Search results

From The Goon Show Depository

  • "'''Clown Virus'''" is an episode of the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy]] television series ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]''. ...into a clown — closely followed by Bill and Graeme also turning into clowns.
    4 KB (618 words) - 15:01, 23 January 2023
  • {{Short description|British actor, director, screenwriter and singer(1892–1978)}} '''John Norman Hulbert''' (24 April 1892{{spaced ndash}}25 March 1978) was a British actor, director, screenwriter and singer, specializing primarily in comedy
    13 KB (1,828 words) - 07:57, 6 October 2022
  • {{short description|British actress, dancer, pianist, and singer}} '''Glynis Johns''' (born 5 October 1923) is a South African-born British actress, dancer, musician and singer. Born in [[Pretoria]], South Africa, w
    23 KB (3,459 words) - 16:19, 20 December 2022
  • Villiers made his film début in 1958 and appeared in many British productions, including [[Joseph Losey]]'s ''[[The Damned (1963 film)|The Da ...name="Hershman2013">{{cite book|author=Gabriel Hershman|title=Send in the Clowns – The Yo Yo Life of Ian Hendry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a5-f
    9 KB (1,390 words) - 14:40, 18 January 2023
  • | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] ...er=ONS}}</ref> [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author and wildlife campaigner. She is best known
    18 KB (2,707 words) - 20:32, 7 February 2023
  • '''''The Last Remake of Beau Geste''''' is a 1977 British [[historical film|historical]] [[comedy film]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https:// ...to the old silent comics who could do it all. It doesn't matter that he's British because physical gags travel. That's why he has a major future ahead of him
    13 KB (2,006 words) - 16:05, 29 September 2024
  • ...=GBR|size=100%|DBE}} (1 April 1893 – 26 April 1980) was an Australian-born British actress, comedian and singer. The daughter of the producer and playwright [ Courtneidge appeared in 12 British films in the 1930s, and one in Hollywood, finding this work to be very lucr
    30 KB (4,466 words) - 07:51, 16 March 2023
  • ...his childhood in [[West Germany]] where his father was deployed with the [[British Army of the Rhine]]. He took piano lessons from age 7 to 14 and taught hims ...nnes and the Bonzo Dog Band also appeared each week in both seasons of the British children's television series ''[[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]'' which also feat
    29 KB (4,238 words) - 10:37, 26 January 2023
  • ...ined recruits in the use of the bayonet, he rose to the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] in tank transport. He spent several years Booth was in Herb Gardner's play, ''A Thousand Clowns'' in London 1964. He starred in ''[[90 Degrees in the Shade]]'' (1964), a t
    20 KB (2,941 words) - 15:18, 27 December 2022
  • ...wore a red [[Fez (hat)|fez]] when performing. He initially served in the [[British Army]] for seven years, before eventually developing his conjuring skills a ...re Thomas H. Cooper, a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] recruiting sergeant in the [[British Army]] and later coal miner, and Catherine Gertrude (''née'' Wright), Thom
    32 KB (4,605 words) - 07:53, 11 September 2024
  • ...Variety Series#1980s|Outstanding Variety]]. In 2006, Hill was voted by the British public number 17 in [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]'s poll of [[TV's 50 Greatest S ...[[UK Singles Chart]] and earned Hill an [[Ivor Novello Award]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]] in 1972.
    34 KB (5,028 words) - 13:14, 18 March 2023
  • '''''Help!''''' is a 1965 British [[Musical film|musical]] [[Comedy film|comedy]]-[[Adventure film|adventure] ...likely to be recognised there than at one of the larger resorts with many British tourists. The Beatles were in Obertauern for about two weeks in March 1965
    33 KB (4,906 words) - 17:32, 7 February 2023
  • ...d for him by [[Marriott Edgar|Marriott Edgar]], were absorbed into popular British culture, and Holloway developed a following for the recordings of his many ...Second World War, Holloway made short propaganda films on behalf of the [[British Film Institute]] and [[Pathé News]] and took character parts in a series o
    56 KB (8,391 words) - 00:06, 23 February 2023
  • | genre = [[Political satire]]<br />[[British sitcom]] '''''Yes Minister''''' is a British [[political satire]] [[sitcom]] written by [[Antony Jay]] and [[Jonathan Ly
    90 KB (13,454 words) - 07:50, 11 September 2024
  • ...le="The Happiest Days of My Life": Mutual |work=Charlie Chaplin |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=28 April 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=htt ...or the American draft, but he was not summoned by either country.{{efn|The British embassy made a statement saying: "[Chaplin] is of as much use to Great Brit
    164 KB (24,245 words) - 14:14, 25 August 2024