Eric Sykes CBE (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor and director whose performing career...
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Eric Sykes (1923–2012) was an English comedian, writer, actor and director. Eric Sykes may also refer to: Eric A. Sykes (1883–1945), inventor of the Fairbairn-Sykes...
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Major Eric Anthony Sykes (5 February 1883 – 12 May 1945), born Eric Anthony Schwabe, was a soldier and firearms expert. He is most famous for his work...
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Sykes is a British sitcom that aired on BBC 1 from 1972 to 1979. Starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques, it was written by Sykes, who had previously starred...
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written by Eric Sykes, Johnny Speight, John Antrobus and Spike Milligan. Sykes and a... was the first television series to feature both Sykes and Jacques...
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appear as a guest on other television shows, however, and worked with Eric Sykes on two Thames productions in 1982. On 15 April 1984, Cooper collapsed...
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- Eric Sykes, Shani Wallis, Pete Murray, Susan Stranks 6 July 1959 - Eric Sykes, Shani Wallis, Mandy Miller, Pete Murray 13 July 1959 – Eric Sykes, Petula...
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long professional partnership with Eric Sykes, with whom she co-starred in his long-running series Sykes and Sykes and a.... The role endeared her to...
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Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Elaine Cassidy, Eric Sykes, Alakina Mann and James Bentley. Set in 1945 in Jersey, it focuses on...
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Jesse Sykes (born Jessica Ann Sykes, née Solomon; July 17, 1967) is an American singer and songwriter, best known for her band Jesse Sykes & the Sweet...
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The Plank (1967 film) (category Films directed by Eric Sykes)
1967 British slapstick comedy film directed and written by Eric Sykes, and starring Sykes, Tommy Cooper and Jimmy Edwards, and featuring many of the top...
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Great Scott - It's Maynard!. He later contributed to Sykes and a... (1960–65), which starred Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques and Richard Wattis. Speight was one...
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comedy film directed by George Pollock and starring Terry-Thomas and Eric Sykes. It was written by David Pursall and Jack Seddon. Captain Jeroboam Barker-Rynde...
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the melancholy of a medieval autumn." Ritter also played comic actor Eric Sykes in Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This and took a lead role in BBC...
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British Cinema. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-86064-931-8. Sykes, Eric (2003). Eric Sykes' Comedy Heroes. London: Virgin Books. ISBN 978-0-7535-0966-1...
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comedian or a pauper." Edwards frequently worked with Eric Sykes, acting in short films that Sykes wrote: The Plank (1967), which also starred Tommy Cooper;...
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American politician Eric Sykes, comedic writer and actor Eric A. Sykes, developer of the Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife Ernest Sykes (VC), recipient of...
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player Eric Sykes, English radio, television and film writer, actor and director Éric Tabarly (1931–1998), French Navy officer and yachtsman Eric Thomas...
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Eric Sykes (23 June 1906 – 7 December 1989) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1925 and 1932. Sykes was born in Bolsover, the son of...
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others of the cast from the first film returned, including Gert Fröbe and Eric Sykes. Like the earlier film, it was written by Ken Annakin and Jack Davies...
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the fifth series of Speight's Till Death Us Do Part. It also featured Eric Sykes as the foreman, Norman Rossington as the shop steward; other regulars...
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comedian and writer Eric Sykes. He played the part of Constable ('Corky') Turnbull in Sykes and a... (1960–65) which was later revived as Sykes (1972–79). In...
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Series 6, he collaborated with Eric Sykes, a development that grew out of his contemporary business collaboration with Sykes in Associated London Scripts...
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the original on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2022. "Comedian Eric Sykes dies aged 89". BBC News. 4 July 2012. Archived from the original on 5...
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in the film The Boys in Blue together in 1982 and guest-starred in the Eric Sykes slapstick film Mr H is Late in 1988. Other notable guest appearances were...
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Python. London: Pavilion Books. pp. 14–17. ISBN 1-85793-441-5. Sykes, Eric (2003). Eric Sykes' Comedy Heroes. London: Virgin Books. ISBN 0-7535-0966-0. p...
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directed by John Boulting starring Anton Rodgers, Charlotte Rampling, Eric Sykes and Ian Bannen. It was co-written and produced by Boulting and his brother...
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Lager and a Packet of Crisps Isy Suttie (born 1978), Peep Show Eric Sykes (1923–2012), Sykes Liza Tarbuck (born 1964), Watching, The Big Breakfast, Linda...
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directed by Duncan Wood, and starring Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith, Eric Sykes and Ronnie Barker. The screenplay was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson...
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and yellow stripes in the revival series. The Voice Trumpets (voiced by Eric Sykes, Toyah Willcox, John Simmit, Gary Stevenson, Alex Hogg, Alex Pascall,...
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