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	Arthur Askey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arthur Askey (June 6, 1900 - November 16, 1982) was a prominent British comedian.
		It had begun as a variety show, but had been unsuccessful until Askey and his partner, Richard Murdoch, took on a larger role in the writing.
		Askey's humour owed much to the playfulness of the characters he portrayed, his improvising and his use of catchphrases, as parodied by the Arthur Atkinson character in The Fast Show.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Askey (277 words)

	ASKEY Hello Playmates: Nostalgia CD Reviews: Musicweb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Whatever Arthur lacked in height he made up for in energy in the way he told his silly jokes, sang his even sillier songs and danced even sillier dances, as would later be seen on the stage and screen in a blossoming career that would last decades.
		Arthur’s idea of a tiny bird needs to be heard to be appreciated and I can promise you will love it as he introduces all manner of peculiar sounds.
		Arthur happily tells you how he needs to earn his daily bread as a handyman he tells us as he wanders down the street you hear him Tra, La, La-ing as he goes, at the same time describing in words of all the different jobs he tries but never succeeds in keeping any.
	www.musicweb-international.com /nostalgia/2002/Sept02/Askey.htm (1741 words)

	The Ghost Train - review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This 1941 version where the lead role is shared by popular comedian Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch is a remake of the 1931 version also directed by Walter Forde.
		The jewel in the firmament is Arthur Askey whose role of Tommy Gander gives him a show case for his comedy gifts.
		Arthur Askey's clowning is a joy to behold coupled with an effective sense of menace surrounding the mythos of the ghost train itself.
	www.lightsfade.com /reviews/ghosttrain.htm (687 words)

	BANDWAGGON
		Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch provided the comedy and their spots soon came to dominate the show.
		The cast was Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch with guests as indicated, with the music being provided by The Bandwaggoners conducted by Phil Cardew, The Jackdaus (Miff Ferrie, George Crow and Terry Brown), Reginald Foort at the BBC Theatre Organ (2-14), Charles Smart at the BBC Theatre Organ (15-18).
		For this series, Askey and Murdoch were joined by Sid Walker, with the music being provided, as before, by The Bandwaggoners conducted by Phil Cardew, The Jackdaus, Charles Smart at the BBC Theatre Organ, and Bettie Bucknelle from show 5.
	www.britishcomedy.org.uk /comedy/bandwagon.htm (1303 words)

	This is Essex \| Local Interest \| Famous Faces \| Arthur Askey (1900-1982) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Arthur Askey - remembered for his lightning humour, catchphrases and daft songs, made his professional debut at Headgate Theatre, St John's Street, Colchester.
		Big-hearted Arthur shot to fame in the 1930s and his radio shows were listened to across the country.
		Arthur is also remembered for his Band Waggon radio series with Richard Murdoch.
	www.thisisessex.co.uk /essex/famous_faces/television/aaskey.html (141 words)

	Ernie Wise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His father, Harry, a railway porter, was also a semi-professional singer, and they appeared together under the name "Bert Carson and his Little Wonder".
		In 1939, while still a teenager, he appeared with top British comedian Arthur Askey in his famous Bandwagon show.
		Ernie joined forces with Eric Morecambe in 1941, and they became one of the greatest comedy double acts of all time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ernie_Wise (416 words)

	Arthur Askey
		For the best part of forty years, Big-hearted Arthur Askey was a stalwart of the the British entertainment scene.
		Askey was born in Liverpool and started work as a clerk when he was 16.
		Askey's career gradually wound down as he got older, but he still found the energy to be a popular pantomime dame.
	www.britishpictures.com /stars/Askey.htm (340 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - The Arthur Askey Show
		One year after Arthur's Treasured Volumes, ATV networked a further sitcom with which Arthur Askey could entertain his 'playmates' (that is, the viewing audience).
		Askey made another bid for sitcom stardom when he appeared in No Strings, a pilot screened (but not in London) by ABC on 29 January 1967, written by Fred Robinson and produced by Milo Lewis.
		He was cast as Arthur Anders, a piano tuner who was happy to be a bachelor; in typical Askey style, he addressed the camera - that is, the audience - directly.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/a/arthuraskeyshowt_7770415.shtml (249 words)

	Arthur Askey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Arthur Askey (June 6, 1900 - November 16, 1982) was a prominent BritainBritish comedian/.
		His career began in the music halls, but he rose to stardom in 1938 through his role in the first radio sitcom, ''Band Waggon'', prior to which radio comedy had consisted of broadcast standup routines.
		Askey's humour owed much to the playfulness of the characters he portrayed and his use of catchphrases, as parodied by the Arthur Atkinson character in ''The Fast Show''.
	www.infothis.com /find/Arthur_Askey (175 words)

	Arthur
		Arthur C Clark - inventor of the first geostationary communications satelite Telstar in 1945 and acclaimed science-fiction writer
		Arthur Ashe - one-time #1 at tennis, he died in 1993 of AIDS contracted from a tainted blood transfusion.
		Arthur Smith - compère, playwrite and performer, he'll be 50 this year but I still would.
	www.izzyviper.org /arthurs.htm (350 words)

	Television Heaven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Arthur Bowden Askey was born in Liverpool on 6th June 1900.
		Arthur quickly became famous for his catchphrase "Ay-Thang-Yew" (the first of many to be associated with the him), and his boast that it was the "daddy of all catchphrases" was given credence almost 60 years later when Mike Meyers used it again for comic effect in the successful Austin Powers feature films.
		Askey's persona was that of a hyperactive schoolboy and he would often perform skipping around the stage or incorporating an energetic song and dance into his act.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /hisaskey.htm (924 words)

	Britmovie - Arthur Askey Biography
		Askey's characters in them were characterised by playfulness and an inability to leave things alone, as when he scrambles the BBC pips in Back-Room Boy (1942).
		The standard of Askey's films, however, dropped away quite quickly, and he was understandably so disappointed with the last, Bees in Paradise (1944), that he made no more films for a decade, returning to stage and radio.
		A film version of his stage success The Love Match (1955) brought Askey back to films and a few more ramshackle movie vehicles followed.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /actors/a/004.html (223 words)

	And You Call Yourself a Scientist! -The Ghost Train (1941)
		Askey got his start as a music-hall comedian, then moved to radio, where he formed an engaging partnership with Richard Murdoch (with Murdoch billed there, as indeed he is here, as Richard ‘Stinker’ Murdoch!).
		However, in The Ghost Train the unnecessary shoehorning of Askey and his non-stop capering into the proceedings never ceases to be annoyingly apparent; and most of his alleged witticisms fall as flat as lead pancakes.
		This tortuously drawn-out episode is finally, mercifully, terminated, and in a most dramatic way: with the return of Saul Hodgkins, who falls through the door of the waiting-room and collapses onto the floor; on the exact same spot, as it happens, where the doomed Ted Holmes died some forty-three years earlier.
	twtd.bluemountains.net.au /Rick/ghosttrain.htm (2249 words)

	Chuffer - 1943
		Askey's resolve to have nothing to do with him did not deter Dandridge.
		Arthur Askey and the All-Stars!" and proceed to do their act around Askey.
		One night, while Dandridge was trying to force him to participate in a plate-spinning routine, with the repeated assurance that it would be "really funny", Askey quietly slipped away into the audience.
	www.iol.ie /~chuffer/1943.htm (1072 words)

	It's Behind You - Bring On Those Wonderful Dames!
		Although Arthur played other panto roles, including Buttons, his greatest triumphs were as “Big Hearted Martha”, with virtually no make-up, and the very basic of costumes as Dame.
		Arthur remained one of the biggest box office draws of his time, even in his seventies.
		They were first put together by Arthur Lane in his tour of “Salad Days”, and worked together in plays such as “Job for the boy”, “Boeing Boeing”, “Doctor In The House” and “At Sea” as well as in Pantomime and Music Hall.
	www.its-behind-you.com /damesarticle.html (7779 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		James is an ad promoter who persuades Askey, a makeup man for British TV, to help him sneak in a commercial for his product, Bonko Detergent, during a TV show.
		Askey radios the police, and the thieves are captured.
		Askey gets a new job with the TV network, and James interrupts the first show with his commercials.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=5894 (118 words)

	Television Heaven
		Although regarded as the ultimate 'end-of-the-pier' performer and in spite of a hugely successful BBC radio series, Arthur Askey had great difficulty in finding a starring vehicle for television that was met with approval by both critics and viewers alike.
		This would be the cue for Arthur and his regular cast of supporting characters to launch themselves into the plot.
		But the real star of the show was Arthur Askey whose personality positively shone through as he joked and ad-libbed his way from beginning to end of each episode.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /volumes.htm (303 words)

	* Arthur Askey - (Stars): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He was a major figure in radio, television, variety and panto...
		Arthur Askey said it came from a play, 'Sabrina Fair'.
		Arthur Askey had duped so many people into building lots of horrible high rise flats where the lifts broke down,...
	www.bestknows.com /stars/arthur_askey.html (60 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Band Waggon : Plot
		The Band Waggon was the BBC radio series that catapulted diminutive comic Arthur Askey to stardom as "Big-Hearted Arthur".
		Askey and his stooge Richard Murdoch take over an ancient castle to convert it to a video center.
		Jack Hylton's band is to be the main attraction-and in 1940, Hylton was a far bigger name than Askey, so guess who got top billing on most marquees.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/51911/plot.jhtml (169 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Charley's Big-Hearted Aunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This film is an adaptation of the Brandon Thomas stage perennial Charley's Aunt, starring bespectacled British radio comedian Arthur Askey.
		Since Askey's professional nickname was "Big-Hearted Arthur", and since another Charley's Aunt starring Jack Benny went before the cameras in 1941, the title was slightly altered for its limited American release.
		The charade is complicated by the presence of Jack's father and of one of the girl's guardians, Stephen Spettigue, both of whom are required by the plotline to "romance" the phoney aunt.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/84675/plot.jhtml (230 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Arthur's Treasured Volumes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An unusual vehicle for Arthur Askey, who was more usually associated with standup and sketch material.
		Each of the six programmes in this series took the form of a comedy dramatisation of a book, every episode beginning with Arthur's grown-up daughter Anthea (herself very much a TV regular at this time) pulling down a volume from the shelf and launching into the plot.
		Each week, therefore, Arthur assumed a different character, and the casts changed too, with the exception of Sam Kydd and Arthur Mullard who appeared throughout.
	www14.thdo.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/a/arthurstreasured_7770410.shtml (224 words)

	Bees In Paradise - 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Four men, headed by Arthur Askey, parachute out of their failing plane and land on an island which is inhabited only by women.
		The film of course also includes of one Askey's trademark cross-dressing scenes, where naturally everyone is taken in by his disguise and just thinks he's an ugly girl with a strange voice.
		All up, if you like Arthur Askey, then this is easily one of his best outings.
	gainsborough.freeservers.com /bees.html (454 words)

	Arthur Askey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Arthur Askey was a diminutive British comedian, born in 1900.
		Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Arthur Askey
		Find where Arthur Askey is credited alongside another name
	uk.imdb.com /name/nm0039450 (158 words)

	Back Room Boy [1942] @ EOFFTV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Meteorologist Arthur is banished to a remote lighthouse after transmitting timekeeping pips over the radio in morse code.
		And sure enough, strange things are afoot at Kelpie Rock - Arthur's baggage vanishes, someone has made his bed for him and a meal appears to cook itself.
		When a group of survivors of a shipwreck start to disappear, the film briefly turns into a full blooded old-dark-lighthouse thriller with a genuinely palpable sense of dread and fear.
	www.eofftv.com /b/bac/back_room_boy_main.htm (219 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - Watford Observer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WHEN Leslie Grantham was taken to the theatre by his parents as a young boy, it was a defining moment.
		It was a crisp Saturday morning in London and Arthur Askey was on stage.
		Leslie watched as Askey entertained, and he made his decision he was going to be an actor, come what may.
	www.watfordobserver.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=19912 (623 words)

	Amazon.ca: Video: Bless Me Father: 3pc Box: Seri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Yet you may still be won over by both Peter de Rosa's captivating writing, based on his real-life experiences, and by the actors' utterly believable performances and comic timing.
		While Neil bumbles earnestly through new professional situations such as counseling couples with marital problems or dinner with an eccentric and wealthy parishioner, Father Duddleswell handles the duties of priesthood with patient aplomb and an amusing eye on the parish coffers' bottom line.
		He was, however, a known actor in the UK, having appeared on the long-running soap-opera Coronation Street in its early days as well as the comedy Dad's Army, and he is very much the animating force in Bless Me Father.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004WC81 (658 words)

	Arthur Askey - www.ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I think Arthur was one of those institutions who in later life was never quite as funny as he thought he was - certainly his era was the 30s and 40s - by 1959 he was on the wane.
		My favourite Askey movie..is where he is stranded at a small country railway station..and spends the night with fellow passengers in the waiting room...some nice askey "lines' in that particular one..Can't remember the name of the Movie....can anyone remember it ?
		However I do at last agree with Stephen that Arthur Askey was awful.
	p197.ezboard.com /fwhirligigtvfrm7.showMessage?topicID=76.topic (651 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : I Thank You : Main
		In the late 1930s-early 1940s, diminutive British music-hall and radio comedian Arthur Askey enjoyed a popularity commensurate to that of Hollywood's Abbott & Costello; a...
		In the late 1930s-early 1940s, diminutive British music-hall and radio comedian Arthur Askey enjoyed a popularity commensurate to that of Hollywood's Abbott & Costello; accordingly, Askey's earliest starring films were all box-office bonanzas.
		In I Thank You, Askey and his perennial straight man Richard Murdoch are cast as Arthu...
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/62162/moviemain.jhtml (144 words)

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