Charlie Drake | The Independent Tuesday 26 December 2006 00:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online Charles Edward Springall (Charlie Drake), actor and comedian: born London 19 June 1925; twice married (three sons); died Twickenham, Middlesex 23 December 2006. Charlie Drake's first joke - "A little boy had a tooth out and asked the dentist if he could keep it. Why? I want to take it home, put some sugar on it and watch it ache!" Actually it wasn't Charlie Drake's joke, it was Max Miller's. He heard it on the wireless. And he wasn't Charlie Drake, anyway. He was Charles Edward Springall, age nine. Drake came much later, borrowed from his mother, the former Violet Drake. Like many comedians, if not all of them, Charlie Drake began with jokes borrowed from others, but once his real career in comedy got under way via television, he became the most original slapstick comedian in the country, easily out- slapping those few who had attempted visual comedy in the silent film era.

Born in Elephant and Castle, London, in 1925, the son of a newspaper seller who took racing bets on the quiet, little Charlie was only eight when he answered an advertisement in the South London Press and was first in the queue to audition for the great top-of-the-bill coster comedian Harry Champion. He sang that master's most popular hit, "Boiled Beef and Carrots", and promptly won a place in the choirboy chorus backing the star in his grand finale, "Any Old Iron" (pronounced "I-hern"). His reward: a six-day booking for half a crown (12 1/2p). No further bookings ensued, so young Charlie augmented his non-existent pocket money doing a pre-school paper round and a post-school apprenticeship to a cats-meat man (tuppence a stick-ful). His education was at the Victory Place Junior School where the only prize he won was for Scripture: he was able to name Mary's husband. Moving up to Paragon Row Seniors he read the "Just William" books and formed a William-style Secret Society called the Red Hand Gang.

Show business struck again when he did a deal with the manager of the Elephant and Castle Picture Palace: in return for winning the ten-shilling (50p) prize at every amateur talent contest, he slipped the manager five bob (25p). Drake was 14 when he left school, in the summer of 1939; he also left home. He became an electrician's mate, the first of innumerable jobs, all of which would find their way into his television and later film situations. By night he was an Air Raid Precautions messenger boy. He devised his own way to extinguish incendiary bombs: old ladies' knickers stuffed with sand. Then he joined the Naafi as a baker. His fruit cakes were famous until he was sacked for using too many rationed currants. He tried for proper war service and was instantly rejected by the Navy. He was only 5 feet 1 1/2 inches tall. "I was raised on condensed milk," he explained. He volunteered for the Royal Air Force and was, surprisingly, taken on and trained as a rear gunner.

"I was the right size for the little turret." He promptly put in for all the services shows he could - Ralph Reader's "RAF Gang Show," Ensa, "Airmen in Skirts" - and was rejected by them all. But one useful thing happened: while training in Northern Ireland he met an oversize pilot named Jack Edwardes, who would in time become Drake's first partner on television. Drake's main active service was in India, where he caught dysentery and became the only airman who needed to have his shorts shortened. On demob Drake formed his first double act with a friend called Sidney Cant. They sang "She's Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage" at the King's Arms pub at the Elephant. Unable to afford the tram fare, Drake walked up West every night to watch the big star comedians leaving their stage doors. After failing his first BBC audition for Workers Playtime - he did his half-hour act in the wrong studio so the producer never saw him - he changed his name to Charlie Smart and won a provincial variety tour opening the show wearing a white trilby and a brown-and-red check suit.

His first broadcast came from this, and he sat up all night writing 200 fan letters under 200 assumed names, posting them to Broadcasting House. They all came back to him unopened. Somebody told him that Charlie Smart was the name of a popular broadcasting organist, so once again he changed his name. This time he came up with a permanent winner, Charlie Drake. Unfortunately it didn't help his career: he failed to pass his first audition at the Windmill Theatre - and failed a further six times. He found steadier work in the summer of 1953 as a Butlin's Redcoat. He taught campers ju-jitsu and boxing, he called bingo, he clowned for the kiddies, and he stole £60 a week from the bingo take. At the end of the season Billy Butlin himself sacked him, and said he knew all along about the thefts, but had kept him on as his one and only ju-jitsu coach. Deciding to try his luck with an agent, Drake now joined Phyllis Rounce, and at her office re-encountered Jack Edwardes, also looking for comedy work.

His 6ft 3in height - 1ft 1 1/2in taller than the diminutive Drake - looked funny before they even started, and Rounce immediately got them a date at the Stage Door Canteen. They did a table tennis act which made the services audience roar. Several guest spots on BBC Children's Television followed; the comic career of Charlie Drake was under way. Michael Westmore, head of BBC Children's TV, absconded to the newly formed ITV for London, Associated-Rediffusion, and took with him Drake and Edwardes. Drake was to devise and script an afternoon series for the double act. He called their characters "Big Jack and Little Mack", but Westmore renamed them "Mick and Montmorency". The show was christened Jobstoppers and started on 30 September 1955. Every week the slap-happy pair tried their hands at a different job, and each week the show began with "Hello, my darlin's!" and concluded with the cry of "It's teeee-time!" Within weeks Drake had created two new national catch-phrases, among the young viewers at any rate.

And to crown his success, TV Fun, the small screen's answer to Radio Fun, starred them in a full-page strip drawn by the comic's best cartoonist, Reg Parlett. Ronnie Waldman, formerly the king of radio's "Puzzle Corner", now head of Light Entertainment at BBC Television, sat up and took notice. He offered Drake a one-off try-out in grown-up time and the half-hour Laughter in Store (3 January 1957) was such a slap-bang success that a full-blown series of six started on 6 May. Satisfyingly entitled Drake's Progress (he would later use it as the title of his 1986 autobiography), the show was devised and co-written with him by the very professional George Wadmore, and was given the excellent supporting cast of Irene Handl, Warren Mitchell and the rotund Willoughby Goddard. Sadly the tall stalwart Jack Edwardes was nowhere to be seen. That particular partnership had been suddenly dissolved. This was the first sign of what most people would call a basic flaw in Drake's character, a supreme ego that put himself first in everything he did.

It was once common among the great comedians (Charlie Chaplin, for example) but it takes more than supreme self-confidence to win in this age of television. No sooner had Drake been granted a second series of Progress, and been awarded a fresh team of writers in Sid Green and Dick Hills (who would prove their worth in scripting for Morecambe and Wise), than he demanded a showdown with Ronnie Waldman, the sacking of Green and Hills, and the right to be solo scripter of his own series. Drake won. Drake's television career now shot ahead in series after series, each show centralising on a classic slapstick sequence which, as was typical of the time, was performed live. For 10 years the title of the show was, simply, Charlie Drake, except for a brief sojourn at ATV in 1963 when it was called The Charlie Drake Show. The formula was always the same, with Drake trying his hand as an overalled workman in a different job each week. The slapstick climax would never be bettered until pre- filming became possible for Michael Crawford's Some Mothers Do Have 'Em, the only series comparable.

The climax to all this slapstickery came in 1961 with "Bingo Madness", an episode which closed with Drake thrown through a bookcase, then out of a window, and crashing through a door. The camera panned down: there was Drake unconscious on the floor. Rushed to hospital, he was in a coma for days. The series was cancelled and Drake missed his first invited appearance at the Royal Variety Show. All would end well; in time he would star in no fewer than nine royal shows. And, when colour television arrived on BBC2 in 1968, his series would win the Golden Rose of Montreux. Television led to many a stage show and pantomime. His first was as the King of Tyrolia in Sleeping Beauty at the Palladium. Co-stars were Bruce Forsyth and Bernard "I Only Arsked" Bresslaw. In the No 1 dressing room for the first time in his life, Drake complained and demanded that it be redecorated. It was; that was 1958. Much later, in 1974, another panto would be his big downfall.

This was Jack and the Beanstalk at the Alhambra, Bradford. Drake wanted a local girl in the cast. The actors' union Equity objected. The management paid her to leave. Equity fined Drake £760. He refused to pay, was suspended, banned from all provincial theatres, and found himself out of work for a year. Drake was luckier in films. Associated British signed him up for several Technicolor extravaganzas. First came Sands of the Desert (1960) directed by the comedy specialist John Paddy Carstairs. A pretty newcomer, Sarah Branch, co-starred with a bunch of British "foreigners": Peter Arne, Peter Illing, Harold Kasket, Eric Pohlmann, and many more. Drake was the travel agent who thwarted the wicked sheikh and opened a holiday camp in the desert. Then came Petticoat Pirates (1961) directed by David Macdonald, who once did more serious stuff. Drake, playing under his own name, was a stoker whose ship is taken over by a group of renegade women led by Anne Heywood (ex Violet Pretty).

The Cracksman (1963) came next, made in CinemaScope. Peter Graham Scott directed Drake as a jailed locksmith stealing gems from a museum. George Sanders, surprisingly, co-starred, with the TV favourite Nyree Dawn Porter as the girl. Mister Ten Per Cent (1967) was the last Drake feature proper, with Scott directing again and some pretty ladies: Annette Andre, Una Stubbs and Joyce Blair to name a few. Drake played Percy Pointer, a builder who writes a dramatic play that succeeds as a comedy. His last films were a series for the Children's Film Foundation entitled Professor Popper's Problems (1975), directed by Gerry O'Hara. This set of six shorts was the only time he did not write or co-write the screenplays. The main plot point was that he invented the shrinking pill. After several very big successes with records, most notably the hilarious "My Boomerang Won't Come Back" (produced by the brilliant George Martin), Drake's best ever television series came in 1978. This was ATV's The Worker with Drake back in his old character of the willing but useless handyman who will try anything and fail at everything.

He sang the signature song, which was based on the music-hall queen Lily Morris's long-lost hit "He's Only a Working Man". Lew Schwartz wrote, Alan Tarrant directed, and Henry McGee played the manager of the Labour Exchange, Mr Pugh ("pronounced Poo!"). McGee, a brilliant comic actor, was later acclaimed by Drake as his "closest and dearest friend". Suddenly Drake turned away from slapstick and comedy. He played Smallweed in the BBC TV serialisation of Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1985). He played Ubu Roi in Spike Milligan's variation of Alfred Jarry's play, directed by Charles Jarowitz. He was in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1988), and in Samuel Beckett's Endgame (1992) he was Nagg. He even won a Drama Award for his role as Davies in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker (1983). Drake's extraordinary career was recognised rather too early by Eamonn Andrews in This Is Your Life back in 1961. The extremes of his personality are perhaps best shown in two opposing quotes.

When he won the Golden Rose of Montreux he said, "I was voted the funniest man in the world." When he appeared as a guest in the panel game Looks Familiar he said, "I am the only person never to recognise Shirley Temple." Denis Gifford * Denis Gifford died 20 May 2000 More about: Charlie Drake - Biography - IMDb Charlie Drake Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (2) | Trivia (3) Overview (4) 5' 1" (1.55 m) Mini Bio (1) Charlie Drake was born on June 19, 1925 in Elephant and Castle, London, England as Charles Edward Springall. He was an actor and writer, known for The Worker (1965), Charlie Drake (1958) and The Charlie Drake Show (1960). He was married to Elaine Bird and Heather Barnes. He died on December 23, 2006 in Twickenham, Middlesex, England. Spouse (2) Relatives: Christopher Drake (son); Violet Springall (mother) and Ted Drake (brother).

Pint-sized, squeaky-voiced slapstick comedian, briefly fashionable in British TV and films of the 1960's. In 1968 The World of Charlie Drake, won the Charlie Chaplin award at the Montreux Festival as the funniest TV show. The programme included a sketch where he played numerous parts in a comic version of the 1812 Overture in E Flat. See also Who is Charlie Drake? - YouTube Who is Charlie Drake? Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jul 4, 2015 Who is Charlie Drake Charles Edward Springall, known professionally as Charlie Drake (19 June 1925 – 23 December 2006) was an English comedian, actor, writer and singer.

With his small stature (5' 1"/155 cm tall), curly red hair and liking for slapstick, he was a popular comedian with children in his early years, becoming nationally known for his "Hello, my darlings!" catchphrase. Born Charles Edward Springall in the Elephant and Castle, Southwark, South London, he took his mother's maiden name for the stage and, later, television and film, achieving success as a comedian. Drake made his first appearance on stage at the age of eight, and after leaving school toured working men's clubs. After serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II, Drake turned professional and made his television début in The Centre Show in 1953. He then joined his wartime comrade Jack Edwardes to form a double act, named 'Mick and Montmorency'. In 1954 he appeared with Bob Monkhouse in the film, Fast and Loose.

He appeared in the television shows Laughter in Store (1957), Drake's Progress (1957–58), Charlie Drake In… (1958 to 1960) and The Charlie Drake Show (1960 to 1961), being remembered for his opening catchphrase "Hello, my darlings!" The catchphrase came about because he was short, and so his eyes would often be naturally directly level with a lady's bosom. Because of this and because in his television work he preferred appearing with big-busted women, the catchphrase was born. The later series was ended, however, by a serious accident that occurred in 1961, during a live transmission. Drake had arranged for a bookcase to be set up in such a way that it would fall apart during a slapstick sketch in which he was pulled through it. It was later discovered that an over-enthusiastic workman had "mended" the bookcase before the broadcast. The actors working with him, unaware of what had happened, proceeded with the rest of the sketch which required that they pick him up and throw him through an open window.

Drake fractured his skull and was unconscious for three days. It was two years before he returned to the screen. Television fame led to four films, none of them successful — Sands of the Desert (1960), Petticoat Pirates (1961), The Cracksman (1963) and Mister Ten Per Cent (1967). He returned to television in 1963 with The Charlie Drake Show, a compilation of which won an award at the Montreux Festival in 1968. The centrepiece of this was an extended sketch featuring an orchestra performing the 1812 Overture, in which Drake appeared to play all the instruments; as well as conducting and one scene in which he was the player of a triangle waiting for his cue to play a single strike – which he subsequently missed. Through the series he played a gymnast doing a single arm twist from a high ring while a commentator counted eventually into the thousands and by the end of the series, Drake's arm appeared to be 20 ft (6 m) long.

Other shows included Who is Sylvia (1967) and Slapstick and Old Lace (1971), but it was The Worker (1965 to 1970) that gained most acclaim. He was the subject of This Is Your Life on two occasions, in December 1961 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in a rehearsal room at the London Palladium, and in November 1995, when Michael Aspel surprised him at the curtain call of the comedy play Funny Money at the Playhouse Theatre. In The Worker (ATV/ITV, 1965–70) he played a perpetually unemployed labourer who, in every episode, was dispatched to a new job by the ever-frustrated clerk (firstly Mr Whitaker in series one, played by Percy Herbert, and from series two onwards Mr Pugh, played by Henry McGee) at the local labour exchange. All the jobs he embarked upon ended in disaster, sometimes with a burst of classic slapstick, sometimes with a bewildered Drake himself at the centre of incomprehensible actions by the people employing him. Bookending these sequences were the encounters between Drake and Pugh.

Running jokes included Drake's inability to manage Mr Pugh's name, his mispronunciations ranging from a childish "Mi'er Poo" to "Peeyooo". Drake sang the theme song himself, using an old music hall number. The series was briefly revived by London Weekend Television in 1978. Drake made a number of records, most of them produced by George Martin for the Parlophone label.[1] The first, "Splish Splash", a cover version of a rock and roll song originally recorded by Bobby Darin, got into the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart, reaching number 7 in 1958.[2] An edited version of "My Boomerang Won't Come Back", became a mid-chart hit. His final appearances on stage were with Jim Davidson in Sinderella, his adult adaptation of Cinderella, as Baron Hard-on. A live recording of one of the dates on the tour of the pantomime was later adapted, and edited for video, and put out for sale nationwide.

Category Charles Springall - Historical records and family trees - MyHeritage Charles Springall was born circa 1840, at birth place , to Samuel Springall and Charlotte Springall. Samuel was born in 1791, in Heydon, Norfolk, England. Charlotte was born circa 1797, in Norwich, Norfolk, England. Charles had 3 siblings: Elmyra Springall and 2 other siblings . Charles married Elizabeth Springall (born Eagle) in 1858, at age 18 at marriage place . Elizabeth was born circa 1833, in North Elmham, Mitford & Launditch, Norfolk, England. They had 10 children: John Springall, John Springall and 8 other children . Charles lived in 1891, at address . Charles passed away in 1897, at age 57 at death place . Charles Walter Springall was born in 1870, at birth place , to Frederick George Springall and Adelaide Mary Louisa Springall (born Neale). Frederick was born on December 1 1839, in Poplar, Middlesex, England.

Adelaide was born on June 24 1847, in Romford, Essex, England. Charles had 8 siblings: Wilfred George Springall, Arthur Frederick Springall and 6 other siblings . Charles married Lily Springall. Lily was born on April 26 1880, in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. Charles passed away on month day 1954, at age 84 at death place . Charles Walter Springall was born in 1870, at birth place , to Frederick George Springall and Adelaide Mary Louisa Springall (born Neale). Frederick was born on December 1 1839, in Poplar, Middlesex, England. Adelaide was born on June 24 1847, in Romford, Essex, England. Charles had 4 siblings: Wilfred George Springall and 3 other siblings . Charles married Lily Springall. Lily was born on April 26 1880, in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. Charles passed away on month day 1954, at age 84 at death place .

Charles Springall was born on month day 1906, at birth place , to William John Springall and Anne (Annie) Chalmers Springall (born Bowie). William was born on January 20 1862, in 72 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. Anne was born on June 7 1870, in Pittencrieff Street, Dunfermline. Charles had 10 siblings: Maggie Springall, William Henry Springall and 8 other siblings . Charles passed away in month 1974, at age 67 at death place , Michigan. Charles Ambrose Springall was born in 1893, at birth place , to John Springall and Edith Rosetta Springall (born Phinn). John was born circa 1868, in Norwich, Norfolk, England. Edith was born circa 1870, in Norwich, Norfolk, England. Charles had 4 siblings: Emma Alice Springall and 3 other siblings . Charles passed away in 1893, at death place . Charles Springall was born in 1802, at birth place . Charles married Ann Springall.

Ann was born in 1796, in Norfolk England. They had 2 children: Harriot Springall and one other child . Charles Springall was born in 1860, at birth place , to Joseph Springall and Maria Springall. Joseph was born in 1836, in Swanton Morley Norfolk England. Maria was born in 1836, in East Dereham, Norfolk, England. Charles had 2 siblings: Ernest W Springall and one other sibling . Charles married Emma Springall (born Smith). Emma was born in 1860, in Docking Norfolk England. Charles Springall was born in 1985, at birth place , to Charles Springall and Ellen Springall (born Clark). Charles was born in 1857, in Southwark, London. Ellen was born in 1857, in Whitechapel, London. Charles had 7 siblings: Kezia Cox (born Springall), William Springall and 5 other siblings . Charles passed away. Charles Springall married Lily Springall (born Brown) on month day 1905. Lily was born on April 26 1880.

They had 5 children. Charles married first name Springall. They had 2 children. Charlie Drake | British comedian and actor | Britannica.com British comedian and actor Originally published in the Britannica Book of the Year. Presented as archival content. Alternative Title: Charles Edward Springall Charlie Drake London or Twickenham , England Charlie Drake (Charles Edward Springall), (born June 19, 1925, Elephant and Castle, London , Eng.—died Dec. 23, 2006, Twickenham, Middlesex, Eng.), British comedian and actor who delighted audiences with his slapstick comic antics in stage variety shows and on television for more than 50 years, often playing a downtrodden “everyman,” who failed at everything he tried. The diminutive 1.56-m (5-ft 11/2-in) Drake first teamed with Jack Edwardes (who towered over him at 1.91 m [6 ft 3 in]) in 1955 as Mick and Montmorency on the children’s TV program Jobstoppers.

Later he appeared in such shows as Charlie Drake In… (1958–60), The Charlie Drake Show (1960–61, 1963, 1967–68), and, probably his best-known show, The Worker, which he did intermittently from 1965 to 1978. From the late 1970s Drake also appeared onstage and on television in dramatic roles, notably Touchstone in William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Davies in Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker, and Smallweed in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. EXPLORE these related biographies: Dame Helen Mirren (British actress) British actress especially known for her role as Detective Jane Tennison on the television series Prime Suspect (1991–96, 2003, 2006) and for her subtle and sympathetic portrayal of Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), for which she won an Academy Award. Mirren was born in London of a Russian-born father and a Scottish mother. (The family’s last name...

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Close Date Published: December 31, 2006 URL: Access Date: January 17, 2017 Share Charlie Drake | Biography & History | AllMusic google+ Artist Biography by Craig Harris Charlie Drake (born Charles Edward Spungall ) went from the poverty of London's south East End to becoming one of the United Kingdom's truly loved comedians. The recipient of two Golden Rose of Montreux Comedy awards, the diminutive Cockney-voiced red-haired comic has inspired laughter with his unique style of slapstick for more than four decades. He appeared in 15 Royal Command Variety Shows. The star of the BBC show Charlie Drake from 1959 to 1960, Drake went on to star on the Ronald Marsh-produced Charlie Drake Show from 1960 to 1963 and 1967 to 1968. He hosted a similarly named show for ITV in 1963 and a show, Slapstick and Old Lace, which involved viewers in singalongs and sketches, from 1965 until the early '70s. Drake was known for singing novelty tunes.

His 1958 version of Bobby Darin 's song "Splish Splash," produced by George Martin , outsold the original in the United Kingdom. He continued to express his humorist view of the world with such songs as "Starkle Starkle Little Twink," "Mr. Custer," "My Boomerang Won't Come Back," "I Bent My Assagai," "I've Lost the End of My Yodel," "I'm Too Heavy for the Light Brigade," and "The Reluctant Tight Rope Walker." He made a major comeback with his 1972 recording "Puckwudgie." Children's entertainment provided the initially forum for Drake 's humor. He made his radio debut in 1951 as part of a duo, Jigsaw, that he shared with Jack Edwards until 1957, when he shifted his focus to entertaining adult audiences. Drake was seriously injured while filming the pilot for the show Bingo Madness. When a gag misfired, he was knocked unconscious and spent several days in a coma. The show was subsequently canceled.

A demanding perfectionist, Drake acquired a reputation for being "difficult." Following an argument with British Equity, he was banned from working in provincial theaters for 18 months. Drake 's autobiography, Drake's Progress, was published by Century Benham, Ltd., in 1986. Search Results - Entertainment Entertainment You are using an older browser version. Please use a supported version for the best MSN experience. Search Results for 'charlie drake' Search Results for 'charlie drake' - MSN drake Charlie Drake was born on June 19, 1925 in Elephant and Castle, London, England as Charles Edward Springall. He was an actor and writer, known for The Worker (1965), ... George Martin: Groundbreaking producer who oversaw The ... ... "Gossip Calypso"), while Charlie Drake had a more frenzied approach ("Splish Splash", "Mr. Custer", "My Boomerang Won't Come Back"), all of which were hit ... Charlie Sheen Claims 'Tiger Blood' Rants Were Result of ...

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1936 - Sa nascut Shirley Goodman, cantareata americana (Shirley &amp; Lee, Shirley &amp; Jesse,' Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Charlie Drake. CHILDHOOD 1925 Birth Born on June 19, 1925. TWENTIES Show Less Drake made his first appearance on stage at the age of eight, and after leaving school toured working men's clubs. After serving in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, Drake turned professional and made his television dÃ©but in The Centre Show in 1953. … Read More He then joined his wartime comrade Jack Edwardes to form a double act, named 'Mick and Montmorency'. Read Less Drake was married twice and was survived by three sons. He was married to Heather Barnes (born 1935), a dancer, from 1953 until 1971, and they had three sons. 1954 29 Years Old In 1954 he appeared with Bob Monkhouse in the film, Fast and Loose.

… Read More He appeared in the television shows Laughter in Store (1957), Drake's Progress (1957â58), Charlie Drake Inâ¦ (1958 to 1960) and The Charlie Drake Show (1960 to 1961), being remembered for his opening catchphrase "Hello, my darlings!" The catchphrase came about because he was short, and so his eyes would often be naturally directly level with a lady's bosom. Because of this and because in his television work he preferred appearing with big-busted women, the catchphrase was born.<br /><br /> The later series was ended, however, by a serious accident that occurred in 1961, during a live transmission. Drake had arranged for a bookcase to be set up in such a way that it would fall apart during a slapstick sketch in which he was pulled through it. It was later discovered that an over-enthusiastic workman had "mended" the bookcase before the broadcast.

The actors working with him, unaware of what had happened, proceeded with the rest of the sketch which required that they pick him up and throw him through an open window. Drake fractured his skull and was unconscious for three days. It was two years before he returned to the screen. Read Less THIRTIES 1961 36 Years Old He was the subject of This Is Your Life on two occasions, in December 1961 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in a rehearsal room at the London Palladium, and in November 1995, when Michael Aspel surprised him at the curtain call of the comedy play Funny Money at the Playhouse Theatre. … Read More In The Worker (ATV/ITV, 1965â70) he played a perpetually unemployed labourer who, in every episode, was dispatched to a new job by the ever-frustrated clerk (firstly Mr Whitaker in series one, played by Percy Herbert, and from series two onwards Mr Pugh, played by Henry McGee) at the local labour exchange.

All the jobs he embarked upon ended in disaster, sometimes with a burst of classic slapstick, sometimes with a bewildered Drake himself at the centre of incomprehensible actions by the people employing him. Bookending these sequences were the encounters between Drake and Pugh. Running jokes included Drake's inability to manage Mr Pugh's name, his mispronunciations ranging from a childish "Mi'er Poo" to "Peeyooo". Drake sang the theme song himself, using an old music hall number. The series was briefly revived by London Weekend Television in 1978. Read Less FORTIES 1972 47 Years Old In 1972 Drake recorded a spoof song called 'Puckwudgie' on Columbia records. … Read More It referred to a 2-or-3-foot-tall (.61 or .91 m) being from the Wampanoag folklore. It reached number 47 in the BBC Top 50 in early 1972.

Read Less FIFTIES 1975 50 Years Old Peter Gabriel, after leaving Genesis in late 1975, produced a single "You Never Know" for Drake (UK Charisma), it was not a chart success. … Read More Drake turned to straight acting in the 1980s, winning acclaim for his role as Touchstone in Shakespeare's As You Like It (at the Ludlow Festival), and an award for his part in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, along with Michael Angelis. Drake also starred as Smallweed in the BBC adaptation of Bleak House (1985), and Filipina Dreamgirls, a TV film for the BBC. His final appearances on stage were with Jim Davidson in Sinderella, his adult adaptation of Cinderella, as Baron Hard-on. A live recording of one of the dates on the tour of the pantomime was later adapted, and edited for video, and put out for sale nationwide.

Read Less 1976 51 Years Old In 1976 Drake married his second wife, Elaine Bird (born 1959) - also a dancer, but the marriage was dissolved in 1984. LATE ADULTHOOD 1995 70 Years Old Drake suffered a stroke in 1995 and retired, staying at Brinsworth House, a retirement home for actors and performers, run by the Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund, until his death on 23 December 2006, after suffering multiple strokes the previous night. … Read More Drake sang the theme song himself, based upon an old music hall song <br /><br /> The song, "Only A Working Man", written by Herbert Rule and Fred Holt in 1923, was featured by Lily Morris on the music hall stage, and in the 1930 film, Elstree Calling, the original lyric being "He's only a workin' man". Read Less 2006 82 Years Old Died on December 23, 2006. Original Authors of this text are noted on .

Charlie Drake | Songs | AllMusic Charlie Drake Biography by Craig Harris Charlie Drake (born Charles Edward Spungall) went from the poverty of London's south East End to becoming one of the United Kingdom's truly loved comedians. The recipient of two Golden Rose of Montreux…

Question: Which comedian was born Charles Edward Springall?
Answer: Charlie Drake