| death_date = {{death date and age|2002|02|25|1933|04|24|df=y}} ==Life and career==

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1979|06|21|1930|03|03}} ...mater = [[w:Guildhall School of Music and Drama|Guildhall School of Music and Drama]].

{{Short description|English comedian and actor (1892–1965)}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1965|8|4|1892|05|20|df=y}}

| birth_place = [[Elephant and Castle]], [[Metropolitan Borough of Southwark|Southwark]], [[London]], England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2006|12|23|1925|06|19}}

...Edgar''' in [[Kirkcudbright]], Scotland, was an English poet, scriptwriter and comedian,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetry.net/poet/Marriott+Edgar|tit ...Richard Horatio Marriott; both his two sisters, Adeline Marriott (b. 1853) and Grace Marriott (b. 1858) were also born in Lancashire. Later all three chil

| death_date = {{death date and age|2019|1|17|1930|8|28|df=y}} ...ter starred with [[Donald Sinden]] in ''[[Never the Twain]]'' (1981–1991), and his deep [[Welsh English|Welsh-accented]] voice was heard extensively in ad

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1938|3|14}} ...red in television series such as ''[[Yes Minister]]'', ''[[Doctor Who]],'' and ''[[Absolutely Fabulous]]''.

...cestry, he's down as Norman and John George N Bird with this date of birth and death information</ref> | death_date = {{death date and age|2005|4|22|1924|10|30|df=y}}

by [[Spike Milligan]] and [[Eric Sykes]] The show was transcribed from the version found on [[The Goon Show Compendiums#Vol1|The Goon Show Compend

| death_date = {{death date and age|1996|12|11|1937|08|18|df=yes}} ...November 2016}}</ref> was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the satirical magazine ''[[Private Eye]]''.

...tor)|Jeff Harding]], [[Maria McErlane]], Eryl Maynard, [[Colin McFarlane]] and [[Donna Ewin]]. ...y later series such as ''[[Little Britain (sketch show)|Little Britain]]'' and ''[[The Catherine Tate Show]]''.

..., Cheshire,<!-- Please do not change—it was Cheshire when O'Grady was born and remained so until 1974 when it became Merseyside. --> England | death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|03|28|1955|06|14|df=yes}}

| caption = [[Peter Sellers]] (top), [[Spike Milligan]] (left) and [[Harry Secombe]] (right) in a 1950s [[BBC]] publicity shot | other_names = ''Crazy People'' (series 1)