Equally balmy have been Milligan's stage shows and novels, many of which (The Bed Sitting Room, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall etc.) have been translated to the Big Screen.īritish telly viewers are familiar with Milligan's multitude of calculatedly short-lived comedy series, bearing such monikers as A Show Called Fred and Q5 Americans were treated to a tantalizingly brief sample of the Milligan insanity when he appeared on the 1970 summer-replacement series The Marty Feldman Comedy Series. He appeared with fellow Goons Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe in such diverting film fare as Down Among the Z Men (1952) and The Case of the Mukkinese Battlehorn (1956). In 1950, Milligan launched the nonsensical BBC radio series Crazy People, which would evolve into the legendary Goon Shows. His career proper began in 1936, when he hit the cabaret and music-hall circuit as a comic/musician. Milligan's earliest recorded stage appearance was in a grade-school production of The Nativity. In his lifetime he found fame as actor / comedian / director / playwright / poet / author but is most famous as one of the original 'Goons' Spike Milligan was born in India, the son of a highly mobile British military officer and spent his childhood in various places in the Far East.
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