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Terence Alan " Spike " Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish [a] comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. The son of an English mother and Irish father, he was born in British India, where he spent his childhood before relocating in 1931 to England, where he lived and worked for the majority of his life.
Spike Milligan's funny acceptance speech for his lifetime achievement award at the British Comedy Awards 1994. He refers to the Prince of Wales as a grovelli...
Sep 27, 2024 · Spike Milligan (born April 16, 1918, Ahmadnagar, India—died Feb. 27, 2002, Rye, East Sussex, Eng.) was an Irish writer and comedian who led the comic troupe featured on the 1950s British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio hit The Goon Show.
Jun 30, 2015 · Spike Milligan is the focus of this extract from an episode of the Bob Monkhouse-hosted ITV series What A Performance!Each episode of the series addressed a ...
Apr 12, 2018 · Legendary British sketch comic and writer Spike Milligan celebrates his 100th birthday next week. Or, he would, if he weren’t dead. Death was a recurring theme in the work of the man...
Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002), better known as Spike Milligan. Spike was born in Ahmednagar, British India in 1918. He attended school in Poona and later in Rangoon Burma. He was not a good student, preferring mischievous pranks.
Feb 27, 2002 · Spike Milligan has died of liver failure at his home in Sussex, England. He was 83. The author, poet, playwright and comedian had suffered ill health for sometime and had been nursed by his third...
Spike Milligan. Actor: The Bed Sitting Room. Spike was born an 'Army Brat', the son of an Irish Captain in the British Raj in India. Educated in a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and at Lewisham Polytechnic in England, he spent his formative years playing the fool and playing the trumpet in local jazz bands.
Feb 28, 2002 · Spike Milligan, progenitor of a lunatic brand of postwar British humor that blossomed as the 1950's radio hit ''The Goon Show'' and evolved into a blueprint for antic and...
Feb 27, 2002 · Spike Milligan was a foremost postwar comic performers and writer and performer remembered for The Goon Show and his war memoirs.
