Dick Emery


Richard Gilbert Dick Emery was an English comedian and actor. Beginning on radio in the 1950s, an eponymous television series ran from 1963 to 1981.

Richard Gilbert Emery was born in University College Hospital, Bloomsbury, London. His parents were the comedy double act Callan and Emery. They took him on tour when he was onlyweeks old and gave him the occasional turn on the stage throughout his childhood, which was always on the move and disrupted, creating problems for the future, but at least setting the scene for eventually going into show business. His parents split up when he wasand he chose to stay with his mother, who gave up show business. He tried a variety of jobs before the stage mechanic, office boy, farm hand and driving instructor.

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