Eric Sykes
Eric Sykes
Eric Sykes, CBEwas an English radio, stage, television and film writer, actor, and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wrote for and/or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Tommy Cooper, Peter Sellers, John Antrobus, and Johnny Speight. Sykes first came to prominence through his many radio credits as a writer and actor in the 1950s, most notably through his collaboration on The Goon Show...
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth4 May 1923
exactly help stage
All these old guys, they were exactly the same on stage as off, and they couldn't help being comedians.
admired evocative sad
It's a very sad day. I've always admired him. Everything he did had a very evocative ring, of something great.
allowance family
There's no family allowance on the first child, you know.
lunch champion chess
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.
book said print
I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.
mean watches tvs
Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.