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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 ...
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. They continued to work as a comic ...
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.
Juniper Jungle is a short lived cartoon series based on the series of books created by the British comedian Bobby Ball also previously created another cartoon Military Style! with ITV in 1990. [1] The series was later dubbed with American accents for the international market, where it aired as Juniper Jungle Adventures .
The Boys in Blue is a 1982 British comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Tommy Cannon, Bobby Ball, Suzanne Danielle and Roy Kinnear. [1] It is loosely based on the classic 1939 Will Hay film Ask a Policeman, which Guest co-wrote.
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 Cockfields is a British television sitcom created by Joe Wilkinson and David Earl, and produced by Yellow Door Productions for Gold.It aired over two series from 12 November 2019 until 12 November 2021, including a Christmas special, for a total of 10 episodes.