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	Willie Rushton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton (August 18, 1937–December 11, 1996) was a British cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer.
		Rushton was a co-founder of Private Eye with his Shrewsbury School peers Christopher Booker, Paul Foot and Richard Ingrams, originally acting as the magazine's layout artist.
		Rushton died from complications from a heart operation on December 11, 1996.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willie_Rushton (369 words)

	Obituaries: British cartoonist Rushton dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		LONDON -- Willie Rushton, a cartoonist, broadcaster and leading light of Britain's "satire boom" of the 1960s, died Wednesday.
		Rushton, who was diabetic and recently had heart surgery, died at Cromwell Hospital after a brief illness, his agent said.
		Rushton was one of the founders in 1961 of Private Eye, a magazine that mixed crusading journalism, satire and silliness.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/12/13/deaths.0-1.html (185 words)

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		Willie Rushton was an extraordinary and versatile presence in British entertainment for 35 years.
		Willie put the first issue together in his bedroom using letra-set and cow-guming illustrations onto card which were taken away to be photo-lithographed, as well as contributing all the illustrations and the mast-head figure of Little Nitty (who still appears on the cover, a blended caricature of John Wells and the Daily Express standard-head).
		Rushton was involved as one of the hosts in the early episodes of another satirical programme in late 1964 “Not So Much A Programme”, but drifted away as it became the vehicle that launched David Frost as a chat show host.
	www.michaelscycles.freeserve.co.uk /rushton.html (2478 words)

	Rushton, William (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rushton's failed candidacy and his Macmillan impersonation on TW3 made his name, but the irreverent show, anchored by David Frost, deeply divided the public, and the resulting controversy led to its removal from television screens.
		Rushton also played a role in Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines (1965), a humorous take on the early days of aviation.
		Rushton has written and illustrated a number of books, such as William Rushton's Dirty Book (1964), Superpig (1976), The Filth Amendment (1981) and Marylebone Versus the Rest of the World (1987).
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/R/htmlR/rushtonwill/rushtonwill.htm (674 words)

	Smartass: The Trap Door (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Berk would "bonk" things over the head if they were a nuisance, and often tried to trap Drutt under the trap door, which was a bit harsh, even for Drutt.
		This programme was an animated masterpiece of its time (1984), was narrated by Willie Rushton and had a catchy themetune.
		Despite always being set in the same part of the castle, each episode was unique and entertaining to watch.
	www.smartass.org.uk /trapdoor.htm (182 words)

	Quality Entertainments specialise in After Dinner Speakers
		Never idle, he toured the country with Willie Rushton performing their show, "Two Old Farts in the Night", which was subsequently released on video, and after Willies death, has been touring with his own show, "That Reminds Me".
		Willie is the World Record holder of the highest number of 147 breaks in the history of snooker (190) earning him the nickname "Mr Maximum".
		Willie is now a TV commentator for all the major snooker championships, on Sky TV, ITV and BBC, maintaining his status as a household name.- Willie Thorne has few peers in British Sport.
	www.qualityents.co.uk /After_Dinner_Speakers.htm (5116 words)

	BBC - I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue - Willie Rushton
		Comedian and satirist Willie Rushton joined the ISIHAC panel in 1974.
		Over the ensuing decades, Willie became a favourite on panel games, in satire shows and as Jackanory's voice for the tales of Winnie The Pooh.
		Barry Cryer's fondest memories of the past three decades all involve Willie, whose "off the wall" sense of humour was an essential element in the success of the long-running panel game.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/clue/article/willie.shtml (229 words)

	Willie Rushton dies after surgery
		It is believed that he suffered a reaction after the operation at the Cromwell Hospital in London.
		Auberon Waugh, whose column in The Daily Telegraph Rushton illustrated from its inception, said the news was a "ghastly blow".
		Rushton was a main player in the anti-establishment comic movement that emerged in the Sixties.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/12/12/nwil12.html (549 words)

	The Narrators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Willie Rushton was asked by Delyse Records to take over from Johnny Morris when recording of the Railway Series was beginning again, and Johnny wasn't available to do them.
		Apprehensive at first about filling the shoes of Mr Morris, particularly in the respect that he didn't feel his voice range to be quite up to the standard of his predecessor.
		However, Rusthon went down a storm with the Reverand, who often found Rushton's narration to be quite humorous when he sat on the other side of the glass while Rushton was in the recording cubicle.
	melgarvewarrior.tripod.com /sodorisland/narrators.html (1592 words)

	'Private Eye' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		So too was Booker, and Willie Rushton, as well as Paul Foot.
		Meanwhile Usborne, whose father was a publisher, went off to New York to work for Time magazine in the late summer of 1961.Then he went to Paris, and Booker says :” We rang him up and told him to come back immediately as we were starting this magazine, and needed £300 to fund it.
		But then Peter Cook, who had been in Beyond The Fringe, and was running The Establishment Club, and who had been a friend of mine at Cambridge said we should have a photo on the cover, and a joke in a bubble attached to it.
	www.50connect.co.uk /50c/showArticle.asp?article=1829 (1003 words)

	Rob Walker's ISAHAC Collection index
		Willie Rushton & Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer & Kenny Everett.
		Willie Rushton & Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer & Stephen Fry.
		Willie Rushton & Tim Brooke-Taylor, Paul Merton & Barry Cryer.
	www.btinternet.com /~rob.a.walker/clue/Catalogue.htm (2245 words)

	CD Spotlight. Often ravishing - Music by Debussy, Prokofiev, Britten and Ravel, reviewed by Robert Anderson. '... ...
		As a little older myself, and familiar enough with a quacking oboe or grumpy bassoon, I find the tale irresistible and enter passionately into the moments of tension when so many of the characters are under dire threat.
		Willie Rushton as narrator keeps me on tenterhooks.
		It is therefore a moment of intense relief when Peter leads home his 'triumphant procession' [listen -- 5 86175 2 track 11, 0:00-1:22].
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2005/07/debussy2.htm (255 words)

	Winnie the Pooh - BBC Edition : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Willy Rushton´s wonderfully witty storytelling makes the original characters come alive in this video filmed on location in the real "hundred acre wood." This has been a family favorite since our children were small, and we still love it.
		Children, however, may not be as thrilled with a collection that focuses on the sober, bearded Rushton who, although a zealous storyteller, rarely cracks a smile.
		To be fair, Rushton offers enthusiastic storytelling, marvelous uses of the English language, and believable voices for all the characters.
	www.pagenation.com /an/6301863283.html (751 words)

	BBC News \| TV AND RADIO \| Thirty years of clueless radio
		Willie Rushton (bottom left) was hugely popular on the show
		The really sad thing is that Willie Rushton is not here because he is such an integral part of it
		Comedian and satirist Willie Rushton joined the show in 1974 and was a popular regular on the programme until his death in 1996, just two days after he had recorded his final show.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1922993.stm (686 words)

	CHEAM BUGLE
		WILLIE Rushton, the comedian and satirist, has died in hospital shortly after having heart surgery.
		Rushton was also an accomplished writer and produced a number of best-selling works including his first novel, W G Grace's Last Case.
		He made many film and television appearances and was a regular guest on Through the Keyhole, Celebrity Squares and the Kenny Everett Television Show.
	www.tonyhancock.org.uk /ham4news1.html (1310 words)

	Club History
		The first Private Eye matches can be traced back to 1963, when William Rushton's XII started playing against the village of Aldworth in Berkshire, home of the magazine's editor, Richard Ingrams.
		The Rushton XII became the Private Eye XII in 1969, and in 1971 the team advertised in the magazine for 11-a-side fixtures - thus making the transition from an occasional and satirical side to one deemed "organised" by the canons of the game.
		In the ensuing years, the early Private Eye pioneers drifted away, to be replaced by the present mix of members, including artists, teachers, writers, journalists, architects, builders, fund-raisers, consultants, financiers, chancers and others of independent minds.
	www.ifactor.uk.com /Gnomes/history-main.htm (415 words)

	Shrewsbury School
		Their names, Richard Ingrams, Willie Rushton, and Paul Foot, were later to become synonymous with the satirical movement which characterized, in its free-thinking, balloon-pricking attitude, the Sixties.
		It was also an early example of that intellectual give-and-take between pupil and teacher which would come to be the mainstay of the educational philosophy of succeeding generations.
		When he got engaged, LeQuesne's fiancée was warned, only half-jokingly, that her future husband was 'the man who was responsible for the 1960s, through his relations with the editors of Private Eye'.
	www.shrewsbury.org.uk /index.cfm?fuseaction=features.content&cmid=264 (748 words)

	Up Pompeii!
		Set in ancient Pompeii (pre-eruption) Howerd played a slave, Lurcio.
		The other main characters were Lurcio's master the senator Ludicrus Sextus (initially Max Adrian and then Wallas Eaton), the senator's wife Ammonia (Elizabeth Larner), his daughter Erotica (Georgina Moon) and his son Nausius (Kerry Gardner) (who wrote surprising not very rude odes), along with Senna the Soothsayer (Jeanne Mockford) and Plautus (Willie Rushton).
		The set up was little more than a backdrop for a endless series of double entendres and risque gags.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/up/Up_Pompeii!.html (238 words)

	Antony Bird Playing Cards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Their first collectable pack — Willie Rushton’s Pack of Royals — followed a noble English tradition of lampooning the Royal Family.
		This was too good a blunder to miss - the threat had absolutely no force in law — and we faxed the silly letter to papers, telly and radio.
		For a week or so Willy, myself and my brother did the rounds of studios and fanned the flames of publicity.
	www.lssport.com /birdcards/body_company.htm (1376 words)

	NASH BRIDGES: "Manhunt" Synopsis
		Antwon recovers and re-assures Harvey and Nash that he missed taking his epilepsy medicine because his pharmacy failed to get the correct medicine.
		Usher's dead partner is identified as Willie Rushton - both Usher and Rushton were former mercenaries working in Columbia.
		During interrogation, Sanduval reveals that he hired Usher and Rushton to steal the DEA confiscated cocaine.
	www.lowtek.com /nash/season6/episode105/synopsis.html (634 words)

	ISIHAC People
		For many years Willie Rushton was the partner for Tim Brooke-Taylor.
		Sadly, Willie died in 1997, and many fans of the show miss him very much.
		Since Willie’s untimely death, Tim has been partnered by a variety of comedians in each series.
	www.isihac.co.uk /people.html (769 words)

	"The Trap Door" (1984) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By far the funniest, most intelligent and charming kids show ever made, and at 19 years old, it's still funny, even when totally sober.
		Willy Rushton excels himself as the voices of poor overworked Berk, grumpy Bone (think Eeyore without a body) and The Thing Up Stairs - evil over lord of all he surveys.
		This cartoon harks back from the days when kids were allowed to imagine things (for those in the UK, yes this is a veiled stab at a certain kids show, whose name begins with "B" and ends "Alamorie") when we weren't patronised, and political correctness was nonexistent - and is much the better for it!
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0395413 (488 words)

	News: Remembering Willie Rushton
		A plaque has gone up in Mornington Crescent Tube station to honour Willie Rushton.
		"Mornington Crescent has won awards for its beautiful restoration and Willie's plaque will provide a complimentary and fitting tribute to be enjoyed by the thousands of customers who pass through this station daily."
		Comic Heritage's next plaque will be unveiled in Southend on May 5, honouring the work of Laurel and Hardy.
	www.chortle.co.uk /news/mar02/willie.html (151 words)

	The Gordon Poole Entertainment Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Highlights of his career include night club shows with Danny La Rue, charity shows at the Players' Theatre Old Tyme Music Hall and Two Old Farts In the Night, a collaboration with Willie Rushton which performed to full houses until Willie's untimely death in 1996.
		In 1990 Barry teamed up with old friend, the late Willie Rushton in their own show, Two Old Farts in the Night.
		They played for two seasons at the Edinburgh Festival and a forty-date UK tour as well as releasing a video.
	www.gordonpoole.com /speakers/BarryCryer.htm (600 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: Starring Humphrey Lyttelton & Cast Vol 1 (BBC Radio Collection) ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It stars Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, Willie Rushton and Tim Brooke-Taylor, playing a spoof panel game under the benign chairmanship of Humphrey Lyttleton.
		This radio show is the most consistently funny on radio and the participants on this tape (unfortunately Willie Rushton died around 1997) demonstrate the wonderful comic chemistry between themselves and Humphrey Lyttelton, the show's host.
		If you have ever listened to ISIHAC on the radio you will already know what a gem of a show this is. Humphrey Lyttleton excels as host and the panellists are excellent too.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0563407697 (595 words)

	Flickr: aesop
		The late, great Willie Rushton, who was a far from uninteresting character, used to list his hobbies as "gaining weight, losing weight, and parking."
		However, although I've experienced the joys of gaining and losing weight just As Mr Rushton has, unlike him I haven't got numerous publications and a co-founder of Private Eye credit under my belt, so I'll have to do a little better.
		I'm also keen on humourous writing like the aforementioned Mr Rushton's, and have a soft spot for all his cronies like Peter Cook et al, and some contemporaries such as Vivian Stanshall.
	www.flickr.com /people/andreweason (448 words)

	Antony Bird Playing Cards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But there are risks, one can fall foul of officialdom.
		In 1995 we published the late Willie Rushton’s Pack of Royals — to less than universal acclaim.
		A humourless Lord Chamberlain thought Willie’s witty, cheeky caricatures of the Royal Family seditious and wanted them destroyed, and Willie bunged in the Tower.
	www.lssport.com /birdcards/body_history.htm (374 words)

	\| Food & Wine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fifteen years ago, the British humorist Willie Rushton drew a surreal cartoon of bowler-hatted Englishmen crammed onto a tiny railway platform.
		That station, in the mountains of northern Portugal, serves only the Vargellas estate of the family firm Taylor, Fladgate and Yeatman, which Rushton had visited as a guest to tread grapes.
		Until then everything, and everyone, came and went by the single-track railway celebrated by Rushton, and the terraced vineyards that surround the house could be reached only by foot or by mule.
	www.foodandwine.com /preview/invoke.cfm?ObjectID=4D9FFA36-15A4-11D6-82A00002B3309983 (1483 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Shropshire \| Town plans first cartoon festival
		Work by the satirist Willie Rushton will go on display in a town's first-ever cartoon festival.
		Rushton, who died in 1996, was a pupil at Shrewsbury School and an exhibition of his work will open at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery on Friday.
		More than 30 cartoonists will have their work featured.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/shropshire/3636725.stm (164 words)

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