• Jun (musician) (redirect from Spiv States)
    Mar'derayla, Kisaki & Kansai Kizoku, Phantasmagoria, Toshi with T-Earth and Spiv States. He has also released solo material under his own name and the alias...
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    In the United Kingdom, a spiv is a petty criminal who deals in illicit, typically black market, goods. Spivs were particularly active during the Second...
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  • Screw Shazna Shintenchi Kaibyaku Shudan: Zigzag Siam Shade Sid Sophia Spiv States Strawberry Song Orchestra Sug Sukekiyo Tinc UchuSentai:Noiz The Underneath...
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  • 2004-2010 followed on October 26, 2011. Jun and Iori formed the duo Spiv States in November 2009. Iori left the group in September 2010. Kisaki and Riku...
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  • programmes, but is best known for the role of Private Walker, a cockney spiv, in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army from the show's beginning in 1968 until his...
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  • smashing a statue. The girls of St Trinian's are involved in business with spiv Flash Harry, who pays them to make cheap vodka. Flash is shown to be romantically...
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    characters, especially in his later work. Bratt said, "I've played 'Latin-looking spiv, third from the right so many times I can't count." In 2001, he starred in...
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  • drag as the headmistress, and also playing her brother); George Cole as spiv "Flash Harry", Joyce Grenfell as Sgt Ruby Gates, a beleaguered policewoman;...
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  • song was about a type of petty criminals known as a spiv, saying, "it was about an East End spiv, sung in a London voice. If anybody had lost any faith...
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  • suburbs. They are sheltered by a prostitute and her family and meet Frankie, a spiv who sells them directions through the sewers to the U.S. embassy. Finding...
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  • were also used as material for Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The 1949 British spiv film No Way Back is based on Burke's Beryl and the Croucher. Thomas Burke...
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  • old-fashioned, associated stereotypically with upper-class people) (US: spiffy) spiv a dealer in black market goods (during World War II). The term wide boy is...
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    Thomas, Donald (2005). Villains' Paradise: Britain's Underworld from the Spivs to the Krays. John Murray. p. 528. ISBN 978-0719557347. Retrieved 9 August...
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  • The normally gentlemanly and urbane Nigel Patrick is cast as a cockney spiv. The gangs hang around Bason's Gymnasium and Sugiani's nightclub, The Blue...
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    predominantly suburban working-class youth who adopted and adapted the look ("spiv" and cosh boy associations also hastened its middle-class rejection) and...
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    Dominic Monaghan (category British expatriate male actors in the United States)
    Society Award for Best Cast An Insomniac's Nightmare Jack Short film 2004 Spivs Goat The Purifiers Sol 2005 Ringers: Lord of the Fans Narrator Voice Shooting...
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    release-print credits), a role that helped type-cast him for many years as a spiv in films like London Belongs to Me (1948), Morning Departure (1950) and his...
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  • writer and theatre director who has worked in the United Kingdom, United States and India. He began his acting career in the early 1960s in the UK, but...
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    acting role, at age 13. Shortly after, she appeared in the British film, Spivs (2004). She also began performing at open mic sessions around London and...
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  • Murphy in Sixties British Cinema, the character is placed in the world of spivs and semi-criminality rather than the swinging London of the first film....
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  • breakthrough as James Bond in the 1962 film Dr No. During the Second World War, spiv Horace Pope is taken to court for street peddling. In mitigation, he tells...
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  • Murderer, both in 1947, and as a nightclub singer singing "The Shady Lady Spiv" in Easy Money (1948). Greta Gynt was born Margrethe Woxholt in Oslo, Norway...
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  • for a pizzling—sorry. ... the troglodytes over there in the LNP You are spivs and scumbags. In Belgium, there is no such thing as unparliamentary language...
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    renewable resources produced and traded by the United Kingdom Ration stamp Spiv Utility clothing Utility furniture Woolton pie Gull eggs § British Isles...
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  • in which his appearance seemed to be modelled on Private Joe Walker, the spiv in Dad's Army. He also appears in the Discworld computer game. He also appears...
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    saying 1986, some 1987 and some 1988. An interview with The Times in 2004 states 1987. Chortle gives 1986 and 1988 on the same page. His biography at Off...
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    Terry-Thomas (category English expatriate male actors in the United States)
    of the five films was Brothers in Law, in which Terry-Thomas played the spiv Alfred Green, a performance which was based on Sid Field's characterisation...
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  • party which comes ashore at Pepperinge Eye. Bruce Forsyth as Swinburne, a spiv and associate of the Bookman's who acts as his muscle. Cindy O'Callaghan...
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    Stewart Granger (category British emigrants to the United States)
    at the same time as Waterloo Road (1945), playing his first villain, a "spiv" who has run off with the wife of the John Mills character. This movie was...
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  • and best friend Bob Day used this as a boon to combat local bullies and spivs. Text story. Published: June 25, 1966, to February 15, 1969 Cartoonist:...
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