Anthony Martin Kimmins, OBE was an English director, playwright, screenwriter, producer and actor.
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Still from the 1943 stage production of While Parents Sleep
George Formby was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comic songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the UK's highest-paid entertainer.
Formby in France during the Second World War
Formby while employed as a jockey, aged 10 in 1915
Formby in the early 1920s, when still playing John Willie
An advertisement from The Burnley News, May 1921 for George Hoy