née Pearson. John Handley, who is believed to have run a dairy business, died while Tommy was a baby. After leaving school Handley earned his living as...

programme which ran for twelve series from 1939 to 1949. The shows featured Tommy Handley in the central role, a fast-talking figure, around whom the other characters...

her appearances on three highly popular radio series on the BBC: with Tommy Handley on It's That Man Again; with ventriloquist Peter Brough on Educating...

It was written and performed by Ronald Frankau (Murgatroyd) and Tommy Handley. Handley's biographer Barry Took describes the act as "a sophisticated crosstalk...

(singer/songwriter) (22) Tony Curtis (actor) (23) Wallace Berman (artist) (24) Tommy Handley (comedian) (25) Marilyn Monroe (actress) (26) William S. Burroughs (writer)...

been recorded several times: c. 1939 – Murgatroyd and Winterbottom (Tommy Handley and Ronald Frankau), British comedians, as a novelty song 1940s – Pete...

Edward Black (18 August 1900, Birmingham – 30 November 1948, London) was a British film producer, best known for being head of production at Gainsborough...

Winterbottom, a British comedy act consisting of Ronald Frankau and Tommy Handley Ambrose Murgatroyd, in the 1941 Preston Sturges movie The Lady Eve Miss...

Deryck Guyler (1914–1999) Tony Hancock (1924–1968), Hancock's Half Hour Tommy Handley (1892–1949), It's That Man Again David Hatch (1939–2007), I'm Sorry...

and comedy items from stage shows of the day introduced by compère Tommy Handley. Lacking the lavish production values and visual spectacle of its Hollywood...