Herbert "Barry" Morse (10 June 1918 – 2 February 2008) was an English-Canadian actor of stage, screen and radio best known for his roles in the ABC television series "The Fugitive" and the British sci-fi drama "".
 His performing career spanned seven decades and he had thousands of roles to his credit, including work for the BBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Simon, Simon is a 1970 Sound effect comedy short film directed by Graham Stark.
Max Wall (12 March 1908 – 21 May 1990), was an English comedian and actor, whose performing career covered music hall, theatre, films and television.
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 spanned more than 50 years.
 He frequently wrote for and/or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Tommy Cooper, Peter Sellers, John Antrobus, and Johnny Speight.
 Sykes first came to prominence through his many radio credits as a writer and actor in the 1950s, most notably through his collaboration on "The Goon Show" scripts.
 He became a TV star in his own right in the early 1960s when he appeared with Hattie Jacques in several popular BBC comedy television series.
Ivan Moravec (9 November 1930 – 27 July 2015) was a Czech concert pianist whose performing and recording career spanned nearly half a century.
Musiri Subramania Iyer (April 9, 1899 - March 25, 1975) was a Carnatic vocalist whose stage performing career spanned the 1920s to the 1940s.
 After retirement from the stage, he remained an iconic figure in Carnatic music as a dedicated teacher and leader in the Carnatic community.
 His bhava-laden renditions of Carnatic songs have become the measuring stick for generations of Carnatic vocalists.
 Musiri Subramania Iyer is one of the giants of Carnatic music in this century.
During the 1960s a new series of 'sound effect' comedies began with Dick Lester, Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers's "Running Jumping & Standing Still", continued through Eric Sykes's "The Plank", Barbara Windsor's "San Ferry Ann" and included four films with Ronnie Barker: "A Home of Your Own", "Futtock's End", "The Picnic", and "By the Sea".
George Grossmith (9 December 1847 – 1 March 1912) was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer.
 His performing career spanned more than four decades.
 As a writer and composer, he created 18 comic operas, nearly 100 musical sketches, some 600 songs and piano pieces, three books and both serious and comic pieces for newspapers and magazines.
Rutland Barrington (15 January 1853 – 31 May 1922) was an English singer, actor, comedian and Edwardian musical comedy star.
 Best remembered for originating the lyric baritone roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas from 1877 to 1896, his performing career spanned more than four decades.
 He also wrote at least a dozen works for the stage.
Gery Scott (5 October 1923 – 14 December 2005) was a jazz and cabaret entertainer and teacher, whose performing career spanned 26 countries and over 60 years.
 She was noted for her powerful stage persona and engaging delivery, with material ranging from the songbooks of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Lorenz Hart, Cy Coleman and all the "standards" as well as Noël Coward and some pop material.
 Whilst she was well known to British audiences during the later part of the Second World War, she achieved most of her fame outside the UK.

Question: What was the name of the sound effect comedy created by the English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor, and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years?
Answer: The Plank