Among those who can lay claim to fame, and who have either been born or lived in Beckenham or have had some important contribution to make to the town, there are show business people such as Bob Monkhouse ( 1928 – 2003 ); Julie Andrews ( 1935-); David Bowie ( 1947-), who lived at 42 Southend Road, Beckenham from 1969 – 1973 ; Peter Frampton ( 1950-); Wende Snijders ( 1978-), the Dutch singer ; and the actors Maurice Denham ( 1909 – 2002 ), and Simon Ward ( 1941 – 2012 ).

Monkhouse had an elder brother, John, born in 1922.

He won a contract with the BBC after his unwitting RAF Group Captain signed a letter Monkhouse had written telling the BBC he was a war hero and that it should give him an audition.

An expert on the history of silent cinema and a film collector, Monkhouse presented Mad Movies in 1966, in which he presented clips from comic silent films, some of which he had helped to recover and restore.

For most of his career Monkhouse had jotted down jokes, odd facts, one-liners, sketches and ideas in a series of ring binders, which he took with him everywhere.

Many well-known actors have appeared in the series, including Bob Monkhouse, Rik Mayall ( who had been considered to play Jonathan ) and Jack Dee who are better known for their comedy roles.

Monkhouse had no hesitation in accepting the offer, though, his agent negotiated that he would only return if ATV took up an option on the American game show The Hollywood Squares.

Anglo and his staff of British artists, including Don Lawrence ( who was given his first break in drawing comics by Anglo ), Bob Monkhouse, Denis Gifford, Ron Embleton and George Stokes, had a hand in the creation of many British independent comic books and magazines between 1954 and 1963.

He had an arrangement to supply a series of open letters about his wartime experiences to Allan Monkhouse at The Manchester Guardian.

Before establishing himself as a successful writer and comic Monkhouse appeared on stage in London, first as Aladdin in a stage show of the same name written by SJ Perelman and Cole Porter.

Around 1969 he was a partner, with Malcolm Mitchell, in the London Agency Mitchell Monkhouse.

Monkhouse returned to quizzes when he took over hosting duties on Wipeout from Paul Daniels, when its studio recordings moved from London to Manchester.

Monkhouse was born in London.

Quilley played in the first London production of the musical The Boys from Syracuse ( Antipholus of Ephesus ) in 1963 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, alongside Bob Monkhouse and Ronnie Corbett.

Corbett starred in the first London production of the musical The Boys from Syracuse ( as Dromio of Syracuse ) in 1963 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, alongside Bob Monkhouse.

The archive consists of 36, 000 videotapes, going back to when Monkhouse first bought a home video recorder in 1966.

* 1928 – Bob Monkhouse, English comedian, actor, and writer ( d. 2003 )

* 1840 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic ( d. 1901 )

* 29-Bob Monkhouse, 75, British comedian and game show host, prostate cancer.

** Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host ( d. 2003 )

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In the early 1970s he appeared in Mostly Monkhouse supporting Bob Monkhouse with Josephine Tewson.

As an adult he found work as a guitarist and session musician in clubs, radio, dance hall bands, and so on, playing with many performers including Gracie Fields, Bob Monkhouse and Kathy Kirby, and on television programs such as Opportunity Knocks.

Also often largely lost are quiz shows ; few editions exist of the 1970s version of Celebrity Squares with Bob Monkhouse, or Southern's children's quiz Runaround.

In 1954 he appeared with Bob Monkhouse in the film, Fast and Loose.

From 1983 to 1985, Bygraves hosted Family Fortunes, taking over from fellow comedian and friend, Bob Monkhouse.

Robert Alan ' Bob ' Monkhouse OBE ( 1 June 1928 – 29 December 2003 ) was an English entertainer.

Monkhouse was famous for his one-line jokes.

Bob Monkhouse was educated at Goring Hall School in Worthing and Dulwich College, from which he was later expelled.

While still at school, Monkhouse wrote for The Beano and The Dandy and drew for comics including Hotspur, Wizard and Adventure comics.

William Lewis made the rounds of all who lived near him again, that August morning after a bullet landed at his feet, and once more he accused and threatened everyone.

But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.

Both Red McIver and Handley Walker lived nearby, almost as near as I do.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

Amazons were said to have lived in Pontus, which is part of modern day Turkey near the shore of the Euxine Sea ( the Black Sea ).

* Roy Noble-popular Welsh broadcaster has lived near Aberdare for the past 30 years

Capp and his family lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Harvard during the entire Vietnam War protest era.

Writers Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil suggested the idea of a character that the lads idolize even though he beats them up ; Judge based Todd on a teenaged bully who lived near him and terrified him as a kid.

* Chapters 40 to 55 ( Second Isaiah or Deutero-Isaiah ): by an anonymous author who lived in Babylon near the end of the Babylonian captivity.

Animator Chuck Jones, who lived near his Lone Star studio as a boy, remembered his father saying he watched Chaplin shoot a scene more than a hundred times until he was satisfied with it.

The advent of farming encouraged hunter-gatherers to abandon nomadic lifestyles and to settle near others who lived by agricultural production.

By the American Revolution, most residents lived near the Common and Harvard College, with farms and estates comprising most of the town.

Pollen samples recovered near a fossilized hadrosaur femur recovered in the Ojo Alamo Sandstone at the San Juan River indicate that the animal lived during the Tertiary, approximately 64. 5 Ma ( about 1 million years after the K – Pg extinction event ).

Monet lived from December 1871 to 1878 at Argenteuil, a village on the right bank of the Seine river near Paris, and a popular Sunday-outing destination for Parisians, where he painted some of his best known works.

The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England.

He had a sister, Carol, and the family lived in a modest apartment near the Atlantic Ocean, in Bensonhurst, a Brooklyn neighborhood.

He lived on the Left Bank near Saint-Sulpice until 1757, when Louis XV granted him a studio and living quarters in the Louvre.

The family lived at 40 Stansfield Road, located near the border of the south London areas of Brixton and Stockwell.

The Inga lived in the Sierra near present-day Quito between 9000 and 8000 BC along an ancient trade route.

One of the country's largest sheep stations, located near where Butler lived, is named " Erewhon " in his honour.

Traditional accounts of the author's life are found in many commentaries and include details such as these: He was born on Salamis Island around 484 BC, the son of Mnesarchus, a retailer who lived in a village near Athens.

She sends letters, in Ahab's name, to the elders and nobles who lived near Naboth.

The report by McClatchy reporter Jonathan S. Landay stated that the conditions at the mine resembled as prison labor camp and that the workers, some of whom appeared to be near starvation, had almost no equipment, shoes or clothes and lived in dilapidated homes.

For Golb, the amount of documents is too extensive and includes many different writing styles and calligraphies ; the ruins seem to have been a fortress, used as a military base for a very long period of timeincluding the 1st centuryso they could not have been inhabited by the Essenes ; and the large graveyard excavated in 1870, just 50 metres east of the Qumran ruins was made of over 1200 tombs that included many women and childrenPliny clearly wrote that the Essenes that lived near the Dead Sea " had not one woman, had renounced all pleasure ... and no one was born in their race ".

Barnhill was an abandoned farmhouse with outbuildings near the northern end of the island, situated at the end of a five-mile ( 8 km ), heavily rutted track from Ardlussa, where the owners lived.