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Deryck Guyler

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Deryck Guyler (29 April 1914 – 7 October 1999) was an English actor, best known for his portrayal of officious, short-tempered middle-aged men in sitcoms such as Please Sir! and Sykes. [1]

85 relations: A Day to Remember (1953 film), A Hard Day's Night (film), Actor, Ashgrove, Queensland, Australia, Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, BBC, BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 4 Extra, Brisbane, Carry On Doctor, Charles Penrose (entertainer), Cheshire, Children's Hour, Christopher Blake, Classical antiquity, Danny Baker, England, Entertainments National Service Association, Eric Sykes, Ferry Cross the Mersey (film), Fred Dibnah, George VI, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Henry Reed (poet), Holland Park, Queensland, I'll Be Your Sweetheart, Inala, Queensland, It's a Square World, It's That Man Again, It's Trad, Dad!, John Alderton, John Gielgud, King Lear, Lancashire, Liverpool, Liverpool Blitz, Liverpool College, London, Mad About Men, Manchester, Michael Bentine, Mollie Sugden, Mount Gravatt, Queensland, No Sex Please, We're British (film), Norbury, Nottingham, Nurse on Wheels, One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing, Patricia Hayes, ..., Peter Brook, Please Sir!, Please Sir! (film), Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Queensland, Ramsbottom Rides Again, Richard Murdoch, River Mersey, Royal Air Force Police, Russell Davies, Scotland Yard, Scouse, Shakin' Stevens, Sitcom, Smokescreen (film), Society of Ancients, South London, St Martin's Theatre, Sykes, Sykes and a..., That's My Boy (1981 TV series), The Beatles, The Big Job (film), The Fast Lady, The Flaw (1955 film), The Men from the Ministry, The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968 TV series), The Mousetrap, Tommy Handley, Wallasey, Wargaming, Washboard (musical instrument), Wirral Peninsula, World War II, 7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom). Expand index (35 more) »

A Day to Remember (1953 film)

A Day to Remember is a 1953 British comedy drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring an ensemble cast including Stanley Holloway, Donald Sinden and Bill Owen.

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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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Actor

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

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Ashgrove, Queensland

Ashgrove is an inner suburb in the City of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own is the 1974 sequel to the 1972 Australian comedy film The Adventures of Barry McKenzie.

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BBC

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

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BBC Light Programme

The Light Programme was a BBC radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream light entertainment and music from 1945 until 1967, when it was rebranded as BBC Radio 2.

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BBC Radio 4 Extra

BBC Radio 4 Extra is a British digital radio station broadcasting archive repeats of comedy, drama and documentary programmes nationally, 24 hours a day.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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Carry On Doctor

Carry On Doctor (1967) is the fifteenth in the series of ''Carry On'' films to be made.

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Charles Penrose (entertainer)

Charles Penrose (born Charles Penrose Dunbar Cawse; 11 November 1873 – 17 November 1952) was an English music hall and theatre performer, and later radio comedian, who is best known for his unusual comic song "The Laughing Policeman".

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Children's Hour

Children's Hour, initially The Children's Hour, was the BBC's principal recreational service for children (as distinct from "Broadcasts to Schools") which began during the period when radio was the only medium of broadcasting.

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Christopher Blake

Christopher Blake (23 August 1949 – 11 December 2004) was an English actor and screenwriter.

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Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is the period of cultural history between the 8th century BC and the 5th or 6th century AD centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world.

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Danny Baker

Danny Baker (born 22 June 1957) is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Entertainments National Service Association

The Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) was an organisation set up in 1939 by Basil Dean and Leslie Henson to provide entertainment for British armed forces personnel during World War II.

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Eric Sykes

Eric Sykes, (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor, and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years.

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Ferry Cross the Mersey (film)

Ferry Cross the Mersey is a 1965 musical film featuring Gerry and the Pacemakers.

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Fred Dibnah

Frederick Dibnah, (29 April 1938 – 6 November 2004) was an English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering.

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George VI

George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952.

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Gerry and the Pacemakers

Gerry and the Pacemakers is an English beat group prominent in the 1960s Merseybeat scene.

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Henry Reed (poet)

Henry Reed (22 February 1914 – 8 December 1986) was a British poet, translator, radio dramatist, and journalist.

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Holland Park, Queensland

Holland Park is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia.

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I'll Be Your Sweetheart

I'll Be Your Sweetheart is a 1945 British historical musical film directed by Val Guest and starring Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver and Michael Rennie.

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Inala, Queensland

Inala is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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It's a Square World

It's a Square World is a British comedy television series starring Michael Bentine and produced by the BBC.

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It's That Man Again

It's That Man Again (or, commonly, ITMA) was a BBC radio comedy programme which ran from 1939 to 1949.

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It's Trad, Dad!

It's Trad, Dad! (1962), known in the U.S. as Ring-A-Ding Rhythm, is a musical comedy featuring a variety of jazz performers and some rock and roll acts.

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John Alderton

John Alderton (born 27 November 1940) is an English actor who is best known for his roles in Upstairs, Downstairs, Thomas & Sarah, Wodehouse Playhouse, Little Miss (original TV series), Please Sir! and Fireman Sam (the original series).

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John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades.

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King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.

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Lancashire

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

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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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Liverpool Blitz

The Liverpool Blitz was the heavy and sustained bombing of the English city of Liverpool and its surrounding area, during the Second World War by the German Luftwaffe.

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Liverpool College

Liverpool College is a mixed all-through school located in Mossley Hill, a suburb of Liverpool, England.

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London

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

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Mad About Men

Mad About Men is a 1954 Technicolor British comedy film.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Michael Bentine

Michael Bentine, CBE (born Michael James Bentin; 26 January 1922General Register Office for England and Wales - Birth Register for the March Quarter of 1922, Watford Registration District, Reference 3a 1478, listed as "Michael J. Bentin", mother's maiden name as "Dawkins". – 26 November 1996)General Register Office for England and Wales - Death Register for November 1996, Sutton Registration District, Reference C6B 296, listed as "Michael James Bentine" with a date of birth of 26 January 1922.

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Mollie Sugden

Mollie Sugden (21 July 19221 July 2009) was an English comedy actress, best known for portraying the saleswoman Mrs. Slocombe in the British sitcom Are You Being Served? (1972–85).

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Mount Gravatt, Queensland

Mount Gravatt is the name of both a major suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and a prominent hill in this suburb.

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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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Norbury

Norbury is a town in South West London.

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Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.

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Nurse on Wheels

Nurse on Wheels is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Gerald Thomas, and starring Juliet Mills, Ronald Lewis, and Joan Sims.

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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing is a 1975 comedy film, which is set in the early 1920s, about the theft of a dinosaur skeleton from the Natural History Museum.

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Patricia Hayes

Patricia Lawlor Hayes, OBE (22 December 1909 – 19 September 1998) was an English BAFTA Television Award-winning character actress.

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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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Please Sir!

Please Sir! is a London Weekend Television situation comedy for ITV, created by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and featuring actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett, Erik Chitty and Richard Davies.

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Please Sir! (film)

Please Sir! is a 1971 British comedy film starring John Alderton, spun off from the television series Please Sir!.

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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Ramsbottom Rides Again

Ramsbottom Rides Again is a 1956 British western comedy film produced and directed by John Baxter.

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Richard Murdoch

Richard Bernard Murdoch (6 April 19079 October 1990) was a British actor and entertainer.

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River Mersey

The River Mersey is a river in the North West of England.

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Royal Air Force Police

The Royal Air Force Police (RAFP) is the service police branch of the Royal Air Force, headed by the Provost Marshal of the Royal Air Force.

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Russell Davies

Robert Russell Davies (born 5 April 1946) is a British journalist and broadcaster.

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Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the territorial police force responsible for policing most of London.

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Scouse

Scouse (also, in academic sources, called Liverpool English or Merseyside English) is an accent and dialect of English found primarily in the Metropolitan county of Merseyside, and closely associated with the city of Liverpool.

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Shakin' Stevens

Michael Barratt (born 4 March 1948), known as Shakin' Stevens, is a platinum-selling Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter who was the UK's biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s.

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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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Smokescreen (film)

Smokescreen is a 1964 British crime drama film, written and directed by Jim O'Connolly and starring Peter Vaughan.

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Society of Ancients

The Society of Ancients (SoA) is an international, non-profit organizationWargames Illustrated August 2012 p48 based in the UK that aims to promote interest in Ancient & Medieval history and wargaming, covering the periods from 3000BC to 1500AD.

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South London

South London is the southern part of London, England, south of the River Thames, and includes the historic districts of Southwark, Lambeth, Bankside and Greenwich.

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St Martin's Theatre

St Martin's Theatre is a West End theatre which has staged the production of The Mousetrap since March 1974, making it the longest continuous run of any show in the world.

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Sykes

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

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Sykes and a...

Sykes and a... is a black-and-white British sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques that aired on BBC 1 from 1960 to 1965.

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That's My Boy (1981 TV series)

That's My Boy is a British sitcom starring Mollie Sugden that aired on ITV from 23 October 1981 to 4 April 1986.

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The Beatles

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

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The Big Job (film)

The Big Job is a British comedy film which was released in 1965.

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The Fast Lady

The Fast Lady is a 1962 British comedy film, directed by Ken Annakin.

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The Flaw (1955 film)

The Flaw is a 1955 British crime film directed by Terence Fisher, and starring John Bentley and Donald Houston.

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The Men from the Ministry

The Men from the Ministry is a British radio comedy series broadcast by the BBC between 1962 and 1977, starring Wilfrid Hyde-White, Richard Murdoch and, from 1966, when he replaced Hyde-White, Deryck Guyler.

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The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968 TV series)

The Morecambe & Wise Show was a comedy sketch show originally broadcast by BBC television and the third TV series by English comedy double-act Morecambe and Wise.

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The Mousetrap

The Mousetrap is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie.

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Tommy Handley

Thomas Reginald "Tommy" Handley (17 January 1892 – 9 January 1949) was a British comedian, mainly known for the BBC radio programme It's That Man Again ("ITMA").

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Wallasey

Wallasey is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England, on the mouth of the River Mersey, at the northeastern corner of the Wirral Peninsula.

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Wargaming

A wargame (also war game) is a strategy game that deals with military operations of various types, real or fictional.

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Washboard (musical instrument)

The washboard and frottoir (from Cajun French "frotter", to rub) are used as a percussion instrument, employing the ribbed metal surface of the cleaning device as a rhythm instrument.

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Wirral Peninsula

Wirral, also known as The Wirral, is a peninsula in northwest England.

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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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7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom)

The 7th Armoured Division was an armoured division of the British Army that saw distinguished active service during World War II, where its exploits in the Western Desert Campaign gained it the Desert Rats nickname.

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References

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

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