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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.
Sykes is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1972 to 1979. Starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques, it was written by Sykes, who had previously starred with Jacques in Sykes and a... (1960–1965) and Sykes and a Big, Big Show (1971). [1]
Sykes was born Eric Anthony Schwabe in Barton-upon-Irwell, Eccles, Greater Manchester, England, [1] the son of Lawrence Schwabe a Manchester born letter press printer and Octavie his German wife from Cologne, Germany. By 1891 the family had moved south to Bromley in Kent near to Sevenoaks where his father worked as a cotton trader. [2]
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.
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 .
You may have spotted funny lady Wanda Sykes in a string of popular sitcoms, from Black-ish and Will & Grace to Broad City. Following on successful projects such as her Netflix family comedy, The ...
“My wife is my hero," the actor gushed in 2020. ... Eric Roberts knows how to keep the spark alive. The 68-year-old got candid on the secret to his 32-year marriage with wife Eliza Roberts.
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]