Not Now, Comrade is a 1976 British comedy film directed by Ray Cooney, and featured a number of British comedy actors of the era including which British actor and singer best known as Lofty?
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Not Now, Comrade Not Now, Comrade is a 1976 British comedy film directed by Ray Cooney. It was a follow-up to the similarly named 1973 farce "Not Now, Darling". It featured a number of British comedy actors of the era including Leslie Phillips, Windsor Davies, Don Estelle and Ian Lavender. The film was shot at Elstree studios, and was intended as the second in a series of ‘Not Now’ movies, but box office returns for the film, unlike those of its predecessor, were disappointing.
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Don Estelle Don Estelle (22 May 1933 – 2 August 2003) was a British actor and singer best known as Lofty in "It Ain't Half Hot Mum".
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Ray Cooney Raymond George Alfred Cooney, OBE (born 30 May 1932) is an English playwright and actor. His biggest success, "Run for Your Wife" (1983) ran for nine years in London's West End and is its longest-running comedy. He has had 17 of his plays performed there.
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Wilfrid Thomas Wilfrid Coad Thomas (2 May 1904 – 16 August 1991) was a British-born singer and broadcaster, who had a significant career in Australia, then as radio and television commentator for the BBC in London. His name is very frequently mis-spelled "Wilfred".
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Jack Smethurst Jack Smethurst (born 9 April 1932 in Collyhurst, Manchester, Lancashire, England), is an English television and film comic actor whose career dates back to the 1950s. He is best known for his role as bigoted socialist Eddie Booth in "Love Thy Neighbour".
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Annie Cordy Baroness Léonie Cooreman, known under the stage name Annie Cordy (born 16 June 1928), is a Belgian film actress and singer. She has appeared in 50 films since 1954. She has staged many memorable appearances at Bruno Coquatrix' famous Paris Olympia. Her version of ""La Ballade de Davy Crockett"" was number 1 in the charts for five weeks in France in August 1956.
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Issy Bonn Issy Bonn (21 April 1903 – 21 April 1977) was a British Jewish actor, singer and comedian, most famous for his recording of My Yiddishe Momme. He appeared in two films, "I Thank You" in 1941 and "Discoveries" in 1939, where he played Mr. Schwitzer.
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Jack Haig Jack Haig (born John Cecil Coppin, 5 January 1913 – 4 July 1989) was an English actor who specialised in supporting roles, mainly in Television comedy, he was best known for his role on sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! as Monsieur Roger LeClerc
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Freddie Starr Freddie Starr (born Frederick Leslie Fowell, 9 January 1943) is an English comedian, impressionist, singer and actor. Starr was the lead singer of Merseybeat pop group the Midniters during the early 1960s, and came to prominence in the early 1970s after appearing on "Opportunity Knocks" and the Royal Variety Performance.
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Richard Ian Cox Richard Ian Cox (born October 3, 1973) is a Welsh-Canadian actor, online radio host, and comedian. He is best known for his voice acting for English language dubs of anime, mainly for "InuYasha". Richard gained prominence for playing the character of Henry Dailey's (played by Mickey Rooney) teenaged traveller and horse rider, Alec Ramsay, in The Family Channel's "Adventures of the Black Stallion" during the early 1990s. Cox also gained fame for voicing Ian Kelley, the title character in the animated series "Being Ian", and for voicing Scattershot, one of the Autobots in the CGI-Animated series "". In 2015, he provided the voice of Lofty in the American dubbed version of the 2015 reboot of the British children's animated television series "Bob the Builder" taking over from both Sonya Leite and Emma Tate. He maintains an active online presence on Tumblr and Twitter as well as Facebook. He hosts his own podcast called "The Show".
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Will Hay William Thomson Hay (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian, actor, author, film director and amateur astronomer who came to notice for his theatrical sketch as a jocular schoolmaster, known as Dr. Muffin. The acts in which Hay performed the schoolmaster sketch became known as "The Fourth Form at St. Michael's". Hay toured with act and appeared in America, Canada, Australia and South Africa. From 1934 to 1943, he was a prolific film star in Britain, and was ranked the third highest grossing star at the British Box Office in 1938, behind George Formby and Gracie Fields.
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Cyril Appleton Cyril Appleton (born 29 July 1930) is a British stage, television and film actor whose acting career spanned four decades.
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Percy Heming Percy Heming (6 September 188311 January 1956) was an English operatic baritone singer and actor. He was noted for his performance as Scarpia in "Tosca" but was also known for his comic parts and lighter operas.
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Maisie Gay Maisie Gay, born Maud Daisy Noble (7 January 1878 – 13 September 1945), was an English actress and singer, known for comic character roles in works by Noël Coward, James T. Tanner, and Edgar Wallace.
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Su Pollard Susan Georgina "Su" Pollard (born 7 November 1949 in Nottingham) is an English comedy actress and singer, most famous for her roles in the sitcoms "Hi-de-Hi!", "You Rang, M'Lord?" and "Oh, Doctor Beeching!". As a singer, she scored a UK No.2 hit with the song "Starting Together" in 1986. She is also well known for her unusual and flamboyant dress sense and her broad Nottinghamshire accent.
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Carol Raye Carol Raye (born 17 January 1923) is a retired English-born singer and dancer, theatre and television and film actress and comedian.
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Brian Connolly Brian Francis Connolly (5 October 1945 – 9 February 1997) was a Scottish musician and actor, best known as the lead singer of the British glam rock band The Sweet.
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George Robey Sir George Edward Wade, CBE (20 September 1869 – 29 November 1954), known professionally as George Robey, was an English comedian, singer and actor in musical theatre, who became known as one of the greatest music hall performers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a comedian, Robey mixed everyday situations and observations with comic absurdity. Apart from his music hall acts, he was a popular Christmas pantomime performer in the English provinces, where he excelled in the dame roles. He scored notable successes in musical revues during and after the First World War, particularly with the song "If You Were the Only Girl (In the World)", which he performed with Violet Loraine in the revue "The Bing Boys Are Here" (1916). One of his best-known original characters in his six-decade long career was the Prime Minister of Mirth.
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Dave Willetts Dave Willetts (born 24 June 1952 in Birmingham) is an English singer and actor known for having leading roles in West End musicals.
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Max Miller (comedian) Thomas Henry Sargent (21 November 1894 – 7 May 1963), best known by his stage name Max Miller and also known as "The Cheeky Chappie", was a British comedian who was widely regarded as the greatest stand-up comedian of his generation. He made films, toured in revues and music hall, and sang and recorded songs, some of which he wrote. He was known for his flamboyant suits, his wicked charm, and his risqué jokes which often got him into trouble with the censors.
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Harry Hepple Harry Hepple (born David Hepple;) is a British actor and musician.
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Jack Hobbs (actor) Jack Hobbs (1893–1968) was a British stage and film actor who appeared in more than forty films. After making his debut in the 1915 silent "The Yoke" Hobbs appeared in a mixture of leading and supporting roles in both the silent and sound eras. He played the hero in several quota quickies of the 1930s, including "All That Glitters" (1936). He was cast as an effectively glib, smooth-talking antagonist in two George Formby films "No Limit" (1935) and "It's in the Air" (1938).