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Richard Gilbert Emery was born 19 February 1915, [1] in University College Hospital, Bloomsbury, London. [2] His parents were the comedy double act Callan and Emery. [1] They took him on tour when he was only three weeks old and gave him the occasional turn on the stage during his childhood, which was always on the move and disrupted, creating problems for the future but setting the scene for ...
The Dick Emery Show is a British sketch comedy show starring Dick Emery. [2] It was broadcast on the BBC from 1963 to 1981. [1] [3] It was directed and produced by Harold Snoad. [4] The show was broadcast over 18 series with 166 episodes. [1] [3] The show experienced sustained popularity in the 1960s and 1970s. The BBC described the show as ...
Dick Emery – stood in for Secombe as "Emery-type Seagoon" in Spon, [31] and replaced Milligan in a few others, alternating with Graham Stark. Emery also appeared in the closest thing to a Goon Show film, The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn (which also featured Sellers and Milligan but not Secombe).
Legacy of Murder is a British comedy television series which originally aired on BBC in six half-hour episodes between 16 February and 23 March 1982. [1] A struggling London private detective and his assistant are hired by a lawyer to locate six people concerned with the inheritance of an eccentric aristocrat.
Jack of Diamonds is a British comedy television series which originally aired on BBC in six half-hour episodes between 3 June and 15 July 1983. [1] It was produced as a loose sequel to the previous years's Legacy of Murder in which Emery had previously played the private detective Bernie Weinstock as well as various other roles similar to his work on The Dick Emery Show. [2]
Jeremy Hillary Boob, Ph.D. is a fictional character appearing in the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine, voiced by comedian Dick Emery.The character was conceived as a parody of public intellectuals and polymaths such as Southern Methodist University professor Jeremy duQuesnay Adams and theatrical director and physician Jonathan Miller.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Often wasted on television, Dick Emery's considerable talent for comic impersonations is here woven into an entertaining plot which finds plausible excuses for him to don an assortment of disguises and appear in drag (as a bereaved mother, a blowsy woman police officer), as a diplomat, or as the familiar butler ...
Character actress Jean Cadell is a joy in a rare leading role, and Dick Emery makes a perfect not-quite-funny gangster as his best work for the cinema. Christina Gregg is a pretty heroine in a film, which breaks little fresh ground, yet remains constantly entertaining thanks to good performances." [4]