Jacques Brown (1900 - 3 April 1975) was a British television producer. He produced The Goon Show

The Goon Show

The Goon Show was a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme...

, Beyond Our Ken

Beyond Our Ken

Beyond Our Ken was a radio comedy programme, the predecessor to Round the Horne . Both programmes starred Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee, with announcer Douglas Smith. Musical accompaniment was provided by the BBC Revue Orchestra...

, Much Binding in the Marsh and others for the BBC

BBC

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He was born Solomon Jacob Brown in Toxteth Park, Liverpool

Liverpool

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 on 23 August 1900. A trumpet

Trumpet

The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

 player in his youth, he had many stories to tell of being a jobbing musician in London in the 1920s. He performed in a number of minor acting roles before becoming a producer.

After retiring from the BBC to nurse his wife who was seriously ill with cancer

Cancer

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 from which she later died, he helped his brother-in-law with his cake decorating

Cake decorating

Cake decorating is one of the sugar arts that uses icing or frosting and other edible decorative elements to make otherwise plain cakes more visually interesting...

 business until his death and the business folded after the postal workers strike of 1971

1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike

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He retired to Hampshire

Hampshire

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where he lived with an old friend, Mrs. W. I. Dismore, herself a widow, until his untimely death caused by complications after a car accident on 3 April 1975.