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Norman Giller (born 18 April 1940 Stepney
Stepney

Stepney is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located east north-east of Charing Cross and forms part of the East End of London....
, East End, London) is a prolific English author, a sports historian and television scriptwriter.

With eighty-one books to his name, Norman Giller is a prolific author who served his writing apprenticeship as a notable Fleet Street
Fleet Street

Fleet Street is a street in London, England named after the River Fleet. It was the home of the List of newspapers in the United Kingdom until the 1980s....
 journalist
Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
. He was chief football reporter with the Daily Express
Daily Express

The Daily Express is a conservative, United Kingdom tabloid newspaper, in its heyday a middle-market title but nowadays very much downmarket....
 in London (1964-74), and has been a freelance writer since leaving Fleet Street in 1974.






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Norman Giller (born 18 April 1940 Stepney
Stepney

Stepney is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located east north-east of Charing Cross and forms part of the East End of London....
, East End, London) is a prolific English author, a sports historian and television scriptwriter.

With eighty-one books to his name, Norman Giller is a prolific author who served his writing apprenticeship as a notable Fleet Street
Fleet Street

Fleet Street is a street in London, England named after the River Fleet. It was the home of the List of newspapers in the United Kingdom until the 1980s....
 journalist
Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
. He was chief football reporter with the Daily Express
Daily Express

The Daily Express is a conservative, United Kingdom tabloid newspaper, in its heyday a middle-market title but nowadays very much downmarket....
 in London (1964-74), and has been a freelance writer since leaving Fleet Street in 1974. He was 14 years a member of the This Is Your Life
This Is Your Life (UK TV series)

This Is Your Life is a Documentary film series airing in the United Kingdom, originally on BBC Television, and now ITV. It is based on the United States This Is Your Life which aired from 1952 to 1961, and again in 1972 on NBC....
 scriptwriting
Screenwriting

Screenwriting is the art and craft of writing Screenplay for film, television or video games.Writing for film is potentially one of the most high-profile and best-paying careers available to a writer and, as such, is also perhaps the most sought after....
 team, and has devised several television series including Who's the Greatest? (ITV, 1980s), The Games of 48 and Over the Moon, Brian (ITV 1990s), Petrolheads
Petrolheads

Petrolheads was a short-lived BBC panel game hosted by Neil Morrissey, with team captains Richard Hammond and Chris Barrie. The show pitted motoring wits against each other and included car stunts shot on location....
 (BBC2 2006); he co-produced 63 editions of Stand and Deliver (Sky TV, 1990s), and has been scriptwriter and co-producer with Top Gear
Top Gear (current format)

Top Gear is a BAFTA, multi-National Television Awards and International Emmy Award-winning BBC television series about motor vehicles, primarily automobile....
 director Brian Klein of more than 50 sports-based videos/DVDs, featuring celebrities such as Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay

Gordon James Ramsay, Order of the British Empire, is a chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded a total of 14 Michelin Guide#Michelin stars and other ratings, and in 2007 became one of only three chefs in the United Kingdom to hold three Michelin stars at one time....
, Ray Winstone
Ray Winstone

Raymond Andrew "Ray" Winstone, Jr. is an Emmy Award-winning English people film and television actor. He is mostly known for his "tough guy" roles, beginning with that of Carlin in the 1979 film Scum , and is also known as a voice over actor....
, Alan Hansen
Alan Hansen

Alan David Hansen is a BBC television football pundit and a former football player. He played for Partick Thistle F.C. , Liverpool F.C. , and the Scotland national football team ....
, John Motson
John Motson

John Walker Motson Order of the British Empire , sometimes known as Motty, is an English football commentator....
, Dickie Bird, Frank Bruno
Frank Bruno

Franklin Roy Bruno is an English former Boxing whose career highlight was winning the World Boxing Council Heavyweight championship in 1995. Altogether, he won 40 of his 45 contests....
, Frankie Dettori
Frankie Dettori

Lanfranco "Frankie" Dettori, Order of the British Empire is an Italian thoroughbred race horse jockey and celebrity. He is the son of Sardinian jockey Gianfranco Dettori, who was a prolific winner in Italy....
, Lawrence Dallaglio
Lawrence Dallaglio

Lawrence Bruno Nero Dallaglio, Order of the British Empire is a retired England rugby union player and former captain of the England Rugby team....
, Harry Carpenter
Harry Carpenter

Harry Carpenter , was a BBC sports Sportscaster from the early 1950s until his retirement in 1994. His speciality was boxing. He was presenter of programmes such as Sportsnight and Grandstand and also anchored coverage of The Championships, Wimbledon and golf tournaments....
, and Jimmy Greaves
Jimmy Greaves

James Peter 'Jimmy' Greaves is an England former Association football player, England's third highest goalscorer, and more recently a television pundit and is considered to be one of the finest goalscorers of his generation....
. His output has also included crosswords and puzzle games
Puzzle

A puzzle is a problem or enigma that tests the ingenuity of the solver. In a basic puzzle one is intended to piece together objects in a logical way in order to come up with the desired shape, picture or solution....
 with The Times
The Times

The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International....
, Daily and Sunday Express, The Sun, Sunday Telegraph
Sunday Telegraph

The Sunday Telegraph is a United Kingdom broadsheet newspaper, founded in 1961. It is the sister paper of The Daily Telegraph, but is run separately, with a different editorial staff....
 and London Evening News
London Evening News

The London Evening News was a newspaper that was first published on 14 August 1855.Usually when people mention the London Evening News they are actually referring to the Evening News , that was published in London from 1881 to 1980 when it was incorporated into the Evening Standard....
. Giller was the argument-settling Judge of The Sun for ten years, and he and his sports statistician son Michael set the 2,000 questions for the DVD version of Football Trivial Pursuit. With his then partner Peter Lorenzo, Giller created one of the first major pub quiz competitions in 1974. It was called What's Yours? and had 64 competing pubs in a series sponsored by the Charrington's chain in south-east England. His 81st book is a collaboration with Pelé
Pelé

Edison Arantes do Nascimento, Order of the British Empire , best known by his nickname Pel? is a Brazilian former Association football player, rated by many as the greatest footballer of all time....
 and Gordon Banks
Gordon Banks

Gordon Banks, Order of the British Empire is a former English football , elected in a poll by the IFFHS as the second best goalkeeper of the 20th Century - after Lev Yashin and before Dino Zoff ....
 and in partnership with their UK agent Terry Baker, a limited edition featuring an in-depth look at their careers and, in particular, the famous Banks save against Pelé for England against Brazil in the 1970 World Cup finals. Giller has a regular Fleet Street nostalgia blog at the Sports Journalists' Association website (http://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/blog/?cat=35)

Biography


Giller was born in London's East End
East End of London

The East End of London, known locally as the East End, is the area of London, England, east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames, although it is not defined by universally accepted formal boundaries....
 in the first year of the Second World War, and was evacuated with his mother and three brothers to a Devon
Devon

Devon is a large Counties of England in South West England. The county is also referred to as Devonshire, but that is an entirely unofficial name, rarely used inside of the county but often indicating a shire....
shire farm. Educated at Raine's Foundation Grammar School in Stepney
Stepney

Stepney is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located east north-east of Charing Cross and forms part of the East End of London....
, he left at 15 to become a copyboy
Gofer

A gofer or go-fer is an employee who is often sent on errands. The term originated in North America, with the phrase dogsbody being a similar British English term, and dog robber an United States military one....
 with the London Evening News. He started his reporting career with the Stratford
Stratford, London

Stratford, historically Stratford Langthorne, is a place in the London Borough of Newham in East London, England. It will be the primary location of the 2012 Summer Olympics....
 Express in West Ham
West Ham

West Ham is a district in the London Borough of Newham, in East London, England, England, located east of Charing Cross.From 1889 to 1965 it formed part of the County Borough of West Ham....
 (1957), and arrived at the Daily Express after employment as a sports sub-editor with Boxing News
Boxing News

Boxing News is the longest-running boxing magazine still in publication, dating back to 1909. Owned by Newsquest Specialist Media , Boxing News is staunchly independent, relentlessly creative and is a boxing tradition....
, the London Evening Standard
Evening Standard

The Evening Standard is an United Kingdom tabloid regional local newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast England....
 and the Daily Herald
Daily Herald

The Daily Herald was a United Kingdom newspaper, published in London from 1912 to 1964 . It ceased publication when it was relaunched as The Sun ....
.

Giller has worked extensively in PR
Public relations

Public relations is the practice of managing the flow of information between an organization and its publics. Public relations - often referred to as PR - gains an organization or individual exposure to their audiences using topics of public interest and news items that do not require direct payment....
 and for ten years represented former boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 world champions Frank Bruno
Frank Bruno

Franklin Roy Bruno is an English former Boxing whose career highlight was winning the World Boxing Council Heavyweight championship in 1995. Altogether, he won 40 of his 45 contests....
, John H Stracey, Jim Watt
Jim Watt

Jim Watt is a former United Kingdom Boxing, who became world champion in the lightweight division when Roberto Duran left the title vacant in 1979 and the World Boxing Council had him fight Alfredo Pitalua....
, Maurice Hope
Maurice Hope

Maurice Hope is a former Boxing from England, who was world Jr. Middleweight champion. Hope lived in London Borough of Hackney most of his life, but now lives in his place of birth, Antigua....
 (all managed by his best friend Terry Lawless
Terry Lawless

Terry Lawless , was a boxing Coach and Athletic trainer who worked in London, most successfully during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.Lawless was based at the Royal Oak gym in the Canning Town district of London, close to the famous York Hall boxing venue, where he worked with the East End of London trainer Jimmy Tibbs....
), and (for his European fights) Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali is a retired United States boxing and former three-time List of heavyweight boxing champions.As an amateur, Ali won a gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in the light heavyweight division gold medal....
 ("He needed a PR like Einstein needed a calculator", says Giller). He wrote regular newspaper and magazine columns in harness with Eric Morecambe
Eric Morecambe

John Eric Bartholomew Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the award-winning double act Morecambe and Wise....
 for nine years, and also had collaborations with legendary comedians Benny Hill
Benny Hill

Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill , was an England comedian, actor and singer, best known for his television programme The Benny Hill Show....
 and Tommy Cooper
Tommy Cooper

Tommy Cooper was an British people prop comedian and magic . He was known for making an art of getting magic tricks wrong, although he was actually an accomplished magician....
. Giller was commissioned to write six Carry On
Carry On films

Carry On is a long-running film series of low-budget United Kingdom comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. They are an energetic mix of parody, farce, slapstick and double entendres....
 novels, sequels to the popular films. He also scripted an adult pantomime for EastEnders
EastEnders

EastEnders is a popular and award-winning television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985. It currently ranks within the top of the most watched shows in the United Kingdom....
 co-stars Mike Reid and Barbara Windsor, and was chief scriptwriter for the Laureus World Sports Awards
Laureus World Sports Awards

The Laureus World Sports Awards are awarded annually to sportspeople who have been outstanding during the previous year. The Laureus World Sports Awards were established in 1999 by Founding Patrons Daimler and Richemont and is supported by its Global Partners Mercedes-Benz, IWC Schaffhausen and Vodafone....
 when they were staged in Monte Carlo.

He was married for 45 years to Eileen, who passed on in 2006. Giller has two grown children, Lisa and Michael and four grandchildren. When Eileen died following renal failure, Giller raised more than £15,000 for the Dorset Kidney Fund by building a Wall of Love on the internet .

Hoping to reach 100 books before he leaves this mortal coil, Giller is currently based in Dorset where he runs a sports facts, figures and research service with his son, Michael. They organize themed quiz nights. Giller and his partner, Jackie Jones, specialise in Powerpoint-supported presentations on such themes as the life and music of Rodgers and Hart
Rodgers and Hart

Rodgers and Hart were an United States songwriter partnership consisting of the composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist Lorenz Hart ....
, the Gershwin brothers and Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
; also the Footballing Fifties and Sixties, and the life and times of Billy Wright
Billy Wright

Billy Wright may refer to:* Billy Wright , Wolverhampton Wanderers and England football captain* Billy Wright , Everton and Birmingham City centre-half...
 and Denis Compton
Denis Compton

Denis Charles Scott Compton Order of the British Empire was an English cricketer who played in 78 Test cricket, and a football . He spent the whole of his cricket career with Middlesex County Cricket Club and the whole of his football career at Arsenal F.C.....
, plus an illustrated lecture for literary associations and clubs entitled 'If You Can Write A Postcard, You Can Write A Book'. Giller is webmaster for the Wessex branch of the Frank Sinatra Music Society .

Bibliography

  • Banks of England (with Gordon Banks
    Gordon Banks

    Gordon Banks, Order of the British Empire is a former English football , elected in a poll by the IFFHS as the second best goalkeeper of the 20th Century - after Lev Yashin and before Dino Zoff ....
    )
  • Pelé v Banks, The Save that Shook the World (with Terry Baker)
  • The Glory and the Grief (with George Graham
    George Graham

    George Graham may refer to:In politics:*George Graham , 18th-century governor of Newfoundland*George Graham *George Perry Graham , Canadian MP from Ontario...
    )
  • Football And All That (an irreverent history of the game)
  • The Seventies Revisited (with Kevin Keegan
    Kevin Keegan

    Joseph Kevin Keegan, Officer of the Order of the British Empire , commonly known as Kevin Keegan, is a former international association football, and former manager of several English clubs and the England national football team....
    )
  • The Final Score (with Brian Moore
    Brian Moore

    Brian Moore may refer to:*Brian Moore *Brian Moore *Brian Moore , Socialist Party USA and Liberty Union Party nominee for president*Brian Moore , Australian rugby league footballer and coach...
    )
  • ABC of Soccer Sense (Tommy Docherty
    Tommy Docherty

    Thomas Henderson Docherty , usually known as 'Tommy Docherty' or 'The Doc', is a Scotland former football er and football manager....
    )
  • Billy Wright
    Billy Wright (footballer)

    William Ambrose "Billy" Wright, Order of the British Empire was an English football , who spent his whole career at Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.....
    , A Hero for All Seasons     (official biography)
  • The Rat Race (with Tommy Docherty)
  • Denis Compton (The Untold Stories)
  • McFootball, the Scottish Heroes of the English Game
  • The Book of Rugby Lists (with Gareth Edwards
    Gareth Edwards

    Gareth Owen Edwards Order of the British Empire is a former Welsh rugby union footballer who played Rugby union positions#9. Scrum-half, considered by many to be one of the greatest players in the history of the game....
    )
  • The Book of Tennis Lists (with John Newcombe
    John Newcombe

    John David Newcombe Order of Australia Order of the British Empire is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players tennis champion....
    )
  • The Book of Golf Lists
  • TV Quiz Trivia
  • Sports Quiz Trivia
  • Know What I Mean (with Frank Bruno
    Frank Bruno

    Franklin Roy Bruno is an English former Boxing whose career highlight was winning the World Boxing Council Heavyweight championship in 1995. Altogether, he won 40 of his 45 contests....
    )
  • Eye of the Tiger (with Frank Bruno)
  • From Zero to Hero (with Frank Bruno)
  • The Judge Book of Sports Answers
  • Watt's My Name (with Jim Watt)
  • My Most Memorable Fights (with Henry Cooper
    Henry Cooper

    Henry Cooper may refer to:*Henry Cooper , British boxer*Henry Cooper from Tennessee*Henry Cooper , English recipient of the Victoria Cross...
    )
  • How to Box (with Henry Cooper)
  • Henry Cooper's 100 Greatest Boxers
  • Mike Tyson
    Mike Tyson

    Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson, also known as Malik Abdul, is a retired United States Boxing. He was the List of undisputed boxing champions#Heavyweight and remains the youngest man ever to win a world heavyweight title at just 20 years old....
     Biography
  • Mike Tyson, the Release of Power (Reg Gutteridge)
  • Crown of Thorns, the World Heavyweight Championship (with Neil Duncanson
  • Fighting for Peace (Barry McGuigan
    Barry McGuigan

    Finbar Patrick McGuigan Order of the British Empire, more commonly known as Barry McGuigan , nicknamed the Clones Cyclone, is a former professional boxing who became a world Featherweight champion....
     biography, with Peter Batt
  • World's Greatest Cricket Matches
  • World's Greatest Football Matches
  • Golden Heroes (with Dennis Signy
  • The Judge (1,001 arguments settled)
  • The Great Football IQ Quiz Book (The Judge of The Sun)
  • The Marathon Kings
  • The Golden Milers (with Sir Roger Bannister
    Roger Bannister

    Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, Order of the British Empire is an England former athlete best known as the first man in history to run the mile in Four-minute mile....
    )
  • Olympic Heroes (with Brendan Foster
    Brendan Foster

    Brendan Foster Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom former distance runner, and the founder of the Great North Run. He was educated at St Joseph's Grammar School, the University of Sussex and Carnegie College of Physical Education, now part of Leeds Metropolitan University....
    )
  • Olympics Handbook 1980
  • Olympics Handbook 1984
  • Book of Cricket Lists (Tom Graveney
    Tom Graveney

    Thomas William Graveney in Riding Mill, Northumberland, is a former English cricket team cricketer and was the President of the Marylebone Cricket Club for 2004/5....
    )
  • Top Ten Cricket Book (Tom Graveney)
  • Cricket Heroes (Eric Morecambe
    Eric Morecambe

    John Eric Bartholomew Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the award-winning double act Morecambe and Wise....
    )
  • Big Fight Quiz Book
  • TVIQ Puzzle Book
  • Lucky the Fox (with Barbara Wright
    Barbara Wright

    Barbara Wright was an English translator of modern French literature.Wright studied art in Paris in the years before World War II. She began her career as a pianist specialising in the accompaniment of Lieder, supporting herself by working as an art and literary critic, often needing to translate the...
    )
  • Gloria Hunniford
    Gloria Hunniford

    Gloria Hunniford is a TV and radio presenter, and formerly a singer. She is the mother of Caron Keating who died of breast cancer in 2004....
    's TV Challenge
  • Footballing Fifties
  • The concorde club
    The concorde club

    The Concorde Club was launched 51 years ago in Southampton by jazz aficionado Cole Mathieson, and is the oldest jazz club under the same management in the United Kingdom and possibly the world....
     - The First 50 Years     (with Cole Mathieson


    • Comedy novels

    • Carry On Doctor
      Carry On Doctor

      Carry On Doctor is the fifteenth film in the "Carry On films" series. It has been described as the best of the four Carry On films set in a hospital....
    • Carry On England
      Carry On England

      Carry On England is the 28th Carry On films film. It was released in 1976 in film....
    • Carry On Loving
      Carry On Loving

      Carry On Loving is the twentieth Carry On films film. It was released in 1970 in film. Many fictitious locations playing on the theme of sex such as Much-Snogging-On-The-Green, Rogerham Mansions and Dunham Road appear in the film....
  • Carry On Up the Khyber
    Carry On up the Khyber

    Carry On Up the Khyber is the sixteenth Carry On films, released in 1968 in film. The film starred Sid James as Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond, and Kenneth Williams as Randy Lal, the Khasi of Kalabar....
  • Carry On Abroad
    Carry On Abroad

    Carry On Abroad is the twenty fourth Carry On films, released in 1972 in film. It was the last Carry On film featuring Charles Hawtrey in the cast....
  • Carry On Henry
    Carry On Henry

    Carry On Henry is the 21st of the Carry On films series and was released in 1971 in film. It tells a fictionalised story involving Sid James as Henry VIII, who chases after Barbara Windsor's character Bettina....


    • Novels

    • A Stolen Life (novel)
    • Mike Baldwin: Mr Heartbreak (novel)
    • Hitler's Final Victim (novel)
  • Affairs (novel)
  • The Bung (novel)


    • Books in collaboration with Ricky Tomlinson
    Ricky Tomlinson

    Eric Tomlinson , known by his stage name Ricky Tomlinson, is an England actor, best known for his starring role on the BBC kitchen sink realism sitcom The Royle Family....

    • Football My Arse
    • Celebrities My Arse
  • Cheers My Arse
  • Reading My Arse (The Search for the Rock Island Line)


    • Books in collaboration with Jimmy Greaves
    Jimmy Greaves

    James Peter 'Jimmy' Greaves is an England former Association football player, England's third highest goalscorer, and more recently a television pundit and is considered to be one of the finest goalscorers of his generation....

    • This One's On Me
    • The Final (novel)
    • The Ball Game (novel)
    • The Boss (novel)
    • The Second Half (novel)
    • Let's Be Honest (with Reg Gutteridge
      Reg Gutteridge

      Reg Gutteridge, OBE was a boxing journalist and television commentator.Gutteridge was born into a boxing family in London Borough of Islington....
      )
    • Greavsie's Heroes and Entertainers
    • World Cup History
    • GOALS! The greatest ever scored
    • Stop the Game, I Want to Get On
  • The Book of Football Lists
  • Taking Sides
  • Funny Old Games (with Ian St John)
  • Sports Quiz Challenge
  • Sports Quiz Challenge 2
  • It's A Funny Old Life
  • Saint & Greavsie's World Cup Special
  • The Sixties Revisited
  • Don’t Shoot the Manager


    • Television


    • This Is Your Life
      This Is Your Life (UK TV series)

      This Is Your Life is a Documentary film series airing in the United Kingdom, originally on BBC Television, and now ITV. It is based on the United States This Is Your Life which aired from 1952 to 1961, and again in 1972 on NBC....
       scriptwriter (1981-1995)
    Including programmes featuring Sir Richard Branson
    Richard Branson

    Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, best known for his Virgin Group brand of over 360 companies. Branson's first successful business venture was at age 16, when he published a magazine called Student....
    , Sir Jimmy Savile
    Jimmy Savile

    Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , commonly known as Jimmy Savile , is an England DJ, actor and media personality, best known for his BBC television show Jim'll Fix It, and for being the first and last presenter of the long-running BBC chart show Top of the Pops....
    , Frank Bruno
    Frank Bruno

    Franklin Roy Bruno is an English former Boxing whose career highlight was winning the World Boxing Council Heavyweight championship in 1995. Altogether, he won 40 of his 45 contests....
    , Paul Daniels
    Paul Daniels

    Paul Daniels is a United Kingdom magic and television performer. He achieved national fame through his television series The Paul Daniels Magic Show, which ran on the BBC from 1979 to 1994....
    , Simon Weston
    Simon Weston

    Simon Weston OBE is a former British Army soldier who became well known throughout the United Kingdom for his courageous recovery and charity work after suffering severe Burn during the Falklands War....
    , Ruth Madoc
    Ruth Madoc

    Ruth Madoc is a Welsh actress and singer. She is probably most famous for her role as Gladys Pugh in the 1980s BBC television comedy Hi-de-Hi!, although appearances as Daffyd Thomas's mother in the second series of Little Britain have helped to maintain her profile much more recently....
    , Dan Maskell
    Dan Maskell

    Daniel Maskell was an England tennis player, who later became even better known as a radio and television commentator on the game, and was known as the BBC's "voice of tennis"....
    , Cliff Morgan
    Cliff Morgan

    Cliff Morgan is a former Welsh rugby union player who played for Cardiff RFC and earned 29 caps for Wales national rugby union team between 1951 and 1958....
    , Denis Compton
    Denis Compton

    Denis Charles Scott Compton Order of the British Empire was an English cricketer who played in 78 Test cricket, and a football . He spent the whole of his cricket career with Middlesex County Cricket Club and the whole of his football career at Arsenal F.C.....
    , Billy Wright
    Billy Wright (footballer)

    William Ambrose "Billy" Wright, Order of the British Empire was an English football , who spent his whole career at Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.....
    , Peter Shilton
    Peter Shilton

    Peter Leslie Shilton, Order of the British Empire is a former Goalkeeper who holds the record for playing more games than any other player. His international career earned him 125 Cap , making him England's most capped player....
    , John Surtees
    John Surtees

    John Surtees, Order of the British Empire is a former Grand Prix motorcycle racing motorcycle road racing and Formula One driver from England....
    , Nigel Mansell
    Nigel Mansell

    Nigel Ernest James Mansell Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom racing driver from England who won both the Formula One World Championship and Champ Car ....
    , James Herbert
    James Herbert

    James Herbert is an England novelist known for his work in the horror . He has been widely recognised as a writer of simple yet compelling sensationalist novels, which are notable for their use of horrific Set Piece ....
    , Jack 'Kid' Berg
    Jack Kid Berg

    Judah Bergman, known as Jack Kid Berg or Jackie Kid Berg , was an England boxing born in the East End of London....
    , Reg Gutteridge
    Reg Gutteridge

    Reg Gutteridge, OBE was a boxing journalist and television commentator.Gutteridge was born into a boxing family in London Borough of Islington....
    , Mike Reid
    Mike Reid

    Mike Reid can refer to*Mike Reid , late English comedian and actor, best known for his role as Frank Butcher in the BBC soap opera EastEnders...
    , Stan Boardman
    Stan Boardman

    Stan Boardman is an England comedian....
    , Benny Green
    Benny Green

    Benny Green , born in Leeds, Yorkshire, was a Cockney-accented British jazz saxophoneist, who was most well known by the public for his radio shows and books....
    , George Shearing
    George Shearing

    Sir George Shearing Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom jazz pianist who, during the 1950s, had a popular Jazz group for MGM Records and Capitol Records....


    • Who's the Greatest, devisor and scriptwriter of an ITV series that involved celebrities such as:
    Sir David Frost
    David Frost

    David Frost may refer to*Sir David Frost , British broadcaster*David Frost , South African golfer*David Frost , classical record producer*David Frost ...
    , Sir Michael Parkinson
    Michael Parkinson

    Sir Michael Parkinson, Order of the British Empire is an English people broadcaster and journalist. He presented his interview programme, Parkinson , from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007....
    , Sir Jeffrey Archer, Tom Graveney
    Tom Graveney

    Thomas William Graveney in Riding Mill, Northumberland, is a former English cricket team cricketer and was the President of the Marylebone Cricket Club for 2004/5....
    , Gloria Hunniford
    Gloria Hunniford

    Gloria Hunniford is a TV and radio presenter, and formerly a singer. She is the mother of Caron Keating who died of breast cancer in 2004....
    , Eamonn Andrews
    Eamonn Andrews

    Eamonn Andrews, Order of the British Empire was an Ireland-born television presenter based in England.Andrews was born in Synge Street, Dublin, Ireland, the same street as playwright George Bernard Shaw....
    , Tom O'Connor
    Tom O'Connor

    Tom O'Connor is a United Kingdom actor and comedian. He is best known for presenting game shows such as Crosswits , The Zodiac Game, Name That Tune and Gambit ....
    , Stan Boardman
    Stan Boardman

    Stan Boardman is an England comedian....
    , Bernie Winters
    Bernie Winters

    Bernie Winters September 6, 1932, Islington, London, England - May 4, 1991, London, England) was an English comedian and the comic relief of the double act, Mike and Bernie Winters with his brother, Mike Winters ....
    , Dennis Waterman
    Dennis Waterman

    Dennis Waterman is an English actor and singer, best known for his tough-guy roles in television series such as The Sweeney and Minder ....
    , Willie Rushton
    Willie Rushton

    William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton was an England cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the Private Eye satirical magazine....
     and Sir Henry Cooper
    Henry Cooper

    Henry Cooper may refer to*Henry Cooper , British boxer*Henry Cooper from Tennessee*Henry Cooper , English recipient of the Victoria Cross...
    .


    • Stunt Challenge for ITV
      ITV

      ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
       (in the 1980s, scriptwriter with Derek Thompson
      Derek Thompson

      Derek Thompson is a British actor, most notable for playing Charlie Fairhead in the long-running BBC television medical drama series Casualty since 1986....
      .


    • Stand and Deliver for Sky TV
      British Sky Broadcasting

      British Sky Broadcasting is a company that operates Sky Digital , a subscription television service in the UK and Republic of Ireland. It produces TV content, and owns several TV channels....
       (co-producer with Brian Klein of On the Box Productions)
    63 comedy programmes featuring, among others, Mike Reid
    Mike Reid

    Mike Reid can refer to*Mike Reid , late English comedian and actor, best known for his role as Frank Butcher in the BBC soap opera EastEnders...
    , Norman Collier
    Norman Collier

    Norman Collier is a long-serving comedian. He is best known for his legendary 'faulty microphone' routine and for his amazingly lifelike chicken impressions....
    , Frank Carson
    Frank Carson

    Frank Carson is a Northern Irish comedian and actor, best known on television in series such as The Comedians and Tiswas....
    , Jim Bowen
    Jim Bowen

    Jim Bowen born Peter B. Williams in Heswall, Cheshire, England on August 20, 1937 is an English stand-up comedy and TV personality. He is known as the host of the ITV gameshow Bullseye which ran for 14 years and was watched by over 12 million viewers....
    , Stan Boardman
    Stan Boardman

    Stan Boardman is an England comedian....
    , Ted Rogers
    Ted Rogers

    Ted Rogers , was a fast talking England comedian and light entertainer who originally started his career as a red coat entertainer and is best remembered as the only host in the original series of the Yorkshire Television Gameshow 3-2-1 which ran 10 years between 1978 and 1988....
    , Cannon and Ball
    Cannon and Ball

    Cannon and Ball are an England comedy double act consisting of Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball. The duo met in the early 1960s while working as welders in Oldham....
     and Bernard Manning
    Bernard Manning

    Bernard John Manning was an England Stand-up comedy. He was born and brought up in Manchester in North West England.Manning courted controversy because his act often contained material involving ethnic stereotypes and minority groups....
    .


    • The Games of 48 (ITV
      ITV

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       1998, devisor and scriptwriter with Brian Moore
      Brian Moore

      Brian Moore may refer to:*Brian Moore *Brian Moore *Brian Moore , Socialist Party USA and Liberty Union Party nominee for president*Brian Moore , Australian rugby league footballer and coach...
      )
    Guests included Olympic legends Emil Zátopek
    Emil Zátopek

    Emil Z?topek was a Czech Republic Athletics probably best known for his amazing feat of winning three gold medals in athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki....
    , Fanny Blankers-Koen
    Fanny Blankers-Koen

    Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen was a Netherlands athletics , best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London....
     and Bob Mathias
    Bob Mathias

    Robert Bruce Mathias was an United States Decathlon, two-time Olympic Games gold medalist, and United States House of Representatives....


    • Petrolheads
      Petrolheads

      Petrolheads was a short-lived BBC panel game hosted by Neil Morrissey, with team captains Richard Hammond and Chris Barrie. The show pitted motoring wits against each other and included car stunts shot on location....
       (2006 for BBC2), devisor and scriptwriter
    Regular panellists were Richard Hammond
    Richard Hammond

    Richard Mark Hammond , nicknamed "Hamster" due to his size, is a British presenter of radio and television, best known for co-presenting the television programme Top Gear since 2002....
    , Chris Barrie
    Chris Barrie

    Chris Barrie is a British people actor. He first achieved success as a vocal Impressionist , notably in the ITV sketch show Spitting Image....
     and presenter Neil Morrissey
    Neil Morrissey

    Neil Anthony Morrissey is an England actor. His most famous roles include Rocky in Boon ; Tony in Men Behaving Badly; the voice of Bob the Builder and playing Eddie Lawson in Waterloo Road....
    . Featured guests included Eamonn Holmes, Murray Walker, Ricky Tomlinson, Ronan Keating, James May, Philip Glenister.


    • Over the Moon, Brian (ITV), devisor and scriptwriter
    Tribute series to Brian Moore, with guests including Brian Clough
    Brian Clough

    Brian Howard Clough, Order of the British Empire was an England association football and subsequently football manager, most notable for his success with Derby County F.C....
     and Jack Charlton
    Jack Charlton

    John "Jack" Charlton, Order of the British Empire, Deputy Lieutenant is a former footballer and Coach who played for Leeds United F.C. in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and who was part of the England national football team who won the 1966 FIFA World Cup....


    External links

    • at Google Book Search
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