* 1978 – Myleene Klass, British singer, pianist, and model ( Hear ’ Say )

* 1978 – Matt Walker, British swimmer

She has also been the subject of a 1978 British TV series, Warrior Queen, starring Siân Phillips as Boudica.

Pinochet tried to defend himself by referring to the State Immunity Act of 1978, an argument rejected by the British justice.

In 1978, British comic 2000AD ran a Judge Dredd comic strip featuring Chief Judge Cal, loosely based on the real life Roman emperor.

* 1978 – Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist ( Muse )

* 1978 – Olav Bjortomt, British quiz champion

* Sir Mark Evelyn Heath-Diplomat, British Ambassador to Chad ( 1975 – 1978 ), the first British Ambassador to Holy See ( 1982 – 1985 ) and Head of Protocol for the Hong Kong Government ( 1985 – 1988 ).

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

In the 1970s and 1980s, British studios established a reputation for great special effects in films such as Superman ( 1978 ), Alien ( 1979 ), and Batman ( 1989 ).

* 1978 – Dean Gaffney, British actor

* 1978 – Jenny Frost, British singer / presenter / model / DJ ( Precious and Atomic Kitten )

* 1978 – Marc Hynes, British racing driver

The Victorian Painter and British History, 1978, Thames and Hudson, ISBN 0500271321

* Sir John Ford ( born 1922 ), British Foreign Office official who served in Canada from 1978 to 1981 ( List of High Commissioners from the United Kingdom to Canada )

* 1978 – Ricky Wilson, British singer ( Kaiser Chiefs )

* 1978 The Bible and recent archaeology, London: British Museum Publications Ltd, 1978.

Although the brand originates from the original 1947 model, Land Rover as a company has only existed since 1978, prior to this it was a product line of the Rover Company which was subsequently absorbed into the Rover-Triumph division of the British Leyland Motor Corporation ( BL ) following Leyland Motor Corporation ’ s takeover of Rover in 1967.

* 1978: Land Rover Limited formed as a separate subsidiary of British Leyland

* 1978 – Adam Jennings, British actor, producer, and director

Guest made his first appearance as Tufnel on the 1978 sketch comedy program The TV Show.

One of his early comedy writing projects was Black Cinderella Two Goes East with Rory McGrath for BBC Radio 4 in 1978.

Most notably, the 1978 comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House was co-written by Chris Miller ' 63, and is based loosely on a series of stories he wrote about his fraternity days at Dartmouth.

Hackman showed a talent for both comedy and the " slow burn " as criminal mastermind Lex Luthor in Superman: The Movie ( 1978 ), as he would in its 1980 and 1987 sequels.

Bacon's debut in the fraternity comedy Animal House in 1978 did not lead to the fame for which he had hoped, and Bacon returned to waiting tables and auditioning for small roles in theater.

In 1978, the Monty Python comedy group invited Moon to join them in Tunisia for their filming of Monty Python's Life of Brian, where he was to play some of the smaller roles.

Director William Friedkin, when discussing Falk's role in his 1978 film The Brink's Job, said that " Peter has a great range from comedy to drama.

In 1978, he appeared on the comedy TV show The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, where Frank Sinatra was the evening's victim.

An example would be WBAI's broadcasting the track " Filthy Words " from a George Carlin comedy album, which eventually led to the 1978 Supreme Court case of FCC v. Pacifica Foundation.

* Grand Slam ( 1978 film ), a 1978 Welsh TV comedy movie

Gelbart also co-wrote the golden-era film spoof Movie Movie ( 1978 ) starring George C. Scott in dual roles, the racy comedy Blame It on Rio ( 1984 ) starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore, and the 2000 remake of Bedazzled with Elizabeth Hurley and Brendan Fraser.

Hicks was 16 years old when he started performing stand-up comedy at the Comedy Workshop in Houston, Texas, in 1978.

* Matilda ( 1978 film ), a comedy about a boxing kangaroo based on Paul Gallico's novel

The first such season-ender on U. S. TV was in the comedy send-up of soap operas Soap in 1978.

Created as a short sketch in Idle's UK television comedy series Rutland Weekend Television, the Rutles gained fame after being the focus of the 1978 mockumentary television film, All You Need Is Cash ( The Rutles ).

French and Saunders met each other in 1978 while attending the Central School of Speech and Drama and began their career to collaborate on comedy projects.

Gilda Susan Radner ( June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989 ) was an American comedian and actress, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award in 1978.

Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 American comedy film directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry.

His selections indicated a taste for paranoia and " the darkest of dark comedy ," according to a writer for The New York Times, and included Frenzy, Dr. Strangelove, Brewster McCloud, The Big Clock, The Seventh Victim, Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 version ), Seconds, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1978 version ).

In 1978 Le Mesurier played Sir Archibald MacGregor in the sex comedy, Rosie Dixon – Night Nurse, and had a small role as Doctor Deere in the Ted Kotcheff-directed mystery comedy film, Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe ?.

* The title was also misspelled in an unrelated 1978 comedy western TV movie titled Wild and Wooly.