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	\| birth_place = [[Belfast]], Ireland		\| birth_place = [[Belfast]], Ireland
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| birth_place = [[Belfast]], Ireland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1989|1|11|1904|9|24|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]
| occupation = Comedian
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'''John Wright''' (24 September 1904 – 11 January 1989), credited professionally as '''Jackie Wright''', also nicknamed '''Little Jackie''' and '''Uncle Jackie''', was a Northern Irish comedian.

He is best known for being the bald-headed sidekick of [[Benny Hill]] on his [[The Benny Hill Show|television programme]] for fifteen years. Wright's diminutive stature – he was only {{convert|4|ft|11|in|m}} tall – and Northern Irish accent became assets to the comedy.

==Biography==
Born in Belfast, the eighth of twelve children born to George and Agnes ({{nee}} Finlay) Wright, Jackie first worked as a car body assembler, even working in the United States for [[Cadillac]]. In the early 1930s, when the [[Great Depression]] took hold, Wright returned to Belfast and then began working in the field of entertainment, first as a musician and then as a supporting comedian.<ref name="rr">{{Cite book|author=Robert Ross|origyear=1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mVO_CAAAQBAJ&q=Jackie+wright&pg=PT337|title=Benny Hill – Merry Master of Mirth: the Complete Companion|language=en|publisher=Batsford|location=London|date=2014| isbn=9781849942584| page=337| accessdate=2019-08-22}}</ref>

He did not enter television until the 1960s, when Hill discovered him and persuaded him to join his troupe.<ref name="rr"/><ref>{{Cite book|author=Paul Feeney|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LZ0rcqDNlGUC&pg=PA143|title=A 1960s Childhood: From Thunderbirds to Beatlemania|language=en|publisher=The History Press|location=Gloucestershire|date=2010|page=143| isbn=9780752450124 |accessdate=2019-08-22}}</ref> At the time, Hill was ending his stint with the BBC, and starting a 20-year relationship with [[Thames Television]]. Hill usually referred to him as "Little Jackie" or "our little [[Donny Osmond]]" on the programme. In many of the show's trademark [[Fast motion|accelerated-motion]] scenes, Hill would often pat Wright's bald head rapidly, the motion being accompanied by dubbed-in smacking sounds.<ref name="rr"/> Actress [[Suzy Mandel]] claimed that "Jackie Wright was a chain smoker and he would often hide his cigarette in his mouth or behind his back during scenes. In fact, you could often see a little plume of smoke rising behind him if you looked close enough. Benny would slap his head to fan the smoke away."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://gramponante.com/open-bar-at-the-rears-place/|title=Open bar at the Rears place|date=2006-09-25 |accessdate=2019-08-22|last=Ponante| first=Gram| language=en| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822073332/http://gramponante.com/open-bar-at-the-rears-place/|archivedate=2019-08-22}}</ref>

Wright also appeared on the short-lived 1973 programme ''[[Whoops Baghdad]]'' starring [[Frankie Howerd]], and had a small role in the musical comedy film ''[[Three for All]]'' in 1975. He gained a cult following when edited-down versions of the Benny Hill programmes began airing in syndication in the US in the late 1970s.<ref name="rr"/>

==Death==
Wright left the show in 1983 owing to poor health, although previously unaired footage of him in sketches filmed in previous years was incorporated into new Benny Hill shows up to 1985. Five and a half years later, he died at the age of 84 in a Belfast hospital after battling a long, undisclosed illness. At the time of his death, Benny Hill remarked, "He was a lovely little fella... I'm saddened beyond words."<ref name="rr"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.runstop.de/jwright.html| title=Benny's Place: Jackie Wright Tribute|accessdate=2019-08-22 |date=2002-04-06|author=William Brown|language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=0942461|name=John "Jackie" Wright}}

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[[Category:1904 births]]
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[[Category:Male comedians from Northern Ireland]]
[[Category:Male television actors from Northern Ireland]]
[[Category:20th-century male actors from Northern Ireland]]
[[Category:Male actors from Belfast]]
[[Category:Comedians from Belfast]]
[[Category:20th-century British comedians]]

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