death_date death_place birth_place image_size name birth_date image article_title birth_name death_cause
09 january 1949 london , england , uk toxteth uk park , liverpool , lancashire , england , 240px tommy handley 17 january 1892 tommy handley.jpg tommy handley
 thomas reginald handley cerebral haemorrhage
tommy handley

thomas reginald `` tommy '' handley -lrb- 17 january 1892 -- 9 january 1949 -rrb- was a british comedian , mainly known for the bbc radio programme `` itma '' -lrb- `` it 's that man again '' -rrb- .
he was born at toxteth park , liverpool in lancashire .
he served with a kite balloon section of the royal naval air service during world war i and went on to work in variety , and in the infancy of radio became known as a regular broadcaster .
he worked with people such as arthur askey and bob monkhouse , and wrote many radio scripts , but it is the bbc comedy series `` itma '' for which he is best known , and which itself became known for a number of catchphrases , some of which entered popular vocabulary .
he later starred in the `` itma '' film in 1942 and in `` time flies '' in 1944 .
in later years , he suffered with high blood pressure , the result of his driving commitment to `` itma '' , and died suddenly on 9 january 1949 from a brain haemorrhage , eight days before his 57th birthday .
he was cremated and his ashes placed in the rhododenron bed at golders green crematorium .
in a eulogy at his memorial service at st paul 's cathedral , the bishop of london , john w.c. wand , said that `` e was one whose genius transmuted the copper of our common experience into the gold of exquisite foolery .
his raillery was without cynicism , and his satire without malice '' .
