Comedian. Born Wales. Member of the Magic Circle. Died of a heart attack on stage at Her Majesty's Theatre, live on television.
"I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library." I thought "That's a turn-up for the books."
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Tommy Cooper
The Hand & Racquet has been around in different forms since the Tudor tim...
Tommy Cooper, 1921 - 1984, comedian, magician and Water Rat. Comic Heritage
Tommy Cooper, 1921 - 1984, comedian, lived here 1955 - 1984. English Heritage
Originated in the front room of John Gatenbys' family home in Highgate, during a discussion concerning Peter Seller's nearby childhood home. Out of this the 'Dead Comics Society' was born and their...
Merged with the Heritage Foundation.
All round entertainer. Born Yorkshire. Died at home at Gerrards Cross of lung cancer, although he was not a smoker. Before his death he campaigned for more research into cancer and the campaign c...
Comedy actor. Born in Johannesburg (on Hancock Street), South Africa, to a pair of British music hall performers and brought up in both South Africa and England. Worked as a diamond sorter and th...
Radio comedian. Born Liverpool. Best known for the BBC radio show "ITMA - It's that man again".
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
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