Connor starred in the revue One Over the Eight ( 1962 ), at the Duke of York's Theatre, the original London West End production with Frankie Howerd of the Stephen Sondheim musical A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum ( 1963 ), as Hysterium – and directed the show when it went on tour – The Four Musketeers ( 1967 ), with Harry Secombe at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, playing King Louis XIII, and the revue Carry On London ( 1973 ) at the Victoria Palace.

On stage, he played the part of Lycus in the 1963 London production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Frankie Howerd and appeared in the smaller role of Crassus in the 1966 film version.

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote for him from 1964 to 1966 when he worked for the BBC and also for a one-off show for Thames, Frankie Howerd meets the Bee Gees, shown on 20 August 1968.

He transformed something you'd just written-what you hoped was in a Frankie Howerd idiom-but when you heard him do it, my God, it was something else ;-it was gossiping over the garden wall, the apparent waffle-he was like a tightrope walker, you thought he's going to fall off in a minute, you thought, ' Come on, Frank ', we're waiting for a laugh, and then, suddenly, Bang.

In 1976, Howerd appeared in The Frankie Howerd Show on CBC Television.

Heymer would often drop Howerd off on Friday at his psychiatrist, who would ply him with LSD over the weekend.

A BBC TV biography about Frankie Howerd — Rather You Than Me — was broadcast by BBC Four on 9 April 2008.

* Frankie Howerd on Campus ( 1990 )

Bill Cotton in an interview with author Graham McCann on 6 June 2000 said that the then director of BBC Comedy, Michael Mills, prompted by the plays of Plautus, came up with the idea for the show for Frankie Howerd.

Howerd addressed the audience using asides that the other characters couldn't hear ( a device that harks back to classical theatre ), often commenting on the script, sometimes complaining that everyone else got the good lines.

In 1988, Howerd asked one of his writers, Miles Tredinnick, to work on an updated stage version of Up Pompeii!

The new restored masters made their debut on BBC4 in August 2006, and the BBC's DVD distribution arm 2entertain announced a brand new Frankie Howerd Collection in mid-September 2006.

It was also notable for Pertwee's Frankie Howerd impersonation, Hankie Flowered, and Hugh Paddick's working-class pop singer Ricky Livid – the name being a mickey-take on contemporary pop singers ' stage names such as Marty Wilde and Billy Fury.

During the next 15 years Whitfield had many small roles on television, including appearances in various Tony Hancock series, Dixon of Dock Green, Arthur's Treasured Volumes, The Arthur Askey Show, Faces of Jim, The Benny Hill Show, Steptoe and Son and Frankie Howerd.

But Also, appeared in a Ray Galton-Alan Simpson revue in London's West End — Way Out In Piccadilly — alongside Frankie Howerd, made notable appearances on The Eamonn Andrews Show, and starred in her own television special ( the first of its kind to be filmed in colour ), Cilla at the Savoy.

He made his first radio broadcast in 1949, and subsequently appeared on TV programmes such as Rooftop Rendezvous, Top of the Town, All-star Bill and The Frankie Howerd Show.

A well known pantomime actor, Grady is also a regular on the after dinner circuit, where he has given accounts of his early days in show business and the stars he encountered, such as Frankie Howerd and Peter Sellers.

* A guest appearance by comedian Frankie Howerd playing a member of the public who has never been on stage or TV, but just happens to look exactly like ... Frankie Howerd ; ( " The resemblance is uncanny, isn't it?

It was on television that Mullard made a name for himself, first as a straight man for Tony Hancock, Frankie Howerd and Benny Hill, then in The Arthur Askey Show.

After the war, but still with the BBC, whilst in Egypt and recording a series of shows by Frankie Howerd, the star was taken ill at the last minute and Unwin was pushed onto the stage and told to " do a turn ".

The format of Up Pompeii inspired two later TV series, Whoops Baghdad ( 1973 ) and Then Churchill Said to Me, both starring Howerd.

( not to be confused with the 1991 ITV special Further Up Pompeii ), the already-released Comedy Greats: Frankie Howerd DVD, and another Howerd series along a similar vein, Then Churchill Said To Me.

Frankie Howerd was famous for his remarks to the audience, especially in the show Up Pompeii!

Percival returned to film work in the Frankie Howerd vehicles Up Pompeii ( 1971 ) and Up the Chastity Belt ( 1971 ), sustaining a film career until 1978.

He also appeared in the comedy films The Amorous Milkman and Doctor at Large ; the big-screen version of Love Thy Neighbour ; and the Frankie Howerd trilogy Up Pompeii !, Up the Front and Up the Chastity Belt.

After six years without a regular television show in the United Kingdom ( though he had hosted a one-off UK version of The Gong Show for Channel 4, which was critically panned and was not commissioned for a full series ), Howerd returned to TV screens in 1987 in the Channel 4 show Superfrank !, scripted by Miles Tredinnick and Vince Powell.

Hatch co-devised the satirical show Week Ending and produced other comedy radio shows such as Just a Minute, Hello, Cheeky !, The Burkiss Way, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, The Frankie Howerd Show ( 1974 ), and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.

* The Frankie Howerd Show ( 1969 )

is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd.

with Frankie Howerd ( 1969 ), Fagin in the 1962 dramatisation of Oliver Twist, and parts in The Baron, Adam Adamant Lives!

** Frankie Howerd, British comedian and actor ( b. 1917 )

* Frankie Howerd Week from British Classic Comedy

The channel was aimed for families, showing classic and rare black & white British films such as Love in Pawn and the Frankie Howerd bequest comedy A Touch of the Sun.

After this, Douglas became known to British television audiences in the 1970s by appearing in The Howerd Confessions, The Inheritors, Space: 1999 and Return of the Saint, and appeared in the films The People That Time Forgot ( for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award ), and the controversial and rarely seen film The Brute, in which she played an abused wife.

The cast also featured British comedian Frankie Howerd as Mean Mr. Mustard ( his only major U. S. film appearance ; he later quipped about the film " It was like Saturday Night Fever, but without the fever "), Paul Nicholas as Dougie Shears, George Burns as Mr. Kite, Donald Pleasence as B. D., referred to in Burns ' narrative voice-over as B. D.

Eric Hugh Peter Merriman ( 6 December 1924 – 2 June 2003 ) was a British radio and television writer, who provided material for numerous comedians including Frankie Howerd, Terry Scott and Morecambe and Wise.

Howerd was a regular feature in the 1950s version of the comic Film Fun but when he began experimenting with different formats and contexts, including stage farces, Shakespearean comedy roles, and television sitcoms, he began to fall out of fashion.

Under Whitbread's custodianship the comedian Frankie Howerd fronted the campaign in a series of six television advertisements which mainly aired in the North West in 1990 – 1991.

Anderson is a comedy sketch writer who has written for Frankie Howerd, Not the Nine O ' Clock News, and Griff Rhys Jones / Mel Smith.

In 1971 Howerd recorded, with June Whitfield, a comedy version of the song " Je t ' aime ", made famous by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, in which she featured as " Mavis " alongside Howerd's " Frank ", and a third unexplained sleeping partner named " Arthur ".

Sykes began providing scripts for both Fraser and Frankie Howerd and soon found himself in demand as a comedy writer.

In 1971 Whitfield recorded, with Frankie Howerd, a comedy version of the song " Je t ' aime, originally made famous by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, in which she featured as " Mavis ".

In 1982 he was cast alongside Frankie Howerd in the World War II-set comedy series Then Churchill Said to Me but the series remained untransmitted for over a decade due to the outbreak of the Falklands War.