Francis Coudrill
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Francis Coudrill was an English artist and ventriloquist, most notable for being the creator of Hank the Cowboy. He was also an artist and illustrator.
Francis Coudrill and Hank the Cowboy
Ventriloquism
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Ventriloquism is the performance art of speaking or producing sounds so that the voice appears to come from a source other than the performer, most often a puppet or "dummy." Ventriloquists create the
Ventriloquist dummy in the shape of a young boy
Newspaper article on Gef, the talking mongoose, claiming it involved ventriloquism by Voirrey Irving
Sadler's Wells Theatre in the early 19th century, at a time when ventriloquist acts were becoming increasingly popular
Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his best-known sidekick, Charlie McCarthy, in the film Stage Door Canteen (1943)