Radio comedian. Born Liverpool. Best known for the BBC radio show "ITMA - It's that man again".
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Tommy Handley
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Tommy Handley
Tommy Handley, 1892 - 1949, radio comedian, lived here. Greater London Council
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Comic Heritage
Merged with the Heritage Foundation.
18 memorials
Spike Milligan
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Joseph Grimaldi
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5 memorials
Albert Chevalier
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1 memorial
Benny Hill
Comedian and actor. Born Alfred Hawthorne Hill in Southampton. In his teens he worked as a milkman, an experience which he later put to good use in his hit song 'Ernie - The Fastest Milkman in the ...
2 memorials