• for his long-running BBC Radio programme, The Clitheroe Kid (1956–72). Jimmy Clitheroe was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England on Christmas Eve, 1921...
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    Clitheroe (/ˈklɪðəroʊ/) is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England; it is located 34 miles (55 km) north-west of...
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  • The Clitheroe Kid was a BBC Radio comedy show featuring diminutive Northern comic Jimmy Clitheroe in the role of a cheeky schoolboy, who lived with his...
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  • in Manchester, writing and producing shows including The Clitheroe Kid starring Jimmy Clitheroe, The Ken Dodd Show, Listen to Les starring Les Dawson, and...
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  • best remembered for his role alongside Jimmy Clitheroe in the long running BBC Radio comedy show The Clitheroe Kid (1957–1973). Ross played the part of...
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  • among others, Jimmy Clitheroe (who he also appeared with on stage, touring the Variety theatres) and with Harry Worth. With Clitheroe, he did a regular...
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    Radio was creating, producing and co-writing The Clitheroe Kid, starring the diminutive comic Jimmy Clitheroe, which ran continuously for sixteen years on...
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  • Blackpool's Comedy Greats: Local Careers of Dave Morris, Hylda Baker, Jimmy Clitheroe Bk. 2, Barry Band Publishing, ISBN 978-1-898413-05-9 Fergusson, Jean...
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  • British box-office star by the Motion Picture Herald in 1943. In 1939, Jimmy Clitheroe appeared in an Old Mother Riley pantomime called The Old Woman who...
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    Brasno portrayed General Tom Thumb in the 1934 film The Mighty Barnum. Jimmy Clitheroe portrayed General Tom Thumb in the 1967 film Jules Verne's Rocket to...
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