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

I could justifiably claim this year to have been a professional actor for 70 years. In 1956, when I was just 13, I was recruited to play the imaginary son of Eleanor Summerfield, the star of a Granada

HENRY JAYNES FONDA was born on May 16, 1905, in Grand Island, Nebraska, and moved to Omaha the following year. Henry was one of three children – he had two sisters – and was raised in a close-knit, re

‘There’s a fly floating around in my milk! There’s a foreign body in it,” the strange young man said as he sat in the back of a car. His interviewer, another Englishman, had asked him a question about

Talking Pictures TV talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 82 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Murder at the Windmill (1949) (Thursday 1 January, 8am) Crime Drama. Director: Val Guest. Starring: Garry Mar

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