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:
“Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or despatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“I’ll be right here.”
—Melissa Mathison, U.S. screenwriter, and Steven Spielberg. ET, ET The Extra-Terrestrial, saying goodbye to Elliot as he touches Elliot’s forehead—ET’s final words in the film (1982)
“His education lay like a film of white oil on the black lake of his barbarian consciousness. For this reason, the things he said were hardly interesting at all. Only what he was.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)