George Formby
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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 s
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
Norman Wisdom
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Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom was an English actor, comedian, musician, and singer best known for his series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966, in which he portrayed the endearingly inept char
George Formby
…Formby was considered Britain's first properly home-grown screen comedian. He was an influence on future comedians—particularly Charlie Drake and Norman Wisdom—and, culturally, on entertainers such as the Beatles, who referred to him in their music. Since his death, Formby has been the subject of numerous…
Wisdom in 1965
Norman Wisdom demonstrating a typical expression (1965)
Wisdom in Peel, Isle of Man, in 2005