Born in [[Norfolk]], Yule began his stage career as a singer in pantomime, [[West End theatre [[Category:English male comedians]]

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...e [[West End theatre|West End]] by the age of 16, and was quickly promoted from minor to major roles in his [[Edwardian musical comedies]]. ...World War]], her father had a series of failures and temporarily withdrew from production. No other producers offered the young Courtneidge leading roles

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...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 ...s first properly home-grown screen comedian. He was an influence on future comedians—particularly [[Charlie Drake]] and [[Norman Wisdom]]—and, culturally, o