British comedian Barry Cryer, who wrote for sketch shows including ‘The Two Ronnies’ and ‘Morecambe and Wise,’ died on Tuesday in London, his family have confirmed. He was 86.
No cause of death has been released.
Cryer was a veteran of British television and radio. Born in Yorkshire, he originally began his career as a variety performer.
According to the BBC, broadcaster Sir David Frost spotted him on stage and invited him to work on his shows, including “The Frost Report” alongside writers John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman.
He would eventually go on to work on a number of beloved television and radio programmes including “Hello, Cheeky!,” “The Two Ronnies” and “Morecambe and Wise.”
He also wrote for dozens of famous comedians such as Bob Hope, Joan Rivers and Tommy Cooper.
Last month, Cryer launched a podcast with his son Bob, an actor and writer, interviewing many of his well-known friends including Stephen Fry,...
No cause of death has been released.
Cryer was a veteran of British television and radio. Born in Yorkshire, he originally began his career as a variety performer.
According to the BBC, broadcaster Sir David Frost spotted him on stage and invited him to work on his shows, including “The Frost Report” alongside writers John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman.
He would eventually go on to work on a number of beloved television and radio programmes including “Hello, Cheeky!,” “The Two Ronnies” and “Morecambe and Wise.”
He also wrote for dozens of famous comedians such as Bob Hope, Joan Rivers and Tommy Cooper.
Last month, Cryer launched a podcast with his son Bob, an actor and writer, interviewing many of his well-known friends including Stephen Fry,...
- 1/27/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Graham Linehan's stage adaptation of The Ladykillers succeeds where the Coen brothers failed: it's actually funny
Graham Linehan's new stage adaptation of the classic 1955 Ealing movie The Ladykillers, directed by Sean Foley, is up and running in London's West End. My colleague Michael Billington has delivered his verdict and I went to see it the other day. The questions this production throws up – apart from "Wasn't that brilliant?" and "When for goodness' sake can I see it again?" – are "How has Mr Linehan bucked the trend of film-to-play adaptations being so cynical and awful?" and "How has he succeeded where the Coen brothers failed?"
Joel and Ethan Coen produced their own remake of The Ladykillers in 2004. The original had a wacky criminal gang, led by Alec Guinness's loopy professor, renting a room in a tumbledown old house in London's King's Cross from a sweet old lady, whom...
Graham Linehan's new stage adaptation of the classic 1955 Ealing movie The Ladykillers, directed by Sean Foley, is up and running in London's West End. My colleague Michael Billington has delivered his verdict and I went to see it the other day. The questions this production throws up – apart from "Wasn't that brilliant?" and "When for goodness' sake can I see it again?" – are "How has Mr Linehan bucked the trend of film-to-play adaptations being so cynical and awful?" and "How has he succeeded where the Coen brothers failed?"
Joel and Ethan Coen produced their own remake of The Ladykillers in 2004. The original had a wacky criminal gang, led by Alec Guinness's loopy professor, renting a room in a tumbledown old house in London's King's Cross from a sweet old lady, whom...
- 12/22/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Now more than 50 years old, Ealing comedy The Ladykillers is one of Britain's best-loved films. So how will Graham Linehan, writer of The It Crowd and Father Ted, rework it for the theatre?
In the vaulting back room of a church off Islington's Upper Street in north London, five bad bogus men are plotting to bump off a little old lady. It is a hugely ambitious undertaking. Not only is The Ladykillers one of Britain's best-loved films, but the cast of the 1955 production – Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom and Danny Green – did include one or two actors that modern film programmes like to wrongly refer to as "legends", even if (pedantry aside) you know what they mean.
But this won't be a film; it's a stage version. And it's far from a knock-off of the film. The story's pretty much the same, of course – criminals posing as...
In the vaulting back room of a church off Islington's Upper Street in north London, five bad bogus men are plotting to bump off a little old lady. It is a hugely ambitious undertaking. Not only is The Ladykillers one of Britain's best-loved films, but the cast of the 1955 production – Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom and Danny Green – did include one or two actors that modern film programmes like to wrongly refer to as "legends", even if (pedantry aside) you know what they mean.
But this won't be a film; it's a stage version. And it's far from a knock-off of the film. The story's pretty much the same, of course – criminals posing as...
- 10/31/2011
- by Euan Ferguson
- The Guardian - Film News
Daniel Rigby has admitted that he never expected to win 'Best Leading Actor' at the Philips British Academy Television Awards. Rigby picked up the prize for his role as Eric Morecambe in Eric & Ernie and told reporters that he was just pleased people were happy with his representation of the comedy legend. "The most daunting thing about the job was the pressure, the weight of expectation of so many people holding Morecambe and Wise in such great love, which is the difference between them as performers and other performers," he said. "People actually genuinely love them because they associate them with family and Christmas, so the pressure was immense. As a result I worked incredibly hard, trying to get it as right as I could, and when it came out it was a relief people didn't stone me in the streets for ruining his memory." Rigby admitted (more)...
- 5/23/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Screenterrier reported on the BBC casting call back in July, to find young and teenage Eric and Ernies for Victoria Wood's BBC 2 film When Eric met Ernie.
19 year old Harry McEntire (represented by Curtis Brown) who starred in Spring Awakening at the Lyric Hammersmith, plays the teenage Ernie. He also played Davie in the BBC's successful drama adaption of David Almond's novel Clay.
14 year old Jonah Lees (Sylvia Young Theatre School) plays young Eric, Jonas has been steadily building up an impressive list of film and TV credits from a young age, as well as playing Michael Banks in the West End production of Mary Poppins. Jonah's twin Christian Lees is also an actor.
Victoria Wood herself plays Eric's pushy mother Sadie:
'We may think of Morecambe and Wise as that brilliant and much-loved double act but I've always thought that a film about their days as child...
19 year old Harry McEntire (represented by Curtis Brown) who starred in Spring Awakening at the Lyric Hammersmith, plays the teenage Ernie. He also played Davie in the BBC's successful drama adaption of David Almond's novel Clay.
14 year old Jonah Lees (Sylvia Young Theatre School) plays young Eric, Jonas has been steadily building up an impressive list of film and TV credits from a young age, as well as playing Michael Banks in the West End production of Mary Poppins. Jonah's twin Christian Lees is also an actor.
Victoria Wood herself plays Eric's pushy mother Sadie:
'We may think of Morecambe and Wise as that brilliant and much-loved double act but I've always thought that a film about their days as child...
- 11/2/2010
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
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