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Aug 30, 2014 · AUSTRALIAN actor and comedian, Bill Kerr, has died at the age of 92. The South Africa-born TV and radio star passed away on Friday while watching television at his home in Perth. The actor’s son ...
Aug 28, 2014 · Bill Kerr. The last surviving member of the cast of the BBC's all-time classic radio series, Hancock's Half Hour, Bill Kerr, passed away on 28 August 2014. Bill Kerr was born on 10 June 1922 into an Australian showbiz family while they were on tour in South Africa. His first gig was as a babe in arms-as he later recalled: "My mother took about ...
Jul 7, 2023 · Bill Kerr was one of four children born to Robert S. Kerr, famed Oklahoma businessman and politician who formed a petroleum company before serving as Oklahoma’s 12th governor and eventually as a three-term U.S. senator. Like his father, Bill Kerr was a giant of a man. Literally.
An Australian actor and comedian, Kerr found fame as the foil to Tony Hancock in the BBC radio show Hancock’s Half Hour (1954-1959). He went on to star in The Dam Busters (1955), Compact (1964-1965), Doctor Who (1967-1968) and alongside Spike Milligan in The Bed Sitting Room (1963). Read Bill Kerr's Guardian obituary here
Sep 1, 2014 · Bill Kerr's final onscreen credit was a role in the 2004 AFI-nominated Children's television drama Southern Cross. His family says the actor died while watching an episode of Seinfeld. Share
Raised in Wagga Wagga, Bill Kerr was a child star and grew up performing in local musical theatre, revues and eisteddfods. In his teens, Kerr worked at 2WG in Wagga Wagga as a radio announcer from 1939-1941. In the late 1940's he shot to international fame on British radio, billed as the "The Boy from Wagga Wagga".
Aug 29, 2014 · Veteran entertainer Bill Kerr has been fondly remembered by fans following his passing at the age of 92. Authorities confirmed on Friday that the much-loved actor had died at his Perth home, and ...
