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  2. Occupation (s) Actor, writer and satirist. Spouse. Teresa Chancellor. . ( m. 1982) . Children. Dolly Wells. John Campbell Wells [1] (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and satirist.

  3. Jan 12, 1998 · John Wells, who co-wrote the \"Dear Bill\" letters in Private Eye, lampooning Denis Thatcher and Lady Thatcher, passed away in 1998. He was also a cabaret artist, a foreign language teacher and a translator of obscure German plays.

  4. Jan 12, 1998 · John Wells was a versatile and influential member of the Satire movement in Britain, creating \"Mrs Wilson's Diary\" and \"Dear Bill\" in Private Eye. He also had a successful career as an actor, mimic and theatre director, working with Peter Cook, Joan Littlewood and others.

  5. The Herald reports the death of John Wells, who co-wrote the Dear Bill letters and portrayed Denis Thatcher in a play and TV show. He was a former schoolmaster, a cabaret artist and a translator of opera and plays.

  6. John Campbell Wells (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and satirist. The son of a clergyman, Wells was born in Ashford, Kent in 1936. He was educated at Eastbourne College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Wells started in cabaret at Oxford and began his television...

  7. Satirist John Wells, best known for his caricatures of Denis Thatcher, has died from cancer at the age of 61. Mr Wells, who co-wrote Private Eye's 'Dear Bill' letters and also portrayed former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's husband on stage and television, was first diagnosed with lymphoma more than a decade ago but appeared to have ...

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    Pete Drummond and John Peel co-present Top Gear, 1 October 1967. ... after the satirist John Wells had criticised Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s policy on the Biafran war – an experience that ...

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