1. Richard Gilbert Emery was an English comedian and comic actor.
25 Facts About Dick Emery
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Dick Emery's broadcasting career began on radio in the 1950s, and his self-titled television series ran from 1963 to 1981.
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Dick Emery's parents were the comedy double act Callan and Emery.
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Dick Emery tried a variety of jobs before the stage: mechanic, office boy, farm hand and driving instructor.
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Dick Emery was recruited by Ralph Reader into the RAF Gang Show to entertain air and ground crew at bases in Great Britain.
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Dick Emery worked at the Windmill Theatre, though his name does not appear on the plaque commemorating the acts that played there.
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Dick Emery toured his fledgling act around the United Kingdom.
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Dick Emery auditioned for various parts and in 1952 he starred in a role in a 15-minute Radio Luxembourg series on Saturdays at 7.00pm called Chance of a Lifetime.
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Dick Emery made a guest appearance on the popular BBC radio programme The Goon Show, replacing regular cast member Harry Secombe for one episode in 1957.
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Dick Emery appeared on TV programmes including Round the Bend and Educating Archie and appeared with his friend Tony Hancock in several episodes of The Tony Hancock Show and Hancock's Half Hour.
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Dick Emery enhanced his reputation on two series with former Goon Michael Bentine: After Hours and It's a Square World.
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Dick Emery played bungling bank robber Booky Binns in The Big Job and was known for vocal talents as an array of characters including "The Nowhere Man" Jeremy Hillary Boob, the Mayor of Pepperland and Max, one of the Blue Meanies in the Beatles' Yellow Submarine directed by George Dunning, in 1968.
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Dick Emery has to see the girls naked, which requires disguises.
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Dick Emery recorded several novelty records, most notably "If You Love Her", which reached number 32 in 1969, and "You Are Awful", which just missed the top 40 in 1973.
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Dick Emery had a very difficult childhood initially, but things settled down following the departure of his father, Laurie Howe.
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Dick Emery was devoted to his mother for most of his life and helped support her once he was able to work.
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Dick Emery was in six long-term relationships, marrying five times, and had numerous affairs.
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Dick Emery often appeared in tabloid newspapers with beautiful women.
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Dick Emery met the woman who became his fourth wife, Victoria Chambers, in the mid-1950s.
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Dick Emery was torn between the two women, but in late 1958 he left Iris and moved to Thames Ditton in Surrey to set up home.
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Dick Emery was a keen maker of scale models, and was president of the Airfix Modellers' Club.
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Dick Emery wrote a review feature for Meccano Magazine during 1971.
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Dick Emery underwent psychoanalysis and hypnosis, and took sedatives to try to cure the problems.
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Dick Emery had four children, Gilbert, Nicholas, Michael and Eliza, and was the half-brother of actress Ann Emery.
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Dick Emery died at the hospital from cardiorespiratory failure on 2 January 1983 at the age of 67.