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Topic |
Wikipedia views |
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| 1 |
Hugh Laurie |
14,610 |
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| 2 |
Christopher Nolan |
13,767 |
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| 3 |
Emma Thompson |
9,665 |
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| 4 |
Gary Oldman |
8,951 |
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| 5 |
Ricky Gervais |
6,968 |
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| 6 |
Tom Hardy |
6,334 |
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| 7 |
Neil Gaiman |
3,778 |
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| 8 |
Richard Curtis |
3,643 |
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| 9 |
Guy Ritchie |
3,606 |
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| 10 |
Noel Clarke |
3,602 |
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| 11 |
Paul W. S. Anderson |
3,278 |
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| 12 |
Rupert Friend |
3,025 |
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| 13 |
Graham Greene |
2,714 |
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| 14 |
Shane Meadows |
2,706 |
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| 15 |
Michael Palin |
2,575 |
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| 16 |
Edgar Wright |
2,177 |
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| 17 |
Simon Monjack |
2,116 |
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| 18 |
Tom Stoppard |
1,987 |
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| 19 |
Peter Ustinov |
1,979 |
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| 20 |
Raymond Chandler |
1,418 |
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| 21 |
Alan Bennett |
1,401 |
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| 22 |
Anthony Minghella |
1,294 |
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| 23 |
Julian Fellowes |
1,137 |
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| 24 |
David Morrissey |
1,090 |
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| 25 |
Mark Gatiss |
927 |
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| 26 |
David McGillivray (producer/screenwriter) |
910 |
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| 27 |
Mike Leigh |
892 |
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| 28 |
Jonathan Nolan |
875 |
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| 29 |
Nicholas Stoller |
854 |
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| 30 |
Charles Dance |
849 |
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| 31 |
Peter Greenaway |
801 |
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| 32 |
Mike Pratt (actor) |
720 |
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| 33 |
Paul Greengrass |
702 |
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| 34 |
Mike Jefferies |
656 |
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| 35 |
John Boorman |
609 |
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| 36 |
Nick Moran |
590 |
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| 37 |
Nick Park |
585 |
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| 38 |
David Baddiel |
581 |
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| 39 |
Simon Evans |
572 |
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| 40 |
Iain Morris |
529 |
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| 41 |
Carlo Gabriel Nero |
518 |
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| 42 |
Caroline Goodall |
503 |
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| 43 |
Neil Marshall |
484 |
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| 44 |
Melvyn Bragg |
436 |
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| 45 |
Mark Haddon |
434 |
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| 46 |
Len Deighton |
433 |
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| 47 |
Martin McDonagh |
430 |
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| 48 |
Tony Warren |
427 |
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| 49 |
Dennis Potter |
402 |
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| 50 |
Meera Syal |
399 |
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| 51 |
Vivian Stanshall |
391 |
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| 52 |
Hanif Kureishi |
383 |
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| 53 |
Michael Powell (director) |
381 |
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| 54 |
David Nicholls (writer) |
372 |
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| 55 |
Damian Harris |
359 |
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| 56 |
Bruce Robinson |
357 |
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| 57 |
Jonathan Glazer |
352 |
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| 58 |
Peter Shaffer |
351 |
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| 59 |
Jeanette Winterson |
333 |
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| 60 |
Ralph Brown |
327 |
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| 61 |
Lionel Jeffries |
314 |
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| 62 |
Mike Figgis |
308 |
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| 63 |
Mark Billingham |
305 |
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| 64 |
Alice Lowe |
301 |
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| 65 |
Anthony Shaffer |
295 |
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| 66 |
Margaret Drabble |
291 |
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| 67 |
Patrick Marber |
281 |
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| 68 |
Peter Woodward |
274 |
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| 69 |
Robin Ince |
251 |
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| 70 |
Philip Ridley |
249 |
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| 71 |
Oliver Parker |
245 |
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| 72 |
Doon Mackichan |
237 |
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| 73 |
Gary Whitta |
232 |
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| 74 |
Guy Hamilton |
227 |
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| 75 |
Colin Welland |
227 |
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| 76 |
Terence Rattigan |
223 |
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| 77 |
Stephen Poliakoff |
222 |
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| 78 |
Frank Cottrell Boyce |
221 |
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| 79 |
Joe Cornish (comedian) |
215 |
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| 80 |
Robert Bolt |
208 |
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| 81 |
Graham Duff |
187 |
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| 82 |
Trevor Bentham |
181 |
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| 83 |
Jeremy Dyson |
177 |
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| 84 |
Christopher Smith (director) |
175 |
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| 85 |
Lewis Gilbert |
166 |
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| 86 |
Bryan Forbes |
165 |
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| 87 |
Michael Radford |
162 |
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| 88 |
Miles Malleson |
158 |
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| 89 |
Pooky Quesnel |
152 |
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| 90 |
Alexander Baron |
152 |
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| 91 |
Sally Potter |
146 |
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| 92 |
John and Roy Boulting |
143 |
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| 93 |
Ken Annakin |
133 |
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| 94 |
Andy Riley |
133 |
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| 95 |
Nicholas Evans |
133 |
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| 96 |
Michael Hirst (writer) |
133 |
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| 97 |
Leo Marks |
131 |
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| 98 |
Alan Plater |
128 |
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| 99 |
Blake Ritson |
128 |
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| 100 |
Allegra Huston |
128 |
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| 101 |
Harry Thompson |
127 |
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| 102 |
Caroline Graham |
124 |
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| 103 |
Val Guest |
121 |
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| 104 |
Gavin Lambert |
117 |
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| 105 |
Troy Kennedy Martin |
114 |
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| 106 |
Ronald Neame |
114 |
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| 107 |
Tom Mison |
113 |
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| 108 |
Cecil Hepworth |
111 |
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| 109 |
Andrew Birkin |
111 |
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| 110 |
Kim Fuller |
108 |
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| 111 |
Brian Clemens |
106 |
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| 112 |
Barry Hines |
104 |
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| 113 |
Scott Forbes |
104 |
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| 114 |
Peter James (writer) |
101 |
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| 115 |
Mark Ravenhill |
96 |
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| 116 |
Basil Dearden |
94 |
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| 117 |
Talbot Rothwell |
92 |
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| 118 |
Zoltan Korda |
90 |
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| 119 |
Charles Sturridge |
87 |
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| 120 |
Dick Clement |
87 |
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| 121 |
Mick Ford |
85 |
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| 122 |
Ray Burdis |
84 |
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| 123 |
James Follett |
83 |
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| 124 |
David Storey |
80 |
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| 125 |
Mark Fisher |
79 |
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| 126 |
William Nicholson (writer) |
79 |
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| 127 |
Mike Hodges |
78 |
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| 128 |
R. C. Sherriff |
60 |
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| 129 |
Michael Reeves |
58 |
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| 130 |
David Leland |
57 |
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| 131 |
Jez Butterworth |
57 |
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| 132 |
Mark Umbers |
57 |
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| 133 |
Jimmy Sangster |
56 |
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| 134 |
Pete Walker (director) |
55 |
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| 135 |
Richard Gordon (English author) |
53 |
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| 136 |
Jill Craigie |
52 |
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| 137 |
James Bernard (composer) |
52 |
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| 138 |
Greg Cruttwell |
48 |
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| 139 |
David L. Williams (film director) |
46 |
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| 140 |
Paul Andrew Williams |
45 |
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| 141 |
Alfred Hayes (writer) |
44 |
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| 142 |
Christopher Wood (writer) |
43 |
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| 143 |
Stel Pavlou |
43 |
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| 144 |
Alfred Shaughnessy |
43 |
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| 145 |
Wolf Mankowitz |
42 |
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| 146 |
Neal Purvis |
41 |
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| 147 |
Carl Mayer |
40 |
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| 148 |
Tim Firth |
40 |
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| 149 |
Alan Caillou |
40 |
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| 150 |
Nigel McCrery |
40 |
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| 151 |
Nigel Balchin |
39 |
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| 152 |
Stephen Gallagher |
39 |
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| 153 |
Guy Green (filmmaker) |
39 |
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| 154 |
Don Chaffey |
39 |
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| 155 |
John Hawkesworth (producer) |
38 |
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| 156 |
Dean Craig |
38 |
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| 157 |
Eric Maschwitz |
37 |
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| 158 |
Julian Mitchell |
37 |
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| 159 |
Rebecca Lenkiewicz |
37 |
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| 160 |
Angus MacPhail |
37 |
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| 161 |
Emily Young (film director) |
37 |
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| 162 |
Peter Straughan |
35 |
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| 163 |
Michael Pertwee |
35 |
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| 164 |
Heidi Thomas |
34 |
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| 165 |
Ian McLellan Hunter |
33 |
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| 166 |
Ted Willis, Baron Willis |
31 |
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| 167 |
Philip Merivale |
31 |
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| 168 |
Chris Kelly (TV presenter) |
31 |
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| 169 |
Clive Exton |
30 |
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| 170 |
Clemence Dane |
30 |
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| 171 |
Victor Saville |
30 |
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| 172 |
Andrew Nicholls and Darrell Vickers |
30 |
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| 173 |
Robert Wade (screenwriter) |
29 |
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| 174 |
Robert Fuest |
29 |
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| 175 |
Matt Greenhalgh |
29 |
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| 176 |
Basil Dean |
29 |
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| 177 |
Sonnie Hale |
29 |
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| 178 |
Hugh Whitemore |
29 |
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| 179 |
Vicky Jewson |
29 |
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| 180 |
Leslie Arliss |
29 |
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| 181 |
James Dearden |
29 |
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| 182 |
Robert Hamer |
27 |
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| 183 |
Jacquetta May |
27 |
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| 184 |
Stanley Long |
27 |
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| 185 |
Steve Barker |
27 |
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| 186 |
Reginald Denham |
27 |
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| 187 |
Kirk Jones (director) |
27 |
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| 188 |
Harry Alan Towers |
26 |
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| 189 |
Maureen Duffy |
26 |
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| 190 |
John Sichel |
26 |
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| 191 |
Kjeld Gogosha-Clark |
26 |
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| 192 |
Joel Hopkins |
26 |
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| 193 |
Sidney Gilliat |
25 |
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| 194 |
Alison Snowden |
25 |
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| 195 |
David W. Ross |
24 |
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| 196 |
John Prebble |
24 |
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| 197 |
Ivan Moffat |
24 |
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| 198 |
Alexander Doré |
24 |
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| 199 |
Charles Bennett (screenwriter) |
23 |
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| 200 |
David Cook (writer) |
23 |
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| 201 |
Leslie Goodwins |
23 |
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| 202 |
Frank Launder |
22 |
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| 203 |
Norman Hudis |
22 |
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| 204 |
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti |
20 |
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| 205 |
Paul Dehn |
20 |
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| 206 |
Terry Hayes |
20 |
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| 207 |
Arthur Wimperis |
20 |
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| 208 |
Adrian Butchart |
19 |
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| 209 |
David Ambrose |
19 |
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| 210 |
Howard Clewes |
19 |
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| 211 |
Caspar Berry |
18 |
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| 212 |
John Dighton |
18 |
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| 213 |
David Pirie |
18 |
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| 214 |
Richard Burridge |
18 |
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| 215 |
Jay Lewis |
18 |
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| 216 |
Russell Payne (author) |
18 |
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| 217 |
Geoffrey Willans |
17 |
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| 218 |
Ramsay Gilderdale |
17 |
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| 219 |
Gurpreet Kaur |
17 |
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| 220 |
Brian Clark (writer) |
17 |
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| 221 |
Barrie Keeffe |
17 |
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| 222 |
Alan Coleman |
16 |
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| 223 |
Vernon Harris |
16 |
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| 224 |
Mary O'Malley (playwright) |
16 |
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| 225 |
Muriel Box |
15 |
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| 226 |
George Pearson (filmmaker) |
15 |
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| 227 |
Snoo Wilson |
15 |
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| 228 |
Oscar Millard |
15 |
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| 229 |
Gordon Hessler |
15 |
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| 230 |
David Sington |
15 |
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| 231 |
Frank Harvey (English screenwriter) |
15 |
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| 232 |
J. C. Wilsher |
15 |
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| 233 |
Harry Booth |
15 |
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| 234 |
Charles Saunders (director) |
15 |
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| 235 |
Andrew Mollo |
15 |
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| 236 |
Sharat Sardana |
15 |
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| 237 |
Compton Bennett |
14 |
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| 238 |
Chris Greenhalgh |
14 |
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| 239 |
Jeremy Marre |
14 |
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| 240 |
Ben Richards (writer) |
14 |
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| 241 |
Michael Armstrong (cinematographer) |
14 |
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| 242 |
Nick Moorcroft |
14 |
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| 243 |
Adam Hamdy |
14 |
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| 244 |
David Lloyd (actor) |
14 |
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| 245 |
Shaun McKenna |
14 |
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| 246 |
Don Macpherson |
14 |
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| 247 |
Aubrey Wisberg |
14 |
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| 248 |
Christopher Sadler |
14 |
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| 249 |
Chris Murray (writer) |
14 |
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| 250 |
Charles Thomas Oldham |
14 |
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| 251 |
Bernard Knowles |
13 |
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| 252 |
Arthur Hopcraft |
13 |
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| 253 |
Tim Kirkby |
13 |
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| 254 |
John Akomfrah |
13 |
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| 255 |
Ian Curteis |
13 |
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| 256 |
Andrew Holden |
13 |
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| 257 |
Dean Cavanagh |
12 |
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| 258 |
John Heygate |
12 |
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| 259 |
Greatrex Newman |
12 |
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| 260 |
Charley Rogers |
12 |
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| 261 |
Wilfred Noy |
12 |
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| 262 |
Peter A. Dowling |
12 |
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| 263 |
Norman Giller |
12 |
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| 264 |
Richard Kwietniowski |
12 |
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| 265 |
Allister Bain |
12 |
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| 266 |
Shaun Troke |
12 |
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| 267 |
Aqeel Ahmed |
11 |
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| 268 |
Henry Livings |
11 |
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| 269 |
Mike Le Han |
11 |
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| 270 |
Peter Lawrence (author) |
11 |
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| 271 |
Francis Essex |
11 |
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| 272 |
Christopher Wicking |
11 |
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| 273 |
Mark Collicott |
11 |
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| 274 |
Barré Lyndon |
10 |
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| 275 |
Gerry O'Hara |
10 |
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| 276 |
Travis Kerschen |
10 |
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| 277 |
Max Kinnings |
10 |
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| 278 |
Chris Bryant (writer) |
10 |
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| 279 |
Hope Loring |
10 |
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| 280 |
Rob Dawber |
10 |
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| 281 |
Lance Nielsen |
10 |
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| 282 |
Fred Goodwins |
10 |
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| 283 |
Gavin Scott (screenwriter) |
9 |
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| 284 |
Sydney Box |
9 |
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| 285 |
Roy Boulter |
9 |
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| 286 |
Emery Bonett |
9 |
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| 287 |
Edward Sloman |
9 |
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| 288 |
Peter Graham Scott |
9 |
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| 289 |
John R. Gordon |
9 |
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| 290 |
Veronica Henry |
9 |
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| 291 |
Paul Chart |
9 |
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| 292 |
Zoë Green |
9 |
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| 293 |
Derek Marlowe |
8 |
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| 294 |
Helen Blakeman |
8 |
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| 295 |
Roger Drew |
8 |
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| 296 |
Chris Newby |
8 |
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| 297 |
Bob Kellett |
8 |
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| 298 |
Monja Danischewsky |
8 |
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| 299 |
Jack Davies (screenwriter) |
8 |
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| 300 |
Michael A. Walker |
8 |
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| 301 |
John Bonett |
7 |
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| 302 |
Charles G. Booth |
7 |
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| 303 |
Eliot Stannard |
7 |
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| 304 |
Stuart Urban |
6 |
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| 305 |
Sir Arthur Elton, 10th Baronet |
6 |
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| 306 |
Steve Rogers (actor) |
6 |
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| 307 |
Tudor Gates |
6 |
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| 308 |
Chris Croucher |
6 |
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| 309 |
Alan Hyman (writer) |
6 |
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| 310 |
Basil Woon |
6 |
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| 311 |
Ben Birdsall |
6 |
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| 312 |
Darrell Till |
6 |
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| 313 |
Jack Marks |
less than 5 views |
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| 314 |
Ernest Dudley |
less than 5 views |
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| 315 |
Gavin Claxton |
less than 5 views |
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| 316 |
Sidney Morgan |
less than 5 views |
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| 317 |
John Selwyn Gilbert |
less than 5 views |
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| 318 |
Joe Ainsworth |
less than 5 views |
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| 319 |
A. R. Rawlinson |
less than 5 views |
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| 320 |
Denise Danks |
less than 5 views |
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| 321 |
Reginald Berkeley (writer) |
less than 5 views |
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| 322 |
Russell Mardell |
less than 5 views |
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| 323 |
Joseph Grossman |
less than 5 views |
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| 324 |
Christopher Neame (writer/producer) |
less than 5 views |
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| 325 |
Arthur F. Statter |
less than 5 views |
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| 326 |
Duncan Gibbins |
less than 5 views |
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| 327 |
John James Fox |
less than 5 views |
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| 328 |
Dane Brookes |
less than 5 views |
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| 329 |
Nicholas Mark Harding |
less than 5 views |
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| 330 |
Nick Warburton |
less than 5 views |
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| 331 |
Graham Mitchell (writer) |
less than 5 views |
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| 332 |
Jonathan Miles (filmmaker) |
less than 5 views |
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