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Ball was born at Boundary Park General Hospital in Oldham, Lancashire, on 28 January 1944, [2] to May (née Savage) and Bob Harper. [3] [4] He attended Crompton House C of E school, Shaw, Oldham, and briefly studied Shipping Management at Wigan Mining & Technical College [2] before going to work in a factory as a welder, where he also met his future partner in comedy, Thomas Derbyshire (Tommy ...
Thomas Derbyshire (born 27 June 1938), known professionally as Tommy Cannon, is an English comic, actor and singer.He is best known as the straight man of the comic double act Cannon and Ball, until Bobby Ball's death in 2020, in TV programmes such as The Cannon and Ball Show.
For many years, one of the two championship races held at Phoenix International Raceway was a memorial race dedicated to Ball. The Bobby Ball Memorial was first run in the fall of 1954 and 1955 as a 100-mile race on dirt, sanctioned by AAA at the Arizona State Fairgrounds. [4] [5] Driver Jack McGrath was killed in an accident during the 1955 ...
Cannon and Ball were an English double act comprising Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball, who met in the early 1960s while working as welders in Oldham, Lancashire. [1] They started as singers working the pubs and clubs of Greater Manchester and switched to comedy after being told comics earned an extra £3 a night.
Bobby Ball (USA) 1953-01-03 Midget Unknown Carrell Speedway Race Crashed into the car of Andy Linden and flipped [55] Lorenzo Bandini (ITA) 1967-05-07 Open wheel Ferrari 312/67: Formula One: Circuit de Monaco: Monaco Grand Prix: Race Car skidded, hit straw bales and an iron bollard, caught fire and rolled several times, landing upside down [56]
1954 Bobby Ball Memorial race [ edit ] On November 8, 1954, Reece crashed during the Bobby Ball Memorial , an AAA Champ Car event held at the Arizona State Fairgrounds , sustaining "a punctured lung, fractured right shoulder and possible internal injuries when his car flipped coming out of the south turn [...] and crashed into the east wall."
The Fattest Man in Britain is a comedy-drama written by Caroline Aherne and Jeff Pope, and directed by David Blair, which aired on ITV on 20 December 2009. It starred Timothy Spall, wearing a fat suit for the title role, [1] Bobby Ball, Aisling Loftus and Barry Austin.
The "Splendid Splinter" himself was killed in the final AAA dirt-track race of the 1955 season, the Bobby Ball Memorial at the one-mile dirt oval at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, Arizona. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]