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Jimmy Edwards
Born	James Keith O'Neill March 23, 1920(1920-03-23) Barnes, London
Died	July 7, 1988 (aged 68) London
Occupation	Comedy actor
Spouse(s)	Valerie

Jimmy Edwards DFC (23 March 1920 – 7 July 1988) was an English radio and television comedy actor, best known as Pa Glum in Take It From Here and as the headmaster 'Professor' James Edwards in Whack-O!. Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow. Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Barnes is an affluent riverside London suburb in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Events 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The Distinguished Flying Cross is a military decoration awarded to personnel of the United Kingdom 's Royal Air Force and other services, and formerly Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow. Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Events 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) 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 Take It From Here (often referred to as TIFH, pronounced &mdash and sometimes humorously spelt &mdash "TIFE" was a British Whack-O! was a British sitcom TV series starring Jimmy Edwards.

Edwards was born James Keith O'Neill in Barnes, London, the son of a professor of mathematics . Barnes is an affluent riverside London suburb in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and He was educated at St Paul's Cathedral Choir School, at King's College School in Wimbledon, London, and later at St John's College, Cambridge. King's College School Wimbledon or KCS, is one of Britain 's leading independent boys' schools in Wimbledon Wimbledon is a Suburb of London, part of the London Borough of Merton and located south west of Charing Cross. St John's College, an institution known formally as The Master Fellows and Scholars of the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge is a

He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross. 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 The Distinguished Flying Cross is a military decoration awarded to personnel of the United Kingdom 's Royal Air Force and other services, and formerly His Dakota was shot down at Arnhem in 1944, resulting in injuries requiring plastic surgery — he disguised the traces with the huge handlebar moustache that later became his trademark. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Operation Market Garden ( September 17, 1944 – September 25, 1944) was an Allied military operation fought in the Netherlands Plastic surgery is a medical specialty interested in the correction of form and function A handlebar moustache is a Moustache with particularly lengthy often graspable extremities He was a member of the Guinea Pig Club. The Guinea Pig Club was formed of patients of Archibald McIndoe at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, Sussex who underwent reconstructive

Career

Edwards was a feature of London theatre in the immediate post-war years, debuting at London's Windmill Theatre in 1946 and on BBC radio the same year. The Windmill Theatre, later the Windmill Club, was a variety and revue Theatre in Great Windmill Street London. He later did a season with Tony Hancock, having previously performed in the Cambridge Footlights review. Anthony John "Tony" Hancock (born 12 May 1924 &ndash 24 June 1968) was a popular British Actor and Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge England, run by the students He gained wider exposure as a radio performer in Take It From Here, co-starring Dick Bentley, which first paired his writer Frank Muir with Bentley's: Denis Norden. Take It From Here (often referred to as TIFH, pronounced &mdash and sometimes humorously spelt &mdash "TIFE" was a British Charles Walter (Dick Bentley (14 May 1907 – 27 August 1995 born in Melbourne, Australia was a Comedian and Actor. Frank Herbert Muir (5 February 1920 - 2 January 1998 was an English Comedy writer radio and television personality and raconteur Denis Mostyn Norden (born 6th February 1922 in Hackney, London) is an English Comedy writer and Television presenter. Also on radio he appeared in My Wildest Dream. Graduating to television, he appeared in Whack-O, also written by Muir and Norden, and the panel game Does the Team Think? a radio show which Edwards created. Whack-O! was a British sitcom TV series starring Jimmy Edwards. In 1959 a film version of Whack-O called 'Bottoms Up!' was made, written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden. Whack-O! was a British sitcom TV series starring Jimmy Edwards. Frank Herbert Muir (5 February 1920 - 2 January 1998 was an English Comedy writer radio and television personality and raconteur Denis Mostyn Norden (born 6th February 1922 in Hackney, London) is an English Comedy writer and Television presenter. On TV he also appeared in Six Faces of Jim, in guest slots in Make Room for Daddy and Sykes, in Bold As Brass, I Object, John Jorrocks Esq, The Auction Game, Joker's Wild, Sir Yellow, Doctor in the House, Charley's Aunt and Oh! Sir James! (which he wrote). The Danny Thomas Show (known as Make Room for Daddy during the first four seasons is a Sitcom which ran from 1953 to 1957 Sykes is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1972 to 1979 Sir Yellow was a British TV sitcom aired on ITV from July 15 - August 19 1973 Doctor in the House is a 1954 British Comedy Film, directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty Box. Charley's Aunt is a Farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas.

In April 1966, Edwards performed at the last night of the Melbourne Tivoli theatre. Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 His final words closed a long tradition of Australian music hall. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Music hall is a form of British theatrical Entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960 "I don't relish the distinction of being the man who closed the Tiv. Music hall's dead in Britain. Now this one's dead, there's nowhere to go. I'll either become a character comedian or a pauper. "^[1]

Edwards also starred in The Fossett Saga in 1969 as James Fossett, an ambitious writer of Victorian "Penny Dreadfuls", with Sam Kydd playing Herbert Quince, his unpaid manservant, and June Whitfield playing music hall singer Millie Goswick. Sam Kydd (born February 15, 1915, in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland - March 26, 1982) was an actor June Rosemary Whitfield, CBE (born 11 November 1925 is an English actress, known in the United Kingdom since the 1950s for roles in Radio This was shown on Fridays at 8:30 pm on LWT. (David Freeman was the creator. )

Edwards also worked with Eric Sykes, acting in the short films that Sykes wrote, The Plank (1967) (alongside Tommy Cooper); in the remake of the The Plank (1979), alongside Arthur Lowe); and in Rhubarb (1969) (which also featured Eric Sykes. Eric Sykes, CBE (born 4 May 1923 is an English comedy writer and actor The Plank is a popular 1967 British slapstick comedy short film Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Tommy Cooper ( 19 March 1921 &ndash 15 April 1984) was an Anglo-Welsh Prop comedian and magician. The Plank is a popular 30-minute 1979 British slapstick comedy which was a remake of an earlier 1967 version of the film which was written and directed by Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 &mdash 15 April 1982 was a BAFTA Award winning English Actor. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Eric Sykes, CBE (born 4 May 1923 is an English comedy writer and actor Edwards and Sykes also toured in their theatrical farce Big Bad Mouse, which while keeping more or less to a script, gave them rein to ad lib, address the audience, and so forth. Also the revival of Maid of the Mountains. Jose Collins Maidjpg|right|thumb|250px| Jose Collins as Teresa]] The Maid of the Mountains, called in its original score a Musical play, is an Operetta

Private life

Jimmy Edwards published his autobiography, Six of the Best, in 1984, as a follow-up to Take it From Me. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) Among his interests were brass bands, and the Handlebar Club, in which all the members had such moustaches. Edwards was a lifelong Conservative and in the 1964 general election stood as a candidate in Paddington North, without success. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Campaign The pre-election campaign was prolonged as Douglas-Home delayed calling a general election in order to try to give himself the maximum time to improve the Paddington North was a Borough constituency in the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington in London which returned one Member of Parliament He was a devotee of fox hunting at Rottingdean, near Brighton. Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking chase and sometimes killing of a fox traditionally a Red fox, by trained Foxhounds or other Scent hounds Rottingdean is a prosperous coastal village next to the town of Brighton and technically within the city of Brighton and Hove, in East Sussex Brighton ( is a town on the south coast of England and with its neighbour Hove, forms the city of Brighton and Hove. A Brighton and Hove bus is named after him. This is a list of buses operated by the Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company, all named after famous people with a connection to the area He had been married to Valerie but during the 1970s said he was homosexual, and then found TV work harder to find in more homophobic times. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a Homosexual orientation. BenPhelpsJPG|thumb|right|Westboro Baptist Church picket signs with Ben Phelps grandson of Fred Phelps He lived in Fletching, Sussex, and died in London in 1988. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.

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External links

• Jimmy Edwards at the Internet Movie Database
• BBC Comedy Guide - Jimmy Edwards