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| birth_place = [[Edinburgh]], [[Midlothian]], Scotland | occupation = Television journalist

...stories himself, his first professional engagement. He continued to write from the timber yard, his short stories, poems, manuscripts sometimes being acce ...ville play)|Full Circle]]'' (1952, previously ''Dear Charles'' and adapted from ''Les Enfants d'Edouard'' by [[Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon]] and [[Frederick J. J

| medium = Film, television ...kback]], which grew to be one of the United Kingdom's largest producers of television comedy and light entertainment programming.

| birth_place = [[Edinburgh]], Scotland ...an and writer. He had a long association with [[Ronnie Barker]] in the BBC television comedy sketch show ''[[The Two Ronnies]]''. He achieved prominence in [[Dav

...When he was only five months old, his father died from injuries resulting from an industrial accident. He left school at 14 and was a miner for eight year ...and taught himself [[ventriloquism|ventriloquism]] from a book he borrowed from the local library, buying his first dummy in 1936.<ref name=DMirror/> Durin

.../ref> He had a major resurgence during the late 1980s and early 1990s. His television shows were also broadcast in the United States, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, No ...(Director)|date=19 April 2013|title=Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian|medium=Television documentary|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s94tc |access-date =12

* Television ...Cats]]'' from 2005 to 2015, and on ''[[8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown]]'' from 2012 until his death in 2021.

...l-access=subscription}}</ref> Initially he worked with Eddy Kay, a friend from Croydon who had also been a member of the boys' club, the two billing thems ...e]]''. His [[BBC Radio 2]] satirical series ''[[The News Huddlines]]'' ran from 1975 to 2001.<ref name=chort>{{cite web|url=http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2

...lar journalist (a fore-runner of ''Private Eye''{{'}}s Lunchtime O'Booze), from bizarre skulduggery in the British colonies (where the soldiers holding bac ...iversity, he had accompanied his friends in a well-received revue at the [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe]]. ([[Richard Burton]] even appeared one night in their par

...d from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. Morecambe took his stage name from his home town, the [[seaside resort|seaside resort]] of [[Morecambe|Morecam He was the co-star of the [[BBC1|BBC1]]'s television series ''The Morecambe & Wise Show'', which for the 1977 Christmas episode

...pt was most recently written by [[Iain Pattinson]], who worked on the show from 1992 until his death in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amandahowardas ...]'' on the radio and ''[[Call My Bluff (UK game show)|Call My Bluff]]'' on television.

...r=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-861388-1|pages=215–216}}</ref> He came from humble beginnings and left school at the age of twelve. At the outbreak of ...d many songs, some of which he wrote. He appeared frequently on radio, but television did not really suit his style. He appeared and starred in fourteen feature

| occupation = Television playwright, screenwriter, journalist, author, novelist, director | notableworks = ''[[Pennies from Heaven (TV series)|Pennies from Heaven]]'' (1978)<br />''[[Blue Remembered Hills]]'' (1979)<br />''[[The Si

...membered for his comedic role as [[Sergeant Arthur Wilson]] in the [[BBC]] television [[situation comedy]] ''[[Dad's Army]]'' (1968–1977).{{sfn|McCann|2010|pp= ...] and made his stage debut in September 1934 at the Palladium Theatre in [[Edinburgh]] in the [[J. B. Priestley]] play ''[[Dangerous Corner]]''. He later accept

...Reginald Perrin in the BBC's ''[[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]'' from 1976 to 1979.<ref name=obit/> ...off. It was the perfect preparation for rehearsing [[situation comedy]] on television at the rate of one episode a week."<ref>Tanitch, p. 25</ref>

...hosting the annual [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|Guild of Television Producers' and Directors' Awards]]; ''Round the Horne'' could not continue ...Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road|Whitefield's Tabernacle]] from 1903 and, from 1910, chairman of the [[Congregational Union of England and Wales]]. Betwee

...tly dropped the character and in the 2000s became the presenter of various television and radio shows, including ''[[The Paul O'Grady Show]]''. ...television, radio, and theatrical appearances. As Savage, he presented the television shows ''[[The Big Breakfast]]'' (1995–1996), ''[[Blankety Blank]]'' (1997

...https://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/26485860 |title = Jo Kent saves cult hg2g game from scrapheap |access-date = 2014-06-24 |newspaper = Ariel |date = 2014-03-12 } ...unters [[Trillian (character)|Trillian]], another human who had been taken from Earth (before its destruction) by the two-headed President of the Galaxy [[

...ed four times and had three children from his first two marriages. He died from a heart attack, aged 54, in 1980. English filmmakers the [[Boulting brother ...particular. He was prone to laziness, but his natural talents shielded him from criticism by his teachers.{{sfn|Moritz|1961|p=371}} Sellers recalled that a