Carleton Crematorium and Cemetery, Blackpool, Lancashire, England
Occupation(s)
Comedian, actor, musician
Height
4 ft 2 in (1.27 m)
James Robinson Clitheroe (24 December 1921 – 6 June 1973) was an English comic entertainer.[1] He is best remembered for his long-running BBC Radio programme, The Clitheroe Kid (1956–72).
^JIMMY CLITHEROE Popular radio entertainer. The Times Thursday, 7 June 1973; pg. 21; Issue 58802
for his long-running BBC Radio programme, The Clitheroe Kid (1956–72). JimmyClitheroe was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England on Christmas Eve, 1921...
Clitheroe (/ˈklɪðəroʊ/) is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England; it is located 34 miles (55 km) north-west of...
The Clitheroe Kid was a BBC Radio comedy show featuring diminutive Northern comic JimmyClitheroe in the role of a cheeky schoolboy, who lived with his...
among others, JimmyClitheroe (who he also appeared with on stage, touring the Variety theatres) and with Harry Worth. With Clitheroe, he did a regular...
You Being Served? included parts in The Benny Hill Show, Just Jimmy (with JimmyClitheroe), Z-Cars, Up Pompeii!, The Goodies, Steptoe and Son and five...
Blackpool's Comedy Greats: Local Careers of Dave Morris, Hylda Baker, JimmyClitheroe Bk. 2, Barry Band Publishing, ISBN 978-1-898413-05-9 Fergusson, Jean...
British box-office star by the Motion Picture Herald in 1943. In 1939, JimmyClitheroe appeared in an Old Mother Riley pantomime called The Old Woman who...
Brasno portrayed General Tom Thumb in the 1934 film The Mighty Barnum. JimmyClitheroe portrayed General Tom Thumb in the 1967 film Jules Verne's Rocket to...
Queen's Theatre, turning professional in 1953 as a stooge for JimmyClitheroe and Jimmy James. By 1958, he was appearing at the Royal Variety Show. As...
appearances include those in That's My Boy (1963), a comedy series starring JimmyClitheroe, and the short-lived political comedy Best of Enemies. He also played...
June 20, 2018. Gill Johnson (May 17, 2007). "Research reveals life of 'Clitheroe Kid'". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved June 20, 2018. Paul Feeney (2009)...
Nelson, where he performed in church productions alongside JimmyClitheroe, "The Clitheroe Kid", with whom he went to school. Tommy owned a traditional...
Central Pier was part of a comedy revue with Jimmy James and Company. Also on the same bill were JimmyClitheroe and Roy Castle. Dodd first gained top billing...
Harrison, Hilda Bayley and Eileen Bennett. The cast includes radio star JimmyClitheroe (as George's brother), later "Carry On'" star Charles Hawtrey, Peter...
Bernie Nolan, Singer, actress, TV personality. Violet Carson, actress JimmyClitheroe, comedian John Comer, actor Reginald Dixon, organist Roy Gratrix, professional...
Shugairi, Saudi Arabian activist and media figure; in Jeddah Died: JimmyClitheroe, 51, English entertainer, after having taken an overdose of sleeping...
maid Cecil: the footman Other villagers Jimmy and Annie Mann: a farmhand and co-worker of Harry Clitheroe's, and his wife. Alec Pollock: a barber surgeon...
the one who didn't receive punishment"), James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, JimmyClitheroe ("Сomedian, perennial naughty-schoolboy, died on the day of his mother's...
Webber, Emma Bunton, Mathew Horne, James Corden, Tom Daley, Myleene Klass, Jimmy Tarbuck, Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli...
Lancashire comedian JimmyClitheroe (1921–73), famous for his BBC radio series The Clitheroe Kid, who lived there from 1922 to 1935. Jimmy went to school in...