Film
- Bernard Bresslaw (1934–1993)
- Bill Nighy
- John Cleese (born 1939), (Monty Python films)
- Robbie Coltrane (born 1950)
- Steve Coogan
- Ade Edmondson, (Guest House Paradiso)
- Lee Evans (born 1964)
- George Formby (1904–1961)
- Nick Frost, (Shaun of the Dead)
- Martin Freeman
- Marty Feldman (1933–1982)
- Will Hay (1888–1949)
- Eric Idle (born 1943), (Monty Python films)
- Sid James (1913–1976) (Carry On films)
- Rik Mayall, (Drop Dead Fred, Guest House Paradiso)
- Dudley Moore (1935–2002) (Arthur, 10)
- Simon Pegg, (Shaun of the Dead)
- Leonard Rossiter (1926–1984)
- Peter Sellers (1925–1980), (Dr. Strangelove, Inspector Clouseau films)
- Eric Sykes (1923–2012)
- Kenneth Williams (1926–1988), (Carry On films)
- Norman Wisdom (born 1915)
- Monty Python
- Russell Brand (St Trinians, Forgetting Sarah Marshall)
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Famous quotes containing the word film:
“All the old supports going, gone, this man reaches out a hand to steady himself on a ledge of rough brick that is warm in the sun: his hand feeds him messages of solidity, but his mind messages of destruction, for this breathing substance, made of earth, will be a dance of atoms, he knows it, his intelligence tells him so: there will soon be war, he is in the middle of war, where he stands will be a waste, mounds of rubble, and this solid earthy substance will be a film of dust on ruins.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“The obvious parallels between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz have frequently been noted: in both there is the orphan hero who is raised on a farm by an aunt and uncle and yearns to escape to adventure. Obi-wan Kenobi resembles the Wizard; the loyal, plucky little robot R2D2 is Toto; C3PO is the Tin Man; and Chewbacca is the Cowardly Lion. Darth Vader replaces the Wicked Witch: this is a patriarchy rather than a matriarchy.”
—Andrew Gordon, U.S. educator, critic. “The Inescapable Family in American Science Fiction and Fantasy Films,” Journal of Popular Film and Television (Summer 1992)
“The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.”
—Katharine Hepburn (b. 1909)