Frank Herbert MuirCBE (5 February 1920 – 2 January 1998) was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. His writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers. Together they wrote BBC Radio's Take It from Here for over 10 years, and then appeared on BBC radio quizzes My Word! and My Music for another 35. Muir became Assistant Head of Light Entertainment at the BBC in the 1960s, and was then London Weekend Television's founding Head of Entertainment. His many writing credits include editorship of The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose, as well as the What-a-Mess books that were later turned into an animated TV series.
Frank Herbert Muir CBE (5 February 1920 – 2 January 1998) was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. His writing and...
he co-wrote the BBC Radio comedy programme Take It from Here with FrankMuir. Muir and Norden remained associated for more than 50 years, appearing regularly...
programme broadcast by the BBC between 1948 and 1960. It was written by FrankMuir and Denis Norden, and starred Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and Joy Nichols...
later, most notably, by Robert Robinson. Its most prominent panellist was FrankMuir. The theme music for the show was Ciccolino by Norrie Paramor. The game...
potential in a bus depot as a setting. The comedy partnership turned to FrankMuir, head of entertainment at London Weekend Television (LWT), who loved the...
1995). "OBITUARY : Dick Bentley". The Independent. FrankMuir (1997). A Kentish Lad. Bantam Press, London. ISBN 0-593-03452-X. FrankMuir's autobiography....
were given a spin-off which lasted for one series of eight episodes. FrankMuir and Denis Norden adapted their original radio scripts for the series....
(a substitute for "cow" which was vetoed by the BBC's head of comedy FrankMuir). However, Michael Palin writes in his diary for 16 July 1976 that Warren...
of Part One (1979–80) impersonating television personalities such as FrankMuir and Derek Batey, Vice Versa (1981) as Mr Blinkhorn, Coronation Street...
Wheatcroft married the fashion designer and painter Sally Muir, the daughter of FrankMuir. They live in Combe Down, Bath, Somerset, and have two children...
for free. Speculation began about Wiley's identity, with Tom Stoppard, FrankMuir, Alan Bennett and Noël Coward all rumoured. After the second series of...
barrister Roger Thursby in 1962. He was cast in this role by adaptors FrankMuir and Denis Norden, who had seen him in the West End. His other early appearances...
Would I Lie to You?, Have I Got News For You Robert Morley, Call My Bluff FrankMuir, Call My Bluff Derek Nimmo, Just a Minute Ross Noble, Have I Got News...
Edwards in the lead role as Professor James Edwards, Whack-O! written by FrankMuir and Denis Norden, is about the drunken, gambling, devious, cane-swishing...
big break came in 1953 when she replaced Joy Nichols in the successful FrankMuir and Denis Norden radio comedy Take It from Here, co-starring Jimmy Edwards...
That Again and future Goodies Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor, and also FrankMuir, Barry Cryer, Marty Feldman, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, and Dick Vosburgh...
advertised in a popular 1970s television advertisement that featured humourist FrankMuir singing "Everyone's a fruit and nutcase" to the tune of "Danse des mirlitons"...
scripts for the 1950s radio series Take It From Here that were written by FrankMuir and Denis Norden. Lavender then appeared in several other television comedy...
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