Search results

From The Goon Show Depository

  • ==Military service== ...nderwent officer training at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst|Royal Military College]].
    14 KB (2,036 words) - 23:18, 12 February 2023
  • ...place = [[w:Seven Kings|Seven Kings]], [[w:Ilford|Ilford]], [[w:Essex|Essex]], England ...[w:Second World War|Second World War]] from 1943 until its end and was [[w:Military discharge|medically discharged]] in 1946.<ref name=independent>{{cite web|u
    14 KB (2,121 words) - 23:22, 5 January 2023
  • | death_place = [[Essex]], England ...g a substantial amount of weight, but this did not prevent his early death from a heart attack. He was married and had two children.
    9 KB (1,251 words) - 13:55, 5 February 2023
  • ...before handing himself in to the [[Military Police|Military Police]]. His military service left him with a damaged bladder following an infection, and a red m From 1958, Corbett began to appear regularly in films, coming to public attentio
    19 KB (2,751 words) - 00:18, 19 February 2023
  • | birth_place = [[Stratford, London|Stratford]], [[Essex|Essex]], England ...ulture/2008/jun/11/art Albert Herbert: A visionary artist, he found a path from abstraction to religious imagery via etching]. ''The Guardian''. 11 June 20
    26 KB (3,780 words) - 23:00, 19 February 2023
  • ...an actor and reciter of comic monologues were soon recognised. Characters from his monologues such as Sam Small, invented by Holloway, and Albert Ramsbott ...liver Percy Bernard]] [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[Military Cross|MC]] (1881–1939), an English architect and scenic designer, who des
    56 KB (8,391 words) - 00:06, 23 February 2023
  • ...ip Cecil Clowes<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.william1.co.uk/e11.htm|title=Essex 11|website=William1.co.uk}}</ref> and became the mother of Pertwee's cousin ...]] in Surrey, at [[Sherborne School]] in Dorset, and at some other schools from which he was expelled. After school, he was admitted to the [[Royal Academy
    42 KB (6,389 words) - 22:59, 10 September 2024
  • ...Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'' (1963) and ''[[How to Murder Your Wife]]'' (1965). From the mid-1960s on he also frequently starred in European films, in roles suc ...and, shortly before his death, was living in poverty, existing on charity from the Actors' Benevolent Fund. A charity gala was held in his honour, which r
    94 KB (14,211 words) - 07:49, 27 September 2024
  • ...e next several years, still wearing his dressing gown, helplessly launched from crisis to crisis while trying to straighten out his lifestyle. He rather en ...on a planet shortly before Vogons are due to destroy it, Agrajag wakes up from a coma after six months having won the lottery and been recognised by a lon
    137 KB (22,869 words) - 10:55, 25 August 2024