Sussex - Famous People Sussex - Famous People Sussex - Main Page Top Surnames Famous People Connected to Sussex Image right - John Logie Baird Please add information about people of renown connected to Sussex, England. If the person has a profile on Geni please add their profile to the project and add the link in bold. Getting Involved Feel free to follow, request to collaborate To join the project use the request link under "actions" at the top right of the page. Visit The following people of renown were either born or lived in Sussex or are strongly associated with Sussex. A Eliza Acton (1799-1859) Battle Poet Richard Alston - born 1948 in Stoughton - choreographer Peter Andre (27 Feb 1973 ) lived in Dormans Park and owns a coffee shop in East Grinstead Dame Margery Corbett Ashby DBE (19 April 1882 – 15 May 1981) British Liberal politician, feminist and internationalist. - born 19 April 1882 in Danehill. Died 15 May 1981.

Feminist B John Logie Baird FRSE - born Scotland 13 August 1888. Died 14 June 1946 in Bexhill-on-Sea - Scottish engineer and inventor Zoe Ball - born 23 Nov 1970 Television and radio presenter, daughter of television presenter Johnny Ball and married to DJ Norman Cook lives in Hove. Alexandra Bastedo 1946 Hove. British actress, best known for her role as secret agent Sharron Macready in the 1968 British espionage/science fiction adventure series The Champions. George Baxter 1804-67 Lewes - Engraver and artist [Private Profile] Aubrey Vincent Beardsley - born 21 Aug 1872 Brighton. Died 16 Mar 1898 - illustrator Bell Vanessa Bell (née Stephen; 30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) - English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury group, and the sister of Virginia Woolf.

She and Duncan Grant (see below) moved to Sussex with their unconventional household Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) spent most of his life in Sussex, growing up in Slindon and returning to the county to live at Shipley. Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred. Lived in Rye and was buried there. Clementina Black - born 1853 in Brighton. Died 1922. English suffragist, trade unionist and novelist. Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register. She was the first openly identified woman to graduate from medical school, a pioneer in promoting the education of women in medicine in the United States, and a social and moral reformer in both the United States and in England.

William Blake (1757-1827) moved to Felpham in 1800 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - born 17 Aug 1840 in Petworth. Died 10 Sep 1922. Poet and Traveller Sir Anthony Browne (1500-1568) Emma Bunton - born 21 Jan 1976 in Hastings. Pop singer and songwriter Clara Butt, DBE - born 1 feb 1872 in Southwick. Died 23 Jan 1936. English concert and operatic contralto. C Angela Carter - born 7 May 1940 in Eastbourne - Died 16 Feb 1992 - novelist and short story writer Nick Cave - born 22 Sept 1957 Australian musician / author who lives in Brighton Richard Challoner - born 29 Sep 1691 in Lewes. Died 12 Jan 1781; prelate and writer.

Chico - born Yousseph Slimani grew up in Crawley Sir Thomas Chitty - author (2 March 1926 – 7 March 2014) who wrote under the name Thomas Hinde, most famous in the 1950s, who lived in the village of West Hoathly. Richard Cobden - born 3 Jun 1804 in Heyshott. Died 2 Apr 1865 - economist and politician. Charles B Cochran - born 31 Jan 1872 in Lindfield.Died 31 Jan 1951. English theatrical producer and manager. Alma Cogan 1932-1966 Worthing - Singer William Collins - born 25 Dec 1721 in Chichester. Died 12 Jun 1759. Poet Kristina Cook - born 31 Aug 1970 in Rustington. British three-day eventing rider who silver in the team eventing at the 2012 London Olympics along with William Fox-Pitt, Mary King, Zara Phillips and Nicola Wilson.

Myles Coverdale, Bishop of Exeter (1488-1568) is buried at Saint Bartholomew's Church, Brighton. One of the earliest supporters of the English Reformation. He assisted Tyndale in the complete version of the Bible Tony Crosland - born 29 Aug 1918 in Bexhill-on-Sea. Died 19 Feb 1977 - labour Politician Tom Cruise has a home at Dormans Park for easy access to the European Scientologist HQ at East Grinstead Norman Cook - also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, famous Brighton resident with his wife [ ë_Ball Zoë Ball] Simon Cowell - born 7 Oct 1959 in Brighton. Music executive and television celebrity. Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947 Hastings) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion and philosophy of Thelema, in which role he identified himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century.

D David van Day - born Paul van Day in Brighton - English singer and media personality Jack Dee both lives in Chichester - English stand-up comedian, actor and writer known for his sarcastic, witty, and deadpan humour. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) spent the last thirty years of his life in Crowborough. Maureen Duffy (1933- ) comes from Worthing. Maureen Patricia Duffy (born 21 Oct 1933 in Worthing, Sussex) is a contemporary British poet, playwright and novelist. E Nick van Eede - was born in Cuckfield Hospital and went to Imberhorne School in East Grinstead - English musician, producer, and songwriter. Michael Elphick - born in Chichester - English actor, known in the UK for his trademark croaky voice and his work on British television, in particular his roles as private investigator in the ITV series Boon and later Harry Slater in BBC's EastEnders. Ben Elton - Lived in Coleman's Hatch near Forest Row, East Sussex. born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, author, playwright, actor and director.

Bella Emberg - Actress born Sybil Dyke 1937 in Hove. Harry Enfield - born 30 May 1961 in Horsham. - BAFTA award-winning English comedian, actor, writer and director. Chris Eubank - born 8 Aug 1966, former WBO boxing champion who lives in Brighton F The band The Feeling went to St.Wilfred's school in Crawley. BRIT award-nominated English pop rock band from West Sussex and London. The band categorize their music as "pop" Michael Fish - born 27 April 1944 in Eastbourne. English weather forecaster. Alison Fisher - born 24 feb 1968 - Snooker Player William Fiske (1911 - 1940) buried at St Mary and St Blaise Churchyard, Boxgrove, West Sussex. Pilot Officer Fiske was an American pilot who joined the Royal Air Force. He became the first U.S. citizen to be killed in World War II.

The son of William and Beulah Fiske, he was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a wealthy banking family whose ancestors had come from Suffolk, England in the seventeenth century. He attended school in Chicago, went to France with his family in 1924, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1928 where he studied Economics and History. Tara Fitzgerald - Born 18 Sep 1967 in Cuckfield, Actress John Fletcher (1579-1625), born in Rye. Playwright Charles Fry Cricketer, Footballer, Athlete, Writer & Journalist John "Mad Jack" Fuller (20 February 1757 – 11 April 1834), better known as "Mad Jack" Fuller (although he himself preferred to be called "Honest John" Fuller), was Squire of the hamlet of Brightling, in Sussex (now East Sussex), and is well known as a builder of follies, and as a philanthropist, patron of the arts and sciences, and a supporter of slavery. John Fuller - born 1 Sep 1878 in Chichester.

Died 10 Feb 1966 - Soldier. Served in the second Boer War and WWI. Retired in 1931 and became well known for his writings on the theory of war. Simon Fuller - born 17 May 1960 in Hastings. Record and television producer. G General Thomas Gage - born 1719 at Firle Place, Lewes. Died 2 April 1787. Military Governor of Montreal in 1760 and Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in America from 1763-72. Lost Bunker Hill to the Americans in 1775. David Garnett - born 9 Mar 1892 in Brighton. Died 17 Feb 1981 - novelist Judy Geeson - born 10 Sep 1948 in Arundel. Actress David Andrew Gemmell - Born London 1 August 1948. Died in Hastings 28 July 2006) was a bestselling British author of heroic fantasy. Eric Gill - born 22 Feb 1882 in Brighton.

Died 17 Nov 1940. Sculptor, engraver and writer. Calligrapher, letter-cutter and monumental mason. MacDonald "Max" Gill (1884-1947) born in Brighton - the well known graphic artist brother of Eric Gill. Rumer Godden - born 10 dec 1907 in Eastbourne. Died 8 Nov 1998. Novelist, poet and children's author. Jilly Goolden lives in Colemans Hatch - British wine critic, journalist and television personality. Duncan James Corrowr Grant (21 January 1885 – 8 May 1978) was a British painter and designer of textiles, pottery and theatre sets and costumes. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Gundred de St. Omer , Countess of Surrey. d. 1085. Buried St. John's Church, Lewes, Sussex. The black marble tomb now inside the church was originally in Lewes Priory. Elizabeth David nee Gwynne - born 6 Dec 1913 in Wotton Manor, Polegate.

Died 22 May 1992 Chelsea. Cookery writer. H Sir Edward Marshall Hall - born 16 Sep 1858 in Brighton. Died 24 Feb 1927. Lawyer who established his reputation through successfully defending a number of murderers including Robert Wood and Harold Greenwood Patrick Hamilton - born 17 Mar 1904 in Hassock. Died 23 Sep 1962. Novelist James Hannington - born 3 Sep 1847 in Hurstpierpoint. Died 29 Oct 1885. Ugandan Missionary Ed Harcourt - born Edward Henry Richard Harcourt-Smith his family home is the manor house of Wootton, East Sussex David Hare - born 5 June 1947 in Bexhill-on-Sea. English playwright, dramatist, director and filmmaker. Tony Hawks - born 27 Feb 1960 in Brighton. Comedian and Author.

William Hayley (1745-1820) Baron Denis Healey MP - (1917 - 2015) Former Chancellor of the Exchequer who lived and died in the village of Alfriston. Frederick Hopkins - born 20 June 1861 in Eastbourne. Died 16 May 1947. Biochemist and Nobel Prize winner. Richard Hughes (1836-1902) the ‘Grand Old Man’ of British homeopathy - lived in Brighton. Cecil Hurst - born 28 Oct 1870 in Horsham. Died 27 March 1963. Lawyer and Judge I Hammond Innes - born 1 July 1913 in Horsham. Died 10 June 1998 - author and traveller J Henry James (1843-1916) leased Lamb House in Rye, and purchasing it two years later, spent most of his last 18 years there, where he wrote several major works. Sophia Jex-Blake - born 21 Jan 1840 in Hastings.

Died 7 Jan 1912. Physician and pioneer of medical education for women. K Natasha Kaplinsky - born 9 Sep 1972 in Brighton. Journalist and newsreader. Emily Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887–1956) was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, near Hastings, and lived most of her life in Sussex. Nigel Kennedy - born 28 Dec 1956 in Brighton. Violinist Sarah Kennedy 1950 East Grinstead - Broadcaster Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) also spent much of his life in Sussex, living in Rottingdean and later Burwash. L Sir Charles Lanyon DL , JP (6 January 1813 – 31 May 1889) was an English architect of the 19th century. His work is most closely associated with Belfast, Northern Ireland. Born in Eastbourne. David Leadbetter - born 27th June 1952 in Worthing.

Golf instructor Jane Leeves - Lived in East Grinstead Therese Lessore 1884-1945 Brighton Artist Christopher Hamilton Lloyd OBE. (2 March 1921 – 27 January 2006) was a British gardener and author. Great Dixter, Northiam, Sussex M Dr. Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852) English Obstetrician, Geologist, and Paleontologist. He is credited with discovering the first fossils identified as originating from a dinosaur, teeth belonging to an Iguanodon. He was born in Lewes, Sussex, England 3 feb 1790. Died 10 Nov 1852. Anna Massey - born 11 Aug 1937 Thakeham - Actress Thomas May (1594/5-1650 born in Mayfield Max Miller (Thomas Henry Sargent) - born 21 Nov 1894 in Brighton. Died 7 May 1963. English music hall comedian.

Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan KBE - Born 16 April 1918 India. Died 27 February 2002 in Rye; comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor Alan Minter - born 16 Aug 1951 in Crawley - Boxer Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012) - English amateur astronomer who attained prominent status in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter. Caitlin Moran - born 5 April 1975 in Brighton - broadcaster, TV critic and columnist Piers Morgan - born 30 Mar 1975 in Newick. Tabloid newspaper editor and television personality. John Hamilton Mortimer ARA (1740–1779) was a British figure and landscape painter and printmaker N Adrian Noble born 19 July 1950 in Chichester - British Theatre Director John Nye - born 1923 in Hove; physicist and glaciologist. Described many properties of mountain glaciers and ice sheets.

Awarded Charles Chree Medal in 1989 by Institute of Physics. O Thomas Otway - born 3 Mar 1652 in Trotton nr Midhurst. Died 14 Apr 1685. English Dramatist Steve Ovett - born 9 Oct 1955 in Brighton. Stephen Michael James Ovett, OBE. Middle distance Runner P Jimmy Page resides in Turners Hill John Pell - born 1 Mar 1611 in Southwick. Died 12 Dec 1685; mathematician and clergyman. David Pilbeam - born 1940 in Brighton - anthropologist Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) - visited Hastings and used illustrations of the net shops in the picture of Little Pig Robinson making his way to ship at the fictional town of Stymouth!

John Cowper Powys who is particularly associated with Dorset and Wales, lived in Sussex from the mid-1890s until 1910 Katie Price/Jordan - born 22 May 1978 in Brighton - Celebrity, model Q Roger Quilter - born 21 Sep 1877 in Brighton. Died 21 Sep 1953. English Composer R Dame Anita Roddick , DBE (1942 – 2007) was a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, a cosmetics company producing and retailing beauty products that shaped ethical consumerism Gordon Roddick (born c. 1942), Founder and Chair of the Board - 38 Degrees in memory of his wife Dame Anita. Associated with a number of other causes including the Big Issue. Gilbert Ryle - born 19 Aug 1900 in Brighton. Died 6 Oct 1976.

Philosopher - Editor of the journal Mind (1947-71) "Sam" Roddick (born 1 July 1971) is the founder of Coco de Mer a British 'erotic emporium' dedicated to the celebration of sexual pleasure, empowerment, dignity and discovery.[1] She is the daughter of Body Shop founder and activist Anita Roddick. Sir Martin Ryle - born 27 Sep 1918 in Brighton. Died 14 Oct 1984 - English physicist, radio astronomer and Nobel Prize winner. S John Sackville Sir Richard Sackville Thomas Sackville - born 1536 in Buckhurst. Died 19 Apr 1608. Poet and statesman, 1st Earl of Dorset. Leo Sayer - born 21 May 1948 in Shorham - singer Tom Sayers - born 25 May 1826 in Brighton. Died 8 Nov 1865 - boxer Paul Scofield - born 21 Jan 1922 in Hurstpierpoint. Died 19 Mar 2008.

Stage actor. John Selden - born 16 Dec 1584 in Worthing. Died 30 Nov 1654; Jurist and historian. Percy Bysshe Shelley - born 4 Aug 1792 at Field Place, Broadbridge Heath, near Horsham. Died 8 July 1822. Romantic Poet Nicolette Sheridan 1963 Worthing - Actress John Maynard Smith F.R.S. - founding member of the University of Sussex and died in Lewes. Robert Smith of the band The Cure was raised in Crawley Jon Snow - born 28 Sep 1947 in Ardingly. Newsman, journalist Frederick Soddy - born 2 Sept 1877 in Eastbourne. Died 22 Sep 1956. English radio chemist and Nobel Prize winner. Robert Southwell 1561-1595 Horsham - Poet Suggs - born Graham McPherson 13 Jan 1961 in Hastings.

Front man of the band Madness T Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) spent his summers, away from the holiday crowds of the Isle of Wight, at Aldworth House, Blackdown Jamie Theakston - born 21 Dec 1970 in Ditchling. Television presenter Daley Thompson grew up in Crawley William Thorpe - born 1 Apr 1902 in Hastings. Died 7 Apr 1986 Zoologist Edward Titchener 1867-1927 Chichester - Psychologist Issac Todhunter 1820-1884 Rye - Mathematician U V W Herbert George "H.G". Wells was brought up at Uppark, South Harting, near Petersfield, where his mother was housekeeper. He also went to school and taught in Midhurst. James Whitley Paralympian Alpine Skier Henry Willett born Catt (1823-1903) was a founding father of Brighton Museum. Willett also set up the Brighton Emigration Society to assist poor people living in the Brighton area to emigrate to Canada.

Holly Willoughby - born 10 Feb 1981 in Brighton - television presenter and model Angus Wilson - born 11 Aug 1913 Bexhill-on-Sea Died 1991 - English writer Samantha Zoe Womack (née Janus; born1972) is an English actress, singer and director, both on television and stage. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and her husband Leonard, had a country retreat in Rodmell near in Lewes from 1919 Henry Wriothesley - 3rd Earl of Southampton - born 6 Oct 1573 in Cowdray. Died 10 Nov 1624.

Soldier X-Y-Z Max Miller's biography HOME JOKES STAGE,RADIO & TV MILLER'S MOVIES CHEEKY MAX'S LEGACY MMAS HOME PAGE MMAS NEWS STATUE MEMORABILIA SHOWS SHOPPING LINKS Max Miller, Britain's top comedian in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, was born in Brighton, on the south coast of England in 1894. He excelled as a stand- up comic playing to large audiences in variety theatres, where his skill was such that he could hold an audience in the palm of his hand. He was master of the double entendre. He was mischievous, brash and quick- witted; he dressed over the top and he certainly lived up to the name the Cheeky Chappie. Even the poorest jokes got a laugh; his timing and delivery were legendary. (click on photographs to enlarge) The Early Years Born in Hereford Street, Kemptown, Brighton, Sussex as Thomas Henry Sargent on 21st. November, 1894, the second child of James Sargent, a labourer and Alice (née West), a flower seller.

Known as Harry, he had three brothers and two sisters. His parents were very poor and often unable to pay the rent so were forced to move to other parts of the town and surrounding areas. Harry therefore found himself frequently changing schools until he reached 12, when he left. He tried various jobs, labouring, delivering milk, selling fish and chips, caddying at Brighton and Hove Golf Course and finally trained to be a motor mechanic. He loved showing off and would wear clothes too big for him. He was nicknamed "Swanky Sargent". On the outbreak of war in 1914, he volunteered for the army. He joined the Royal Sussex Regiment and, after serving in France, was posted to India and a year later to Mesopotamia. When in Mesopotamia, he was temporarily blinded for three days. This experience stayed with him all his life and, in later years, he did much to help the blind. During his time in the army, he started a troops’ concert party. Start of Career in Show Business Demobbed from the army, he found work to be in short supply. He lost his mother to the 1918 flu pandemic.

Harry had his sights on London and got a booking in the Shoreditch Hall in 1919. He lasted a week. Harry wasn’t ready for London yet. Back in Brighton he spotted an advertisement for artists to join Jack Sheppard’s concert party in an alfresco theatre on Brighton Beach. He applied and joined as a light comedian for the 1919 summer season. Whilst with the concert party, he met his wife Kathleen Marsh, who was a contralto in the group. Kathleen Marsh came from a middle class family whose parents came to Brighton from Dorset shortly before she was born in 1896. Her elder brother Ernest Marsh served as a Brighton alderman for 43 years and became mayor of Brighton from 1949 to 1950. In summer 1920 Harry toured nationwide in The Rogues, a concert party. The following year Harry and Kathleen toured in a revusical called The Girl. Whilst in Plymouth they married at the parish church in Tormoham, Devon on 17 February 1921. As well as being a performer, Kathleen was an astute businesswoman and thereafter did much to develop her husband's career.

She suggested that he should change his name to Max Miller. Later a press notice described Max as the Cheeky Chappie. This stuck. Max and Kathleen formed a double act for a while but it became obvious to her that Max was the stronger performer and that he would be better as a solo act. On the Road to Stardom It was back to touring in revues which took Max all over Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922 he was in a show presented by the Sydney Syndicate, There You Are Then. In 1923 he toured with the Ernest Binn Arcadians. 1924 saw him joining a revue called Crisps. But during that summer he returned to Jack Sheppard’s Concert Party on the Brighton seafront. In 1925 he continued in the revue Crisps and in November joined the cast of Ten to One On which starred Jimmy James. This show ran until February 1926 when he got work in variety or cine- variety, the latter a show half film and half live acts.

In September he was booked in the Holborn Empire, his first engagement there, where he was spotted by impresario Tom Arnold who booked him to star in his next revue, Piccadilly. It opened in Birmingham and toured the country. His co- star was the 21 year old Florence Desmond. After that he was booked by Fred Karno to appear in The Show and in May joined a touring cabaret revue called XYZ to the end of the year. After a few weeks in variety, he was back in revue starring in Francis Laider’s Tipperary Tim. This kept him busy until February 1929 when he appointed a new agent, Julius Darewski. This was a turning point in his career. In May he made his first appearance at the London Palladium in variety. He returned there in October and, in November, joined the cast of Fools in Paradise which took him to March 1930. This would be his last revue for some time.Max much preferred to perform solo, and from 1930 onwards, he appeared in variety in various large theatres including the London Palladium and the Holborn Empire.

In those days instant success was unheard of, and Max, like any other performer, had to earn their fame through a long apprenticeship. In May 1931 he appeared in his first Royal Variety Performance. Radio broadcasts followed. In 1932 he made his first recording, Confessions of a Cheeky Chappie on the Broadcast Twelve Records label. After this initial success, he was wooed by HMV and made a number of records for them. In 1953 he changed to Philips and finally to Pye. Max was given a cameo role in the film the The Good Companions (1933). In it he played the part of a music publisher selling a song to a pianist played by John Gielgud. Although he was not credited for his role, his three minute debut was impressive, got him noticed and led to his making a further 13 films working up from small parts to starring roles. Considered his best film, Educated Evans (1936) which was based on an Edgar Wallace story and filmed by Warner Bros. has been lost. His last but one film was Hoots Mon! He played the part of a southern English comedian called Harry Hawkins.

In the film there is a scene in which Harry Hawkins appears on the stage in a variety theatre. The act is Max’s. This clip, of Max on stage as Harry Hawkins, is the only one in existence giving us an idea of his stage act. It is invariably included in any documentary made about him. Stardom Max’s act on a variety bill usually lasted between 20 and 30 minutes. It would begin with the orchestra playing his signature tune, Mary from the Dairy. A spotlight aimed on the curtain by the wings would anticipate his entrance. . There would be excitement in the audience. Max would sometimes wait for up to 10 seconds until he appeared leading to resounding applause, walk to the microphone and just stand there in his costume, a gloriously colourful suit with plus- fours, a kipper tie, trilby and co- respondent shoes and wait for the laughter to begin. He knew then that he had the audience in the palm of his hand. Although Max's material was risqué, Max never swore on stage and disapproved of those who did. He used double entendre and when telling a joke would often leave out the last word or words for the audience to complete.

His act would be punctuated by songs, sentimental songs like My Old Mum or comic songs such as Twin Sisters. Sometimes he would accompany himself on guitar or entertain with a soft shoe shuffle. He wrote and co- wrote a number of songs. He was very much a Southern English comedian. He preferred being booked in theatres in London or the south, so he could return to his beloved Brighton after a show. But in 1932 he embarked on his only overseas tour, when he sailed to Cape Town to appear in Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa. After a number of years as a solo act in variety, he appeared in George Black’s wartime revue Haw Haw! at the Holborn Empire from December 1939 to July 1940. George Black’s next revue Apple Sauce opened in August 1940 at the Holborn Empire co- starring Vera Lynn. After the theatre was bombed, the show transferred to the London Palladium where it ran until November 1941.

After that Max was back touring in variety and broke all records as the highest paid variety artist earning £1,025 in a single week at the Coventry Hippodrome in February, 1943.In 1947 Max topped the bill in Bernard Delfont presents International Variety at the London Casino. In his review of the show, Lionel Hale, theatre critic of the Daily Mail, described Max as the ‘Gold of the music hall’. The Comeback Max appeared in three Royal Variety Performances (1931, 1937 and 1950). In the last he was fighting mad that he was only given 6 minutes whilst the American comedian Jack Benny got 20 minutes, so he abandoned his script and went on for 12 minutes ending with riotous applause. But this had a devastating effect on the schedule. Val Parnell, the producer, was furious and told Max that he would never work for him again. However after 18 months of Max touring in secondary theatres, he was invited back to the ‘number one’s’, the Moss Empires and returned in triumph to the London Palladium.

This revitalised his career and with it came a new recording contract, this time with Philips. He was back on radio and appeared on television. However his television appearances were never a great success. The new medium did not suit his style. He needed the feedback only a live theatre audience could give and the freedom to use his naughty material. However Max appeared regularly in all the large variety halls in and around London, the Hackney Empire, Chelsea Palace, Chiswick, Finsbury Park and Wood Green Empires, Metropolitan Music Hall and it was in the latter he recorded the LP, considered by some as his best, Max at the Met in 1957. The Final Years In 1958 Max suffered a heart attack. After recovery he needed to take life easier. His last West End appearance took place at the Palace Theatre in April 1959 and the last ever in variety in Folkestone in December 1960. He continued to make records, his last in January 1963 with Lonnie Donegan. He died on the 7 May, 1963 in his home and was cremated in the Downs Crematorium, Brighton.

A memorial tablet is mounted on a wall in the Garden of Remembrance. His wife Kathleen outlived him by 9 years, dying in a Hove nursing home in 1972. With dwindling work in variety, brought about by the increasing popularity of television, Max commented, “When I’m dead and gone, the game’s finished". It has frequently been suggested that John Osborne modelled the character Archie Rice in his play The Entertainer on Max. John Osborne denied it and in his autobiography he wrote, “This is not so. Archie was a man. Max was a god, a saloon- bar Priapus". Clip from the feature film Hoots Mon! Audio clip Bob Monkhouse talking to Bob Sinfield of Yada- Yada Productions about the genius of Max Miller (From the Monkhouse File, 1999) 1000+ images about There'll Never be Another! on Pinterest | Jokes, British and The double Forward This statue was erected in 2010 by the Max Miller Appreciation Society.

A plaque standing alongside reads: "Max Miller was Britain's top 'stand-up' comedian in the 1930s, 40s & 50s. Max was born in Brighton where he lived all his life. Known as 'The Cheeky Chappie', Max also starred in films and revues, and wrote and sang his own distinctive songs. 'There'll Never Be Another!' " See More FRANCIS SCHAEFFER ANALYZES ART AND CULTURE Part 63 THE BEATLES (Part O , BECAUSE THE BEATLES LOVED HUMOR IT IS FITTING THAT 6 COMEDIANS MADE IT ON THE COVER OF “SGT. PEPPER’S”!) (Feature on artist H.C. Westermann ) | The Daily Hatch The Daily Hatch with Everette Hatcher FRANCIS SCHAEFFER ANALYZES ART AND CULTURE Part 63 THE BEATLES (Part O , BECAUSE THE BEATLES LOVED HUMOR IT IS FITTING THAT 6 COMEDIANS MADE IT ON THE COVER OF “SGT. PEPPER’S”!) (Feature on artist H.C.

Westermann ) __________________ Why are there 6 comedians on the cover of Stg. Pepper’s? They are Lenny Bruce, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, W.C. Fields, Tommy Handley, and Max Miller. In this post I will look at the reason these 6 gentlemen were put on the cover.

A Funny Press Interview of The Beatles in The US (1964) Funny Pictures of The Beatles Published on Oct 23, 2012 funny moments i took from the beatles movie; A Hard Days Night ___________________ The Beatles Funny Clips and Outtakes (Part 1) The Beatles * Wildcat* (funny) Uploaded on Mar 20, 2008 again, some of the most funny/interesting pictures of the Beatles, under the song Wildcat by Ratatat, you’ll see who is the wildcat ________________________________ During this long series on the Beatles it has become quite evident that there were reasons why certain writers, artists, poets, painters, scientists, athletes, models, actors, religious leaders, musicians, comedians, and philosophers were put on the cover of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and that is the Beatles had made it to the top of the world but they were still searching for purpose and lasting meaning for their lives. They felt they were in the same boat as those pictured on the cover and so they called it appropriately Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. In his article “ Philosophy and its Effect on Society Robert A.

Sungenis , notes that all these individuals “are all viewing the burial scene of the Beatles, which, in the framework we are using here, represents the passing of idealistic innocence and the failure to find a rational answer and meaning to life, an answer to love, purpose, significance and morals. They instead were leaping into the irrational, whether it was by drugs , the occult, suicide, or the bizarre.” We have discovered that many of these individuals on the cover have even taken a Kierkegaardian leap into the area of nonreason in order to find meaning for their lives and that is the reason I have included the 27 minute episode THE AGE OF NONREASON by Francis Schaeffer. In that video Schaeffer noted, ” Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band…for a time it became the rallying cry for young people throughout the world. It expressed the essence of their lives, thoughts and their feelings.” How Should We then Live Episode 7 small (Age of Nonreason) the making of sgt. pepper’s lonely hearts club band Published on Apr 29, 2013 compiled video of The making of sgt. peppers lonely hearts club band from maccalennon.

________________________ (Actually it has come to my attention that Jann Haworth and her husband Peter Blake picked out the specific comedians that appeared on the cover and that none of the Beatles had any comedians on their lists.) Paul McCartney said at the 16:45 mark in the above video concerning the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s: Everything about the album will be imagined from the perspective of these people. It doesn’t have to be us. It doesn’t have to be the kind of song you want to write. It can be the kind of song they would like to write. What Paul was saying is very simple. There was a calculated effort to put people on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Album for certain reasons and they wanted to address their concerns in the music. It is easy to see from the videos and pictures at the beginning of this post that the Beatles loved humor and I think they wanted to probe deeper into the subject of comedy in order to see if it unlocked the door of true meaning in life. The song GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING is filled with humor at the end of the song.

Wikipedia noted: “Good Morning Good Morning” is a song written by John Lennon [3] (credited to Lennon–McCartney ) and recorded by the Beatles , featured on their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band . Inspiration for the song came to Lennon from a television commercial for Kellogg ‘s Corn Flakes . [3] Another reference to contemporary television was the lyric “It’s time for tea and Meet the Wife “, referring to the BBC sitcom . [4] Why are there 6 comedians on the cover of Stg. Pepper’s? They are Lenny Bruce, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, W.C. Fields, Tommy Handley, and Max Miller. (Wikipedia noted also that Germán Valdés “Tin Tan”, Mexican comedian, was originally intended to appear on the cover, but at the last moment he declined and instead he gave the Metepec tree of life seen in the picture after Ringo Starr accepted the offer.) Just like King Solomon in the Book of Ecclesiastes the Beatles were looking for any place they could find a possible meaning for their lives and LAUGHTER was one of the places they looked. The Beatles loved laughing.

Just look at all of their movies and many of their interviews too. Did the Beatles find a lasting satisfaction in their search in the area of LAUGHTER? King Solomon was the wisest king who ever lived and he wrote in Ecclesiastes 2:2, “I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?” (2:2). I recently wrote the famous stand-up comic Doug Stanhope concerning what Solomon had to say about his search for the meaning of life and below is that letter. In the letter I also reveal Solomon’s final conclusion which is found at the end of the Book of Ecclesiastes. After that you will find information on all the comedians that were picked to be on the cover of Stg. Pepper’s. Doug Stanhope on John Stossel December 22, 2014 Dear Mr. Stanhope, Like you I am a great admirer of John Stossell, Milton Friedman and Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute. I blog about these guys often at . Since my son Hunter has been trying his hand at stand up, I also have been going to a lot of comedy clubs lately.

Hunter is always using just original material from his own life and that involves the constant study of life itself. The absurdities inside life are always being carefully examined. Since I have lived and worked in Little Rock many years, I used to run into Bill Clinton quite a lot in downtown Little Rock. It was quite remarkable to me when he chose to emphasize that the small town of Hope was his home town even though he had only lived there 3 or 4 years. Of course, he did so because of the power of the word “HOPE.” I wanted to talk to you about three men and the subject of nihilism: You are the first man and the 2nd is the Bass player DAVE HOPE of the 1970’s rock band Kansas and King Solomon of Israel who wrote Richard Dawkins’ favorite book of the Bible which is Ecclesiastes. There is a thread of nihilism that can be compared in these three men’s stories. Ironically, nihilism is the opposite of HOPE and two of these guys have the word HOPE in their names. Ten Sacred Cows Destroyed By Doug Stanhope From sex to religion, nothing’s off-topic for the fearless comedian.

Posted December 12th, 2012, 1:12 PM by Andy Hunsaker Last year, on Louis C.K.’s breakout hit series “Louie,” Doug Stanhope played Eddie, an old friend and peer of Louie’s who hadn’t found any success in comedy, nor any happiness in life. Sharing Louie’s low tolerance for bull$#!@, Eddie confided in him that he was just passing through town on his way to Boston, where he would do his final show before killing himself. Every argument Louie tries to muster to convince him otherwise is quickly and brutally shot down, and eventually, he has to just acquiesce to Eddie’s intentions and bid him farewell. With a strong performance from both men, they destroyed the common wisdom that suicide should never be a viable option. The more viscerally affecting part of that episode is that Eddie doesn’t seem all that far removed from Stanhope himself, aside from the quality of his comedy.

Stanhope’s stage persona is a nihilistic man who has to blind himself on alcohol and drugs to enjoy any small part of the bleak, unending hellscape of existence, but as he often says, he’s funnier when he’s drunk, which means he’s not blinding himself at all. ________________________________________________ Obviously you have already arrived at the nihilistic conclusion that many other atheists have reached in the past. The late Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer sums up where the secular worldview has brought modern man: So some humanists act as if they have a great advantage over Christians. They act as if the advance of science and technology and a better understanding of history (through such concepts as the evolutionary theory) have all made the idea of God and Creation quite ridiculous. This superior attitude, however, is strange because one of the most striking developments in the last half-century is the growth of a profound pessimism among both the well-educated and less-educated people. The thinkers in our society have been admitting for a long time that they have no final answers at all. Take Woody Allen, for example. Most people know his as a comedian, but he has thought through where mankind stands after the “religious answers” have been abandoned.

In an article in Esquire (May 1977), he says that man is left with: … alienation, loneliness [and] emptiness verging on madness…. The fundamental thing behind all motivation and all activity is the constant struggle against annihilation and against death. It’s absolutely stupefying in its terror, and it renders anyone’s accomplishments meaningless. As Camus wrote, it’s not only that he (the individual) dies, or that man (as a whole) dies, but that you struggle to do a work of art that will last and then you realize that the universe itself is not going to exist after a period of time. Until those issues are resolved within each person – religiously or psychologically or existentially – the social and political issues will never be resolved, except in a slapdash way. Allen sums up his view in his film Annie Hall with these words: “Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.” Many would like to dismiss this sort of statement as coming from one who is merely a pessimist by temperament, one who sees life without the benefit of a sense of humor. Woody Allen does not allow us that luxury.

He speaks as a human being who has simply looked life in the face and has the courage to say what he sees. If there is no personal God, nothing beyond what our eyes can see and our hands can touch, then Woody Allen is right: life is both meaningless and terrifying. As the famous artist Paul Gauguin wrote on his last painting shortly before he tried to commit suicide: “Whence come we? What are we? Whither do we go?” The answers are nowhere, nothing, and nowhere. The humanist H. J. Blackham has expressed this with a dramatic illustration: On humanist assumptions, life leads to nothing, and every pretense that it does not is a deceit.79 One does not have to be highly educated to understand this. It follows directly from the starting point of the humanists’ position, namely, that everything is just matter. That is, that which has existed forever and ever is only some form of matter or energy, and everything in our world now is this and only this in a more or less complex form.

__________________ To sum up Schaeffer is saying, “If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him man-hope of purpose and significance, love, motions of morality and rationality, beauty and verbal communication-are ultimately unfulfillable and thus meaningless.” (Francis Schaeffer in THE GOD WHO IS THERE) HAS COMEDY PROVIDED YOU ANY ANSWERS? 3000 years ago Solomon pursued six “L” words in his search for the meaning of life and probing the area of LAUGHTER was one of his first places to start. In Ecclesiastes 2:2 he starts this quest but he concludes it is not productive to be laughing the whole time and not considering the serious issues of life. “I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?” (2:2). Then Solomon asserted the nihilistic statement in Ecclesiastes 2:17: “So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me.

All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” In the Book of Ecclesiastes what are all of the 6 “L” words that Solomon looked into? He looked into learning (1:16-18), laughter, ladies, luxuries, and liquor (2:1-3, 8, 10, 11), and labor (2:4-6, 18-20). IRONICALLY, YOU HAVE MADE ALL SIX OF THESE BUTTS OF YOUR NIHILISTIC JOKES!!! Schaeffer noted that Solomon took a look at the meaning of life on the basis of human life standing alone between birth and death “under the sun.” This phrase UNDER THE SUN appears over and over in Ecclesiastes. The Christian Scholar Ravi Zacharias noted, “The key to understanding the Book of Ecclesiastes is the term UNDER THE SUN — What that literally means is you lock God out of a closed system and you are left with only this world of Time plus Chance plus matter.” This puts him in the same place that you find yourself.

You are an atheist and you have a naturalistic materialistic worldview, and this short book of Ecclesiastes should interest you because the wisest man who ever lived in the position of King of Israel came to THREE CONCLUSIONS that will affect you. FIRST, chance and time have determined the past, and they will determine the future. (Ecclesiastes 9:11-13) These two verses below take the 3 elements mentioned in a naturalistic materialistic worldview (time, chance and matter) and so that is all the unbeliever can find “under the sun” without God in the picture. You will notice that these are the three elements that evolutionists point to also. Ecclesiastes 9:11-12 is following: I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.

SECOND, Death is the great equalizer (Eccl 3:20, “All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.”) THIRD, Power reigns in this life, and the scales are not balanced(Eccl 4:1, 8:15) Ecclesiastes 4:1-2: “Next I turned my attention to all the outrageous violence that takes place on this planet—the tears of the victims, no one to comfort them; the iron grip of oppressors, no one to rescue the victims from them.” Ecclesiastes 8:14; “ Here’s something that happens all the time and makes no sense at all: Good people get what’s coming to the wicked, and bad people get what’s coming to the good. I tell you, this makes no sense. It’s smoke.” Solomon had all the resources in the world and he found himself searching for meaning in life and trying to come up with answers concerning the afterlife. However, it seems every door he tries to open is locked. Today men try to find satisfaction in learning, liquor, ladies, luxuries, laughter, and labor and that is exactly what Solomon tried to do too.

None of those were able to “fill the God-sized vacuum in his heart” (quote from famous mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal). You have to wait to the last chapter in Ecclesiastes to find what Solomon’s final conclusion is. In 1978 I heard the song “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas when it rose to #6 on the charts. That song told me that Kerry Livgren the writer of that song and a member of Kansas had come to the same conclusion that Solomon had. I remember mentioning to my friends at church that we may soon see some members of Kansas become Christians because their search for the meaning of life had obviously come up empty even though they had risen from being an unknown band to the top of the music business and had all the wealth and fame that came with that. Furthermore, Solomon realized death comes to everyone and there must be something more.

Livgren wrote: “All we do, crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see, Dust in the Wind, All we are is dust in the wind, Don’t hang on, Nothing lasts forever but the Earth and Sky, It slips away, And all your money won’t another minute buy.” Take a minute and compare Kerry Livgren’s words to that of the late British humanist H.J. Blackham: “On humanist assumptions, life leads to nothing, and every pretense that it does not is a deceit. If there is a bridge over a gorge which spans only half the distance and ends in mid-air, and if the bridge is crowded with human beings pressing on, one after the other they fall into the abyss. The bridge leads nowhere, and those who are pressing forward to cross it are going nowhere….It does not matter where they think they are going, what preparations for the journey they may have made, how much they may be enjoying it all. The objection merely points out objectively that such a situation is a model of futility“( H. J. Blackham, et al., Objections to Humanism (Riverside, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1967).

_____________________________________ Both Kerry Livgren and the bass player DAVE HOPE of Kansas became Christians eventually. Kerry Livgren first tried Eastern Religions and DAVE HOPE had to come out of a heavy drug addiction. I was shocked and elated to see their personal testimony on The 700 Club in 1981 and that same interview can be seen on youtube today. Livgren lives in Topeka, Kansas today where he teaches “Diggers,” a Sunday school class at Topeka Bible Church. DAVE HOPE is the head of Worship, Evangelism and Outreach at Immanuel Anglican Church in Destin, Florida. IT IS TRULY IRONIC THAT TWO MEN WITH THE WORD “HOPE” IN THEIR NAMES HAVE SUCH DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO THE 3 PROBLEMS THAT MAN MUST FACE IN ECCLESIASTES. YOU believe three things. FIRST, death is the end and SECOND, chance and time are the only guiding forces in this life. FINALLY, power reigns in this life and the scales are never balanced.

In contrast, DAVE HOPE believes death is not the end and the Christian can face death and also confront the world knowing that it is not determined by chance and time alone and finally there is a judge who will balance the scales. Solomon’s experiment was a search for meaning to life “under the sun.” Then in last few words in the Book of Ecclesiastes he looks above the sun and brings God back into the picture: “The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.” The answer to find meaning in life is found in putting your faith and trust in Jesus Christ . The Bible is true from cover to cover and can be trusted . I wanted to accomplish two things today. First, I wanted to point out to you that if you stay with the atheistic humanist worldview then the nihilism that you embrace is the only logical conclusion to come to. Second, I wanted to point out some scientific evidence that caused Antony Flew to switch from an atheist (as you are now) to a theist.

Twenty years I had the opportunity to correspond with two individuals that were regarded as two of the most famous atheists of the 20th Century, Antony Flew and Carl Sagan. (I have enclosed some of those letters between us.) I had read the books and seen the films of the Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer and he had discussed the works of both of these men. I sent both of these gentlemen philosophical arguments from Schaeffer in these letters and in the first letter I sent a cassette tape of my pastor’s sermon IS THE BIBLE TRUE? (CD is enclosed also.) You may have noticed in the news a few years ago that Antony Flew actually became a theist in 2004 and remained one until his death in 2010. Carl Sagan remained a skeptic until his dying day in 1996. You will notice in the enclosed letter from June 1, 1994 that Dr. Flew commented, “Thank you for sending me the IS THE BIBLE TRUE?

tape to which I have just listened with great interest and, I trust, profit.” It would be a great honor for me if you would take time and drop me a note and let me know what your reaction is to this same message. Thank you again for your time and I know how busy you are. Everette Hatcher, everettehatcher@gmail.com , , cell ph 501-920-5733, Box 23416, LittleRock, AR 72221 _______________________________________________________ You can hear DAVE HOPE and Kerry Livgren’s stories from this youtube link: (part 1 ten minutes) Kansas – Dust In The Wind Uploaded on Nov 7, 2009 Music video by Kansas performing Dust In The Wind. (c) 2004 Sony Music Entertainment Inc. Today we look at the comedians featured on the cover of Stg. Pepper’s. Below is Stan Laurel with the black hat and Oliver Hardy with the yellow hat.

________________ ITMA (Film Extract 1943) Tommy Handley Uploaded on Jul 22, 2010 Tommy Handley in an extract from the 1943 featrure film ITMA (It’s That Man Again) More info to follow soon Jim’s close-up of this part of the cover includes the best views so far of Aldous Huxley (to the left of Dylan Thomas), Wallace Berman (next to Tony Curtis) and, beside him, Tommy Handley (with cap) and Dr. David Livingstone (moustache). Below them are the partially-obscured Tyrone Power and the equally-elusive Larry Bell: W.C. Fields: Behind The Laughter (Part 1/2) Published on Apr 18, 2015 A documentary on W.C. Fields from 1994 that aired on the biography channel. Narrated by Peter Graves. It is entertaining and informative, but the conflict with Fields and his father is overstressed and not exactly accurate. Mr. Dukenfield did indeed see his son perform and they had already reconciled by the time The Great Man was in his early 20’s. W.C.

Fields: Behind The Laughter (Part 2/2) ___________________ Beatle Brunch Remembers Lenny Bruce A famous comedian once said, “Lenny Bruce’s legacy is freedom of speech and telling it as it is, getting your life and putting it out on the table, telling everyone about it.” “I rode with him in a taxi once, only for a mile and a half. Seemed like it took a couple of months” – Bob Dylan “Lenny Bruce died from an overdose of police” – Phil Spector Lenny Bruce is one of the celebrities immortalized on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and when we received a call from Lenny’s daughter, Kitty, to help promote her project, “Lenny’s House”, we thought … how neat is this? Lenny Bruce was the mentor of many comics and celebrities who began their entertainment career during the 50s and 60s. He was extremely controversial for his time (and who wasn’t during the 60s?). It wasn’t until many years later when George Carlin was able to publicize similar “LB material.” He was the only person ever granted a posthumous pardon in New York state’s history.

Governor Pataki claimed his act was “a declaration of New York’s commitment to upholding the First Amendment.” So we tip our hat to Kitty Bruce and hope a few Brunchers might bid on a few items up for auction October 13, 2009. We know Yoko donated something special of John’s. And please, Let It Be known that any one appearing on any of our favorite Beatles albums is a friend of ours. For more about Lenny’s House go to Stg. Pepper’s was released on June 1, 1967, which was 10 months after the death of Lenny Bruce from a drug overdose. As a comedian Lenny Bruce was a leading satirist , social commentator , member of the Beat Generation , Free speech activist , and he an advocate of the Sexual revolution as seen in these videos below with Hugh Hefner.

Ask Hef Anything: On Lenny Bruce Lenny Bruce on Playboy’s Penthouse (Part 1) Uploaded on Mar 8, 2010 Lenny Bruce’s Incisive Ramblings Playboy’s Penthouse TV Show Airdate: October 24, 1959 Lenny Bruce – The difference between men & women Laurel and Hardy: Living Famously. Part 1. Uploaded on Dec 27, 2009 BBC documentary from November 2003. Featuring contributions from Lucille Hardy, Marvin Hatley, Simon Louvish, John McCabe, Spike Milligan, Glenn Mitchell, Hal Roach, Norman Wisdom. Laurel and Hardy: Living Famously. Part 2. Laurel and Hardy: Living Famously. Part 3. Laurel and Hardy: Living Famously. Part 4. Laurel and Hardy: Living Famously. Part 5. Laurel and Hardy: Living Famously. Part 6. Laurel and Hardy: Living Famously. Part 7. Laurel & Hardy – European Tour 1947 (Video Compilation Montage – England, France, Sweden) Last footage from Laurel & Hardy ever!

In 1956! Laurel & Hardy – Great Guns Max Miller – 40 minutes BBC Documentary Published on Jun 27, 2014 Max Miller – 40 minutes BBC Documentary 1989 – I Like the Girls Who Do – written and presented by Gerald Scarfe Thomas Henry Sargent (21 November 1894 — 7 May 1963), best known by his stage name Max Miller and also known as ‘The Cheeky Chappie’, was a British front-cloth[1] comedian who was probably the greatest stand-up comedian of his generation.[2] He made films, toured in revues and music hall, and sang and recorded songs, some of which he wrote. He was known for his flamboyant suits, his wicked charm, and his risqué jokes which often got him into trouble with the censors. Max Miller Uploaded on Apr 29, 2009 The great British comedian Max Miller performing his signature song ‘Mary From The Dairy’ (from the film ‘Hoots Mon’ 1940).

Question: Bom in Brighton in 1894 Thomas Henry Sargent was a stand-up comedian - by what name was he better known?
Answer: MAX MILLER