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...son Crusoe]]'' in [[Barnsley]], at the age of four, worked with his father from the age of 10 and subsequently became stage manager for the family show. ...s bickering brother and sister pickle factory owners Eli and Nellie Pledge from 1968 to 1973, including a film version of the series in 1972.<ref>{{cite we

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...ces. Corbett was sent to Britain after his mother, Caroline Emily, ''née'' Barnsley, (1884–1926) died of [[dysentery|dysentery]] when he was eighteen months From 1958, Corbett began to appear regularly in films, coming to public attentio

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...o-written with John Lloyd were completely cut. Thus the [[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Hotblack Desiato|Hotblack Desiato]] ch ...s stage adaptation, a version of a [[pantomime horse]] was used, where two actors filled one costume, providing three arms and two heads between them. For th

...e ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the la ...|George Formby]] (he is now known as George Formby Sr). Formby Sr suffered from a chest ailment, identified variously as [[bronchitis]], [[asthma]] or [[tu