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Barry Cryer
British writer, comedian and actor (1935–2022)
Barry Charles Cryer (23 March 1935 – 25 January 2022) was an English writer, comedian, and actor. As well as performing on stage, radio and television, Cryer wrote for many performers including Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Ronnie Corbett, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Richard Pryor, Spike Milligan, Mike Yarwood, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise.[1]
Early life
[edit]Barry Charles Cryer was born on 23 March 1935 in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to John Cryer, an accountant, who died when Barry was five, and his wife, Jean. After an education at Leeds Grammar School, he began studying English literature at the University of Leeds.[2][3][4] He later described himself as a university dropout: "I was supposed to be studying English Literature at Leeds, but I was in the bar and chasing girls and my first-year results showed it. So I'm 'BA Eng. Lit. failed' of Leeds."[5]
Career
[edit]Cryer was a writer for Leeds-based Proscenium Players, the first Jewish amateur stage group, which was founded in 1948.[6]
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Barry Cryer
Biography
Leeds-born comedian and writer who flunked university and went into the theatre. After assisting magician David Nixon at a pantomime, he was introduced to the London scene and auditioned at its famous Windmill Theatre telling jokes before the strippers came on. He auditioned at 10.30am and was hired and on stage two hours later.
He went on to write scripts and gags for virtually every major British comedian from the 1960s onwards, including Kenny Everett, Les Dawson, The Two Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise, and Frankie Howerd.
He died in 2022, aged 86.
Trivia
He made up for his initial academic failure by being awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by Leeds Metropolitan University in 2013.
In Finland he had a No.1 record, Purple People Eater, for three weeks in 1958.
Persuaded fellow Windmill artist Bruce Forsyth to keep working in comedy, after the chinned wonder decided he'd got as far as he could and was considering opening up a tobacconists. When Cryer bumped into Forsyth a year later, just before his first Sunday Night at the London Palladium, he asked what ever happened about opening the tobacco shop. "Postponed" came the reply.
Web links
Wikipedia entry
IMDb entry
BBC obituary
See also
Weaver's Week obituary
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