![]() ![]() But when TV came along, I knew I wasn’t going to be able to make a living doing ‘gottle of geer’ and ‘grown gread and gutter’ for the rest of my life.”Īli Bacher, former South African Test cricket captain, 81 Stanley Baxter, comedian, The Fast Lady (1962), The Stanley Baxter Show (1963-71), 97 Jim Broadbent, actor, Iris (2001), The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023), 74 Gary Burghoff, actor, “Radar” in M.A.S.H. Regarded as the UK’s top ventriloquist, Alan said: “Ten rows back at the Woolwich Empire it didn’t matter if the vent’s mouth was moving or not. Having performed with Laurel and Hardy in 1954, Stan Laurel inspired the creation of Lord Charles, who debuted at a charity show at Wormwood Scrubs prison in London. ![]() Between April 29 and 30, US forces evacuated more than 7,000 people during Operation Frequent Wind in 2010 Ray Alan, the ventriloquist known for the dummies Lord Charles and Ali Kat, died aged 79. In 1809 the first French prisoners of war transferred from the Plymouth hulks to Dartmoor Prison in Devon during the Napoleonic Wars of 1809-16 in 1923 the Irish Civil War ended, having begun on June 28, 1922, following on from the Irish War of Independence (1919-21) and the founding of the Irish Free State on Decemin 1975 80 journalists, including nine Britons, became the first westerners to fly out of Saigon in South Vietnam after communist forces had taken control of the city on April 29.
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