Eric Sykes Biography (1924-)

Born in 1924, in Oldham, England.

Famous Works

Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE APPEARANCES
Time and Time Again, London, 1983.
Run for Your Wife, London and Canadian productions.
Credits; MAJOR TOURS
Big Bad House, U.K. cities, 1977.
Summer Show Sykes, Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), Australian, and Canadiancities, 1978.
one-man show, U.K. cities, 1982.
Credits; PRINCIPAL FILM APPEARANCES
Watch Your Stern, British, 1960.
Invasion Quartet, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 1962.
Kill or Cure, MGM, 1962.
Heaven's Above, British Lion, 1963.
One Way Pendulum, Lopert, 1965.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Twentieth Century- Fox, 1965.
Rotten to the Core, Universal, 1965.

The Liquidator, MGM, 1966.
The Spy with the Cold Nose, Embassy, 1966.
Also Village of Daughters; The Bargee.
Credits; PRINCIPAL FILM WORK
Director and writer, The Plank.
Credits; PRINCIPAL TELEVISION APPEARANCES; SERIES
Sykes Versus TV, BBC, 1958-65.
Also a member of a BBC panel show series.
Credits; EPISODIC
The Frankie Howerd Show, BBC.
Credits; SPECIALS
Sykes and a Big, Big, Show, BBC, 1971 and 1978.
Also The Plank, If You Go Down to the Woods Today, Cannon and Ball Show,and It's Your Move.
Writings
(In addition to the listing above)SCREENPLAYS Shalako, Cinerama, 1968.
Theatre of Blood, United Artists, 1973.
Also The Monte Carlo Rally.
Writings;TELEPLAYS; SERIES
Educating Archie; also wrote series for Frankie Howerd, Max Bygraves, andHarry Secombe, all BBC.
Writings;RADIO; SERIES
Writer for Frankie Howerd, Max Bygraves, and Harry Secombe.

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