1. The son of a purser on transatlantic liners, Stark was born in New Brighton in Wirral, Cheshire, England.
12 Facts About Graham Stark
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Graham Stark began to work on BBC Radio in the postwar years, helped by Tony Hancock's connections, making his debut in Happy Go Lucky and going on to Ray's a Laugh, thanks to the intervention of Sellers.
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Graham Stark was a regular supporting player on TV with Sellers in A Show Called Fred and Son of Fred, and with Benny Hill.
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Adept at comic French accents, Graham Stark stole scenes as a hapless gendarme in Hammer's 1961 comedy A Weekend with Lulu.
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Graham Stark became a regular performer in the Pink Panther film series.
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Graham Stark was cast as the hotel clerk in the "Does your dog bite" scene in The Pink Panther Strikes Again.
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Graham Stark played the role of Lord Fortnum's physician, Captain Pontius Kak, in the original stage play of The Bedsitting Room, which opened at the Mermaid Theatre on 31 January 1963.
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In 1982, Graham Stark appeared in a cameo role as a butler, alongside Dandy Nichols, in the music video for Adam Ant's UK No 1 hit "Goody Two Shoes".
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Graham Stark played the character of Mr Nadget in the 1994 BBC adaptation of Martin Chuzzlewit.
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Graham Stark was the last known performer to have appeared on The Goon Show during its original run.
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Graham Stark associated with people such as Blake Edwards, Julie Andrews, Yul Brynner, Julie Christie, Stanley Kubrick, Sidney Poitier, Jack Palance, Kim Basinger, Sean Connery, Tony Curtis, and Ringo Starr.
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Graham Stark died in London on 29 October 2013 at age 91, after suffering a stroke.