Eric Morecambe
Eric Morecambe
John Eric Bartholomew, OBE, known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the award-winning double act Morecambe and Wise. The partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. Morecambe took his stage name from his home town, the seaside resort of Morecambe...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth14 May 1926
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I never saw him blow a sketch. But he was quite self-contained. It was hard to write collaboratively with him. You'd write a piece and he would change it to what he knew he could do brilliantly. He was modest, never ambitious or pushy, but he knew what he did well.
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I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.
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Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.