Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor. Known for his distinctive Cockney accent, he has appeared in more than 160 films over a career that spanned...
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which the character was more stern and pompous. Dick Van Dyke as Bert, a cockney jack-of-all-trades and Mary Poppins' closest friend, who is completely...
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The Best Years of Our Lives is the third studio album by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, released by EMI on 7 March 1975. It was the first album to feature...
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Cockney Rebel (16 March 2004 – 23 March 2021) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, best known for winning both the 2000...
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(German: Excalibur); by Christophe Arleston and Eric Hübsch Lester Cockney (German: Lester Cockney); by Franz Buddy Longway (German: Buddy Longway); by Derib...
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Verona Doris Lester (28 July 1886 – 14 February 1965) was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. She was the sister of Muriel Lester. Doris Lester was responsible...
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performing them on his knees, and as various cockney characters can be heard muttering, "I'm a cockney, I'm a cockney...". His Boosh characters will be abused...
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Willis Hall's play The Long the Short and the Tall alongside another young cockney actor Michael Caine. Caine moved in with Stamp, and they began spending...
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List of recurring The Mighty Boosh characters (redirect from Lester Corncrake)
wife in Brazil. Lester Corncrake is portrayed by Rich Fulcher. He appeared in several episodes of the third series of the TV show. Lester Corncrake is a...
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January 8: Franz Drappier, aka Franz, Belgian comics artist (Hypérion, Lester Cockney, Thomas Noland, continued Jugurtha and Jerry Spring), dies at age 54...
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by critics as the film that made Bette Davis a star. The screenplay by Lester Cohen is based on the 1915 novel Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham...
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identify as Cockneys; some of these use the Cockney dialect to some degree and others not. A traditional definition is that to be a Cockney, one had to...
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again. Working as a servant, he falls in love with Lilly (Pamela Mason), a Cockney maid who dreams of bettering herself. James Mason as The Murderer / Maj...
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English-language accents in film (section Cockney)
expert on the portrayal of the Cockney", while BBC News recognised the skill of actor John Mills (active 1932–2004) in Cockney speech. Dialect coach Robert...
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to the work of Doris and Muriel Lester, who had a nursery school in nearby Bruce Road. Their brother, Kingsley Lester, died aged 26 in 1914, leaving money...
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born within earshot of the bells was considered to be a true Londoner, or Cockney. The church suffered severe damage by the Luftwaffe in the Second World...
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14 November 2015) was a British actor, best known for playing bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in television, film and stage productions from the 1960s to...
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romantic comedy Paris When It Sizzles, opposite William Holden, and as Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in the musical film My Fair Lady (both in 1964)...
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1945-2010 American pornographic actor Ketty Lester Revoyda Frierson 1934- American actress and singer Mark Lester Mark Letzer 1958- English former child actor...
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Ayres, Chris (23 August 2008). "Life as a RocknRolla: meet the crafty Cockney Idris Elba". The Times. London. Retrieved 11 April 2009. "Idris Elba –...
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gunpoint in their car at Dorney Reach, Buckinghamshire, by a man with a Cockney accent and mannerisms matching Hanratty's. The gunman ordered Gregsten...
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Natal, South Africa. His mother, Alice Violet (née Cole), was an English Cockney actress and chorus girl, and his father, James Walter Cusack, was an Irish...
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bands Cock Sparrer and Sham 69, in the late 1970s second-wave groups like Cockney Rejects, Angelic Upstarts, the Exploited, and the 4-Skins sought to realign...
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characters included two illegal immigrants, an Irish landlord, a Chinese Cockney, a Scottish Arab and numerous other racial stereotypes; Milligan himself...
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stating, "Noël Coward's influence on people like Bowie, Roxy Music and Cockney Rebel was absolutely immense. It suggested style, artifice and surface...
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Fame "Joseph McCoy" November 22, 1953 Hallmark Hall of Fame "Squanto, The Cockney Indian" December 6, 1953 Hallmark Hall of Fame "Major Charles Yeager" March...
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Factory. In the role of Mrs. Scrubbit, she spoke with "a truly over-the-top Cockney accent". The film was released on 8 December 2023. She also reprised her...
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1988 San Francisco, California, U.S. AIDS Paul Jeffreys Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel 36 December 21, 1988 Lockerbie, Scotland Pan Am Flight 103 bombing...
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were dubbed because the studio had feared that Americans would find their Cockney accents difficult to understand.[citation needed] Different edits were...
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Alexander McQueen. As a result of her time spent in London, Björk developed a cockney accent, evident in her interviews given in English at the time. In London...
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