) was a central government department governed by the Minister of Education, with responsibility in England and Wales for.

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Monte Carlo or Bust!

Monte Carlo or Bust! is a 1969 epic comedy film, also known by its American title, Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies.

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Mother Riley Meets the Vampire

Mother Riley Meets the Vampire, also known as Vampire Over London or My Son, the Vampire, is a 1952 British horror comedy film directed by John Gilling, starring Arthur Lucan and Bela Lugosi that was filmed at Nettlefold Studios.

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My Week with Marilyn

My Week with Marilyn is a 2011 biographical drama film directed by Simon Curtis and written by Adrian Hodges.

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Nearly a Nasty Accident

Nearly a Nasty Accident is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Don Chaffey and starring Jimmy Edwards, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton and Eric Barker.

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Operation Crossbow (film)

Operation Crossbow (later re-released as The Great Spy Mission) is a 1965 British espionage thriller set during the Second World War.

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Park Plaza 605

Park Plaza 605 (U.S. title: Norman Conquest) is a 1953 British second feature ('B') crime film directed by Bernard Knowles and starring Tom Conway, Eva Bartok, and Joy Shelton.

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Penny Princess

Penny Princess is a 1952 British Technicolor comedy film written and directed by Val Guest and starring Yolande Donlan, Dirk Bogarde and A. E. Matthews.

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Play It Cool (film)

Play It Cool is a 1962 British musical film directed by Michael Winner and starring Billy Fury, Michael Anderson Jr., Helen Shapiro, Bobby Vee, Shane Fenton, Danny Williams, Dennis Price, Richard Wattis, Maurice Kaufmann and Anna Palk.

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Second Fiddle (1957 film)

Second Fiddle is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters, Lisa Gastoni and Richard Wattis.

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Second lieutenant

Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces.

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See How They Run (1955 film)

See How They Run is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Leslie Arliss and starring Ronald Shiner, Greta Gynt, James Hayter and Wilfrid Hyde-White.

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Sex and the Other Woman

Sex and the Other Woman (also known as The Other Woman) is a 1972 British sex comedy film directed by Stanley A. Long, presented by Richard Wattis.

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Simon and Laura

Simon and Laura is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Muriel Box and starring Peter Finch and Kay Kendall.

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Small Town Story (film)

Small Town Story is a 1953 British thriller, directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Donald Houston and Susan Shaw (in a rare bad-girl role).

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Song of Paris

Song of Paris is a 1952 British comedy film directed by John Guillermin and starring Dennis Price, Anne Vernon and Hermione Baddeley.

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Special Operations Executive

Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local resistance movements during World War II.

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St Paul's, Covent Garden

St Paul's Church is a Church of England parish church located in Bedford Street, Covent Garden, central London.

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St Trinian's School

St Trinian's is a British gag cartoon comic strip series, created and drawn by Ronald Searle from 1946 until 1952.

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Stolen Face

Stolen Face is a 1952 British film noir directed by Terence Fisher and starring Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott and André Morell.

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Sykes (TV series)

Sykes is a British sitcom that aired on BBC 1 from 1972 to 1979.

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Take Me High

Take Me High (also known as Hot Property) is a 1973 British film directed by David Askey and starring Cliff Richard (in his final film role), Deborah Watling, Hugh Griffith, George Cole and Anthony Andrews.

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Tam-Lin (film)

Tam-Lin, also known as The Ballad of Tam-Lin, The Devil's Widow and The Devil's Woman, is a 1970 British folk horror film directed by Roddy McDowall and starring Ava Gardner and Ian McShane.

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Ten Seconds to Hell

Ten Seconds To Hell (released in the UK as The Phoenix) is a 1959 British and West German film directed by Robert Aldrich, based on Lawrence P. Bachmann's novel The Phoenix.

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That's Your Funeral

That's Your Funeral was a BBC sitcom from 1971 about a North of England funeral director called Basil Bulstrode (Bill Fraser).

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The Abominable Snowman (film)

The Abominable Snowman (US title: The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas; also known as The Snow Creature) is a 1957 British fantasy-horror film directed by Val Guest and starring Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing, Maureen Connell and Richard Wattis.

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The Alphabet Murders

The Alphabet Murders is a 1965 British detective film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Tony Randall as Hercule Poirot.

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The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders is a 1965 British historical comedy film directed by Terence Young and starring Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, and Angela Lansbury.

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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita is a 1965 British drama film, based on the 1963 novel by Rumer Godden, directed by Delmer Daves.

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The Belles of St. Trinian's

The Belles of St Trinian's is a 1954 British comedy film, directed by Frank Launder, co-written by Launder and Sidney Gilliat, and starring Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley.

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The Captain's Table

The Captain's Table is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Jack Lee and starring John Gregson, Donald Sinden, Peggy Cummins and Nadia Gray.

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The Chiltern Hundreds (film)

The Chiltern Hundreds (released in the U.S. as The Amazing Mr. Beecham) is a 1949 British politically-themed comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs, adapting William Douglas Home's 1947 play of the same name and starring Lana Morris, David Tomlinson and Cecil Parker.

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The Clouded Yellow

The Clouded Yellow is a 1950 British mystery film directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty E. Box for Carillon Films.

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The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story is a 1955 British prisoner of war film starring John Mills and Eric Portman and directed by Guy Hamilton.

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The Crowded Day

The Crowded Day (also known as Tomorrow Is Sunday; U.S.A. title: Shop Spoiled) is a 1954 British comedy drama film directed by John Guillermin and starring John Gregson, Joan Rice, Cyril Raymond and Josephine Griffin.

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The Final Test

The Final Test is a 1953 British sports film written by Terence Rattigan, directed by Anthony Asquith, and starring Jack Warner, Robert Morley, George Relph and Ray Jackson.

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The Goodies (TV series)

The Goodies is a British television comedy series shown in the 1970s and early 1980s.

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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

The Great St.

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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 Happiest Days of Your Life (film)

The Happiest Days of Your Life is a 1950 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder, based on the 1947 play of the same name by John Dighton.

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The Happy Family (1952 film)

The Happy Family is a 1952 British comedy film directed by Muriel Box and starring Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison and Naunton Wayne.

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The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film)

The Importance of Being Earnest is a 1952 British comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1895 play by Oscar Wilde.

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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 20th Century Fox film loosely based on the story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British woman who became a missionary in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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The Intruder (1953 film)

The Intruder is a 1953 British drama film directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Jack Hawkins, George Cole, Dennis Price and Michael Medwin.

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The Iron Petticoat

The Iron Petticoat (also known as Not for Money) is a 1956 British Cold War comedy film starring Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn, and directed by Ralph Thomas.

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The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 British comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T. E. B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass.

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The Liquidator (1965 film)

The Liquidator is a 1965 British thriller film directed by Jack Cardiff and starring Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, and Jill St. John.

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The Little Hut

The Little Hut is a 1957 British romantic comedy film made by MGM starring Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger and David Niven.

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The Longest Day (film)

The Longest Day is a 1962 American epic historical war drama film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 non-fiction book of the same name about the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944.

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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)

The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1956 American mystery thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day.

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The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was is a 1956 British espionage thriller film produced by André Hakim and directed by Ronald Neame.

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The Prince and the Showgirl

The Prince and the Showgirl (originally titled The Sleeping Prince) is a 1957 British romantic comedy film starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier, who also served as director and producer.

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The Prisoner

The Prisoner is a British television series created by Patrick McGoohan, with possible contributions from George Markstein.

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The Silken Affair

The Silken Affair is a 1956 British romantic comedy film directed by Roy Kellino and starring David Niven, Geneviève Page, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Joan Sims, Irene Handl and Ronald Squire.

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The Time of His Life

The Time of His Life is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Richard Hearne, Ellen Pollock, Richard Wattis and Robert Moreton.

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The Ugly Duckling (1959 film)

The Ugly Duckling is a 1959 British science fiction comedy film, directed by Lance Comfort and starring Bernard Bresslaw, Jon Pertwee and Reginald Beckwith.

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The V.I.P.s (film)

The V.I.P.s (also known as Hotel International) is a 1963 British comedy-drama film in Metrocolor and Panavision.

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Top of the Form (film)

Top of the Form (also known as Fair's Fair) is a 1953 British black-and-white comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Ronald Shiner, Anthony Newley and Harry Fowler.

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Top Secret (1952 film)

Top Secret is a 1952 British black and white comedy film directed by Mario Zampi and starring George Cole, Oskar Homolka and Nadia Gray.

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Up Jumped a Swagman

Up Jumped a Swagman is a 1965 British musical comedy film directed by Christopher Miles and starring Frank Ifield, Annette Andre, Ronald Radd and Suzy Kendall.

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Venus fra Vestø

Venus fra Vestø (literally, Venus from West Island) is a 1962 Danish comedy war film directed by Annelise Reenberg and starring Malene Schwartz.

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Very Important Person (film)

Very Important Person (retitled A Coming Out Party in the United States) is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and written by Jack Davies and Henry Blyth.

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Walsall

Walsall (or; locally) is a market town and administrative centre of the borough of the same name in the West Midlands, England.

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Walton Street, London

Walton Street is a street within central London's Chelsea district, bordering Knightsbridge.

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Wednesbury

Wednesbury is a market town in Sandwell in the West Midlands County, England - historically in Staffordshire.

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West End of London

The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is a district of Central London, London, England, west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated.

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William Preston (British politician)

William Preston (February 1874 - 22 November 1941) was a British industrialist and Conservative politician.

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Wonderwall (film)

Wonderwall is a 1968 British psychedelic film directed by Joe Massot (in his feature directorial debut) and starring Jack MacGowran, Jane Birkin, Irene Handl, Richard Wattis and Iain Quarrier, with a cameo by Dutch collective the Fool, who were also set designers for the film.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wattis

Also known as Wattis, Richard.

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