Heymer was with Howerd for more than thirty years as lighting operator, manager and lover, until Howerd died.

On 15 May 2009, Dennis Heymer, Howerd's partner, died in the home that he and Howerd had shared near Axbridge, Somerset.

The storyline concerned Uncle Bob, played by Howerd, who would give all his money when he died to one branch of his family.

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

Francis Alick " Frankie " Howerd OBE ( 6 March 1917, York – 19 April 1992 ) was an English comedian and comic actor whose career, described by fellow comedian Barry Cryer as " a series of comebacks ", spanned six decades.

* 1917 – Frankie Howerd, English comedian ( d. 1992 )

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

The comedian Frankie Howerd has a small role as an agitated barrow boy, as does Kenneth Connor as a taxi driver.

The comedian David Walliams was cast as Howerd.

* Frankie Howerd, comedian, was educated at Shooter's Hill Grammar School in Woolwich.

* Frankie Howerd, English comedian

* Frankie Howerd ( born Howard ) ( 1917 – 1992 ), English comedian

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.

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.

* 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?

Cryer has written for many noted performers, including Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Richard Pryor, Mike Yarwood, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise.

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.

In the 1950s, the theatre hosted variety and revues, starring such famous performers as Norman Wisdom, Peter Sellers, Bob Hope, Gracie Fields, Benny Hill, Hughie Green, Frankie Howerd, and Morecambe and Wise.

Other performers at that performance included The Crazy Gang, Benny Hill, Frankie Howerd, Vera Lynn, Sammy Davis Jr., Nat King Cole and Liberace.

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.

News of the two deaths broke almost simultaneously and some newspapers ran an obituary of Howerd in which Hill was quoted as regretting Howerd's passing, saying " We were great, great friends ".

Acts who appeared included: Gloria Gaynor, George Roper, Ken Dodd, Duncan Norvelle, Black Lace, Bernie Winters, Stutz Bear Cats, Kit and the Widow, Wall Street Crash, Kiki Dee, Diane Solomon, Michael Ball, ' Nasty Nigel ' Lythgoe, Martin " The Beast " Francis, Tom Pepper, Fay Presto, Pete Price, Manhattan Transfer, Shane Richie, The Flaming Hamsters, Stan Boardman, Fascinating Aida, Showaddywaddy, Kajagoogoo, Frankie Howerd, Colm Wilkinson, Wilfrid Brambell from Steptoe and Son, Sinitta, Five Star, Indigo Lady, Cheryl Baker, Phil Cornwell, Jaki Graham, Nana Mouskouri, The Chuckle Brothers, Brian Conley, Roy Walker, Wayne Sleep, Andrew O ' Connor, Gareth Hunt, Peter Beckett, Syd Lawrence ( with his orchestra ), Frankie Vaughan, Jessica Martin, George Roper, Caroline Cossey, The Foxes, Mud, Chris Emmett, Keith Harris and Orville, Mick Miller, Diane Solomon, Mark Heap ( The Two Marks ) and Vince Hill.

The 1963 production and its 1986 revival were staged at the Strand Theatre and the Piccadilly Theatre respectively, and featured Frankie Howerd starring as Pseudolus, Kenneth Connor as Hysterium, ' Monsewer ' Eddie Gray as Senex, Jon Pertwee as Marcus Lycus and Leon Greene as Miles Gloriosus.

( Howerd went on to star in Up Pompeii !, a 1969 British television comedy series set in ancient Pompeii, as the slave Lurcio, whose character was based on Pseudolus.

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

Only a select few got chuckles from young Chapman including Frankie Howerd, the team of Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss, It's That Man Again, Educating Archie, Take It From Here and Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh.

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.

More comedies followed, including Trouble in Store ( 1953 ) with Norman Wisdom, The Runaway Bus ( 1954 ) with Frankie Howerd and An Alligator Named Daisy ( 1955 ) with Donald Sinden and Diana Dors.

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.

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.

In 1978, Howerd appeared in the big-budget Hollywood musical Sgt.

Since Howerd was not well known to American audiences, this may have been his biggest exposure in the U. S ..

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.

In the last years of his career, Howerd developed a following with student audiences and performed a one-man show at universities and in small theatrical venues.

Howerd often worked with Sunny Rogers who was his accompanying pianist from 1960 onwards.

In 1982, Howerd appeared in the televised versions of Trial by Jury ( as the Learned Judge ) and H. M. S.

Throughout his career, Howerd hid his potentially career-destroying homosexuality ( acts between consenting males being illegal in England and Wales until 1967 and illegal in Scotland until 1981 ) from both his audience and his mother, Edith.

The Congo, in whose cause he died, was the scene of one of his greatest triumphs.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

She was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.

A Sterling Township family of six surviving children, whose mother died yesterday as the aftermath to a fire that also killed one of the children, found today they had the help of hundreds of neighbors and school friends.

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

" Only four months later, Kurosawa's eldest brother also died, leaving Akira, at age 23, the only one of the Kurosawa brothers still living, together with his three surviving sisters.

Israelites of course abstained from pork, but Ahab was married to a Phoenician / Tyrian princess Jezebel, who was one of the most " powerful and notorious women of monarchic times " yet who died of a similarly seemingly random death like her husband, and his capital of Samaria was said to follow Canaanite gods.

Several attempts to find a new home failed ; one such stop was on Sicily where in Drepanum, on the island's western coast, his father, Anchises, died peacefully.

She had two sons ( Roberto and an unnamed one ), but both died young.

Diodorus Siculus enlists nine Amazons who challenged Heracles to single combat during his quest for Hippolyta's girdle and died against him one by one: Aella, Philippis, Prothoe, Eriboea, Celaeno, Eurybia, Phoebe, Deianeira, Asteria, Marpe, Tecmessa, Alcippe.

He was still alive when one of his daughters, Elisabeth, who had died some years before, was canonized on 28 May 1235.

Adhemar ( also known as Adémar, Aimar, or Aelarz ) de Monteil ( died 1 August 1098 ), one of the principal figures of the First Crusade, was bishop of Puy-en-Velay from before 1087.

He and his family were pensioned and one of them aided in the defence of Aegina against the Turks, in 1537, was captured with his family and died in a Turkish dungeon.

On 2 May 373, having consecrated Peter II, one of his presbyters as his successor, Athanasius died quietly in his house.

Caroline died after only one year of marriage, on 28 December 1782 having succumbed to smallpox.

To date, one Major League player has died as a result of being struck by a pitch: Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head by Carl Mays on August 16, 1920, and died the next morning.

Ninety-eight attackers and just one defender died in the actual fighting, but in the aftermath, de Launay and seven other defenders were killed, as was the ' prévôt des marchands ' ( roughly, mayor ) Jacques de Flesselles.

Berenson died at age 53 in the September 11 attacks aboard American Airlines Flight 11, one day before the ninth anniversary of Perkins ' death.

The resulting traffic jams are cited as contributing to the death of another person, a heart attack victim who died en route to Boston Medical Center when his ambulance was caught in one such traffic jam two weeks after the collapse.

Sadly the engagement lasted only one month when Warne died of leukemia at age thirty-seven.

In 1957 this total fell to five when one of the Liberal MPs died and the subsequent by-election was lost to the Labour Party, which selected the former Liberal Deputy Leader Lady Megan Lloyd George as its own candidate.

In Christian iconography, some works of art depict women with their breasts in their hands or on a platter, signifying that they died as a martyr by having their breasts severed ; one example of this is Saint Agatha of Sicily.