Eric Sykes
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Eric Sykes was an English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wrote for and performed with many oth
Sykes c. 1955
Jimmy Edwards
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James Keith O'Neill Edwards, DFC was an English comedy writer and actor of stage, radio, television and film, known for his roles as Pa Glum in Take It from Here and as headmaster "Professor" James Ed
Eric Sykes
…Simpson. In 1967, Sykes expanded one of his routines into a 45-minute wordless colour short, The Plank which features, among others, Sykes, Tommy Cooper, Jimmy Edwards, Graham Stark, Hattie Jacques, and future Goodies star Bill Oddie. (The film was later remade for Thames Television in 1978.) Also in 1967, Sykes and…
Edwards at a book launch, 1966