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Elizabeth Spriggs

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Elizabeth Spriggs (18 September 1929 – 2 July 2008) was an English character actress. [1]

93 relations: A Christmas Carol (1999 film), A Delicate Balance (play), Agatha Christie's Poirot, Alan Bennett, Albert Finney, Alice in Wonderland (1999 film), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (film), Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, Angus Wilson, Arnold Wesker, Arsenic and Old Lace (play), BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Birmingham, Blithe Spirit (play), Bristol, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Buxton, Charles Dickens, Chichester Festival Theatre, David Warner (actor), Dion Boucicault, Doctor Who, Donald Sinden, Edward Albee, Emma Thompson, Fox (TV series), Frederic Raphael, George Bernard Shaw, George Eliot, Hamlet, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film), Heartbeat (UK TV series), Impromptu (1991 film), Is Anybody There?, J. B. Priestley, James Ellis (actor), Jeanette Winterson, Jeremy Irons, Julius Caesar, Kate Winslet, Kingsley Amis, Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981 film), Laurence Olivier Award, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Lesley Sharp, London Assurance, Macbeth, Major Barbara, Martin Chuzzlewit (TV series), Michael Caine, ..., Middlemarch (TV serial), Midsomer Murders, Much Ado About Nothing, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (TV serial), Oxford, Oxfordshire, Paradise Road (1997 film), Paradise Towers, Parker (1984 film), Paul Scofield, Peter Hall (director), Peter Vaughan, Richard's Things, Robert Hardy, Romeo and Juliet, Royal College of Music, Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Sense and Sensibility (film), Shine on Harvey Moon, Simon and the Witch, Sinéad Cusack, Stockport, Sylvester McCoy, Thame, The Barber of Siberia, The Cold Room, The Country Wife, The Daily Telegraph, The Glittering Prizes, The Guardian, The Hour of the Pig, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Old Devils, The Secret Agent (1996 film), The Stage, The Times, Those Glory Glory Days, Three into Two Won't Go, Volpone, When We Are Married, Wives and Daughters, Work Is a Four-Letter Word. Expand index (43 more) »

A Christmas Carol (1999 film)

A Christmas Carol is a 1999 British-American made-for-television film adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous novel A Christmas Carol that was first televised December 5, 1999 on TNT.

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A Delicate Balance (play)

A Delicate Balance is a play by Edward Albee.

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British mystery drama television series that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013.

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Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and author.

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Albert Finney

Albert Finney (born 9 May 1936) is an English actor.

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Alice in Wonderland (1999 film)

Alice in Wonderland is a 1999 made-for-television film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (film)

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is a 1982 British crime film directed by Chris Petit.

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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes is a satirical novel by Angus Wilson, published in 1956.

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Angus Wilson

Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson, CBE (11 August 191331 May 1991) was an English novelist and short story writer.

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Arnold Wesker

Sir Arnold Wesker (24 May 1932 – 12 April 2016) was a widely known English dramatist.

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Arsenic and Old Lace (play)

Arsenic and Old Lace is a play written by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939.

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BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Best Actress in a Supporting Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding supporting performance in a film.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Blithe Spirit (play)

Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.

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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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Buxton

Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, in the East Midlands region of England.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Chichester Festival Theatre

Chichester Festival Theatre, located in Chichester, Sussex, England, was designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, and opened by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin in 1962.

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David Warner (actor)

David Hattersley Warner (born 29 July 1941) is an English actor who is known for playing both romantic leads and sinister or villainous characters across a range of media, including stage, film, animation, television and video games.

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Dion Boucicault

Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (26 December 1820 (or 1822) – 18 September 1890), commonly known as Dion Boucicault (Dee-on Boo-se-koh), was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas.

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Doctor Who

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

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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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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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Emma Thompson

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

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Fox (TV series)

Fox is a British television drama series produced by Euston Films and Thames Television for the ITV network in 1980.

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Frederic Raphael

Frederic Michael Raphael (born 14 August 1931) is an American-born, British-educated, screenwriter, biographer, nonfiction writer, novelist and journalist.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist.

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George Eliot

Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Ann" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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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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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released in the United States as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) is a 2001 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Heartbeat (UK TV series)

Heartbeat is a British police drama series set in 1960s North Riding of Yorkshire based on the "Constable" series of novels written by ex-policeman Peter N Walker, under the pseudonym Nicholas Rhea, and broadcast on ITV in 18 series between 1992 and 2010.

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Impromptu (1991 film)

Impromptu is a 1991 British-American period drama film directed by James Lapine, written by Sarah Kernochan, produced by Daniel A. Sherkow and Stuart Oken, and starring Hugh Grant as Frédéric Chopin and Judy Davis as George Sand.

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Is Anybody There?

Is Anybody There? is a 2008 British drama film starring Michael Caine and directed by John Crowley.

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J. B. Priestley

John Boynton Priestley, OM (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984), known by his pen name J.B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, social commentator and broadcaster.

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James Ellis (actor)

James Ellis (15 March 1931 – 8 March 2014) was a Northern Irish actor and stage director with a career stretching over sixty years.

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Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson, CBE (born 27 August 1959) is an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values.

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Jeremy Irons

Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor.

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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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Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet, (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress.

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Kingsley Amis

Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher.

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Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981 film)

Lady Chatterley's Lover is a 1981 film directed by Just Jaeckin, and starring Sylvia Kristel and Nicholas Clay.

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Laurence Olivier Award

The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London at an annual ceremony in the capital.

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Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role

The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role is an annual award presented by The Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial British theatre.

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Lesley Sharp

Lesley Sharp (born 3 April 1960) is an English stage, film and television actress whose roles on British television include Clocking Off (2000–01), Bob & Rose (2001) and Afterlife (2005–06).

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London Assurance

London Assurance (originally titled Out of Town) is a six-act comedy by Dion Boucicault.

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Macbeth

Macbeth (full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606.

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Major Barbara

Major Barbara is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907.

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Martin Chuzzlewit (TV series)

Martin Chuzzlewit is a 1994 TV serial produced by the BBC, based on the novel by Charles Dickens, with a screenplay by David Lodge and directed by Pedr James.

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Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr., 14 March 1933) is an English actor, producer, and author.

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Middlemarch (TV serial)

Middlemarch is a 1994 television adaptation of the 1871 novel of the same name by George Eliot.

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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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Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle of his career.

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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (TV serial)

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was a 1990 BBC television drama, directed by Beeban Kidron.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England.

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Paradise Road (1997 film)

Paradise Road is a 1997 Australian war film that tells the story of a group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women who are imprisoned by the Japanese in Sumatra during World War II.

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Paradise Towers

Paradise Towers is the second serial of the 24th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 October to 26 October 1987.

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Parker (1984 film)

Parker is a 1985 British crime film directed by Jim Goddard and starring Bryan Brown, Cherie Lunghi and Kurt Raab, in which a British businessman disappears on a visit to Germany.

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Paul Scofield

David Paul Scofield CH CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) was an English actor of stage and screen who was known for his striking presence, distinctive voice, and for the clarity and effortless intensity of his delivery.

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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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Peter Vaughan

Peter Vaughan (born Peter Ewart Ohm; 4 April 1923 – 6 December 2016) was a British character actor, known for many supporting roles in British film and television productions.

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Richard's Things

Richard's Things is a 1980 British drama film directed by Anthony Harvey and starring Liv Ullmann, Amanda Redman and Peter Burton.

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Robert Hardy

Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy, CBE, FSA (29 October 1925 – 3 August 2017) was an English actor who had a long career in the theatre, film and television.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.

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Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK.

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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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Sense and Sensibility (film)

Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 American period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name.

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Shine on Harvey Moon

Shine on, Harvey Moon is a British television series made by Witzend Productions and Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian.

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Simon and the Witch

Simon and the Witch is a children's book by Margaret Stuart Barry, published by Collins, illustrated by Linda Birch.

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Sinéad Cusack

Sinéad Moira Cusack (born 18 February 1948) is an Irish stage, television and film actress.

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Stockport

Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester city centre, where the River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey.

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Sylvester McCoy

Sylvester McCoy (born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith; 20 August 1943) is a Scottish actor, best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989—the final Doctor of the original run—and briefly returning in a television film in 1996.

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Thame

Thame is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about east of the city of Oxford and southwest of the Buckinghamshire town of Aylesbury.

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The Barber of Siberia

The Barber of Siberia (italic, translit. Sibirskiy tsiryulnik) is a 1998 Russian film that re-united the Academy Award-winning team of director Nikita Mikhalkov and producer Michel Seydoux.

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The Cold Room

The Cold Room is a 1984 cable television film by James Dearden.

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The Country Wife

The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Glittering Prizes

The Glittering Prizes is a British television drama about the changing lives of a group of Cambridge students, starting in 1952 and following them through to middle age in the 1970s.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hour of the Pig

The Hour of the Pig is a 1993 British/French film by writer/director Leslie Megahey, produced by the BBC.

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597.

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The Old Devils

The Old Devils is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1986.

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The Secret Agent (1996 film)

The Secret Agent is a 1996 American drama-thriller film written and directed by Christopher Hampton and starring Bob Hoskins and Patricia Arquette.

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The Stage

The Stage is a British weekly newspaper and website covering the entertainment industry, and particularly theatre.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Those Glory Glory Days

Those Glory Glory Days is a 1983 British made-for-television film about football.

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Three into Two Won't Go

Three into Two Won't Go is a 1969 British drama film directed by Peter Hall, and starring Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom and Judy Geeson.

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Volpone

Volpone (Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–06, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable.

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When We Are Married

When We Are Married is a comedy by the English dramatist, J. B. Priestley.

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Wives and Daughters

Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866.

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Work Is a Four-Letter Word

Work Is a Four-Letter Word (also known as Work Is a 4-Letter Word) is a 1968 British satirical comedy film starring David Warner and Cilla Black, in her only acting role in a cinematic film.

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