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Richard Vernon

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Richard Vernon (7 March 1925 – 4 December 1997) was a British actor. [1]

96 relations: A Hard Day's Night (film), A Month in the Country (film), A. J. Cronin, Acker Bilk, Actor, Adventures of a Taxi Driver, Aristocracy (class), Auric Goldfinger, Bank of England, BBC, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, Berkshire, Bernard Lee, Blandings Castle, Cash on Demand, Edward Albert Gait, Edward the Seventh, Evil Under the Sun (1982 film), Film, Foxhole in Cairo, Gandhi (film), Goldfinger (film), Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Hot Enough for June, Indiscreet (1958 film), James Bond in film, Jigsaw (1962 film), Just for Fun (film), Lady Jane (1986 film), Last Day in Limbo, Last of the Summer Wine, Leighton Park School, Loch Ness (film), London, Lord, Lord Emsworth, Lovejoy, Modesty Blaise, Morecambe and Wise, Nanny (TV series), Night Train to Murder, Oh! Heavenly Dog, One Brief Summer, Paradise Postponed, Parkinson's disease, Patterson (radio series), Persuasion (1971 TV series), Reach for Glory, ..., Reading School, Reading, Berkshire, Richmond, London, Ripping Yarns, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Royal Navy, Rumpole of the Bailey, Sammy's Super T-Shirt, Sean Connery, She'll Follow You Anywhere, Sitcom, Slartibartfast, Song of Norway (film), Stop Press Girl, Stranger on the Shore, Street of Shadows (1953 film), Television, The Beatles, The Citadel (1960 British miniseries), The Citadel (novel), The Counterfeit Constable, The Duchess of Duke Street, The Early Bird, The Giddy Game Show, The Heart of a Man, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Human Factor (1979 film), The Intelligence Men, The Man in Room 17, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, The Sandbaggers, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Secret of My Success (1965 film), The Servant (1963 film), The Siege of Pinchgut, The Small House at Allington, The Tomb of Ligeia, The Yellow Rolls-Royce, UFO (TV series), Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series), Village of the Damned (1960 film), We Joined the Navy, Witness for the Prosecution (1982 film), World War II, Yes Minister. Expand index (46 more) »

A Hard Day's Night (film)

A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 British musical comedy film directed by Richard Lester and starring the Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—during the height of Beatlemania.

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A Month in the Country (film)

A Month in the Country is a 1987 British film directed by Pat O'Connor.

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A. J. Cronin

Archibald Joseph Cronin, MBChB, MD, DPH, MRCP (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish novelist and physician.

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Acker Bilk

Bernard Stanley "Acker" Bilk, (28 January 1929 – 2 November 2014) was an English clarinettist and vocalist known for his appearance – goatee, bowler hat and striped waistcoat – and breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style.

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Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Adventures of a Taxi Driver

Adventures of a Taxi Driver is a 1976 British sex comedy film starring Barry Evans, Judy Geeson and Adrienne Posta.

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Aristocracy (class)

The aristocracy is a social class that a particular society considers its highest order.

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Auric Goldfinger

Auric Goldfinger is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Goldfinger, based on Ian Fleming's novel of the same name.

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Bank of England

The Bank of England, formally the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, is the central bank of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the model on which most modern central banks have been based.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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BBC World Service

The BBC World Service, the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasts radio and television news, speech and discussions in over 30 languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, Internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, DAB, FM and MW relays.

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Berkshire

Berkshire (abbreviated Berks, in the 17th century sometimes spelled Barkeshire as it is pronounced) is a county in south east England, west of London and is one of the home counties.

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Bernard Lee

John Bernard Lee (10 January 190816 January 1981), known as Bernard Lee, was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven Eon-produced James Bond films.

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Blandings Castle

Blandings Castle is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of Lord Emsworth (Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth), home to many of his family and the setting for numerous tales and adventures.

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Cash on Demand

Cash on Demand is a 1961 British crime thriller film directed by Quentin Lawrence and starring Peter Cushing and André Morell.

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Edward Albert Gait

Sir Edward Albert Gait KCSI CIE (1863–1950) was an administrator in the Indian Civil Service who rose to serve as Lieutenant-Governor of the Bihar and Orissa Province in the Bengal Presidency of British India.

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Edward the Seventh

Edward the Seventh is a 1975 British television drama series, made by ATV in 13 episodes.

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Evil Under the Sun (1982 film)

Evil Under the Sun is a 1982 British mystery film based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Foxhole in Cairo

Foxhole in Cairo is a 1960 British war film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and based on a novel by Leonard Mosley itself based upon the real-life Operation Salaam.

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Gandhi (film)

Gandhi is a 1982 epic historical drama film based on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the leader of India's non-violent, non-cooperative independence movement against the United Kingdom's rule of the country during the 20th century.

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Goldfinger (film)

Goldfinger is a 1964 British spy film and the third installment in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr.

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Hot Enough for June

Hot Enough for June is a 1964 British spy comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas, and starring Dirk Bogarde with Sylva Koscina in her English film debut, Robert Morley and Leo McKern.

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Indiscreet (1958 film)

Indiscreet is a 1958 Technicolor British romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.

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James Bond in film

The James Bond film series is a British series of spy films based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond, "007", who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming.

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Jigsaw (1962 film)

Jigsaw is a 1962 British crime drama film written and directed by Val Guest and starring Jack Warner and Ronald Lewis.

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Just for Fun (film)

Just for Fun is a 1963 British black and white musical film directed by Gordon Flemyng.

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Lady Jane (1986 film)

Lady Jane is a 1986 British costume drama romance film directed by Trevor Nunn, written by David Edgar, and starring Helena Bonham Carter as the title character.

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Last Day in Limbo

Last Day in Limbo is the title of the eighth novel chronicling the adventures of crime lord-turned-secret agent Modesty Blaise.

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Last of the Summer Wine

Last of the Summer Wine is the longest running British sitcom, created and written by Roy Clarke and originally broadcast by the BBC from 1973 to 2010.

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Leighton Park School

Leighton Park School is a co-educational Quaker independent school for both day and boarding pupils in Reading in South East England.

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Loch Ness (film)

Loch Ness is a 1996 family drama film starring Ted Danson and Joely Richardson.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lord

Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others acting like a master, a chief, or a ruler.

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Lord Emsworth

Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, known as Lord Emsworth, is a recurring fictional character in the Blandings stories by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse.

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Lovejoy

Lovejoy is a British television comedy-drama mystery series, based on the picaresque novels by John Grant, under the pen name Jonathan Gash.

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Modesty Blaise

Modesty Blaise is a British comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by author Peter O'Donnell and illustrator Jim Holdaway in 1963.

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Morecambe and Wise

Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholomew, 14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984) and Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman, 27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999), known as Morecambe and Wise (also Eric and Ernie), were an iconic English comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television.

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Nanny (TV series)

Nanny is a BBC television series that ran between 1981 and 1983.

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Night Train to Murder

Night Train to Murder is a 1985 British comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Morecambe and Wise.

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Oh! Heavenly Dog

Oh! Heavenly Dog is a 1980 American comedy film written by Rod Browning and stars Benjean, billed here as Benji (she was the daughter of Higgins, who originated the role of Benji), Chevy Chase, Jane Seymour and Omar Sharif.

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One Brief Summer

One Brief Summer is a 1970 British drama film directed by John Mackenzie.

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Paradise Postponed

Paradise Postponed (1986) is a British 11-episode TV serial based on a novel by writer John Mortimer.

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Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system.

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Patterson (radio series)

Patterson is a BBC radio sitcom about a hapless university lecturer.

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Persuasion (1971 TV series)

Persuasion is a 1971 British television serial adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name.

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Reach for Glory

Reach for Glory is a 1962 British film adaptation of John Rae's 1961 novel, The Custard Boys, directed by Philip Leacock.

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Reading School

Reading School is a grammar school with academy status for boys in the English town of Reading, the county town of Berkshire.

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Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a large, historically important minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Richmond, London

Richmond is a suburban town in south-west London, The London Government Act 1963 (c.33) (as amended) categorises the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames as an Outer London borough.

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Ripping Yarns

Ripping Yarns is a British television adventure comedy anthology series.

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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, (3 February 183022 August 1903), styled Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and Viscount Cranborne from June 1865 until April 1868, was a British statesman of the Conservative Party, serving as Prime Minister three times for a total of over thirteen years.

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Royal Central School of Speech & Drama

The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama was founded by Elsie Fogerty in 1906 to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey was a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer.

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Sammy's Super T-Shirt

Sammy's Super T-Shirt is a British film made by the Children's Film Foundation in 1978.

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Sean Connery

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award).

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She'll Follow You Anywhere

She'll Follow You Anywhere, released in the United States as Passion Potion, is a 1971 British comedy film directed by David C. Rea and starring Kenneth Cope, Keith Barron and Richard Vernon.

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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Slartibartfast

Slartibartfast is a character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a comedy/science fiction series created by Douglas Adams.

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Song of Norway (film)

Song of Norway is a 1970 film adaptation of the successful operetta of the same name, directed by Andrew L. Stone.

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Stop Press Girl

Stop Press Girl is a 1949 British fantasy comedy film directed by Michael Barry and starring Sally Ann Howes, Gordon Jackson, Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne; the latter two appearing in several different roles in the film.

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Stranger on the Shore

"Stranger on the Shore" is a piece for clarinet written by Acker Bilk for his young daughter and originally named "Jenny" after her.

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Street of Shadows (1953 film)

Street of Shadows is a 1953 British film noir directed by Richard Vernon.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Citadel (1960 British miniseries)

The Citadel was a 1960 British television adaptation of A. J. Cronin's 1937 novel, The Citadel.

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The Citadel (novel)

The Citadel is a novel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937, which was groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics.

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The Counterfeit Constable

The Counterfeit Constable is a 1964 French comedy film directed by Robert Dhéry and Pierre Tchernia and starring Ronald Fraser, Diana Dors and Arthur Mullard.

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The Duchess of Duke Street

The Duchess of Duke Street is a BBC television drama series set in London between 1900 and 1925.

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The Early Bird

The Early Bird is a 1965 British comedy film directed by Robert Asher and starring Norman Wisdom.

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The Giddy Game Show

The Giddy Game Show was an animated quiz show for pre-school children, on CITV made by Yorkshire Television from 1985 to 1987.

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The Heart of a Man

The Heart of a Man is a 1959 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Frankie Vaughan, Anne Heywood and Tony Britton.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sometimes referred to as HG2G, HHGTTG or H2G2) is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams.

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The Human Factor (1979 film)

The Human Factor is a 1979 British thriller film starring Richard Attenborough, Nicol Williamson, Derek Jacobi, and John Gielgud.

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The Intelligence Men

The Intelligence Men is a 1965 comedy film starring the British comic duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.

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The Man in Room 17

The Man in Room 17 is a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the northern weekday ITV franchise, Granada Television.

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The Pink Panther Strikes Again

The Pink Panther Strikes Again is a 1976 British comedy film.

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The Sandbaggers

The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War.

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The Satanic Rites of Dracula

The Satanic Rites of Dracula is a 1973 horror film directed by Alan Gibson and produced by Hammer Film Productions.

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The Secret of My Success (1965 film)

The Secret of My Success (also known as The Secret of My Success or: How Three Beautiful Girls Love for Fun—and Murder for Profit) is a 1965 British comedy film from American writer-director Andrew L. Stone, starring James Booth, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens and Honor Blackman, along with Lionel Jeffries featured in four separate roles.

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The Servant (1963 film)

The Servant is Harold Pinter's 1963 film adaptation of a 1948 novelette by Robin Maugham.

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The Siege of Pinchgut

The Siege of Pinchgut (released in the US as Four Desperate Men) is a 1959 British thriller filmed on location in Sydney, Australia and directed by Harry Watt.

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The Small House at Allington

The Small House at Allington is the fifth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in 1864.

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The Tomb of Ligeia

The Tomb of Ligeia is a 1964 American International Pictures horror film, produced in the UK by Alta Vista Productions.

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The Yellow Rolls-Royce

The Yellow Rolls-Royce is a 1964 dramatic composite film written by Terence Rattigan, produced by Anatole de Grunwald and directed by Anthony Asquith, the trio responsible for The V.I.P.s (1963).

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UFO (TV series)

UFO is a 1970 British science fiction television series about an alien invasion of Earth.

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Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)

Upstairs, Downstairs is a British television drama series produced by London Weekend Television (LWT) for ITV. It ran for 68 episodes divided into five series on ITV from 1971 to 1975.

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Village of the Damned (1960 film)

Village of the Damned is a 1960 British science fiction horror film by German director Wolf Rilla.

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We Joined the Navy

We Joined the Navy is a 1962 British comedy film produced by Daniel M. Angel and directed by Wendy Toye which stars Kenneth More, Lloyd Nolan, Joan O'Brien, Derek Fowlds, Graham Crowden, Esma Cannon and John Le Mesurier.

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Witness for the Prosecution (1982 film)

Witness for the Prosecution is a 1982 television film version of Agatha Christie's short story and play, and also a remake of the Billy Wilder film Witness for the Prosecution (1957).

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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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Yes Minister

Yes Minister is a political satire British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted on BBC Two from 1980 to 1984, split over three seven-episode series.

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References

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

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