1. Arthur Haynes was an English comedian and star of The Arthur Haynes Show, a comedy sketch series produced by ATV from 1956 until his death from a heart attack in 1966.
17 Facts About Arthur Haynes
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Arthur Haynes was born in London, the only child of a Fulham baker.
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Arthur Haynes started off in a number of odd jobs, doing painting, plumbing and joinery until the Second World War broke out.
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Arthur Haynes then became an entertainer while serving with the Royal Engineers during the war.
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Fellow comedian Charlie Chester related a story where they were waiting outside Caen and Haynes pointed to a trench full of mud and a million tiny frogs and said nothing would get him into that.
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Just then a German aircraft started firing near them and Arthur Haynes dived straight into the trench and afterwards emerged covered in mud and frogs.
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Arthur Haynes continued to work with Chester after the war in the BBC Radio series Stand Easy.
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Chester had not originally wanted to feature him as he had a full cast but once he heard Arthur Haynes give a high-pitched laugh, he knew he could use it and found a place for him.
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Much later, the comedian returned to BBC radio with The Arthur Haynes Show which ran over four series.
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On 21 February 1956, Arthur Haynes appeared in the first edition of ATV variety series Strike a New Note, which was supposed to air talent for the new independent television station.
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Arthur Haynes, who had been a stand-up comedian, was given his own series later in the year and Parsons, who had been an all-rounder, found himself cast as his straight man.
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In 1963 and 1964 Arthur Haynes worked with Dermot Kelly who played another tramp, who was not very bright.
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Arthur Haynes received the Variety Club's award as ITV Personality of 1961 and appeared on the Royal Variety Performance in the same year.
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Arthur Haynes had a good singing voice, which he rarely used on TV, and in 1960 performed a sketch called The Arthur Haynes Brothers, where he and Dickie Valentine, wearing a moustache, sang together.
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Arthur Haynes died of a heart attack on 19 November 1966 in Ealing, at the age of 52, shortly after he returned from America, where he had appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, and just before the commencement of shooting for the 16th series of his ITV television series.
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Arthur Haynes is buried at Mortlake Cemetery in Kew, London.
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Between 2011 and 2013, Network DVD released all surviving episodes of The Arthur Haynes Show on Region 2 DVDs.