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	screenonline: Barker, Ronnie (1929-2005) Biography
		Wiley's sketches were accepted, with Barker managing to keep his secret from everyone involved, until he finally invited the Frost team to a Chinese restaurant and confessed all.
		Barker's verbal dexterity with spoonerisms and pismonounciation was showcased in his monologues and sketches.
		Sentenced to prison for five years, Barker's wily old lag ("there was plenty of me in there - not that I break into post offices, of course") was forever looking for little victories over his fellow prisoners and the prison staff.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/462765/index.html (784 words)

	Ronnie Barker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barker then went on to join the Playhouse Theatre, at the time under the actor-management of Frank Shelley, as an actor and stagehand, at £2 10s (£2.50) per week.
		The first came at a time when Barker was grieving the early death of his co-star Richard Beckinsale, and Barker tearfully paid tribute to Beckinsale in his brief acceptance speech.
		Ronnie Corbett said that throughout their many years working together there was never a cross word between them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ronnie_Barker (1041 words)

	The Two Ronnies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		What Barker wanted, however, was "fork handles - handles for forks." Another popular sketch was a parody of Mastermind with Barker as Magnus Magnusson and Corbett as a contestant named Charlie Smithers, whose specialist subject was "answering the question before last".
		Ronnie Barker did not appear, but excerpts from an interview he gave in 1997 were included.
		On Ronnie Barker's death on October 3, 2005 Ronnie Corbett is reported to have said that throughout their many years of association there was never an angry word between them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Two_Ronnies (742 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Ronnie Barker, who died on Monday aged 76, was a comedian, actor and scriptwriter who earned both fame and public affection for his appearances in television shows such as The Two Ronnies, Open All Hours and Porridge.
		Barker was not, in fact, the scriptwriter (the series was by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais), but Watson was right to consider Porridge to be Ronnie Barker's show; and it was Fletch who received letters from convicts saying that the series "felt right".
		Ronnie Barker is survived by his wife and by their two sons and a daughter.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/05/db0501.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/10/05/ixportal.html (1692 words)

	MediaGuardian.co.uk \| Media \| Ronnie Barker's final goodnight
		Television, though, was where Barker had been most missed and, last year, he reunited with Corbett to introduce favourite songs and sketches from their series between 1971 and 1986 in The Two Ronnies Sketchbook.
		Barker and Corbett, unlike most colleagues on the Frost shows, had not gone to college, which encouraged the development of their double act, in a mirror of the big and little pairing that was already working for Morecambe & Wise.
		Barker's most memorable moments on the show all involve words coming wrongly out of mouths: a Mastermind sketch in which the contestant gives his answers one step out of a sequence and another featuring Dr Spooner at home.
	media.guardian.co.uk /site/story/0,14173,1585099,00.html (1093 words)

	RONNIE BARKER \| A TELEVISION HEAVEN TRIBUTE \| TV GREATS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ronnie Barker estimated that he wrote around 75 per cent of the material for each weekly show, as well as taking an active part in the editing.
		Ronnie Corbett, in a spectacular televised ceremony, broadcast to coincide with ITV's 50th Anniversary celebrations, accepted the star on behalf of The Two Ronnies but Barker was unable to attend due to ill health.
		In Ronnie Barker the writer and performer, British television comedy was blessed with a plethora of memorable moments and characters.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /hisron.htm (2137 words)

	Comedian Ronnie Barker dies. 04/10/2005. ABC News Online
		Ronnie Barker once said he was completely boring without a script.
		Barker, who once said he was "completely boring" without a script, was able to deliver tongue-twisting speeches without a stumble.
		A famous Ronnie Barker sketch was his portrayal of the President of the Loyal Society for the relief of sufferers of pispronounciation, or people who cannot say their worms correctly.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200510/s1474623.htm (558 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Entertainment - Celebrities - Showbiz world mourns Ronnie Barker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Barker, who was born in Bedford on September 25, 1929, was seen on TV only recently in The Two Ronnies Sketchbook.
		Barker was honoured by Bafta in Ronnie Barker: A Bafta Tribute in 2004.
		RONNIE BARKER was one of the most versatile and successful comic actors of his generation.
	news.scotsman.com /celebrities.cfm?id=2038592005 (1580 words)

	Ronnie Barker News
		Some of the United Kingdom's best-known TV stars were expected to join friends and family of Ronnie Barker at a memorial service on Friday in honor of the comedy legend who died last year.
		RONNIE Corbett has told of the emotion during filming for his final TV performance with Ronnie Barker.
		Barker died at the age of 76 Scotland Yard has said it would deal with the fugitive son of Ronnie Barker with the "utmost sensitivity" if he was to turn up at his father's funeral.
	www.topix.net /who/ronnie-barker (607 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Ronnie Barker
		Barker, who wrote much of his own material under the pen-names of Gerald Wiley, Jonathan Cobbold and Jack Goetz, retired when still under 60 and at the height of his fame.
		Ronnie Barker lived in Oxford from the age of four, went to the high school there, was a member of St James church choir and was for five dissatisfied months a student of architecture; much later two friends who worked at the Oxford Playhouse recommended him for a job there.
		Barker drew a vivid picture of this lost world in his memoir Dancing in the Moonlight.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1584632,00.html?gusrc=rss (1151 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| Obituary: Ronnie Barker
		He was much loved and admired for his appearances in the long-running series The Two Ronnies, with Ronnie Corbett, as prison inmate Fletcher, in the series Porridge, and as Arkwright, the bumbling, stuttering, sex-obsessed shopkeeper in Open All Hours.
		Barker himself, however, was among many viewers who regarded his portrayal of Fletcher in Porridge as the best work he ever did.
		Barker joined Corbett to introduce the best of their sketches, and the hardware shop "Four candles - Fork handles!" set-piece was judged the most popular by a television audience of millions.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/473779.stm (736 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Comedian Ronnie Barker has died
		Best known for his role alongside the diminutive Ronnie Corbett in the TV hit The Two Ronnies, he was one of the most versatile and successful comic actors of his generation.
		Ronnie Corbett described his comedy partner as "pure gold in triplicate: as a performer, a writer and a friend".
		Barker, who wrote many of the scripts for The Two Ronnies, got his TV break when he was chosen for the supporting cast of The Frost Report with John Cleese in 1966.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/04/ubarker.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/10/04/ixportaltop.html (347 words)

	The Observer \| Magazine \| Ronnie Barker
		Though there was more to Barker than Porridge, I could easily write 1,000 words on how and why Norman Stanley Fletcher became the best-loved criminal in British television history, scattered with trivia (for example, having been 'born' in 1932, Fletch was technically three years younger than Barker).
		Barker retained his status (Open All Hours, which co-starred David Jason, was loved by millions, though not very much by me) even as the nature of television comedy changed dramatically through the Eighties, and he retired at the top: 'The material was getting less good,' he explained.
		And while I'm sure Barker was delighted to have his OBE (which should have been upgraded to a knighthood), as far as I'm concerned, he remains the late and greatly revered King of Sit-Comedy.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /magazine/story/0,11913,1655335,00.html (520 words)

	Ronnie Barker - Comedian Profile
		Ronnie Barker, who by the mid-1970s was at the height of his profession, was sensational in the role.
		Barker was always sensitive to the possibility that by giving Arkwright a stammer he could be offending those who really suffer from the condition.
		In 2004 Ronnie received a lifetime achievement award from BAFTA and when he came to collect the award he was met with a standing ovation that was one of the most touching and emotional scenes in an award ceremony of recent years.
	www.paramountcomedy.co.uk /comedy/comedians/comedian.aspx?id=1456 (818 words)

	Ronnie Barker at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ronnie Barker OBE (born September 25 1929) is a British comic actor, now retired.
		His best-known appearances were as Ronnie Corbett's partner in the long-running TV variety show The Two Ronnies and as Fletch in the sitcom Porridge.
		Barker briefly came out of retirement to play Winston Churchill's butler - a "straight" role, but with opportunities for comic asides - in the BBC drama The Gathering Storm 2002.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Ronnie_Barker.html (235 words)

	PM - Comedy legend Ronnie Barker dies at 76
		Ronnie Barker was 76, and in the last 40 or so years few people have packed in more comic presenting, acting and writing credits than him.
		Tall John Cleese was upper-class; little Ronnie Corbett was working class, and middle-sized Ronnie Barker was middle-class.
		RONNIE BARKER: I am the President of the Loyal Society for the Relief of Sufferers from Pisspronunciation.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2005/s1474686.htm (734 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: All I Ever Wrote: The Complete Works: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ronnie Barker is well known and well loved entertainer, he is remembered for his roles in "Porridge", "Open All Hours" and "The Two Ronnies".
		In 1987 Ronnie retired from the stage and screen, but the occasion of his 70th birthday prompted this collection of his work, which may surprise some people who were unaware of his vast talents as a writer.
		The quiet, unassuming Ronnie Barker was able to perform the dozens of parts for us by slipping into the characters not only in his ability to change his voice and dialects but also with the remarkable changes of appearance, so that sometimes we needed to look carfefully and closely to be sure it was him.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0283073349 (1011 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Comedy Greats - Ronnie Barker: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ronnie Barker's partnership with Ronnie Corbett perfectly contrasted their styles - in ludicrous drag, in the comic duets and in their guises as shopkeepers, workmen and strange middle-class party guests.
		Barker was also able to showcase his solo brilliance and his penchant for ridiculing authority figures was spot on; Government Ministers with ludicrous plans, Civil Servants explaining survey results, Church figures with an alternative slant on sermons - all hit hard on the nation's funny bone.
		Ronnie Barker retired in 1988, but as this selection proves he remains a true hero of British comedy.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CX39 (373 words)

	Independent Online Edition > This Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The TV comedian Ronnie Barker, famous for The Two Ronnies as well as his roles in Porridge and Open All Hours, has died after a long illness aged 76.
		Barker, who was born in Bedford on September 25, 1929, was seen on TV only recently in The Two Ronnies Sketchbook as he looked back with Ronnie Corbett at some of the best sketches they recorded for their long running show.
		Barker, who wrote many of the scripts for The Two Ronnies, got his TV break came when he was chosen for the supporting cast of The Frost Report with John Cleese in 1966.
	news.independent.co.uk /uk/this_britain/article317007.ece (939 words)

	Ronnie Barker dies ~ Planet Boinng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Barker will be best remembered for his mainstream humour, but began his TV career working with future Monty Python stars such as Michael Palin and John Cleese on the Frost Report, the groundbreaking 60's satirical show.
		The Two Ronnies were never cool, they entertained us in the 1970s and 1980s and had nothing to do with the culture of the time (Glam Rock, Punk, yuppies, new romantics etc).
		There was a BAFTA tribute to Ronnie Barker on tv the other night, which was filmed when he was alive and I thought it was so nice that it had been made when he was alive to hear all the nice things people said about him.
	www.boinng.com /article.php?sid=546 (787 words)

	Goodbye, Ronnie Barker... - Softpedia
		Comedian Ronnie Barker, half of the famous duo The Two Ronnies and the stubborn Fletch in prison sitcom Porridge, has died aged 76, according to Reuters.
		Ronnie Corbett, his former partner in The Two Ronnies, declared: "Ronnie was pure gold in triplicate: as a performer, a writer and a friend.
		Ronnie Barker had his TV break when he was chosen for the supporting cast of The Frost Report in 1966.
	news.softpedia.com /news/Goodbye-Ronnie-Braker-10035.shtml (382 words)

	Comedian: Ronnie Barker
		Ronnie Barker had the sort of solid middle-class upbringing he would come to parody throughout his career – at least until taking the role of Fletcher in Porridge.
		Barker’s first screen role was a minor role in a show called Sailor Of Fortune, starring Bonanza’s Lorne Green, but more crucial was working with his friend Glenn Melvyn on I’m Not Bothered – because it marked the first time he was to write scripts, albeit anonymously.
		Barker worked alongside John Cleese and Ronnie Corbett, marking the start of their enduring comedy relationship – the duo drawn together as they did not share the university background of Frost and Cleese.
	www.chortle.co.uk /comics/rbarker.html (1349 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Authorised Biography of Ronnie Barker: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ronnie Barker is one of the best-loved and most celebrated entertainers in British television history.
		Anyone expecting lots of Barker wit and colleagues' anecdotes will be disappointed; this is a fairly straightforward account of his career, from backstage hand in rep in the 50s to retirement in '87 and beyond.
		Ronnie Barker was and still is a consumate professional with a natural gift to make people laugh and a disinclination to seek unnecessary publicity.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0563522119 (1125 words)

	Ronnie Barker - a tribute to the late great actor who starred in Porridge and Going Straight
		Ronnie Barker OBE was born on 25 September 1929.
		Ronnie's other successful sitcom was Open All Hours in which he starred alongside David Jason playing the unforgettable Arkwright.
		Ronnie Barker's Character was Norman Stanley Fletcher born on 2 February 1932.
	www.porridge.org.uk /ronnie_barker.html (548 words)

	A Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for both the actor/comedian/writer Ronnie Barker ...
		Ronnie Barker was born on 25th September 1929 and Ronnie Corbett was born on 4th December 1930.
		Ronnie Corbett starred in the BBC sitcom Sorry, which ran for seven series from (1981-1988), playing the grown up son Timothy Lumsden, who still lived with his domineering mother.
		Ronnie Barker made every role his own and all three of his sitcoms were classics.
	www.petitiononline.com /rbarkrco/petition.html (646 words)

	Ronnie Barker
		It was sad to hear today that the comic actor and writer Ronnie Barker died earlier today.
		Ronnie Barker also wrote much of the material for the Two Ronnies - (and submitted it under a pseudonym to make sure it was only used on merit).
		Ronnie was the larger one, Anders, whilst Ronnie was the other one.
	www.aboutbritain.com /forums/m_42394/tm.htm (1131 words)

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