Nicknames for anti-aircraft guns include AA, AAA or triple-A, an abbreviation of anti-aircraft artillery, " ack-ack " ( from the World War I phonetic alphabet for AA ), archie ( a World War I British term probably coined by Amyas Borton and believed to derive via the Royal Flying Corps from the music-hall comedian George Robey's line " Archibald, certainly not !").

* October 7 – Marie Lloyd, British music-hall singer ( b. 1870 )

* John Thaw as Fred Karno, British music-hall impresario

The ordinary, everyday nature of the people and the setting was emphasised in early episodes by the British music-hall song " Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner " with its sentimental evocations of a cosy community, being used as the series theme song.

* 1965 – Jackie Clune, British entertainer and actress

* 1920 – George Rose, British music hall entertainer ( d. 1988 )

* 1928 – Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer

Lionel Fanthorpe, British pastor, entertainer, journalist, writer and paranormal investigator

* 1972 – Samantha Janus, British entertainer

* 1968 – Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer ( b. 1896 )

* Sabrina ( actress ) ( born 1936 ), British entertainer

** Billy Cotton, British entertainer & bandleader ( b. 1899 )

* August 13 – Rod Hull, British entertainer ( d. 1999 )

* British — Gordon, Harry: Scottish entertainer ( 1893 – 1957 )— formed a Pierrot troupe in 1909 that played both in theaters and at seaside piers in the northeast of Scotland.

While ostensibly on " entertainer goodwill " tours at the behest of the British Council, Howard's intelligence-gathering activities had attracted German interest.

* Kenny Everett ( 1944 – 1995 ), popular British entertainer

* British actor Jeremy Northam portrayed the entertainer in a made-for-TV movie called, Martin and Lewis, alongside Will & Grace's Sean Hayes as Jerry Lewis.

* Rutland Barrington ( 1853-1922 ), British entertainer

In 1978 a giant poster of her was displayed in Times Square, and she was introduced, in London at the 1980 Miss World competition gala to British television entertainer Bruce Forsyth.

* March 6 – George Formby, 56, British actor, entertainer

William Edward Cotton ( 6 May 1899 – 25 March 1969 ), better known as Billy Cotton, was an English band leader and entertainer, one of the few whose orchestras survived the British dance band era.

* Donald Swann ( 1923-1994 ), British composer, musician and entertainer

* Ivor Novello – British entertainer

* John Barrowman ( 1967 ), British entertainer, has a house with his partner Scott Gill in Earls Court.

* Marilyn ( singer ) ( born 1962 ), British entertainer

* Robert Johnson, British comic entertainer known under the stage name Bob Carolgees

Rodney Stephen Hull ( 13 August 1935 – 17 March 1999 ), better known as Rod Hull, was a popular entertainer on British television in the 1970s and 1980s.

* Dominic Wood or Dom, a British children's entertainer and TV presenter

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

Austin Trevor debuted the role of Poirot on screen in the 1931 British film Alibi.

* Atlantic ( film ), a black and white British film

It is referenced in the 2006 film Amazing Grace, which highlights Newton's influence on the leading British abolitionist William Wilberforce.

* Adrian Hodges, British television and film writer

* In the 1981 British fantasy film Time Bandits, Agamemnon is played by Sean Connery.

* Associated Talking Pictures, a British film studio of the 1930s later renamed as Ealing Studios

In the 2003 film Hitler: The Rise of Evil, British actor Robert Glenister plays Drexler, although Drexler is portrayed without his trademark spectacles and moustache.

* Associated British Corporation, a former British film and television company

However, in a 2005 poll by British film magazine Empire, Braveheart was # 1 on their list of " The Top 10 Worst Best Pictures ".

Today, the film is seen by the British Film Institute as one of Chaplin's " great features ", while David Robinson says it shows the star at " his unrivalled peak as a creator of visual comedy.

The British film industry produced a number of highly successful film series, however, including the Doctor series, the St. Trinian's films and the increasingly bawdy Carry On films.

Another example is the place of The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) in American and British gay culture, although a widely viewed and historically important film in greater American culture.

Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama film.

The film's title was inspired by the line, " Bring me my chariot of fire ," from the William Blake poem adapted into the popular British hymn " Jerusalem "; the hymn is heard at the end of the film.

* The Cardinal ( 1936 film ), a British historical drama

The idea of an " aerial torpedo " was shown in the British 1909 film The Airship Destroyer, where flying torpedoes controlled wirelessly are used to bring down airships bombing London.

He went on to play Guilford Dudley in the British film Lady Jane, co-starring Helena Bonham Carter.

* Conspirator, a 1949 British film

Brown himself received six Academy Award nominations and in 1949 won the British Academy Award for the film version of William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust.

The film was produced by independent British producer Jeremy Thomas.

In 1961 Dave Brubeck appeared in a few scenes of the British Jazz / Beat film All Night Long, which starred Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough.