Milligan's War: The Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan

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Milligan, Spike (13 December 2012). Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall. Penguin UK. ISBN 9780241966181 . Retrieved 21 December 2017– via Google Books. I made friends with two little French kids on their way to school, a girl and a boy. I gave them two English pennies. In exchange they gave me an empty matchbox, with a camel label on the top. I shall always remember their faces. a b c d e "Spike Milligan (obituary)". Scotsman.com. Edinburgh. 28 February 2002. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012 . Retrieved 25 March 2013.

The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine[14/01/72] (1972)". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021. On 22 April 1965, Queen Elizabeth and her family attended as part of her 39th birthday celebration. Just after the curtain rose, a group of four latecomers attempted to slink to their seats directly in front of the royal family. Milligan immediately shouted: "Turn up the house lights! Start everything again!" He pointed to the blushing foursome and cried: "That's cost you your knighthood!" [48] Farnes, Norma (2003). Spike: An Intimate Memoir. London: Fourth Estate. ISBN 978-1-84115-786-3. OCLC 52738571.After leaving school, he worked as a clerk in the Woolwich Arsenal, played the cornet and discovered jazz. He also joined the Young Communist League [3] to demonstrate his hatred of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, who were gaining support near his home in South London. [3] Second World War [ edit ] Men of Milligan's unit, 56th Heavy Regiment, with a BL 9.2-inch howitzer, Hastings, Sussex, May 1940 A Scammell Pioneer tows a howitzer of 18 Battery, 56th Heavy Regiment in Italy, 23 December 1943. Before Spike Milligan wrote The Goon Show he had to go to war. He wrote seven short books about the experience based on his diaries, here's the first one which concerns joining the army, training, starting a jazz band during training, more training, exploits/hijinks/affairs, and finally getting shipped off to Northern Africa, where the book ends. The novel had been adapted for the stage by Italian writer Riccardo Aragno. [44] Aragno's script for Oblomov was bought by Milligan's production company in early 1964. Milligan had long nurtured hopes of transitioning from comedy to serious drama. To this end, Milligan rehearsed for seven weeks with director Frank Dunlop and castmates Joan Greenwood, Bill Owen, and Valentine Dyall at the Lyric Hammersmith. Monty: His Part in My Victory is volume three of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs. Guest star in the 3rd episode of the award-winning BBC Scotland drama series Takin' Over the Asylum (1994). [107]

Antrobus, John (2002). Surviving Spike Milligan: A Voyage Through the Mind & Mirth of the Master Goon. London: Robson Books. ISBN 0-246-12275-7. pp. 17, 24. Personal papers". St John's College. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018 . Retrieved 21 December 2017. In 1975 he fathered a son, James (b. June 1976), in an affair with Margaret Maughan. Another child, a daughter Romany, is suspected to have been born at the same time, to a Canadian journalist named Roberta Watt.Milligan also quotes the memoirs of noted theatre director John Counsell, his sometime deputy battery commander, who noted the laughter in the ranks when Milligan was around, and then after the war, at the height of the Goons' fame, queued with his daughter for autographs. He received one that showed Milligan remembered him with respect and affection. The film Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1972) was produced by Gregory Smith and Norman Cohen, and directed by Norman Cohen. It stars Jim Dale as the young Spike, Arthur Lowe and Bill Maynard, with a cameo appearance by Milligan as his own father. [6] Milligan, Spike (1971). Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall. Michael Joseph. pp. 36, 81. ISBN 9780718108663.