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Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz

BORN in Tasmania in 1909, Errol Flynn had a tumultuous childhood. Despite being sent to some of the best schools in the world, he was expelled from most of them due to his unruly behaviour. As a teena

WILLIAM FRANKLIN BEEDLE JR. was born on April 17, 1918, in Illinois. His family moved to South Pasadena, California, and William went to Pasadena Junior College, acting in local radio plays and theatr

actor described as “America’s Laurence Olivier” Robert Duvall ...

The son of a railway engineer, the recently departed Paul Grist combined an acting career with a love of vintage cars before he started a top restoration firm. Across 87 years his varied life included