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    Alan Melville (19 May 1910 – 18 April 1983) was a South African cricketer who played in 11 Test matches from 1938 to 1949. He was born in Carnarvon, Northern...
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  • Alan Melville (9 April 1910 – 24 December 1983) was an English broadcaster, writer, actor, raconteur, producer, playwright and wit. Born William Melville...
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  • Bruce Mitchell, Xen Balaskas, Ken Viljoen, Dudley Nourse, Eric Rowan, Alan Melville, Pieter van der Bijl, and Ronnie Grieveson once again ensured that South...
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  • Margaret Rutherford. It was based on the stage play of the same title by Alan Melville. Produced by ABPC, shooting took place at the company's Elstree Studios...
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  • In 1968 she made her West End debut as Lucienne in a revival of the Alan Melville play Dear Charles, then in 1971 she appeared in Rabelais at the London...
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  • in as team captains, including Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams and Alan Melville. The original series finished after Marshall's death, although a general...
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  • from the Scottish surname. Melville or Melvill may refer to: Alan Melville (1910–1983), South African cricketer Alan Melville (writer) (1910–1983), English...
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  • 1956 and 1957. Melville's uncle was the South African Test captain Alan Melville. Christopher went to school at Michaelhouse before going to Trinity...
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  • Secret", a song by Weeekly from We Can Top Secret (play), a 1949 play by Alan Melville Himitsu – Top Secret, a 2001 Japanese manga Top Secret, a children's...
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  • Full Circle (previously Dear Charles) is a play by Alan Melville adapted from "Les Enfants d'Edouard" by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon and Frederick J. Jackson...
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    Edinburgh North and Leith Joanna Mowat Tracy Gilbert Mike Andersen Alan Melville Kayleigh O'Neill Deidre Brock Niel Deepnarain (Scottish Family) David...
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  • starring Jack Buchanan, Susan Stephen and Diana Dors. It was written by Alan Melville based on the 1953 play of the same name by Vernon Sylvaine. It was shot...
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  • of a similar nature, but without the concept of lifelines; in 2004, Alan Melville was given an out-of-court settlement after he claimed that the opening...
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  • Word is a musical with book and music by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Alan Melville. The musical is a backstage comedy that parodies Novello's own swashbuckling...
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    Stephen Potter 1946 Another Part of the Forest, New York 1948 Jonathan by Alan Melville, Aldwych 1951 The Seventh Veil, Prince's Theatre 1953 Henry VIII, as...
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    (children's) 2 Narrator 1956 Call It a Day BBC film 1 Ann Hilton 1957 Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z: L BBC series 1 herself 1957 Studio E: Getting to...
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    3,879 7.8 −4.7 Conservative Joanna Mowat 3,254 6.6 −11.0 Reform UK Alan Melville 1,818 3.7 +2.8 Socialist Labour David Jacobsen 227 0.5 N/A Scottish...
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  • a five-match Test series against England. The team was captained by Alan Melville with Dudley Nourse as his vice-captain (v/c). England won the series...
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  • Jackson – Barney Paul Holdaway – Timothy Lesley Allen – Miss Mills Alan Melville, Simon and Laura: A Comedy, French's Acting Edition no 432, Samuel French...
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  • ensuring plenty of good batting wickets. The South Africans, captained by Alan Melville, toured the British Isles for the first time since 1935 and played a...
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    Lower and then Sweetest and Lowest. In her sketches, she tended, as Alan Melville recalled, to portray "grotesque and usually unfortunate ladies of dubious...
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  • series of six episodes ran between 18 September and 23 October 1967. Alan Melville was the guiding light behind this series which attempted to showcase...
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  • Lower (1943, with Alan Melville) Sweetest and Lowest (1946) A La Carte (1947, with Alan Melville) One, Two Three (1947, with Alan Melville) The Lyric Revue...
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  • Death of Anton (category Novels by Alan Melville)
    Death of Anton is a 1936 detective novel by the British writer Alan Melville. It was one of several novels he wrote in the mid-1930s in the wake of his...
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  • Fishlock Vinoo Mankad Peter Smith Cyril Washbrook 1948 Martin Donnelly Alan Melville Dudley Nourse Jack Robertson Norman Yardley 1949 Lindsay Hassett Bill...
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  • (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father...
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    The Last of Mrs Cheyney, W. Somerset Maugham's Lady Frederick and Alan Melville's Castle in the Air. She was a regular performer in productions at the...
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    Elisabeth Welch. Contributors included Michael Flanders, Donald Swann and Alan Melville, and the producer was Laurier Lister, who became Adrian's lifelong partner...
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    Denis Compton (2/3)  England NR 1  South Africa 21 June 1947 Won 52 117 Alan Melville  South Africa NR 2  England 21 June 1947 Lost 53 105 Arthur Morris  Australia...
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    January 1947 Drawn 10 Arthur Morris 122 124*  Australia  England 11 Alan Melville 189 104*  South Africa  England Trent Bridge, Nottingham 7 June 1947...
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