British Army personnel of World War II

The list British Army personnel of World War II includes Benny Hill, David Niven, Stewart Granger, Prince Aly Khan and Peter Shaw. The list consists of 4,695 members and 11 sublists.

Auxiliary Territorial Service officers
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Auxiliary Territorial Service soldiers
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British Home Guard soldiers
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British Home Guard officers
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British Army generals of World War II
1L, 391T
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British Army personnel killed in World War II
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British Army brigadiers of World War II
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Jewish Brigade personnel
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Long Range Desert Group personnel
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Palestine Regiment officers
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Personnel of the Non-Combatant Corps
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1.

Benny Hill

British comedian

Overview: Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992) was an English comedian and actor, best remembered for his television programme The Benny Hill Show, an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque ...

Date of birth: 21 January 1924

Date of death: 20 April 1992

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Comic

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Obscenity controversies in television 32T

Burials at Hollybrook Cemetery 6T

20th-century English comedians 250T
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David Niven

British actor, memoirist and novelist (1910–1983)

Overview: James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was an English actor, memoirist and novelist. His many roles included Squadron Leader Peter Carter in A Matter of Life and Death, Phileas Fogg in ...

Date of birth: 1 March 1910

Date of death: 29 July 1983

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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People from Buckland, Oxfordshire 8T

People educated at Heatherdown School 20T

Male actors from London 1,398T
3.

Stewart Granger

English actor

Overview: Stewart Granger (born James Lablache Stewart; 6 May 1913 – 16 August 1993) was an English film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s ...

Date of birth: 6 May 1913

Date of death: 16 August 1993

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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British expatriate male actors in the United States 258T

Male actors from London 1,398T

Male actors of Italian descent 908T
4.

Prince Aly Khan

Pakistani diplomat

Overview: Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan (13 June 1911 – 12 May 1960), known as Aly Khan, was a son of Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, the leader of the Nizārī Ismaili Muslims, a sect of Shia Islam, the father of ...

Date of birth: 13 June 1911

Date of death: 12 May 1960

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Nobility from Turin 80T

Noorani family 12T

British officials of the United Nations 100T
5.

Peter Shaw

British actor and producer

Overview: Peter Shaw (born Peter Pullen; 24 June 1918 – 29 January 2003) was an English actor, producer and the second husband of actress Angela Lansbury.

Date of birth: 24 June 1914

Date of death: 29 January 2003

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Male actors from Reading, Berkshire 27T

Military personnel from Reading, Berkshire 39T

Heart failure deaths in California 9T
6.

Dirk Bogarde

British actor and novelist

Overview: Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor and writer. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank ...

Date of birth: 28 March 1921

Date of death: 8 May 1999

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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20th-century English male writers 1,474T

Military personnel from London 1,003T

English male non-fiction writers 1,863T
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Desmond Carrington

British DJ

Overview: Desmond Herbert Carrington (23 May 1926 – 1 February 2017) was a British broadcaster and actor whose career spanned 75 years. He was best known for his weekly show on BBC Radio 2 which aired for 35 years ...

Date of birth: 23 May 1926

Date of death: 1 February 2017

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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2017 deaths 9,371T

British male radio actors 61T

British male television actors 840T
8.

John Le Mesurier

English actor

Overview: John Le Mesurier (, born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley; 5 April 1912 – 15 November 1983) was an English actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his comedic role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the ...

Date of birth: 5 April 1912

Date of death: 15 November 1983

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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20th-century English male writers 1,328T

Royal Armoured Corps soldiers 17T

Best Actor BAFTA Award (television) winners 55T
9.

James Hanson

British peer

Overview: James Edward, Baron Hanson (20 January 1922 – 1 November 2004) was an English Conservative industrialist who built his businesses through the process of leveraged buyouts through Hanson plc.

Date of birth: 20 January 1922

Date of death: 1 November 2004

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Businesspeople from Yorkshire 33T

Duke of Wellington's Regiment officers 50T

Conservative Party (UK) life peers 462T
10.

Lionel Jeffries

British actor and film director

Overview: Lionel Charles Jeffries (10 June 1926 – 19 February 2010) was an English actor, screenwriter, and director. He appeared primarily in films and received a Golden Globe Award nomination during his acting ...

Date of birth: 10 June 1926

Date of death: 19 February 2010

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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English male screenwriters 563T

Male actors from Kent 179T

20th-century English male actors 2,151T
11.

Terry-Thomas

Actor

Overview: Terry-Thomas (born Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens; 10 July 1911 – 8 January 1990) was an English comedian and character actor who became known to a worldwide audience through his films during the 1950s ...

Date of birth: 14 July 1911

Date of death: 8 January 1990

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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British male comedy actors 243T

20th-century British comedians 383T

British expatriate male actors in the United States 258T
12.

Franco Zeffirelli

Italian film and opera director

Overview: Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli KBE Grande Ufficiale OMRI (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019), was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the ...

Date of birth: 12 February 1923

Date of death: 15 June 2019

Age: 96 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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Film people from Florence 21T

Politicians from Florence 40T

Best Production Design BAFTA Award winners 51T
13.

Spike Milligan

Irish comedian (1918–2002)

Overview: Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was a British-Irish actor, comedian, writer, poet and playwright. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, Milligan was born ...

Date of birth: 16 April 1918

Date of death: 27 February 2002

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Male actors of Irish descent 682T

Male actors of English descent 380T

20th-century memoirists 804T
14.

Norman Wisdom

English comedian and actor

Overview: Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE (4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010) was an English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his ...

Date of birth: 4 February 1915

Date of death: 4 October 2010

Age: 95 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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BAFTA Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles winners 33T

British military musicians 31T

21st-century English comedians 249T
15.

Richard Greene

Actor

Overview: Richard Marius Joseph Greene (25 August 1918 – 1 June 1985) was a noted English film and television actor. A matinée idol who appeared in more than 40 films, he was perhaps best known for the lead role ...

Date of birth: 25 August 1918

Date of death: 1 June 1985

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Male actors from Plymouth 13T

Male actors of Scottish descent 224T

Male actors of Irish descent 682T
16.

Peter Ustinov

British actor, filmmaker and writer (1921–2004)

Overview: Sir Peter Alexander von Ustinov CBE FRSA (16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004) was an English actor, writer, and filmmaker. He was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his ...

Date of birth: 16 April 1921

Date of death: 28 March 2004

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Alumni of the London Theatre Studio 12T

Ustinov family 7T

Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts 230T
17.

Richard Todd

Actor

Overview: Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd OBE (11 June 1919 – 3 December 2009) was an Irish-British actor known for his leading man roles of the 1950s. He received a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising N ...

Date of birth: 11 June 1919

Date of death: 3 December 2009

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Subjects of "This is Your Life" TV series 285T

Freemasons of the United Grand Lodge of England 245T

Male actors from Dublin (city) 87T
18.

Harry Secombe

British entertainer

Overview: Sir Harry Donald Secombe CBE (8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001) was a Welsh comedian, actor and singer. Secombe was a member of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show (1951–1960), playing many ...

Date of birth: 8 September 1921

Date of death: 11 April 2001

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: Welsh

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Male actors from Swansea 30T

21st-century Welsh comedians 7T

20th-century Welsh comedians 6T
19.

Bill Owen

British actor

Overview: William John Owen Rowbotham, MBE (14 March 1914 – 12 July 1999), known professionally as Bill Owen, was an English actor and songwriter. He was the father of actor Tom Owen. He is best known for portraying ...

Date of birth: 14 March 1914

Date of death: 12 July 1999

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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British male comedy actors 243T

British novelty song performers 45T

20th-century English male actors 2,151T
20.

Frank Middlemass

Actor

Overview: Francis George Middlemass (28 May 1919 – 8 September 2006) was an English actor, who even in his early career played older roles. He is best remembered for his television roles as Rocky Hardcastle ...

Date of birth: 28 May 1919

Date of death: 8 September 2006

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Male actors from London 1,499T

21st-century English male actors 1,520T

20th-century English male actors 2,344T