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

No jury in the land could deny that Rumpole of the Bailey remains one of British television’s most beloved creations. The winning combination of John Mortimer’s sumptuous scripts and Leo McKern’s rich

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One day in 1936, the barrister Clifford Mortimer banged his head on the door frame of a London taxi and was immediately struck blind. He would never be able to see again. Then in his early 50s, he nev

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

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