Spike Milligan
Birthday: 1918-04-16 | Place of Birth: Ahmed Nagar, IndiaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier, and actor. Milligan's early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the British government declared him stateless. He was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the popular Eccles. Milligan wrote and edited many books, including Puckoon and his seven-volume autobiographical account of his time serving during the Second World War, beginning with Adolf Hitler: My part in his downfall. He is also noted as a popular writer of comical verse, much of his poetry was written for children, including Silly Verse for Kids (1959). After success with the ground-breaking British radio programme, The Goon Show, Milligan translated this success to television with Q5, a surreal sketch show which is credited as a major influence on the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Description above from the Wikipedia article Spike Milligan,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Himself (Archive)
as Himself (archive footage)
as Self
as Self/Various
as Self - (Archival)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (Archive footage)
as Himself
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Self
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as the Ghost of Marley
as Self (archive material)
as Crumble
as Mr. Platypus (voice)
as Narrator
as Narrator: "Moonshadow"
as M. Bonancieux
