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Harry Secombe
Born Harry Donald Secombe
8 September 1921 (1921-09-08)
Swansea, Wales, UK
Died 11 April 2001 (aged 79)
Shamley Green, Surrey, England, UK
Spouse(s) Myra Atherton

Sir Harry Donald Secombe, CBE (8 September 1921–11 April 2001) was a Welsh entertainer with a noted fine tenor singing voice and a talent for comedy. Events 70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem. 1264 - The Statute of Kalisz Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Swansea ( Abertawe "mouth of the Tawe " is a city and county in Wales. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Events 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Shamley Green is a small Village in the county of Surrey, England. Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. Events 70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem. 1264 - The Statute of Kalisz Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Events 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. See also Entertainment (disambiguation and The Entertainer (disambiguation Entertainment is an activity designed to give people The tenor is the highest male voice within the Modal register, just above the Baritone voice Comedy (from the Greek κωμωδίαkomodia has a popular meaning (any discourse generally intended to amuse especially in Television, Film, and

Born at St. Thomas, Swansea, he served in the Royal Artillery British Army (he referred to his unit as 'The Five-Mile Snipers") during World War II in North Africa. St Thomas is a suburban district of Swansea, Wales. It is a mainly residential area which lies east of Swansea city centre across the River Tawe The Royal Artillery, is the common name for the Royal Regiment of Artillery, is an Arm of the British Army. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including North Africa or Northern Africa is the Northernmost Region of the African Continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan This was where he first met Spike Milligan in Tunisia. Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan KBE ( 16 April, 1918 &ndash 27 February 2002) known as Spike Milligan, was an Anglo Milligan's artillery battery had a larger caliber cannon that was too big for the gun pits Secombe's unit's cannon had used. The rest of Secombe's battery had already moved and he was with the last element in some tents at the foot of a cliff below their former position. The officers in Milligan's battery didn't bother to enlarge the pits. When Spike's cannon fired its first shell, the recoil drove the gun up out of the pit and over the cliff. Secombe recalled that when the weapon fell outside the tent, he and his mates thought, "My God! They're throwing cannons at us!" A moment later, the flap of the tent opened and Spike poked his head in and said in his Eccles' voice, "Has anyone seen a gun?"

His first comedy act was a routine about how people shaved. For other meanings of the name see Eccles Eccles is the name of a comedy character created Secombe always claimed that his ability to sing could always be counted to save him when he bombed. Both Milligan and Sellers credited him with keeping them on the bill when club owners wanted to sack him.

In the early 1950s, he joined with Milligan, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers in the BBC radio comedy The Goon Show. Michael Bentine CBE ( 26 January 1922 - 26 November 1996) was a Comedian, comic Actor, and founding Richard Henry Sellers, CBE, commonly known as Peter Sellers ( 8 September 1925 &ndash 24 July 1980) was a British The Goon Show was a British Radio comedy programme originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960 Secombe was notable for playing Neddie Seagoon, the focus of many of the show's absurd plots. Neddie Seagoon was a character in the 1950s British Radio comedy show The Goon Show.

Secombe appeared in many stage musicals, including Pickwick (1963, based on Dickens's The Pickwick Papers) and The Four Musketeers (1967), and had several chart successes, the song most associated with him being "If I Ruled the World" (from Pickwick). Musical theatre is a form of Theatre combining Music, Songs spoken Dialogue and Dance. Pickwick was a musical, based on Charles Dickens 's The Pickwick Papers, which opened on July 4, 1963. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. " If I Ruled the World " is a Popular song, originally from the 1963 West End musical Pickwick, based on Charles He also appeared as Mr. Bumble in Carol Reed's film of Lionel Bart's Oliver! (1968), and in the Envy segment of The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins. For the New York weathercaster see Carol Reed (weather broadcaster. Lionel Bart ( August 1, 1930 &ndash April 3, 1999) was an English composer of songs and musicals, best known for Oliver! is a 1968 Musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the Stage musical Oliver!, with The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 Comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark.

Later in life, Secombe (whose brother Fred Secombe was a priest in the Church in Wales, part of the Anglican Communion) attracted new audiences as a presenter of religious programmes, such as the BBC's Songs of Praise and ITV's Highway. Fred Secombe, born in Swansea, Wales, UK. Younger brother of Harry Secombe. The Church in Wales (Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru is a member Church of the Anglican Communion, consisting of six Dioceses in Wales. Anglicanism is a tradition of Christian faith Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs Songs of Praise is a BBC television programme based around traditional Christian Hymns With an average of nearly 3 million viewers weekly it Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent Highway is a British television series broadcast from 1983 until 1993 He was also a special programming consultant to Harlech Television. HTV, now legally known as ITV Wales and West, is the ITV contractor for Wales and the West of England. [1]

He was knighted in 1981, and jokingly referred to himself as Sir Cumference (in recognition of his rotund figure). Comedian Vic Reeves mentioned Secombe in his 1991 song "Meals On Wheels" ("Harry Secombe wants his pie and peas"). Vic Reeves (b 24 January 1959 as James "Jim" Roderick Moir) is an English Comedian, best known for his Double act with Bob Mortimer

Secombe suffered a stroke in 1997, from which he made a slow recovery, only to be diagnosed with prostate cancer the following September. A stroke is the rapidly developing loss of brain functions due to a disturbance in the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain After suffering a second stroke in 1999, he was forced to abandon his television career, but made a documentary about his condition in the hope of giving encouragement to other sufferers. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic [2]

Secombe and his wife, Myra Atherton, had four children:

His niece, Joan Secombe, is a head of house at Bishop Luffa school, in Chichester. Andrew Secombe (born April 26, 1953 in Mumbles, south Wales) better known as Andy Secombe, is a Welsh Actor Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters (including those in feature films television series animated shorts and Video games) and An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created Bishop Luffa School, named after a former Bishop of Chichester, Ralph de Luffa, is a Coeducation Church of England Secondary school Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, England. It has a long history as a settlement its Roman past and its subsequent importance

He died at the age of 79, from prostate cancer, at his home in Shamley Green, Surrey, England, in April 2001. Shamley Green is a small Village in the county of Surrey, England. Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland

The Secombe Theatre, Sutton, bears his name in memory of this former local personality. Sutton is the principal town in the London Borough of Sutton. [3], although he is said to have complained that it had become dominated by local amateur dramatics societies; a grouping which he regarded as "small minded, prejudiced" and "for the most part, pathetic". [4]

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References

  1. ^ a b "Sir Harry Secombe dies", The Guardian, 2001-04-11. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Events 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. Retrieved on 2006-06-04. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 781 BC - The first historic Solar eclipse is recorded in China.  
  2. ^ Television Heaven: Harry Secombe. Retrieved on 2006-02-12. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1429 - English Forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the
  3. ^ Sutton theatres
  4. ^ NEKROLOGER (Danish).
  5. ^ Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, 7th ed. British Hit Singles & Albums is a Music Reference book published in the United Kingdom by Hit Entertainment , 1989
  6. ^ Guinness Book of British Hit Albums 1st ed. , 1983 ISBN 0-85112-246-9

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