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Anna Wing

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Anna Eva Lydia Catherine Wing (30 October 1914 – 7 July 2013) was an English actress who had a long career in television and theatre, but was best known for playing Lou Beale, the matriarch of the Beale family, in EastEnders. [1]

56 relations: A Doll's House (1973 Losey film), Action Man, Adam Woodyatt, Alzheimer's disease, Associated Television, BBC News, Beale family, Billy Liar (film), Blithe Spirit (play), Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Casualty (TV series), Dixon of Dock Green, Doctor Who, Doctors (BBC TV series), Dot Cotton, East End of London, EastEnders, French and Saunders, Full Circle (1977 film), Fungus the Bogeyman, Gummo Marx, Hackney Central, Jane Fonda, June Brown, Kinda (Doctor Who), Laurie Lee, Lou Beale, Mark Wing-Davey, Market in Honey Lane, Mediumship, Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, Noël Coward, Order of the British Empire, Orlando Bloom, Philip O'Connor, Play for Today, Providence (1977 film), Quakers, Schillings, Son of Rambow, Stephen Spender, The 14, The Bill, The British Soap Awards, The Calcium Kid, The Godsend (film), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film), The Ploughman's Lunch, The Sweeney, The Witches and the Grinnygog, ..., Tooth, Two Gentlemen Sharing, Wendy Richard, World War II, Xtro, Z-Cars. Expand index (6 more) »

A Doll's House (1973 Losey film)

A Doll's House is a 1973 Franco-British drama film directed by Joseph Losey, based on the play of the same name by Henrik Ibsen.

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Action Man

Action Man is an action figure launched in Britain in 1966 by Palitoy as a licensed copy of Hasbro's American "movable fighting man": G.I. Joe.

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Adam Woodyatt

Adam Brinley Woodyatt (born 28 June 1968) is an English actor, best known for his role as Ian Beale in the long-running BBC soap opera EastEnders.

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Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease (AD), also referred to simply as Alzheimer's, is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and worsens over time.

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Associated Television

Associated Television (ATV), a former British television company, was awarded the franchise by the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide the Independent Television service at weekends for the London region.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Beale family

The Beales, together with the Fowlers, are a fictional family in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

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Billy Liar (film)

Billy Liar is a 1963 British black-and-white CinemaScope comedy-drama film based on the 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse.

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Blithe Spirit (play)

Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward.

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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as CASUAL+Y, is a British medical drama series that airs weekly on BBC One (sometimes with a short break in the summer between series, but not always).

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Dixon of Dock Green

Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series about daily life at a London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense and human understanding.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.

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Doctors (BBC TV series)

Doctors is a continuing British medical soap opera which first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 26 March 2000.

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Dot Cotton

Dot Branning (also Cotton) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera, EastEnders, played by June Brown since 1985.

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East End of London

The East End of London, usually called the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London, and north of the River Thames.

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EastEnders

EastEnders is a British soap opera created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since 1985.

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French and Saunders

French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

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Full Circle (1977 film)

Full Circle (a.k.a. The Haunting of Julia) is a 1977 British-Canadian horror film directed by Richard Loncraine.

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Fungus the Bogeyman

Fungus the Bogeyman (1977) is a children's picture book by British artist Raymond Briggs.

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Gummo Marx

Milton "Gummo" Marx (October 23, 1893 – April 21, 1977) was an American vaudevillian performer, actor, comedian and theatrical agent.

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Hackney Central

Hackney Central is the central district of the London Borough of Hackney in London, England.

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Jane Fonda

Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru.

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June Brown

June Muriel Brown, MBE (born 16 February 1927) is an English actress, known for her role as Dot Cotton in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 1985 onwards.

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Kinda (Doctor Who)

Kinda is the third serial of the 19th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from 1 February to 9 February 1982.

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Laurie Lee

Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire.

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Lou Beale

Lou Beale is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Anna Wing.

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Mark Wing-Davey

Mark Wing-Davey (born 30 November 1948) is a British actor and director.

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Market in Honey Lane

Market in Honey Lane was an ATV British television weekly series, which switched to a twice weekly soap opera format (shown at varying times around the ITV regions) after the first year.

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Mediumship

Mediumship is the practice of certain people—known as mediums—to purportedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.

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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney

The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney was a Metropolitan borough of the County of London from 1900 to 1965.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Orlando Bloom

Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom (born 13 January 1977) is an English actor.

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Philip O'Connor

Philip Marie Constant Bancroft O'Connor (8 September 1916 – 29 May 1998) was a British writer and surrealist poet, who also painted.

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Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984.

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Providence (1977 film)

Providence is a 1977 French/Swiss film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by David Mercer.

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Schillings

Schillings (originally Schilling & Lom) is an international reputation and privacy consultancy staffed by reputation, privacy and family lawyers, risk consulting, cyber security and intelligence specialists.

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Son of Rambow

Son of Rambow is a 2007 comedy film written and directed by Garth Jennings.

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Stephen Spender

Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist, and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work.

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The 14

The 14 is a 1973 British drama film directed by David Hemmings.

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The Bill

The Bill is a British police procedural television series, first broadcast on ITV from 16 October 1984 until 31 August 2010.

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The British Soap Awards

The British Soap Awards is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom which honours the best of British soap operas.

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The Calcium Kid

The Calcium Kid is a British mockumentary comedy film which was released in 2004.

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The Godsend (film)

The Godsend is a 1980 British horror film directed by Gabrielle Beaumont and written by Olaf Pooley.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film)

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1978 British comedy film spoofing The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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The Ploughman's Lunch

The Ploughman's Lunch is a 1983 British drama film written by Ian McEwan and directed by Richard Eyre which features Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry and Rosemary Harris.

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The Sweeney

The Sweeney is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London.

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The Witches and the Grinnygog

The Witches and the Grinnygog is a children's novel by the writer Dorothy Edwards, published in 1981 and shortlisted for that year's Whitbread Prize for a children's book.

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Tooth

A tooth (plural teeth) is a hard, calcified structure found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and used to break down food.

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Two Gentlemen Sharing

Two Gentlemen Sharing is a 1969 British drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones and starring Robin Phillips, Judy Geeson, Esther Anderson, Hal Frederick, Norman Rossington and Rachel Kempson.

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Wendy Richard

Wendy Richard (born Wendy Emerton; 20 July 1943 – 26 February 2009), was an English actress best known for playing the roles of Miss Shirley Brahms on Are You Being Served? and Pauline Fowler on EastEnders, the latter for nearly 22 years.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Xtro

Xtro is a 1982 British science fiction horror film directed by Harry Bromley Davenport and co-produced by Bob Shaye.

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Z-Cars

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Lancashire (now Merseyside).

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References

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

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