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Old 15-02-2008, 10:08 AM
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Well done both.....


Bit of a Bay Window, what??
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It's been a while since we tried this game....


Thats the joke that killed the Music Hall !
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Le Mesurier/Lowe/????/Laurie

The mystery man looks a bit like Bing Crosby. Was he the bloke who founded the Home Guard?

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Le Mesurier/Lowe/????/Laurie

The mystery man looks a bit like Bing Crosby. Was he the bloke who founded the Home Guard?
Correct for JLM/AL/JL

Wrong nationality and there is a Home Guard connection

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A clue is called for - the remaining face was one of the bright young things of his generation and worked in a number of showbusiness.

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Al Bowlly??

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Al Bowlly??
No music wasn't one of his talents to my knowledge.

Most of his work is now forgotten apart from two very durable things he was involved with but in different capacities

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Is it an early picture of Cecil Beaton?

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Is it an early picture of Cecil Beaton?
Nope, he was a man of the theatre and the cinema and later TV

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Long shot.... Arnold Ridley?
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Long shot.... Arnold Ridley?
Yup

Dramatist, Film Producer and Director and Actor. His two durable contributions are of course Dad's Army and The Ghost Train, which still gets revived today.

Now who is OOO ?

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Wasn't Arnold Ridlley really in the Home Guard?

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Wasn't Arnold Ridlley really in the Home Guard?
He might have been, but that is not relevant.

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Long shot.... Arnold Ridley?
But he was so good-looking as a young man! Golly.

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is this about both world wars?
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