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David Swift (actor)

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David Bernard Swift (3 April 1931 – 8 April 2016) was an English actor. [1]

55 relations: Adam Swift, Aldwych Theatre, Alzheimer's disease, Ambassadors Theatre (London), Andy Hamilton, Another Sunday and Sweet F.A., BBC Radio 4, Bergerac (TV series), Bloomers (TV series), Bootle, Born and Bred, Charles Denton (television and film producer), Clifton College, Clive Swift, Compact (TV series), David Bamber, Drop the Dead Donkey, Dundee Repertory Theatre, Frank Doel, Going Straight, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Guy Jenkin, Henry VI, Part 1, Jack and Sarah, Jack the Ripper (1988 TV series), Joe Swift, John Pilger, Keeping Up Appearances, Kenneth Griffith, Lancashire, Law, Liverpool, London, Marks & Spencer, Napoleon, No Sex Please, We're British (film), Old Harry's Game, Parent-in-law, Paula Jacobs, Porridge (TV series), Private Schulz, Richard Beckinsale, Richard Marquand, Rising Damp, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Assignment (1977 film), The Black Panther (1977 film), The Day of the Jackal (film), The Day of the Triffids, The Internecine Project, ..., Travels with My Aunt (film), Turtle's Progress, War and Peace, Who Killed Lamb?, 84, Charing Cross Road. Expand index (5 more) »

Adam Swift

Adam Swift (born 1961) is a British political philosopher and sociologist who specialises in debates surrounding liberal egalitarianism.

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Aldwych Theatre

The Aldwych Theatre is a West End theatre, located in Aldwych in the City of Westminster.

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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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Ambassadors Theatre (London)

The Ambassadors Theatre (formerly the New Ambassadors Theatre), is a West End theatre located in West Street, near Cambridge Circus on Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster.

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Andy Hamilton

Andrew Neil Hamilton (born 28 May 1954) is a British comedian, game show panellist, television director, comedy screenwriter, radio dramatist, and novelist.

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Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.

Another Sunday and Sweet F.A. is a television play (a one-off drama) written by Jack Rosenthal and directed by Michael Apted which was first broadcast on 8 January 1972 in Granada Television's Sunday Night Theatre strand.

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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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Bergerac (TV series)

Bergerac is a British television series set in Jersey, which ran from 18 October 1981 to 26 December 1991.

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Bloomers (TV series)

Bloomers is a short-lived British sitcom starring Richard Beckinsale that was aired in 1979.

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Bootle

Bootle (pronounced) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, which in 2001 had a population of 98,449.

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Born and Bred

Born and Bred is a light-hearted British comedy drama series that aired on BBC One from 21 April 2002 to 3 August 2005.

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Charles Denton (television and film producer)

Charles Denton (born 20 December 1937) is a British film and television producer and executive.

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Clifton College

Clifton College is a co-educational independent school in the suburb of Clifton in the city of Bristol in South West England, founded in 1862.

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Clive Swift

Clive Walter Swift (born 9 February 1936) is an English actor and songwriter.

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Compact (TV series)

Compact was a British television soap opera shown by the BBC from 1962 to 1965.

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David Bamber

David James Bamber (born 19 September 1954) is an English actor.

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Drop the Dead Donkey

Drop the Dead Donkey is a British situation comedy that first aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom between 1990 and 1998.

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Dundee Repertory Theatre

Dundee Repertory Theatre or Dundee Rep is a theatre and arts company in the city of Dundee, Scotland.

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Frank Doel

Frank Percy Doel (14 July 1908 – 22 December 1968) was a British antiquarian bookseller for Marks & Co in London who achieved posthumous fame as the recipient of a series of humorous letters from American author Helene Hanff, to which he scrupulously and, at first, very formally replied.

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Going Straight

Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the fictional Slade Prison where the earlier series had been set.

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Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Gonville & Caius College (often referred to simply as Caius) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Guy Jenkin

Guy Jenkin is a British film director and comedy writer who is best known for working together with Andy Hamilton on sitcoms and comedies such as Drop the Dead Donkey (1990-1998), Outnumbered (2007-2014), and Ballot Monkeys (2015).

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Henry VI, Part 1

Henry VI, Part 1, often referred to as 1 Henry VI, is a history play by William Shakespeare, possibly in collaboration with Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe, believed to have been written in 1591 and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England.

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Jack and Sarah

Jack and Sarah is a 1995 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Tim Sullivan and starring Richard E. Grant, Samantha Mathis, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Cherie Lunghi and Ian McKellen.

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Jack the Ripper (1988 TV series)

Jack the Ripper is a 1988 British television film drama based on the conspiracy theory about the notorious Jack the Ripper murder spree in Victorian London.

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Joe Swift

Joe Swift (born 25 May 1965) is an English garden designer, journalist and television personality.

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John Pilger

John Richard Pilger (born 9 October 1939) is an Australian journalist and BAFTA award-winning documentary film maker.

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Keeping Up Appearances

Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke.

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Kenneth Griffith

Kenneth Reginald Griffiths, known professionally as Kenneth Griffith (12 October 1921 – 25 June 2006) was a Welsh actor and documentary filmmaker.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Law

Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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London

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

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Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer Group plc (also known as M&S) is a major British multinational retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London.

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Napoleon

Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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No Sex Please, We're British (film)

No Sex Please, We're British is a 1973 British comedy film directed by Cliff Owen and starring Ronnie Corbett, Ian Ogilvy, Susan Penhaligon and Arthur Lowe.

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Old Harry's Game

Old Harry's Game is a UK radio comedy written and directed by Andy Hamilton, who also plays the cynical, world-weary Satan.

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Parent-in-law

A parent-in-law is a person who has a legal affinity with another by being the parent of the other's spouse.

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Paula Jacobs

Paula Jacobs (born 1932) is an English actress whose television and film career has spanned four decades.

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Porridge (TV series)

Porridge is a British sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and broadcast on BBC One from 1974 to 1977.

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Private Schulz

Private Schulz is a BBC television comedy drama serial set mostly in Germany, during and immediately after World War II.

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Richard Beckinsale

Richard Arthur Beckinsale (6 July 1947 – 19 March 1979) was an English actor, who played Lennie Godber in the BBC sitcom Porridge (along with its sequel series Going Straight) and Alan Moore in the British ITV sitcom Rising Damp.

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Richard Marquand

Richard Marquand (22 September 1937 – 4 September 1987) was a Welsh film director, best known for directing 1983's Return of the Jedi.

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Rising Damp

Rising Damp is a British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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The Assignment (1977 film)

The Assignment (Swedish: Uppdraget) is a 1977 Swedish drama film directed by Mats Arehn and starring Christopher Plummer, Thomas Hellberg and Carolyn Seymour.

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The Black Panther (1977 film)

The Black Panther is a 1977 British crime film.

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The Day of the Jackal (film)

The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 British-French political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michel Lonsdale.

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The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids is a 1951 post-apocalyptic novel by the English science fiction author John Wyndham.

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The Internecine Project

The Internecine Project is a 1974 British espionage thriller film written by Mort W. Elkind, Barry Levinson, and Jonathan Lynn, directed by Ken Hughes and starring James Coburn and Lee Grant.

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Travels with My Aunt (film)

Travels with My Aunt is a 1972 American comedy film directed by George Cukor and written Jay Presson Allen and Hugh Wheeler, based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Graham Greene.

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Turtle's Progress

Turtle's Progress is a British television series broadcast between 1979 and 1980.

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War and Peace

War and Peace (pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; post-reform translit) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

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Who Killed Lamb?

Who Killed Lamb? is a 1974 TV play starring Stanley Baker as a Scotland Yard detective investigating a murder in Oxford.

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84, Charing Cross Road

84, Charing Cross Road is a 1970 book by Helene Hanff, later made into a stage play, television play, and film, about the twenty-year correspondence between the author and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks & Co antiquarian booksellers, located at the eponymous address in London, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Swift_(actor)

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