Flanagan and Allen were a British singing and comedy double act most active during the 1930s and 1940s. Its members were Bud Flanagan (1896 – 1968, born...
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television and film actor. He was best known as being one half of the comedy and music act Flanagan and Allen with his partner Chesney Allen. Flanagan was famous...
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with Bud Flanagan as duo Flanagan and Allen. Allen was born in Battersea, London, in 1894, married Aleta Cosette Turner in Leeds in 1926 and died in Easebourne...
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were Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox, Charlie Naughton and Jimmy Gold. The group achieved considerable domestic popularity and were a...
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Double act (section U.S. and Canada)
Flanagan and Allen, Morecambe and Wise, The Two Ronnies, and French and Saunders. The tradition is also present in the US with acts like Wheeler and Woolsey...
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film by Trevor Peacock and David Ryall, as a homage to Flanagan and Allen, the famous British music hall artists. Peacock and Ryall also perform "Underneath...
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The Galloping Major (song) (category Flanagan and Allen songs)
Holloway, Join in the Chorus, Vanguard, 1960 (VRS 9086) Flanagan and Allen, The Flanagan And Allen Story, Encore, 1964 (ENC 151) The title was also used...
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Get Out (category Films about race and ethnicity)
the film include "Run, Rabbit, Run" by Flanagan and Allen and "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes. The soundtrack was released...
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The Umbrella Man (song) (category Flanagan and Allen songs)
Larry Stock and Vincent Rose. It was first published in 1924[citation needed] and first performed live by the comedy double act Flanagan and Allen in 1939...
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Underneath the Arches (song) (category Flanagan and Allen songs)
with words and music by Bud Flanagan, and additional lyrics by Reg Connelly. It was one of the most famous songs of the duo Flanagan and Allen. According...
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Run, Rabbit, Run (category Flanagan and Allen songs)
Gay and Ralph Butler. The music was by Noel Gay and the song was originally performed by the British singing and comedy double act Flanagan and Allen accompanied...
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) Anthony Nicholls as military spokesman Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen as themselves (Flanagan and Allen) Kenneth Cope as Lt Lumpkin Denys Graham as Pte...
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comedy team Flanagan and Allen as influences on their own work; although Morecambe and Wise never imitated or copied Flanagan and Allen, they did sometimes...
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Gang's understudy and appeared in the 1981 musical Underneath the Arches, with Roy Hudd and Christopher Timothy as Flanagan and Allen; he assisted Hudd...
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Kitty Flanagan (born July 18th 1970) is an Australian comedian, writer and actress. She is known for portraying Helen Tudor-Fisk in the television comedy...
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Dick Emery (1915–1983) Will Evans (1866–1931) Fayne and Evans Sid Field (1904–1950) Bud Flanagan (1896–1968) Cyril Fletcher (1913–2005) George Formby...
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We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line (category Flanagan and Allen songs)
musicians during the Second World War, including Arthur Askey, Flanagan and Allen, and Vera Lynn. A mocking parody was written shortly after the Battle...
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Peggy Flanagan (Ojibwe: Gizhiiwewidamookwe; born September 22, 1979) is an American politician and Native American activist serving as the 50th lieutenant...
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writing under the name John Rhode. During World War II the comic duo Flanagan and Allen had a hit with "If a Grey Haired Lady Says 'How's Your Father?' (That's...
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Toyah Willcox (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
singing and comedy double act Flanagan and Allen, and married in 1949. Her mother gave up her career after giving birth to Willcox's elder sister and brother...
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The Colditz Story (category British black-and-white films)
Carmichael and Richard Wattis, playing two Guards officers, perform a Flanagan and Allen routine, based on the song "Underneath the Arches". The film was the...
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Here Comes the Sun (film) (category British black-and-white films)
is a 1946 British comedy film directed by John Baxter and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen and Elsa Tee. The film follows a sports reporter on the run...
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for comedy effect. Bud Flanagan of the British comedy double act Flanagan and Allen was a case in point. His trademark broken boaters were, in fact, made...
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Sarah (February 22, 2021). "Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Soon-Yi Previn, Dylan Farrow: A Timeline". The New York Times. Flanagan, Caitlin (June 8, 2021). "What...
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Elen, Little Tich, Gracie Fields and Flanagan and Allen. Musical hall composers included Lionel Monckton, Felix Powell and Noel Gay. From about 1925 to 1946...
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what Fairclough describes as a "Flanagan and Allen tribute act". The Colditz Story was Carmichael's ninth film role and he had, Fairclough notes, risen...
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1932 British comedy film, based on a sketch by Fred Karno and starring Flanagan and Allen, made by Associated Talking Pictures at Ealing Studios. John...
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Theatre Royal (film) (category British black-and-white films)
is a 1943 British comedy film directed by John Baxter and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen and Lydia Sherwood. The plot concerns an attempt by the staff...
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Florrie Forde (section Early life and career)
platform for new rising stars, the most famous being the singing duo of Flanagan and Allen. For 36 consecutive years Forde performed for a summer season at Douglas...
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by Flanagan and Allen (sung by DI Fowler) "Hot on the Heels of Heartbreak" by The Beautiful South (Tess and Carl) "Only My Soul" by Free (Chris and Cast)...
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