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Arthur Towle was in show business from when he left school in1900 until his dying day. He started as an Irish character comedian in British music halls. Touring Ireland with this act in 1913, he met Kitty McShane and married her later that year (she was 16, he 28). They gradually evolved the act of "Old Mother Riley and her Daughter" (Arthur, in drag, playing the former), which maintained popularity for nearly 40 years, and Arthur adopted the stage name Lucan to sound more Irish. The fame of Lucan and McShane did not go much beyond provincial music halls until the first Old Mother Riley film was released. Cheaply made and highly profitable, 17 films (1937-1952) starred Lucan in the richly comic role of Mrs. Riley, making him a Top Ten star in England in 1942. The gangly Mother Riley was usually a charwoman or laundress, but some entries found her running a shop or pub with the aid of her daughter, Kitty. Lucan's comedy came from Mother Riley's absurd predicaments, eccentric ways, facial and bodily contortions, and malapropism-filled tirades against all who displeased her, seasoned with "knockabout" slapstick. By 1951, Lucan and McShane had separated, and Kitty did not appear in Arthur's last film, though he continued to support her. He was struggling with a large tax debt in 1954 when he unexpectedly collapsed and died in a Yorkshire theatre before his stage show.- Music Department
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Basil Kirchin was born on 8 August 1927 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK. He was a composer, known for I Start Counting (1970), Journey to the Unknown (1968) and Assignment K (1968). He was married to Esther Muller. He died on 18 June 2005 in Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK.- John Turtle was born on 10 July 1938 in Manchester, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Clochemerle (1972), All Creatures Great and Small (1978) and Best Evidence (2007). He died on 2 November 1993 in Hull, Humberside, England, UK.
- English poet. His father Sydney was City Treasurer of Coventry. Philip was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry. By the age of 16 he was already having poetry published in the school magazine, The Coventrian. In 1940 he went to St. John's College, Oxford, to study English. On graduating (with first-class honours) in 1943 he became chief librarian of the municipal library in Wellington, Shropshire. In 1946 he began a job as assistant librarian at University College Leicester; in 1950 he was appointed one of two sub-librarians at Queen's University Belfast. In 1955 he became Librarian of the Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull, a post he held until his death. His first volume of poetry, "The North Ship", met with minimal response when published in 1945. It was followed by two novels, "Jill" (1946) and "A Girl in Winter" (1947). It was his second book of poetry, "The Less Deceived" (1955), which established him as a poet. The subject-matter of Larkin's poetry is resolutely unglamorous: British provincial life, public transport, sexual dissatisfaction, boredom, illness and death. His tone however is resigned and comic as often as it is melancholy. He was also the Daily Telegraph's jazz correspondent, and a collection of his reviews was published in 1970 as "All What Jazz". Among the many awards he received were the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the W.H. Smith Award. In 1975 he was made a Commander of the British Empire. In 1976 he was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the FVS Foundation of Hamburg.
Towards the end of Larkin's life his output became very scarce: between the publication of his fourth book of poetry, "High Windows", in 1974, and his death, only 8 of his poems were published. When in 1984 he declined the offer of the post of Poet Laureate it was on the grounds that he was not able to produce poetry for state occasions. In accordance with his will, his diaries were burned after his death. In 1992, however, a selection of his letters was published. This caused controversy by making public his racist tendencies and interest in pornography. He never married, but from 1983 until his death he lived with the lecturer Monica Jones, whom he had first met in Leicester. - Actor
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Norman Collier was born on 25 December 1925 in Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Mr. H Is Late (1988), Jim Davidson's Special (1982) and Lulu (1975). He was married to Lucy Collier. He died on 14 March 2013 in Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK.- Vanessa Walker died on 16 January 2022 in Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Clive Sullivan was born on 9 April 1943 in Cardiff, Wales, UK. He was married to Rosalyn Sullivan. He died on 8 October 1985 in Hull, England, UK.
- David Devilfish Ulliott was born on 1 April 1954 in Hull, East Yorkshire, England, UK. He was married to Susan and Amanda Ashby. He died on 6 April 2015 in Kingston upon Hull, England, UK.
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Geoff Jowitt was born in 1926 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK. Geoff was a production manager, known for Summertime Special (1981), Top of the Pops (1964) and Seaside Special (1975). Geoff was married to Mollie ?. Geoff died on 20 July 2009 in Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, England, UK.- Norman Beedle was born on 16 September 1926. Norman was a writer, known for World of Laughter (1974), The Ken Dodd Laughter Show (1979) and Bob's Full House (1984). Norman died on 17 December 2002 in Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Geoffrey Annis was born in 1938 in Hull, Humberside, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Coronation Street (1960), Prime Suspect 2 (1992) and First Among Equals (1986). He died on 20 December 2016 in Hull, Humberside, England, UK.
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Heinz Lehmann was a German-born Canadian psychiatrist best known for his use of chlorpromazine for the treatment of schizophrenia in 1950s and the father of modern psychopharmacology. Lehmann received his MD at the University of Berlin in 1935. Two years later he left Nazi Germany for Canada. In 1951 he created the TV-series "Mental Symptoms" aimed for the medical profession and allied scientific groups. in 1998 Heinz Lehmann was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.- Art Department
Ralph Contrado was born on 1 September 1958. He is known for Shutter Island (2010), The Fighter (2010) and I Am Legend (2007). He was married to Tammy Campbell. He died on 24 March 2011 in Hull, Massachusetts, USA.