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Ian Richardson

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Ian William Richardson, (7 April 19349 February 2007) was a Scottish actor of film, stage and television. [1]

182 relations: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968 film), A Royal Scandal, A Tale of Two Cities, A Voyage Round My Father, Alan Howard, All's Well That Ends Well, An Ungentlemanly Act, Anthony Blunt, Anthony Hopkins, Arthur Conan Doyle, As You Like It, B*A*P*S, Balgreen, Barry Kyle, BBC, Becoming Jane, Bill Haydon, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Bleak House (2005 TV serial), Brazil (1985 film), Bristol Old Vic, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, British Academy Television Awards, British Army, British Forces Broadcasting Service, Burning Secret, Catherine the Great (1995 film), Charlie Muffin, Churchill and the Generals, Civilisation (TV series), Coriolanus, Cruella de Vil, Cry Freedom, Cymbeline, Daily Mail, Danton's Death, Dark City (1998 film), David Jones (director), Death (Discworld), Derek Jacobi, Diana Rigg, Dijon mustard, Dirty Weekend (1993 film), Docudrama, Don Quixote, Donald Sinden, Drama Desk Award, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Edinburgh, ..., Edward Albee, Edward Petherbridge, Elizabeth II, Emma Thompson, Falkland Islands, Francis Urquhart, Frederick Forsyth, From Hell (film), Gaius Cassius Longinus, Gawain and the Green Knight (film), George Heriot's School, Glasgow, Gordon Jackson (actor), Gormenghast (TV serial), Graham Greene, Grey Poupon, Guy Burgess, Hamlet, Helen Mirren, Henry IV of England, Hogfather, Horatio (Hamlet), House of Cards (UK TV series), Ike (miniseries), Incognito (1998 film), J. G. Farrell, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jean-Paul Marat, John Barton (director), John Mackenzie (film director), John Mortimer, Joseph Bell, Joyeux Noël, Julius Caesar, Kenneth Clark, King of the Wind (film), Kirby Hall, List of people from Edinburgh, List of Scottish actors, Lolita, Lolita (play), London, Love's Labour's Lost, M. Butterfly (film), Machiavellianism, Man of La Mancha (film), Marat/Sade, Marat/Sade (film), Martin Landau, Maximilien Robespierre, Measure for Measure, Michael Elliott (director), Midsomer Murders, Miles Richardson, Monsignor Quixote, Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes, My Fair Lady, Mystery!, National service, Northamptonshire, Oberon, Old Rep, Order of the British Empire, Patrick Stewart, PBS, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Peter Brook, Peter Hall (director), Play of the Month, Polonius, Porterhouse Blue, Prince Hamlet, Private Schulz, Regional accents of English, Rex Hunt (governor), Richard II (play), Richard II of England, Richard III (play), Richard III of England, Richard Pasco, Ronald Lacey, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (film), Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Savage Play, Savoy Theatre, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Godber Evans, Sky One, Stage management, Strange (TV series), Terry Hands, Terry Pratchett, The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby, The Alchemist (play), The Canterbury Tales, The Comedy of Errors, The Darwin Adventure, The Final Cut (TV serial), The Fourth Protocol (film), The Guardian, The Hollow Crown (anthology), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983 film), The King and I, The King and I (1999 film), The Magician's House, The Queen (2006 film), The Revenue Men, The Scotsman, The Sign of Four (1983 film), The Treasure Seekers (1996 film), The Winslow Boy, Through the Looking-Glass, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV series), To Play the King, Tony Award, Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, Tory, Troubles (novel), Tynecastle High School, University of Stirling, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoops Apocalypse (film), William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, Words Upon the Window Pane, Year of the Comet, 102 Dalmatians, 1989 New Year Honours. Expand index (132 more) »

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968 film)

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1968 film of William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Peter Hall.

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A Royal Scandal

A Royal Scandal is a 1996 British television docudrama produced and directed by Sheree Folkson.

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A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.

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A Voyage Round My Father

A Voyage Round My Father is an autobiographical play by John Mortimer, later adapted for television.

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Alan Howard

Alan MacKenzie Howard, CBE (5 August 1937 – 14 February 2015) was an English actor.

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All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare.

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An Ungentlemanly Act

An Ungentlemanly Act is a 1992 BBC television film about the first days of the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982.

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Anthony Blunt

Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), known as Sir Anthony Blunt, KCVO, from 1956 to 1979, was a leading British art historian who in 1964, after being offered immunity from prosecution, confessed to having been a Soviet spy.

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Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937), better known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor, widely considered to be one of the world's greatest living actors.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.

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As You Like It

As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623.

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B*A*P*S

B*A*P*S is a 1997 comedy film written by Troy Beyer, directed by Robert Townsend, and starring Halle Berry and Martin Landau.

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Balgreen

Balgreen is a suburb of Edinburgh, located approximately two miles west of the city centre.

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Barry Kyle

Barry Albert Kyle (born 25 March, in Bow, London is an English theatre director, currently Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, England. Kyle attended Beal Grammar School in Ilford and then studied drama and English at the University of Birmingham. He began his theatre career in 1969 at the Liverpool Playhouse where he directed 21 productions. In 1973 he became an assistant director at the Royal Shakespeare Company where he directed in the studio theatre called The Other Place a production of Sylvia Plath a Dramatic Portrait, his dramatisation of Sylvia Plath's poetry and life. This played at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. In the Stratford main house he first directed Shakespeare's Measure for Measure with Michael Pennington, and then went on to direct many others including The Roaring Girl with Helen Mirren, The Taming of the Shrew with Sinead Cusack and Alun Armstrong, Love's Labour's Lost with Kenneth Branagh and Richard II with Jeremy Irons. In 1986 he directed the first production at the RSC's new Swan Theatre: The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, with Gerard Murphy, Hugh Quarshie and Imogen Stubbs, and served there as Artistic Director until 1991. He pioneered Marlowe's plays in The Swan with The Jew of Malta (1987) and Dr Faustus (1989) and staged rare works such as James Shirley's Hyde Park (1989) with Fiona Shaw and Alex Jennings. His other RSC productions include premiers of plays by Howard Brenton, Edward Bond, Howard Barker and Ron Hutchinson. In 1983 and 1985 Kyle directed The Dillen for the RSC which was an immersive and peripatetic production with a cast of 250 about the epic life of a local man, George Hewins, which was staged on the streets and in the fields of Stratford. His work has been seen throughout the world including Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Melbourne, Singapore, Moscow and Prague. He was the first western director to be invited to the National Theatre in Prague (1991), where he directed King Lear in Czech. He also directed Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in Hebrew at the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv (1981). In 1991 Kyle moved to the United States, founding the Swine Palace company in Louisiana, and building the Swine Palace theatre in Baton Rouge: a restoration of a derelict auction facility for livestock, retaining the earth floor of the original building. This opened in February 2000 with Kyle's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. In the USA he also directed in New York (Henry V, off-Broadway, 1992 with Mark Rylance which won the Lucille Lortel award) and Measure for Measure (1997) and he also directed in Washington DC (Romeo and Juliet, The Shakespeare Theater, 1994, with Marin Hinkle). He later adapted and directed Shakespeare's Henry VI for Theatre For A New Audience in New York, which won a Drama Desk award for Most Outstanding Revival. Kyle has been nominated in the Laurence Olivier awards as Best Director for his RSC productions of The Taming of the Shrew and Love's Labour's Lost.

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BBC

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

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Becoming Jane

Becoming Jane is a 2007 British-Irish biographical romantic drama film directed by Julian Jarrold.

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Bill Haydon

Bill Haydon is a fictional character created by John le Carré who features in le Carré's 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

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Birmingham Repertory Theatre

Birmingham Repertory Theatre, commonly called Birmingham Rep or just The Rep, is a producing theatre based on Centenary Square in Birmingham, England.

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Bleak House (2005 TV serial)

Bleak House is a fifteen-part BBC television drama serial adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House, which was originally published in 1852–53.

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Brazil (1985 film)

Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard.

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Bristol Old Vic

Bristol Old Vic is a British theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, Bristol.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.

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British Academy Television Award for Best Actor

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British Academy Television Awards

The British Academy Television Awards, also known as the BAFTA TV Awards, are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.

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British Forces Broadcasting Service

The British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) provides radio and television programmes for Her Majesty's Armed Forces, and their dependents worldwide.

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Burning Secret

Burning Secret is a 1988 drama film, based on the short story Brennendes Geheimnis by Stefan Zweig, about an American diplomat's son who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at an Austrian spa during the 1920s.

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Catherine the Great (1995 film)

Catherine the Great is a 1995 television movie based on the life of Catherine II of Russia.

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Charlie Muffin

Charlie Muffin is a 1979 made-for-TV film based on the novel Charlie M by Brian Freemantle.

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Churchill and the Generals

Churchill and the Generals is a 1979 BBC television drama concerning the relationship between Winston Churchill and generals of the Allied forces, set in the Cabinet Office and War Rooms between 1940 and 1945.

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Civilisation (TV series)

Civilisation—in full, Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark—is a television documentary series written and presented by the art historian Kenneth Clark.

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Coriolanus

Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608.

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Cruella de Vil

Cruella de Vil (spelled de Vil in the novel, spelled De Vil by Disney) is a character created by Dodie Smith as the main antagonist of her 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians and in Walt Disney Pictures' animated film adaptations 101 Dalmatians (1961), 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003), and Disney's live-action film adaptations 101 Dalmatians (1996) and 102 Dalmatians (2000).

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Cry Freedom

Cry Freedom is a 1987 British-South African epic drama film directed by Richard Attenborough, set in late-1970s apartheid era South Africa.

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Cymbeline

Cymbeline, also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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Danton's Death

Danton's Death (Dantons Tod) was the first play written by Georg Büchner, set during the French Revolution.

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Dark City (1998 film)

Dark City is a 1998 American-Australian neo-noir science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas.

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David Jones (director)

David Hugh Jones (19 February 1934 – 19 September 2008) was an English stage, television and film director.

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Death (Discworld)

Death is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and a parody of several other personifications of death.

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Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek George Jacobi, (born 22 October 1938) is an English actor and stage director.

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Diana Rigg

Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, (born 20 July 1938) is an English actress.

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Dijon mustard

Dijon mustard (Moutarde de Dijon) is a traditional mustard of France, named after the town of Dijon in Burgundy, France, which was a centre of mustard making in the late Middle Ages and was granted exclusive rights in France in the 17th century.

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Dirty Weekend (1993 film)

Dirty Weekend is a British film directed by Michael Winner, based on the novel of the same name by Helen Zahavi.

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Docudrama

A docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of radio and television programming, feature film, and staged theatre, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events.

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Don Quixote

The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), or just Don Quixote (Oxford English Dictionary, ""), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.

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Donald Sinden

Sir Donald Alfred Sinden, CBE, FRSA (9 October 1923 – 12 September 2014) was an English actor in theatre, film, television and radio as well as an author.

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Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Awards are presented annually and were first awarded in 1955 to recognize excellence in New York theatre productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway.

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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edward Albee

Edward Franklin Albee III (March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), and A Delicate Balance (1966).

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Edward Petherbridge

Edward Petherbridge (born on 3 August 1936) is an English actor, writer and artist.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Emma Thompson

Dame Emma Thompson, DBE (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter.

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Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.

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Francis Urquhart

Francis Ewan Urquhart is a fictional character created by Michael Dobbs.

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Frederick Forsyth

Frederick McCarthy Forsyth (born 25 August 1938) is an English author, former journalist and spy, and occasional political commentator.

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From Hell (film)

From Hell is a 2001 American mystery horror film directed by the Hughes brothers and loosely based on the graphic novel From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell about the Jack the Ripper murders.

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Gaius Cassius Longinus

Gaius Cassius Longinus (October 3, before 85 BC – October 3, 42 BC) was a Roman senator, a leading instigator of the plot to kill Julius Caesar, and the brother in-law of Marcus Junius Brutus.

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Gawain and the Green Knight (film)

Gawain and the Green Knight is a 1973 film directed by Stephen Weeks, and starring Murray Head as Gawain and Nigel Green in his final theatrical film as the Green Knight.

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George Heriot's School

George Heriot's School is a Scottish independent primary and secondary school on Lauriston Place in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, with over 1600 pupils, 155 teaching staff and 80 non-teaching staff.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Gordon Jackson (actor)

Gordon Cameron Jackson, OBE (19 December 1923 – 15 January 1990) was a Scottish actor best remembered for his roles as the butler Angus Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs and as George Cowley, the head of CI5, in The Professionals.

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Gormenghast (TV serial)

Gormenghast is a four-episode television serial based on the first two novels of the Gothic fantasy Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake.

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Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

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Grey Poupon

Grey Poupon is a brand of whole-grain mustard and Dijon mustard which originated in Dijon, France.

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Guy Burgess

Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (16 April 1911 – 30 August 1963) was a British diplomat and Soviet agent, a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.

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Helen Mirren

Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, (born 26 July 1945) is an English actor.

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Henry IV of England

Henry IV (15 April 1367 – 20 March 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1399 to 1413, and asserted the claim of his grandfather, Edward III, to the Kingdom of France.

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Hogfather

Hogfather is the 20th Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, and a 1997 British Fantasy Award nominee.

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Horatio (Hamlet)

Horatio is a character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.

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House of Cards (UK TV series)

House of Cards is a 1990 British political thriller television serial in four episodes, set after the end of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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Ike (miniseries)

Ike is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower, with heavy concentration on the time he went to Europe during World War II to serve as Supreme Commander.

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Incognito (1998 film)

Incognito is a 1997 American crime thriller film directed by John Badham and starring Jason Patric and Irene Jacob.

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J. G. Farrell

James Gordon Farrell (25 January 1935 – 11 August 1979) was an English-born novelist of Irish descent who spent much of his adult life in Ireland.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence.

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Jean-Paul Marat

Jean-Paul Marat (24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793) was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist who became best known for his role as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution.

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John Barton (director)

John Bernard Adie Barton CBE (26 November 1928 – 18 January 2018) was a British theatre director and (with Peter Hall) a co-founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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John Mackenzie (film director)

John Leonard Duncan Mackenzie (22 May 1928 – 8 June 2011) was a Scottish film director who worked in British film from the late 1960s, first as an assistant director and later as an independent director himself.

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John Mortimer

Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE, QC (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author.

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Joseph Bell

Joseph Bell FRCSE (2 December 1837 – 4 October 1911) was a Scottish surgeon and lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the 19th century.

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Joyeux Noël

Joyeux Noël ('Merry Christmas') is a 2005 epic war drama film based on the Christmas truce of December 1914, depicted through the eyes of French, Scottish, and German soldiers.

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Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (12 or 13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), known by his cognomen Julius Caesar, was a Roman politician and military general who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.

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Kenneth Clark

Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark (13 July 1903 – 21 May 1983) was a British art historian, museum director, and broadcaster.

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King of the Wind (film)

King of the Wind is a 1990 British adventure film directed by Peter Duffell and starring Richard Harris, Glenda Jackson and Frank Finlay.

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Kirby Hall

Kirby Hall is an Elizabethan country house, located near Gretton, Northamptonshire, England.

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List of people from Edinburgh

This list contains famous or notable people who were either born, residents, or otherwise closely associated with the City of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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List of Scottish actors

This article is part of the List of Scots series.

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Lolita

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian American novelist Vladimir Nabokov.

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Lolita (play)

Lolita is a play adapted by Edward Albee from Vladimir Nabokov's novel of the same name.

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London

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

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Love's Labour's Lost

Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years of study and fasting.

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M. Butterfly (film)

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Machiavellianism

Machiavellianism is "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct".

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Man of La Mancha (film)

Man of La Mancha is a 1972 film adaptation of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion.

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Marat/Sade

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade), usually shortened to Marat/Sade, is a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.

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Marat/Sade (film)

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, usually shortened to Marat/Sade, is a 1967 British film adaptation of Peter Weiss' play Marat/Sade.

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Martin Landau

Martin James Landau (June 20, 1928 – July 15, 2017) was an American actor, acting coach, producer, and editorial cartoonist.

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Maximilien Robespierre

Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer and politician, as well as one of the best known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.

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Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604.

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Michael Elliott (director)

Michael Elliott, OBE (1931–1984) was an English theatre and television director.

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Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997.

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Miles Richardson

Miles Richardson is a British actor.

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Monsignor Quixote

Monsignor Quixote is a novel by Graham Greene, published in 1982.

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Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes

Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes is a BBC television crime drama series, created by David Pirie, first broadcast on BBC Two on 4 January 2000.

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My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

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Mystery!

Mystery! (also written MYSTERY!) is a television anthology series produced by WGBH Boston for PBS in the United States.

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National service

National service is a system of either compulsory or voluntary government service, usually military service.

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Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants.), archaically known as the County of Northampton, is a county in the East Midlands of England.

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Oberon

Oberon is a king of the fairies in medieval and Renaissance literature.

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Old Rep

The Old Rep (originally Birmingham Repertory Theatre) is the United Kingdom's first ever purpose-built repertory theatre, constructed in 1913, located on Station Street in Birmingham, England.

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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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Patrick Stewart

Sir Patrick Stewart, (born 13 July 1940) is an English actor whose career has included roles on stage, television, and film in a career spanning almost six decades.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio.

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Peter Brook

Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s.

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Peter Hall (director)

Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall CBE (22 November 1930 11 September 2017) was an English theatre, opera and film director whose obituary in The Times declared him "the most important figure in British theatre for half a century" and on his death a Royal National Theatre statement declared that Hall’s "influence on the artistic life of Britain in the 20th century was unparalleled".

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Play of the Month

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series, which ran from 1965 to 1983 featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays (or adaptations) which were usually broadcast on BBC1.

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Polonius

Polonius is a character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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Porterhouse Blue

Porterhouse Blue is a novel written by Tom Sharpe, first published in 1974.

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Prince Hamlet

Prince Hamlet is the title character and protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.

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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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Regional accents of English

Spoken English shows great variation across regions where it is the predominant language.

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Rex Hunt (governor)

Sir Rex Masterman Hunt, (29 June 192611 November 2012) was a Royal Air Force pilot, British diplomat, and colonial administrator.

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Richard II (play)

King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595.

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Richard II of England

Richard II (6 January 1367 – c. 14 February 1400), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399.

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Richard III (play)

Richard III is a historical play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written around 1593.

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Richard III of England

Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 1483 until his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

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Richard Pasco

Richard Edward Pasco, (18 July 1926 – 12 November 2014) was a British stage, screen and TV actor.

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Ronald Lacey

Ronald William Lacey (28 September 1935 – 15 May 1991) was an English actor.

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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (film)

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is a 1990 comedy-drama film written and directed by Tom Stoppard based on his play of the same name.

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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, (Scottish Gaelic: Conservatoire Rìoghail na h-Alba) formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, is a conservatoire of dance, drama, music, production and film in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) is one of the United Kingdom's three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House.

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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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Royal Shakespeare Theatre

The Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) is a 1,040+ seat thrust stage theatre owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company dedicated to the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.

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Sadler's Wells Theatre

Sadler's Wells Theatre is a performing arts venue in Clerkenwell, London, England located on Rosebery Avenue.

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Savage Play

Savage Play is a 1995 New Zealand drama film directed by Alan Lindsay and starring Peter Bland,Paris Jefferson and featuring James Fleming.

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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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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Sir Godber Evans

Cover of 'Porterhouse Blue' --> Cover of 'Grantchester Grind' --> Sir Godber Evans is a central character in Porterhouse Blue (1974) and, posthumously, Grantchester Grind (1995), two novels about life in the fictitious Porterhouse College at Cambridge by British novelist Tom Sharpe.

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Sky One

Sky One is a British general entertainment channel operated and owned by Sky plc, available in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Stage management

Stage management is a broad field that is generally defined as the practice of organization and coordination of an event or theatrical production.

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Strange (TV series)

Strange is a British television drama series, produced by the independent production company Big Bear Productions for the BBC, which aired on BBC One.

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Terry Hands

Terence David Hands (born 9 January 1941) is an English theatre director.

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.

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The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby

The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby is a family-based Scottish film released in the US in 2005 (as Greyfriars Bobby) and the UK in 2006, and directed by John Henderson.

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The Alchemist (play)

The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson.

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The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales (Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.

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The Comedy of Errors

The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays.

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The Darwin Adventure

The Darwin Adventure is a 1972 British drama film directed by Jack Couffer and written by William Fairchild.

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The Final Cut (TV serial)

The Final Cut is a 1995 BBC television serial, the third part of the House of Cards trilogy.

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The Fourth Protocol (film)

The Fourth Protocol is a 1987 British Cold War spy film featuring Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan, based on the novel The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hollow Crown (anthology)

The Hollow Crown is an anthology, devised by John Barton in 1961, which presents in dramatic form, speeches, documents, gossip and music, associated with the British monarchy from William the Conqueror up to Queen Victoria.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983 film)

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1983 British made-for-television mystery film directed by Douglas Hickox, starring Ian Richardson as Sherlock Holmes and Donald Churchill as Dr. John H. Watson.

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The King and I

The King and I is the fifth musical by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II.

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The King and I (1999 film)

The King and I is a 1999 American animated musical film directed by Richard Rich and written by Peter Bakalian, Jacqueline Feather, and David Seidler, loosely adapted from the Anna Leonowens story, and uses songs and some of the character names from Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's stage musical of the same name.

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The Magician's House

The Magician's House is a quartet of children's fantasy books by William Corlett.

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The Queen (2006 film)

The Queen is a 2006 British fictional drama film depicting the British Royal Family's response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on 31 August 1997.

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The Revenue Men

The Revenue Men is a British television series, produced and transmitted by the BBC between 1967 and 1968.

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The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.

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The Sign of Four (1983 film)

The Sign of Four is a 1983 British made-for-television mystery film directed by Desmond Davis and starring Ian Richardson and David Healy.

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The Treasure Seekers (1996 film)

The Treasure Seekers is a 1996 British television family film directed by Juliet May and starring Camilla Power, Felicity Jones and Kristopher Milnes.

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The Winslow Boy

First edition (publ. Hamish Hamilton) The Winslow Boy is an English play from 1946 by Terence Rattigan based on an incident involving George Archer-Shee in the Edwardian era.

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Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV series)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1979 seven-part drama spy mini-series made by BBC TV.

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To Play the King

To Play the King is a 1993 BBC television serial and the second part of the House of Cards trilogy.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical is awarded to the actor who was voted as the best actor in a musical play, whether a new production or a revival.

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Tory

A Tory is a person who holds a political philosophy, known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved throughout history.

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Troubles (novel)

Troubles is a 1970 novel by J. G. Farrell.

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Tynecastle High School

Tynecastle High School is a secondary school in south west Edinburgh, Scotland.

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University of Stirling

The University of Stirling is a public university founded by Royal charter in 1967.

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Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress of stage, screen and television, and a political activist.

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Whoops Apocalypse (film)

Whoops Apocalypse is a 1986 ITC Entertainment film, directed by Tom Bussmann.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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Words Upon the Window Pane

Words Upon the Window Pane is a 1994 Irish drama film and the directorial debut of Mary McGuckian.

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Year of the Comet

Year of the Comet is a 1992 romantic comedy adventure film about the pursuit of the most valuable bottle of wine in history.

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102 Dalmatians

102 Dalmatians is a 2000 American crime family comedy film directed by Kevin Lima in his live-action directorial debut and produced by Edward S. Feldman and Walt Disney Pictures.

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1989 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1989 were appointments by most of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other countries.

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References

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