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• Strother Martin
  ...York Times]]|title=Strother Martin}}</ref> The line is number 11 on the [[American Film Institute]] list of [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes]]. ...but finished third in the competition.<ref name="FiR">''Strother Martin''. Films in Review, November 1982</ref>
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• Fourth wall
  ...rahams and Zucker]] frequently broke the fourth wall, such that with these films, "the fourth wall is so flimsy and so frequently shattered that it might as ...44}}</ref> The same technique is also used, though less frequently, in the American adaptation of ''[[House of Cards (U.S. TV series)|House of Cards]]'' by mai
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• Jack Mullaney
  {{Short description|American actor (1929–1982)}} ...82) was an American actor. Mullaney acted in several television series and films throughout his career.{{Citation needed |date=April 2022}}
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• The Brady Bunch Movie
  '''''The Brady Bunch Movie''''' is a 1995 American [[comedy film]] that parodies the 1969–1974 television series ''[[The Bra <!-- Per WP:FILMPLOT, plot summaries for feature films should be between 400 to 700 words. -->
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• Rory Calhoun
  ...ry a Millionaire" with Betty Grable and "River of No Return." The last two films featured Marilyn Monroe. Willson revealed Calhoun's criminal past publicly
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• Comedy
  ...agher (1971). "Fred Karno: master of mirth and tears". p. 165. Hale.</ref> American [[vaudeville]] emerged in the 1880s and remained popular until the 1930s, a ...tain producing the influential [[Goon Show]] after the Second World War. [[American cinema]] has produced a great number of globally renowned comedy artists, f
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• Showcase (Canadian TV channel)
  ...rtainment]]. The channel deals primarily in scripted television series and films and was well known in its early years for featuring unconventional and ofte ...ing lineup with a greater focus on hit [[Dramatic programming|dramas]] and films. Canwest executives hoped that the new lineup would make the channel more a
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• Dorothy Gish
  ...Hall of Fame]]. Dorothy Gish was noted as a fine comedian, and many of her films were comedies. ...h's ''[[An Unseen Enemy]]''. Dorothy would go on to star in over 100 short films and features, many of them with Lillian.
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• Oliver Hardy
  ...peared with his comedy partner [[Stan Laurel]] in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles.<ref>Rawlngs, Nate. [http://www.time.com/time/specials/pac ...r. He was of paternal [[English American]] descent and maternal [[Scottish American]] descent.
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• Warner Bros. Television
  ...eekly show featured rotating episodes of television series based on the WB films, ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' and ''[[Kings Row]]'', as well as an ...nne'' being a success, Warner Bros. ended the ten-minute promotions of new films and replaced ''Warner Bros. Presents'' with an [[anthology series]] titled
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• Imogene Coca
  {{short description|American comic actress (1908–2001)}} ...oca''' (born '''Emogeane Coca'''; November 18, 1908 – June 2, 2001) was an American comic actress best known for her role opposite [[Sid Caesar]] on ''[[Your S
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• Comedic genres
  ...[[horror (genre)|horror]] movie genre || [[Coen brothers]], [[Jim Norton (American comedian)|Jim Norton]], [[Lenny Bruce]], [[Bill Hicks]], [[Frankie Boyle]], |[[Mockumentary]] || A parody using the conventions of documentary style || Films and TV shows: [[FUBAR (film)|Fuba]]<nowiki/>r & [[Fubar 2]], ''[[Borat]]'',
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• Norma Talmadge
  | nationality = American ...ak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Basinger|first=Jeanine |title=Silent Stars|pub
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• Martin Landau
  ...le from The Boston Globe, which states that Landau was then 61 --->) is an American film and television actor. His career started in the 1950s, with early film ...ng ''[[Space: 1999]],'' Landau appeared in supporting roles in a number of films and TV series, including the TV film ''[[The Harlem Globetrotters on Gillig
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• Larry Storch
  '''Lawrence Samuel "Larry" Storch''' (born January 8, 1923) is an American comedian and actor best known for his comic television roles, including voi ...''[[A Fine Mess (film)|A Fine Mess]]'' (1986), as well as the cult sci-fi films ''[[The Monitors (film)|The Monitors]]'' (1969) and ''[[Without Warning (19
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• Actor
  ...1=Wilmeth, Don B. |author2=Bigsby, C.W.E. | title=The Cambridge history of American theatre |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory00wilm_962 |url-ac ...ng for comic effect was a frequently used device in most of the [[Carry On films]]. [[Dustin Hoffman]] and [[Robin Williams]] have each appeared in a hit co
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• Voice acting in the United States
  [[Voice acting]] makes an important contribution to many films, television productions and advertisements in the [[United States]]. Voice ...in Williams]] in the 1992 film ''[[Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', films have frequently been marketed with well-known names as voice actors, billed
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• George O'Hanlon
  '''George Samuel O'Hanlon''' (November 23, 1912 – February 11, 1989) was an American film and voice actor, comedian, and TV writer.<ref>{{cite news|title= Georg From the early 1940s, O'Hanlon was a character comedian in feature films, usually playing the hero's streetwise, cynical friend. He appeared in feat
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• Tina Louise
  '''Tina Louise''' (born '''Tina Blacker'''; February 11, 1934) is an American actress, singer, and author. She began her career on stage during mid-1950s ...ny|ABC-TV]] Movie ''[[Nightmare in Badham County]]''. Her other television films of the period included ''[[Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby]]'' (197
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• Forrest Tucker
  ...n both [[film|movie]]s and [[television]] who appeared in nearly a hundred films.<ref name=obit/> Tucker worked as a [[vaudeville]] [[Straight man (stock ch ...eant Stryker. Graduating to top billing, Tucker starred in numerous action films during the 1950s, including ''[[Rock Island Trail (film)|Rock Island Trail]
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