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5 unusual facts about Frankie Howerd


Art Christmas

After Jack Payne turned impresario and launched a new variety show called "For The Fun Of It", he asked Art to join up with Donald Peers, Frankie Howerd and Max Bygraves along with many other entertainers.

David Nobbs

Following an education at Marlborough College and Cambridge University, Nobbs wrote for many of Britain's comedy performers over the years, including Kenneth Williams, Frankie Howerd, Les Dawson and The Two Ronnies.

Julie Ege

Ege is probably best remembered for her role in the 1971 comedy hit film Up Pompeii alongside Frankie Howerd.

Superfrank!

Superfrank! was a 1987 one-hour television special starring English comedian Frankie Howerd OBE.

The Bob Hope Theatre

Frankie Howerd - Although never a member of Eltham Little Theatre, he was a member of one of the groups that came together to found Eltham Little Theatre and performed at Eltham Parish Hall, later to become the Bob Hope Theatre.


Alec Bregonzi

Duncan Wood, the television director of Hancock's Half Hour recommended Bregonzi to other directors, so that he also appeared in 1950s/60s shows starring Benny Hill, Charlie Drake, Arthur Askey, Ted Ray, Frankie Howerd, Harry Worth, Jimmy Logan, and Alan Melville, among others.

Jenny Lee-Wright

Upon returning to England, she joined Lionel Blair's dance troupe, and then turned to acting, appearing with such comedians as Morecambe and Wise, Dick Emery, Spike Milligan (in his Q series), Frankie Howerd, Tommy Cooper and, in particular, Benny Hill.

Nat Temple

On television he provided the band for Crackerjack with Eamonn Andrews, as well as Nuts in May with Frankie Howerd, The Time of Your Life with Noel Edmonds, The Russell Harty Show, Tune Times With Temple, A Jolly Good Time, Dance Music Through the Ages and Starstruck.

Rita Webb

Her many television credits include several appearances in Spike Milligan's Q series, Dixon of Dock Green, Till Death Us Do Part, and Up Pompeii! with Frankie Howerd.

The Kaye Sisters

The trio were headliners in top London cabaret clubs such as Churchill's and the Colony Club, and in variety supported such leading stars as Frankie Howerd, Tommy Cooper and Ken Dodd.

The Sound of Petula

Highlights included The French Connection with Sacha Distel, The Roaring Forties with the Pointer Sisters, His & Hers with Jack Jones, Off to the Movies with David Essex and Michael York, And All That Jazz with Oscar Peterson, and two Christmas specials, one with Anthony Newley, the other with Frankie Howerd.

Up the Front

It is the third film spin-off from the TV series Up Pompeii! (the previous film being Up the Chastity Belt set in the Middle Ages which followed on from the "Up Pompeii" film), directed by Bob Kellett, it stars Frankie Howerd as Lurk (a descendant of the slave Lurcio in Up Pompeii), a coward who is hypnotised into bravery.


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