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1 day ago · The Thing Upstairs (voiced by Willie Rushton) is the impatient, cantankerous, demanding and terrifying master of the castle, who rarely leaves his penthouse room, and consequently is never seen. In most episodes, he orders Berk (in a Cockney accent) to fix things in the castle, prepare meals for him, or sometimes bathe or clean him. His ...
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2 days ago · Foot parlayed Daddy’s influence with the managing director of Mirror Group Newspapers, Hugh Cudlipp, in order to get a job. He wrote some of his best investigative material at Private Eye, whose Soho offices in the 1960s sound like a gentlemen’s club, albeit for misfits like Willie Rushton and Richard Ingrams.
The reviewers are usually authors themselves, not just critics. In the 1980s, Auberon Waugh became editor. For fourteen years Waugh led the magazine and gave it the high profile it has today, including bringing on board Willie Rushton as cover illustrator.
3 days ago · Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton (23 May 1921 – 25 April 2008), also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the Lyttelton family . Having taught himself the trumpet at school, Lyttelton became a professional musician, leading his own eight-piece band, which recorded a hit single, " Bad Penny Blues ", in 1956.
2 days ago · Also going - although not mentioned in the stock exchange announcement - will be the polish brand Mr Sheen, beloved in the UK for its adverts featuring a cartoon biplane pilot voiced by Willie Rushton, the late actor and comedian. Reckitt said that, together, the brands enjoyed sales of £1.9bn.
5 days ago · This sounds interesting, never heard of it before but I love Willie Rushton as a writer and performer (good cartoonist too). Shame that for a lot of people the only memory they have of him is as a barely awake old duffer propping up daytime panel shows in the 80s-90s.
4 days ago · Elis James is a comedian, TV & Radio broadcaster, actor and podcast host. Best known for his successful weekly BBC Sounds podcast with co-host John Robins. Elis has also previously hosted a 5Live show every Friday and a Radio X show with John. Elis presented 3 series of the brilliant ‘Fantasy Football League’ on Sky alongside Matt Lucas.
