* Spike Milligan ( 1918 – 2002 ) the comedian and writer went to school at Catford's Brownhill Boys School and often visited the suburb where his aunt and uncle lived.

The comedian Spike Milligan ( 1918 – 2002 ), lived at 50 Riseldine Road ( which is on the cusp of Crofton Park and Honor Oak ) after coming to England from India in the 1930s.

* Spike Milligan ( comedian ) lived in Catford, Crofton Park and Honor Oak

The comedian Spike Milligan ( 1918 – 2002 ), lived at 22 Gabriel Street, Honor Oak, and 50 Riseldine Road ( which is on the border of Crofton Park and Honor Oak ) after coming to England from India in the 1930s.

* Spike Milligan, comedian, lived in Woy Woy with his parents for periods of time in the 1960's.

During most of the late 1930s and early 1940s Milligan performed as an amateur jazz vocalist and trumpeter before, during and after being called up for military service in the fight against Nazi Germany, but even then he wrote and performed comedy sketches as part of concerts to entertain troops.

Milligan later blamed the pressure of writing and performing The Goon Show for both his breakdown and the failure of his first marriage.

Milligan married for the first time and began a family.

During a visit to Australia in 1958, a similar special was made for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, " The Gladys Half-Hour ", which also featured local actors Ray Barrett, and John Bluthal, who would appear in several later Milligan projects.

15-minute adaptations of the original scripts by Maurice Wiltshire were used instead, with Milligan, Sellers and Secombe reuniting to provide the voices ; according to a contemporary press report, they received the highest fees the BBC had ever paid for 15-minute shows.

Director John Goldschmidt's film The Other Spike dramatised Milligan's nervous breakdown in a film for Granada Television, for which Milligan wrote the screenplay and in which he played himself.

He was interviewed live on air and remained in the studio for the news broadcast that followed ( read by Rod McNeil ), during which Milligan constantly interjected, adding his own name to news items.

In 1967, applying a satirical angle to a fashion for the inclusion of " superman " inspired characters in UK television commercials, Milligan dressed up in a " Bat-Goons " outfit to head up a series of television commercials for British Petroleum.

Milligan contributed his recollections of his childhood in India for the acclaimed 1970s BBC audio history series Plain Tales From The Raj.

Garfield was one of three attorneys who argued for the petitioners in the famous Supreme Court case Ex parte Milligan in 1866.

During this period he found time to model for She magazine and also appear in a 1967 stage production of Treasure Island as Squire Trelawney, alongside Spike Milligan and Barry Humphries at the Mermaid Theatre in London.

He met De Momerie's companion, Major Milligan, who appears to be the cocaine supplier for the group.

Murder Must Advertise was adapted for television in 1973 as a mini-series starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Mark Eden as Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Bridget Armstrong as Dian de Momerie, Peter Bowles as Major Milligan, and Paul Darrow as Mr. Tallboy.

He sees an ad for a roommate and talks the reluctant young woman, Connie Milligan ( Jean Arthur ), into letting him sublet half of her apartment.

He frequently wrote for and / or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, John Antrobus and Johnny Speight.

( Sykes and Milligan later jointly formed Associated London Scripts ( ALS ) with Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, a writers ' agency which lasted for well over a decade until being effectively dissolved in 1967.

) Late in 1954 Sykes began collaborating with Spike Milligan on scripts for The Goon Show, easing Milligan's workload.

In 1969 Sykes co-starred with Spike Milligan in the ill-fated television sit-com Curry & Chips, a satire on racial prejudice created and written by Johnny Speight and made for London Weekend Television.

Among writers in English noted for nonsense verse are Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Ogden Nash, Mervyn Peake, Colin West, Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss and Spike Milligan.

Noted artist Daphne Todd was commissioned for the painting, who has had such notable sitters as HRH the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Spike Milligan.

Peter Milligan, who began his career at 2000 AD, before working briefly for both Pacific Comics and Eclipse Comics, contributed two titles ( one quarter of the initial line-up ; the same as Gaiman ) to the Vertigo launch.

Milligan and Brett Ewins's Skreemer, written for DC pre-Vertigo ( 1989 ) was subsequently collected by Vertigo, while his work on the DC character Human Target was released entirely by Vertigo as a four-issue miniseries ( 1999 ), an original graphic novel ( 2002 ), and an ongoing series ( 2003 – 2005 ).

Milligan made several forays into television as a writer-performer, in addition to his many guest appearances on interview, variety and sketch comedy series from the 1950s to the 2000s.

The first 63 issues of Animal Man featuring Bolland's artwork covered the tenures of writers Grant Morrison, Peter Milligan, Tom Veitch and Jamie Delano, with Bolland's images maintaining a continuity of style and imagery while the interior work underwent several changes of style and storyline .< ref name =" vert-ency ">

Other notable strips included Wired World by Philip Bond, Planet Swerve by Glyn Dillon & Alan Martin, Hugo Tate by Nick Abadzis, Cheeky Wee Budgie Boy created & written by Jon Beeston and drawn by Jon Beeston & Philip Bond, Timulo by D ' Israeli, A-Men and Space Boss by Shaky Kane, Johnny Nemo by Peter Milligan, and several early works by Al Columbia.

Vizard studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne ; he practiced as a lawyer and was a partner in a City Law firm ; he has written for and produced various Logie and AFI award winning television show-from Fast Forward to Kangaroo Palace ; he has hosted his own 5 night a week national Tonight Show, Tonight Live With Steve Vizard for which he was three times nominated for and won a Gold Logie in 1991 ; he has interviewed over two thousand major names, from Audrey Hepburn, Oliver Stone, Mel Gibson, Robin Williams, Sir Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Patrick Swayze, Bob Hope, Sir Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Parkinson, Spike Milligan, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, Sir Harry Secombe, and Prime Ministers and politicians ; he founded one of Australia ’ s largest independent Production houses, Artist Services, which was subsequently sold to Granada ; he has been the President of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Chairman of the Victorian Major Events Company, securing events such as the World Cycling Champioships and the World Gymnastics Championships ; he has appeared on the cover of Time and Rolling Stone ; he was an elected representative to the 1999 Constitutional Convention ; he was Father of the Year in 2001 ; he was embroiled in three highly publicised legal proceedings, involving the theft of moneys by his former accountant from the Vizard Companies, and Vizard's civil penalty in 2005 for breaching directors duties ; he has broadcast on the Austereo, Fairfax and Macquarie Radio Networks and in 2011 was nominated for best Talkback Presenter in Australia ; he was Chairman of the World Swimming Championships ; and he has written several books ranging on topics ranging from humour to Australia's population policy.

In a BBC poll in August 1999, Milligan was voted the " funniest person of the last 1000 years ".

Upon the 1894 founding of the IOC, the two constituent American members, James Edward Sullivan and William Milligan Sloane, formed a committee to organize the participation of American athletes in the Games of the I Olympiad to be contested two years later in Athens, Greece.

Milligan and Brendan McCarthy's psychedelic classic Rogan Gosh was reprinted in a collected edition by Vertigo in 1996, after being first serialised six years earlier in Revolver.

Eastleigh was a fairly safe seat for the Conservatives for nearly forty years until the death of its then MP, former journalist Stephen Milligan, in 1994.

Sykes's small office above a grocer's shop at 130 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, was shared from around 1953 by Milligan.

Along with US 29, Century is the terminus of State Road 4, which leads east to the communities of Jay, Munson, Baker, and Milligan, Florida.

Mike Milligan, a highly rated young Irish midfielder who was a product of Oldham's youth system, was sold to Everton for £ 1million in 1990, but returned to Boundary Park a year later after an unsuccessful season on Merseyside.

When Joe Royle quit as Oldham manager to take over at Everton in November 1994, Sharp took over as player-manager at Boundary Park and they finished in midtable in 1994 – 95 – a disappointing showing for a side who had retained all but one of their key players ( Mike Milligan ) from the side that had been relegated from the Premier League and reached an FA Cup semi-final.

To Humphries, Milligan's " best performance must surely have been as Ben Gunn ... Milligan stole the show every night in a makeup which took at least an hour to apply.

This became the one-act play The Bed-Sitting Room, which Milligan co-wrote with John Antrobus, and which premiered at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury on 12 February 1962.

On 6 October 1964, Milligan appeared in Frank Dunlop's production of the play Oblomov at the Lyric Theatre in London, based on the novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov.

In 1971, Milligan caused controversy by attacking an art exhibition, consisting of catfish, oysters and shrimp which were to be electrocuted, at the Hayward Gallery with a hammer.

Milligan died from liver disease, at the age of 83, on 27 February 2002, at his home in Rye, East Sussex.

There is a plaque and bench located at the Wadestown Library, Wellington New Zealand in an area called " Spike Milligan Corner ".

In one interview, which was widely quoted at the time, John Cleese stated " Milligan is the Great God to all of us ".

* Spike Milligan with Jeremy Taylor: An Adult Entertainment Live at Cambridge University ( 1974 )

Milligan, hearing that Dean worked at Pym's, spoke to him assuming that Dean was the ring's man at Pym's.

Dean was surprised, and Milligan shut up-but Dean guessed that someone else at Pym's was involved.

Milligan is located at ( 40. 498949 ,-97. 388390 ).

Spencer Milligan departed the show at the beginning of its third season for financial reasons.

He later transferred to the entertainment branch ( under luminaries such as Spike Milligan ), and immediately prior to his national service, there was a brief stint at RADA ( the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ), during which his fees were paid by film director Brian Desmond Hurst, who also used Moore as an extra in his film Trottie True.

Peter Milligan, a veteran of the Vertigo line, having written both Shade, The Changing Man and Animal Man at the publisher's inception, then took over, starting with a short story in the landmark 250th issue, and taking over full-time following this.

This was targeted at the stand-up comedy VHS market at the time, and the inlay cover made great mention of comic legends ' appearances, such as Spike Milligan, Michael Palin and Bernard Manning.

Milligan speculated the bill may have been adapted for the local conditions, slim fare meaning the birds had to pick at dangerous scorpions and spiders.