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Eric Sykes (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years.
Hattie Jacques (/ dʒ eɪ k s /; born Josephine Edwina Jaques; 7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980) was an English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen.She is best known as a regular of the Carry On films, where she typically played strict, no-nonsense characters, but was also a prolific television and radio performer.
Following the death of Richard Wattis in 1975, a new neighbour, Melody Rumbelow, moves in. [1] The local baker is the widowed Madge Kettlewell , who appears occasionally, and who fancies Eric. She is first seen in the episode "Football". [4] Eric and Hattie are also the owners of a cuckoo clock, naming the very temperamental bird inside Peter.
The Eric Sykes Show: 8 June 1977: ITV – [110] Sykes: "Christmas Special" 22 December 1977: BBC Television: Hattie Sykes: Christmas special [110] Sykes: 4 January – 8 February 1978 BBC Television: Hattie Sykes: Series six: 6 episodes [110] Multi-Coloured Swap Shop: 21 January 1978: BBC Television – [40] Sykes: 5 October – 16 November ...
Sykes and a... is a black-and-white British sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques that aired on BBC1 from 1960 to 1965. [1] It was written by Eric Sykes, Johnny Speight, John Antrobus and Spike Milligan.
Affected by macular degeneration, Norden joined Peter Sallis and Eric Sykes in 2009 as a patron of The Macular Society, after becoming a member in 2004. Norden died at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London on 19 September 2018, aged 96, less than three months after the death of his wife. [2] [6] [9] [10]
In case you missed it, the comedian, actress, writer, producer and loving wife to Alex Sykes (more on her in a minute) is now up for a 2024 Golden Globe for Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on ...
Guyler was born in Wallasey on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, the son of Samuel Phipps Guyler, a jeweller, and Elsie Evelyn, née Bower. [2] [3] In his childhood, a next-door neighbour was Irené Eastwood, who would also go on to have a career in show business when she changed her name to Anne Ziegler - the 1921 census shows the Eastwood family at 111 Hartington Rd, Liverpool and the Guylers ...