biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1942– )
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| biography:
| Actor and singer, born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, S England, UK. His performance in No Sex Please, We're British (1971) established him as a comedy actor. In the 1970s the television series Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, in which he played the accident-prone misfit Frank Spencer, made him a household name in Britain. He went on to star in such musicals as Billy (1974), Flowers for Algernon (1979), Barnum (1981), and The Phantom of the Opera (1986, Tony). His films include The Knack (1964), How I Won the War (1966), Hello Dolly (1968), Condorman (1980), and Once Upon a Forest (1993). In 1999 he published his autobiography, Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied With String. |
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