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    Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor. Known for his distinct 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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  • (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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    14 November 2015) was an English actor best known for playing bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in television, film and stage productions from the 1960s to...
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  • Retrieved March 25, 2024. Butt, Maira (March 17, 2024). "Steve Harley death: Cockney Rebel musician dies aged 73". The Independent. Retrieved March 17, 2024...
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  • money and plans to kill her. Hy Hazell as Celia Bruce Lester as Larry Peters John Bailey as Lester Martin Elsie Wagstaff as Aunt Nora Ferdy Mayne as Antonio...
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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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    Ayres, Chris (23 August 2008). "Life as a RocknRolla: meet the crafty Cockney Idris Elba". The Times. London. Retrieved 11 April 2009.[dead link‍] "Idris...
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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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  • gunpoint in their car at Dorney Reach, Buckinghamshire, by a man with a Cockney accent and mannerisms[which?] matching Hanratty's. The gunman ordered Gregsten...
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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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  • Pauline Quirke), the drama series The Crezz, the short lived sitcom L for Lester (in 1982) and the IRA drama Harry's Game. Robson played Maggie Moon in Shine...
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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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    Ball (1943) as Foster (uncredited) Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943) as Ellie, Cockney Maid Three Hearts for Julia (1943) as The Symphony Guild Secretary (uncredited)...
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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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  • 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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  • Steve Harley, 73, British glam rock singer-songwriter (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel) 18 Jimmy Hastings, 85, British progressive rock multi-instrumentalist...
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  • Glenn Higgins Welcome to Curiosity Max 2019 The Rizen: Possession The Executioner 2020 The Big Ugly Big James TBA † The Last Ferry Cockney In Production...
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