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Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish [a] comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. The son of an English mother and Irish father, he was born in British India, where he spent his childhood before relocating in 1931 to England, where he lived and worked for the majority of his life.
It was made for the ABC during Milligan's numerous visits to Australia, where his family had emigrated. Milligan adapted some Goon Show scripts and included his Goon Show characters (notably Eccles) in many episodes. Six episodes of The Idiot Weekly were remade by the BBC as The Omar Khayyam Show in 1963.
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.
In 1951 the Goons made their feature film debut in Penny Points to Paradise. [57] Sellers and Milligan then penned the script to Let's Go Crazy , the earliest film to showcase Sellers' ability to portray a series of different characters within the same film, and he made another appearance opposite his Goons co-stars in the 1952 flop, Down Among ...
Bentine was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, to a Peruvian father, Adam Bentin, and a British mother, Florence Dawkins, [3] and grew up in Folkestone, Kent. He was educated at Eton College . With the help of speech trainer, Harry Burgess, he learned to manage a stammer and subsequently developed an interest in amateur theatricals, along with the ...
The Goon Show Companion – A History and Goonography. Robson Books. p. 88. ISBN 0-903895-64-1. Character descriptions were given in two of Milligan's books of scripts (he has written a back story to his characters which is not always consistent with the scripts) : Milligan, Spike (1973) [1972]. "Introduction". Goon Show Scripts. Sphere Books.
The cast of the 1985 film "The Goonies" reunited Monday in support of castmate Ke Huy Quan. Stars Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Kerri Green, Corey Feldman, and writer Chris Columbus joined Quan at the ...
Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister are two characters from the 1950s United Kingdom radio comedy series The Goon Show.Crun and Min were performed by Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan respectively.