Comedians
Found in 606 Collections and/or Records:
Blackpool Hippodrome Poster, c1950 - 1959
Max Bygraves, Winifred Atwell, Joe Jackson American comic, Hylda Baker English comic, Bood & Bood French comics, Patrick O’Hagen Irish tenor, Joan Edwards soprano, 5 fellers amazing acrobats, Princess Zola tassel Dancer from Harlem/ Red and black type on white background. Printed by central Printing Co. (Chas. Sowden) Ltd., Burnley.
Bootiful, Paws for Breath, Lion Escape Aid and Circus Time Films, c1945 - 1960
Circusama and Yesterdays Circus Today. 9.5mm, Pathescope. Black and white, silent. Includes extracts from Billy Bevan and the Andy Clyde comedy ‘Circus Time’. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.
Business Records , 1903 - 1912
Business material related to Ben Jackson's music hall and variety career including correspondence and contracts.
Business Records, 1 March 1923
Memorandum of agreement between Mrs A. Reeve-Sanger and Rupert Heath.
Central Hall, Norfolk Street, Sheffield Poster, 11 December [1905]
Charles Coborn - The Man who Broke the 'Bank of Monte Carlo'. The Banzai-Parez - Musical Troupe; Jasper Redfern's Animated Pictures - How Money is Made; Harland and Rollison - famous comedy musicians.
Central Hall Poster, 25 September c1900 - 1920
Norfolk Street, Sheffield. Jasper Redfern's Animated Pictures and Vaudeville Entertainment. Gravetta and Parr - impersonators, comedy and juggling. Percy Farrimonde - singer. Madame Gavetta - vocalist. Stanert and Yondi - musical entertainers. Imperial Concert Orchestra. Printed by Jas Neville, 134 Carver St. Moorhead, Sheffield. Blue type on off white background with blue border.
Charles Taylor Collection
The Charles Taylor collection is a fine example of Taylor’s of Wombwell printers’ posters, which highlight changes in printing techniques, fashion and taste within the popular entertainment industry. Included are examples of posters for pantomimes, fairs and circuses. The collection also contains handbills and other advertising material.
Chelsea Palace Theatre Poster, Week commencing Monday 31 August 1931
Shaun Glenville Irish Comedian, Florrie Forde chorus singer, Archie Glen Ben Said the funjuror, The Hearnes, Pauline Crothers and her violin, The London six-Harmony, burlesque, Dancing. Blue and red type on white background. Printed by John Waddington ltd., 108 Albion Road, Stoke Newington.
Chester Royalty Theatre Poster, Week commencing 4 July 1932
Colin Wark presents, Troise and the Mandoliers, Gerard Snoeck the squeeze-box merchant, Handby Celeine Trio in skatorial moments, Mayfair Sisters two grass widows in something different, Bert Hopping mountain of mirth, Betty Bruce feminine but funny, Ivor John from Covent Garden & Carl Rosa Opera Co., Revill and Syd versatility personified. Blue and red type on cream background. Printed by Taplen & Paddock Printers, Cuppin Street, Chester.
Chicken Cooped Film, c1945 - 1960
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 9.5mm, Pathetoscope. 300 feet, 12 minutes long. Black and white, silent. Comedy starring Flora Finch. Copied to DVD 4 and DIGI-BETA.
Christmas Greenting Card, 15 December 1904
New Year's postcard from Ben Jackson to Mrs Ben Jackson, 160 Wellington Road, Rhyl, with American postal stamp.
Christopher Palmer Collection
Circus programmes and VHS tapes from Billy Smart’s Circus and Chipperfields’s Circus collected during the 1970s and early 1980s by the TV producer, Christopher John Palmer. There are also a number of promotional photographs of artistes and other ephemera related to the circus.
Circus Friends Association Collection
This collection consists of a large library of books and journals, as well as archival material including posters, programmes, photographs, films, handbills, research material, scrapbooks, original artwork and many other items of ephemera relating to British, Irish and European circuses
Circus Spell Binders and Three Comedy Short Films, c1965 - 1979
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. Super8, Grasso. Castle Films. Black and white, silent. Possible soundtrack. Label on the side of the box reads 'Mixture..'. Possible compilation that includes Circus Spell Binders. However, it is on a 'std 8mm' label and may have been left on buy mistake. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.
City Varieties Leeds Poster, Week commencing Monday 8 November c1982
Nat Jackley ‘The original Rubber necked Comedian with his Happy Gang’ with Penny Nicholls, Tom Howard, Mike Onions, Chris Corbally, Barbara Jackson, John Warwick, The Calders. Red and blue type with border on yellow background.
Civic Theatre Poster, Sunday 15 May 1983
Barnsley. Call up the Comedians, Jimmy Marshall and others. Red and blue print with photograph. Printed by Walkers-Printers.
Co-operative Hall Poster, c1920 - 1929
Edlington. Hodson’s blue Star Comedy, concert & Dramatic Co., Various plays. Black type on purple background.
Cockeyed Clowns, Tons of Trouble, and Circus Thrills Film, c1907 - 2001
Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. Super8, Auto Reel. 'Cockeyed Clowns' is a Silent comedy, starring Ben Turpin. 'Tons of Trouble' has Sound. 'Circus Thrills' has Sound.
Colonnade Theatre de Luxe, 24 June 1912
Leamington, Ben Jackson in banjo tricks and comedy, Forotten Clue, Lumbering in Brazil, The Hobo, Mind the Paint, Feudal Debt, a storyof the Kentucky Hills, Pathes Gazette, 1st Edition, Shamus O’Brien in 2 acts and 34 scenes, Studies in Aquatic Life, Bolster’s Infatuation, Just Like a Woman, Pathes’ Gazette, 2nd Edition, Rall and Tando, comedy duo 'The Doctor and The Serio'. White red and blue type on white background with red border. Printed by Maisey and Son printers.
Colonnade Theatre De Luxe Poster, 24 June 1912
Leamington, Ben Jackson in banjo tricks and comedy, Rall and Tando, comedy duo 'The Doctor and The Serio'. Blue and red type on white background with red border. Printed by Malsey and Son printers.