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8 unusual facts about George Formby


Albatross Marine

Names of owners included Stirling Moss, Bridget Bardot, George Formby, Prince Rainier of Monaco (owner of six craft), Prince Philip and Jon Pertwee.

Binkie Stuart

She then enrolled in dancing classes and began her film career in 1936 when director Monty Banks was looking for a child actress to appear alongside George Formby in Keep Your Seats Please (1936).

Robb Wilton

Wilton's comedy emerged from the tradition of English Music Hall, especially popular in the North of England, and he was a contemporary of Frank Randle and George Formby, Sr..

Something Rotten

She learns that in her absence, Yorrick Kaine has joined forces with Goliath Corporation and plans to oust the ageing English President George Formby.

Stockton Heath

In the 1900s George Formby Senior moved his young family to Stockton Heath and it was from here that George Formby Junior began his entertainment career.

Tessie O'Shea

She frequently finished her act by singing and playing a banjolele in the style of George Formby.

Thursday Next

In her parallel universe, England is a republic, with George Formby as its first president, elected following the success of Operation Sea Lion (the mooted Nazi invasion of Great Britain), occupation, and liberation.

Wilfred Shingleton

Some of his early assignments were several George Formby vehicles – hugely popular with wartime audiences.


Entertainments National Service Association

Many well-known stars have performed in ENSA, including Gracie Fields, George Formby, Wilfrid Brambell, Joyce Grenfell, Paul Scofield, Rebecca Cantwell, Dora Bryan and Vera Lynn.

Jack Hylton

He helped to develop the careers of many famous performers such as Shirley Bassey, Maurice Chevalier, Morecambe and Wise, Tony Hancock, Arthur Askey, the Crazy Gang, George Formby and Liberace.

Let George Do It!

At the start of World War II, musician George Hepplewhite (George Formby) gets on a boat thinking he is on his way to Blackpool, but arrives in Bergen, Norway instead, where he is mistaken for another ukulele player.

Music Hall Magic

Matt who is a huge fan of the Music Hall genre also directed the documentary and selected the artistes to be featured including Old Mother Riley George Formby Arthur Askey

The Singing Scott Brothers

They worked with some of the biggest names of the day from both sides of the Atlantic, including Vera Lynn, Charlie Chester, Morecambe and Wise, George Formby, Elsie and Doris Waters, Al Martino, Billy Daniels and Guy Mitchell.


see also

Get Cracking

Released on 17 May 1943 and running at 96 minutes in black and white, the film was written by L. du Garde Peach, Michael Vaughan and John L. Arthur, while the songs were written by George Formby with Fred Godfrey, Fred E. Cliffe and Eddie Latta.

Rinty Monaghan

A part-time cabaret artist, Monaghan toured western Europe during World War II with other notables of the period including Vera Lynn, Gracie Fields and George Formby, and later formed his own band.

The Long and the Short and the Tall

"Bless 'Em All" (also known as The Long And The Short And The Tall), a 1917 song by Fred Godfrey, first recorded by George Formby in 1940