Bud Flanagan
Actor
Biography
From Wikipedia
Bud Flanagan OBE (14 October 1896 – 20 October 1968) was a popular English music hall and vaudeville entertainer from the 1930s until the 1960s. Flanagan was famous as a wartime entertainer and his achievements were recognised when he was awarded the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1959.
Bud Flanagan is best remembered as part of a double act with Chesney Allen, Flanagan and Allen. They had first met on active service in Flanders, but did not work together until 1926, touring with a Florrie Forde show. They established a reputation and were booked by Val Parnell at the Holborn Empire. As music hall comedians, they would often feature a mixture of comedy and music in their act and this led to a successful recording career as a duo and roles in film and television. Flanagan and Allen were both members of The Crazy Gang, appearing in the first show at the London Palladium in 1931, and continued to work with the group, concurrently with their double-act career.
Filmography
Listen to Britain
as Self - Flanagan & Allen 1942
O-Kay for Sound
as Bud 1937
Gasbags
as Bud 1941
The Frozen Limits
as Bud 1939
The Wild Affair
as Sergeant Bletch 1965
A Fire Has Been Arranged
as Bud 1935
Alf's Button Afloat
as Alf Higgins 1938
Dreaming
as Bud 1944
Theatre Royal
as Bob Parker 1943
Here Comes the Sun
as Corona Flanagan 1945
Life Is a Circus
as Bud 1960
We’ll Smile Again
as Bob Parker 1942
Tonight in Britain
as Self 1954
The Bailiffs
as Perkins 1932
Wild Boy
as Dick Smith (Auctioner and Bookmaker) 1934
They're Off
1933