Albums It'S That Man Again Role Comedian | Name Tommy Handley Occupation Comedian | |
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Full Name Thomas Reginald Handley Died January 9, 1949, London, United Kingdom Movies It's That Man Again, Time Flies Similar People Ronald Frankau, Arthur Askey, Issy Bonn, Max Miller, Bobby Breen | ||
Cause of death Cerebral haemorrhage | ||
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Thomas Reginald "Tommy" Handley (17 January 1892 – 9 January 1949) was a British comedian, mainly known for the BBC radio programme It's That Man Again ("|ITMA"). He was born at Toxteth Park, Liverpool in Lancashire.
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He served with a kite balloon section of the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War and went on to work in variety, and in the infancy of radio, broadcast regularly. He worked with people such as Arthur Askey, and wrote many radio scripts, but it is the BBC comedy series ITMA for which he is best rembered, and which itself became known for a number of catchphrases, some of which entered popular vocabulary. He starred in the films ITMA (1942) and in Time Flies (1944).
In later years, he suffered with high blood pressure, the result of his driving commitment to ITMA, and died suddenly on 9 January 1949 from a brain haemorrhage, eight days before his 57th birthday. He was cremated and his ashes placed in the rhododendron bed at Golders Green Crematorium.
In a eulogy at his memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral, the Bishop of London, John W.C. Wand, said that "he was one whose genius transmuted the copper of our common experience into the gold of exquisite foolery. His raillery was without cynicism, and his satire without malice".
Tommy handley dorothy summers mrs mopp joins the home guard 1943
Posthumous
On 7 November 2006, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a review of one of his partnerships, Mr Murgatroyd and Mr Winterbottom: "The story of Tommy Handley and Ronald Frankau, a comedy partnership which had its heyday in the 1930s world of radio. There was no straight man, so the partnership was a rare one. Tommy was a fast talking Liverpudlian, while Ronald in contrast was upper class and Eton-educated. Presented by Nicholas Frankau, actor and grandson of Ronald."
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