1. Ronald Alfred Shiner was a British stand-up comedian and comedy actor whose career encompassed film, West End theatre and music hall.
22 Facts About Ronald Shiner
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When he was seventeen, Shiner joined the Royal North-West Mounted Police, after which he became a signalman and a wireless operator, then a farmer.
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Ronald Shiner worked as a greengrocer, milkman and bookmaker's clerk.
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Ronald Shiner served for three years in the British Army.
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Ronald Shiner made his stage debut in 1928 in Dr Syn and the following year became a stage director at the Stage Society.
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Ronald Shiner had support roles in My Old Dutch, Doctor's Orders and It's a Bet.
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Ronald Shiner could be seen in Gentlemen's Agreement, Royal Cavalcade, Squibs, Once a Thief, While Parents Sleep, Line Engaged, Invitation to the Waltz, King of Hearts, Limelight with Anna Neagle and Arthur Tracy, Excuse My Glove and Dreaming Lips.
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Ronald Shiner was in another with Neagle, London Melody, then was in Doctor Syn, The Black Tulip, Beauty and the Barge, and Silver Blaze.
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Ronald Shiner was in Askey's Bees in Paradise and had small roles in I Live in Grosvenor Square with Neagle, and Caesar and Cleopatra.
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Ronald Shiner's career received a massive boost when he appeared in a stage hit Worm's Eye View which ran from 1945 to 1947.
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Ronald Shiner was in a children's film Dusty Bates and had a good part in Forbidden.
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Ronald Shiner had another huge stage success when he headlined the wartime play Seagulls Over Sorrento which he played for almost 2,000 performances.
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Ronald Shiner's stardom began when he was cast as a drill sergeant in the comedy Reluctant Heroes which he had played on stage.
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Ronald Shiner made a cameo in The Magic Box then starred in his third and final film for Raymond Little Big Shot.
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Ronald Shiner remained a star for Top of the Form, directed by John Paddy Carstairs, his first film for the Rank Organisation.
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Ronald Shiner was in Innocents in Paris with Alastair Sim and supported Margaret Lockwood and two Hollywood names in Laughing Anne.
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Ronald Shiner was voted the third biggest British star of 1953, after Jack Hawkins and Alec Guinness.
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Ronald Shiner played in My Three Angels on stage in 1955.
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Ronald Shiner had a cameo in Carry On Admiral and was the lead in Not Wanted on Voyage, Girls at Sea and The Navy Lark.
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Ronald Shiner had a support part in the popular Operation Bullshine and supported in The Night We Got the Bird.
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Ronald Shiner was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1958 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre.
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Ronald Shiner starred in the London production of Aladdin as Widow Twankey with Bob Monkhouse at the Coliseum in 1960.