British comedian Barry Cryer, who wrote for sketch shows including ‘The Two Ronnies’ and ‘Morecambe and Wise,’ died on Tuesday in London, his family have confirmed. He was 86.
No cause of death has been released.
Cryer was a veteran of British television and radio. Born in Yorkshire, he originally began his career as a variety performer.
According to the BBC, broadcaster Sir David Frost spotted him on stage and invited him to work on his shows, including “The Frost Report” alongside writers John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman.
He would eventually go on to work on a number of beloved television and radio programmes including “Hello, Cheeky!,” “The Two Ronnies” and “Morecambe and Wise.”
He also wrote for dozens of famous comedians such as Bob Hope, Joan Rivers and Tommy Cooper.
Last month, Cryer launched a podcast with his son Bob, an actor and writer, interviewing many of his well-known friends including Stephen Fry,...
No cause of death has been released.
Cryer was a veteran of British television and radio. Born in Yorkshire, he originally began his career as a variety performer.
According to the BBC, broadcaster Sir David Frost spotted him on stage and invited him to work on his shows, including “The Frost Report” alongside writers John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman.
He would eventually go on to work on a number of beloved television and radio programmes including “Hello, Cheeky!,” “The Two Ronnies” and “Morecambe and Wise.”
He also wrote for dozens of famous comedians such as Bob Hope, Joan Rivers and Tommy Cooper.
Last month, Cryer launched a podcast with his son Bob, an actor and writer, interviewing many of his well-known friends including Stephen Fry,...
- 1/27/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Barry Cryer, the much loved British comedian and TV writer, has died at the age of 86.
Cryer was most known on UK shores for being a founding member and consistent panelist on long-running BBC Radio 4 surreal comedy show I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, first appearing when it launched in April 1972 (and briefly sharing hosting duties before Humphrey Lyttelton took that on full time), and last making a guest appearance in 2020.
Outside of Radio, Cryer was a noted writer for comedians, with the wide roster of performers he penned material for including the Two Ronnies, Morecame and Wise, Spike Milligan, Richard Pryor, Bob Hope, Bruce Forsyth and Rory Bremner.
He also wrote episodes for TV comedy series Doctor In The House, and wrote and appeared in further TV work.
Cryer married his wife Theresa in 1962 and the pair had four children and seven grandchildren.
Tributes this morning...
Cryer was most known on UK shores for being a founding member and consistent panelist on long-running BBC Radio 4 surreal comedy show I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, first appearing when it launched in April 1972 (and briefly sharing hosting duties before Humphrey Lyttelton took that on full time), and last making a guest appearance in 2020.
Outside of Radio, Cryer was a noted writer for comedians, with the wide roster of performers he penned material for including the Two Ronnies, Morecame and Wise, Spike Milligan, Richard Pryor, Bob Hope, Bruce Forsyth and Rory Bremner.
He also wrote episodes for TV comedy series Doctor In The House, and wrote and appeared in further TV work.
Cryer married his wife Theresa in 1962 and the pair had four children and seven grandchildren.
Tributes this morning...
- 1/27/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
British agency concluded that actor – described by Us counterparts as 'parlour Bolshevik' – was no security risk
MI5 opened a file on Charlie Chaplin while he was being hounded by J Edgar Hoover's FBI for alleged communist sympathies.
The FBI, which described the star of Modern Times and The Great Dictator as one of "Hollywood's parlour Bolsheviks", asked MI5 for information to help get him banned from the Us. The results, including information gathered through eavesdropping, are contained in an extensive personal MI5 file released on Friday at the National Archives.
"Chaplin has given funds to communist front organisations … He has been involved in paternity and abortion cases," an MI5 liaison officer in Washington warned in October 1952.
MI5 noted that a decade earlier Chaplin had told the Los Angeles branch of the National Council of American Soviet Friendship: "There is a great deal of good in communism. We can use the good and segregate the bad.
MI5 opened a file on Charlie Chaplin while he was being hounded by J Edgar Hoover's FBI for alleged communist sympathies.
The FBI, which described the star of Modern Times and The Great Dictator as one of "Hollywood's parlour Bolsheviks", asked MI5 for information to help get him banned from the Us. The results, including information gathered through eavesdropping, are contained in an extensive personal MI5 file released on Friday at the National Archives.
"Chaplin has given funds to communist front organisations … He has been involved in paternity and abortion cases," an MI5 liaison officer in Washington warned in October 1952.
MI5 noted that a decade earlier Chaplin had told the Los Angeles branch of the National Council of American Soviet Friendship: "There is a great deal of good in communism. We can use the good and segregate the bad.
- 2/17/2012
- by Richard Norton-Taylor
- The Guardian - Film News
British agency concluded that actor – described by Us counterparts as 'parlour Bolshevik' – was no security risk
MI5 opened a file on Charlie Chaplin while he was being hounded by J Edgar Hoover's FBI for alleged communist sympathies.
The FBI, which described the star of Modern Times and The Great Dictator as one of "Hollywood's parlour Bolsheviks", asked MI5 for information to help get him banned from the Us. The results, including information gathered through eavesdropping, are contained in an extensive personal MI5 file released on Friday at the National Archives.
"Chaplin has given funds to communist front organisations … He has been involved in paternity and abortion cases," an MI5 liaison officer in Washington warned in October 1952.
MI5 noted that a decade earlier Chaplin had told the Los Angeles branch of the National Council of American Soviet Friendship: "There is a great deal of good in communism. We can use the good and segregate the bad.
MI5 opened a file on Charlie Chaplin while he was being hounded by J Edgar Hoover's FBI for alleged communist sympathies.
The FBI, which described the star of Modern Times and The Great Dictator as one of "Hollywood's parlour Bolsheviks", asked MI5 for information to help get him banned from the Us. The results, including information gathered through eavesdropping, are contained in an extensive personal MI5 file released on Friday at the National Archives.
"Chaplin has given funds to communist front organisations … He has been involved in paternity and abortion cases," an MI5 liaison officer in Washington warned in October 1952.
MI5 noted that a decade earlier Chaplin had told the Los Angeles branch of the National Council of American Soviet Friendship: "There is a great deal of good in communism. We can use the good and segregate the bad.
- 2/17/2012
- by Richard Norton-Taylor
- The Guardian - Film News
Victoria Wood has said that she enjoyed her experience on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, claiming that other panel shows are too male-dominated. The comedienne appears in the upcoming series of the radio programme, the first since the death of host Humphrey Lyttelton. Wood told Radio Times: "A lot of panel programmes are very male-dominated, because they rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very (more)...
- 6/9/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Jazz legend and radio host Humphrey Lyttelton has died in hospital at the age of 86.
Lyttelton had been admitted earlier this month to the Barnet Hospital in north London, where he underwent surgery in an attempt to repair an aortic aneurysm.
As well as his contributions to radio broadcasting on Radio 4 comedy show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, Lyttelton will be remembered for his success as a musician. He started playing the trumpet in 1936 and twenty years later, his track 'Bad Penny Blues' was the first British jazz record to enter the top 20. He later received lifetime achievement awards at the Post Office British Jazz Awards in 2000 and the BBC Jazz Awards in 2001.
Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer paid tribute to Lyttleton. He said: "Humphrey Lyttelton was a great and towering figure in the history of Radio 4 . . .
Lyttelton had been admitted earlier this month to the Barnet Hospital in north London, where he underwent surgery in an attempt to repair an aortic aneurysm.
As well as his contributions to radio broadcasting on Radio 4 comedy show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, Lyttelton will be remembered for his success as a musician. He started playing the trumpet in 1936 and twenty years later, his track 'Bad Penny Blues' was the first British jazz record to enter the top 20. He later received lifetime achievement awards at the Post Office British Jazz Awards in 2000 and the BBC Jazz Awards in 2001.
Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer paid tribute to Lyttleton. He said: "Humphrey Lyttelton was a great and towering figure in the history of Radio 4 . . .
- 4/26/2008
- by Daniel_Kilkelly_imdb_@digitalspy.co.uk (Daniel Kilkelly)
- Digital Spy
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