Ronald Frankau
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Ronald Hugh Wyndham Frankau was an English comedian who started in cabaret, before appearing on radio and in films.
Publicity photo of Frankau, dated 1949
Tommy Handley
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Thomas Reginald Handley was an English comedian, best known for the BBC radio programme It's That Man Again which ran between 1939 and 1949.
Ronald Frankau
…banned outright. Despite, or because of, this flavour in his songs, Frankau sold over 100,000 records in 1932. In 1934, Frankau began a comedy duo with Tommy Handley called 'Murgatroyd and Winterbottom'. The two had originally met performing in Liverpool before the Great War. Like many comedians, he passed comment…
Thomas Reginald 'Tommy' Handley BBC
Handley rehearsing with the ITMA cast and the Royal Marines band during a visit to the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow, January 1944