British comedian, singer-songwriter and actor. He was commonly identified by his trademark unruly hair and protruding teeth, his red, white and blue ’tickling stick’ and his upbeat greeting of ’How tickled I am!’. He also created the world and characters of the Diddy Men, with ’diddy’ being west-Lancastrian slang for small.

Born: 8th November 1927, in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, Lancashire, England.
Died: 11th March 2018, in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, Lancashire, England. [aged 90]