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

TUESDAY 6 JANUARY

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‘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

6 JANUARY TUESDAY

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