Thursday, April 16, 2026
Born on this day – Christine McIntyre:
Born on this day – Catherine Scorsese:
Catherine Scorsese
Born on this day – Barry Nelson:
Barry Nelson
Born on this day – Spike Milligan:
Spike Milligan
Credits:
Books:
A Book of Milliganimals (1968); A Children's
Treasury of Milligan (1999); A Dustbin of Milligan (1961); A Mad Medley Of
Milligan (1999); Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1971); Bad Jelly the
Witch: A Fairy Story (1973); Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan (1996);
Book of Bits or a Bit of a Book (1974); Box 18 (2006); Chill Air (1981);
Classic Adventures According to Spike Milligan (2002); Condensed Animals
(1991); D.H. Lawrence's John Thomas And Lady Jane According to Spike Milligan
(1995); Dear Robert, Dear Spike (1991); Depression And How To Survive It
(1993); Dip the puppy (1974); Fleas, Knees And Hidden Elephants (1995); Floored
Masterpieces with Worse Verse (1985); Frankenstein according to Spike Milligan
(1997); Get in the Q annual (1980); Goblins (1978); Goodbye Soldier (1986);
Goon Again (2001); Goon Cartoons (1982); Gunner Milligan, 954024 (1995); Hidden
Words (1993); If Only I Were Bald (1981); Indefinite Articles and Scunthorpe
(1983); It Ends With Magic (1990); Lady Chatterly's Lover According to Spike
Milligan (1994); Milligan's Meaning of Life (1994); Milligan's War (1988);
Monty, His Part In My Victory (1976); More Goon Cartoons (1983); More Goon Show
Scripts (1973); More Nation's Favourite Poems (2004); More Spike Milligan
Letters (1984); Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall (1978); My Mother (1991);
Nothing Solemn (1973); Open Heart University (1979); Peace Work (1991); Poems
(1997); Potboiling Dustbin Full Of Bits (1984); Puckoon (1963); Robin Hood
According to Spike Milligan (1998); 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?' (1974); Scunthorpe
Revisited - Added Articles and Instant Relatives (1989); Silly Verse For Kids
(1959); Sir Nobonk And The Terrible, Awful, Dreadful, Naughty, Nasty Dragon
(1982); Small Dreams Of A Scorpion (1972); Spike Milligan (2013); Spike
Milligan: A Celebration (1995); Spike Milligan's Further Transports Of Delight
(1985); Spike Milligan's Transports of Delight (1974); Startling Verse For All
The Family (1987); Sunday-midnight (1990); That's Amazing (1989); The 101 Best
And Only Limericks Of Spike Milligan (1984); The Bald Twit Lion (1968); The
Bedside Milligan (1960); The Bedsitting Room (1972); The Bible According to
Spike Milligan (1993); The Book of the Goons (1974); The Compulsive Spike
Milligan (2004); The Essential Spike Milligan (2002); The Family Album (1999);
The Goon Show (2017); The Goon Show Companion: A History and Goonography
(1976); The Goon Show Scripts (1972); The Goons (1997); The Great MaGonagall
Scrap Book (1975); The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan
(1998); The Little Pot Boiler (1963); The Looney (1987); The Lost Goon Shows
(1988); The Magical World of Milligan (2009); Milligan's Ark (1973); The
Melting Pot (1983); The Mirror Running (1987); The Murphy (2000); The Nation's
Favourite Animal Poems (2001); The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems (2001);
The Nation's Favourite Love Poems (1997); The Nation's Favourite Poems (1998);
The Nation's Favourite Poems of Remembrance (2003); The Nation's Favourite
Poems: Book 1 (1996); The Nation's Favourite: Comic Poems (1998); The Q Annual
(1979); The Spike Milligan Letters (1977); There's A Lot Of It About! (1983);
Treasure Island According To Spike Milligan (2001); Unspun Socks From A
Chicken's Laundry (1982); Where Have All the Bullets Gone? (1985); William
McGonagall Meets George Gershwin (1988); William McGonagall: Freefall (1992);
William McGonagall: The Truth at Last (1976); Wuthering Heights According To
Spike Milligan (1995).
Movies and television:
2Gs and the Pop People (1972); 90 Minutes Live (1977); A Big Hand for Sooty (1998); A Christmas Cracker (1956); A Current Affair (2011); A Kid for Two Farthings (1955); A Royal Birthday Celebration (1998); A Short History of Man and Music: Part 2 (1957); A Show Called Fred (1956); A Tribute to Johnny Speight: For Richer, for Poorer (1998); A Whole Scene Going (1966); Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973); Alfred Marks Time (1959); Alice Through the Looking Box (1960); Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972); All Star Secrets (1985–1986); All the Best from Denis Norden (2007); An Apple a Day (1971); An Evening with Spike Milligan (1996); Aquarius (1972–1973); Arena (1993–2011); Australia (1987); Badjelly (2025); Badjelly the Witch (2000); Barry Humphries Gives Us the Good Oil (2003); Behind the Scenes of 'the Last Remake of Beau Geste' (1977); Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story (2009); Bernard Miles on the Halls (1986); Between Two Women (2003); Billy Cotton Band Show (1964–1966); Blankety Blank (1981–1984); Bob Hope's Happy Birthday Homecoming (London Royal Gala) (1985); Breakfast (2010); Britain's Favourite Christmas Songs (2011); Burke's Backyard (1995); Call My Bluff (1987); Call the Midwife (2013); Calling All Cars (1954); Carrott Confidential (1987–1988); Carry on Spike in Australia (1972); Celebrity Squares (1975–1979); Chaos Supersedes E.N.S.A.. (1980); Children in Need (1984); Cilla (1968–1969); Clapper Board (1980); Clive Anderson Talks Back (1995); Come Here Often (1967–1968); Comedy Connections (2008); Comedy Playhouse (1975); Comic Roots (1983); Cucumber Castle (1970); Curry & Chips (1969); Das Auto: The Germans, Their Cars and Us (2013); Decidedly Dusty (1969); Dee Time (1967–1969); Demob Happy: How TV Conquered Britain (2007); Des O'Connor Tonight (1988–1996); Digby: The Biggest Dog in the World (1973); Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS (1993); Don't Miss Wax (1987); Don't Say a Word (1963–1964); Don't Spare the Horses (1952); Dot and the Kangaroo (1977); Down Among the Z Men (1952); Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964); Earth Patrol (1979); EMI: The Inside Story (2016); Emmy the Robot (2026); Every Night Something Atrocious (1980); Everyman (1977–1999); Face Your Image (1975); Fantastic Animation Festival (1977); Festival of Entertainment (1972); Film Night (1970); Fish and Milligan (1966); Friday Night (1993); Full House (1973); Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1974); Give Us a Clue (1979–1988); Going a Bundle (1974); Goonreel (1952); Gormenghast (2000); Group Madness (1983); Hancock's Half Hour (1956); Have I Got News for You (1995); Hawkins' Rivers (1982); Here Comes Channel 8 (1980); Heroes of Comedy (1995–2002); Highway (1991); History of the World: Part I (1981); Hitler: The Comedy Years (2007); Home and Dry (1955); Home Movie Roadshow (2010); Home on Sunday (1984); Hullabaloo (1968); I Told You I Was Ill: The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan (2005); In Sickness and in Health (1987); In the Best Possible Taste: A Tribute to Kenny Everett (1995); Invasion Quartet (1961); It's Patently Obvious (1980); Jackanory (1971–1979); Jeremy Taylor (1980); John Nettles Applauds (2008); Jools Holland's Happening (1991); Juke Box Jury (1960–1966); Kazuko's Karaoke Klub (1989); Kenny Everett's Christmas Carol (1985); Labour's Old Romantic (1997); Late Night Line-Up (1965 / 1969); Laugh Line (1960–1961); Lena (1981); Let's Go Crazy (1951); Living Famously (2003); London Entertains (1951); Looks Familiar (1976–1986); Loose Talk (1983); Lost in the Wild (1976); Man About the House (1974); Mary: Rhymes and Reasons (1972); Milligan in... (1972–1973); Milligan's Wake (1964–1965); M'Lords... Ladies and Gentlemen... (1978–1979); Monitor (1959); Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyer's Cut (2009); Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979); Moonshadow (1972); Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (1978); Muses with Milligan (1964–1965); Nelson's Column Big Band (1984); New Faces (1988); No 73 (1985); oel Edmonds: The Rise & Fall of Mr Saturday Night (2022); Noel's House Party (1992); Not Only... But Also (1966–1970); Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008); Now and Then (1967–1968); Off the Record (1956–1958); Oh in Colour (1970); Omnibus (1974–1996); Once More with Felix (1967–1968); One Foot in the Past (1995); One Man's Week (1975); One Pair of Eyes (1973); Open Door (1977); Pantomania, or Dick Whittington (1956); Parkinson (1971–1982); Parkinson in Australia (1981); Parkinson One to One (1987); Paul Merton's Palladium Story (1994); Penny Points to Paradise (1951); Perspectives (2012); Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy (2020); Plunder (1990); Pob's Programme (1985–1990); Pop Gold (2015); Postman's Knock (1962); Private Eye TV (1971); Puckoon (2002); Q5 (1969–1980); Quiz of the Year (1970); Rentadick (1972); Rhubarb Rhubarb (1980); Right to Work March (1972); Rita and Wally (1968); Room 101 (1999); Rugby Special (1973); Sad/Happy Ending Story of the Bald Twit Lion (1967); Saturday Live (1986); Saturday Night at the Mill (1977–1981); Score with the Scaffold (1970); Secombe and Friends (1959 / 1966); Secombe Here! (1955); Sellers' Best? (1992); Sing a Song of Secombe (1974); Six Dates with Barker (1971); Six-Five Special (1957); Some Jerk with a Camera (2012); Some You Win (1984); Something to Sing About (1975); Son of Fred (1956); Spike (1996); Spike Milligan Meets Joe Brown (1961); Spike Milligan on Treasure Island WC2 (1961); Spike Milligan: A Series of Unrelated Incidents at Current Market Value (1961); Spike Milligan: Assorted Q (2014); Spike Milligan: I Told You I Was Ill... - A Live Tribute (2002); Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace (2014); Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive (2022); Spike Night (1998); Steve Wright's People Show (1994); Studio 9: The Home of Australian Television (2004); Super Gran (1985); Surprise! Surprise! (1984); Sykes and A... (1960); Takin' Over the Asylum (1994); Telescope (1963); Television (1985); Tell Me Another (1977); That Was the Year That Was (2023); That's Life! (1985); The 11 O'Clock Show (2000); The ABC of ABC - A Souvenir with Music (1966); The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972); The Adventures of Barry McKenzie: A Conversation with Barry Humphries (2002); The Adventures of Barry McKenzie: Introduction by Dame Edna Everage (2007); The Adventures of Bazza in Chunderland: The Making of 'The Adventures of Barry McKenzie' (2007); The Bed Sitting Room (1969 / 2016); The Big Freeze (1993); The Big Time (1976); The Bob Monkhouse Show (1983); The British Comedy Awards 1992 (1992); The British Comedy Awards 1994 (1994); The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn (1956); The Cherry Picker (1974); The Climber (1983); The Comedians' Comedian (2005); The Comedy Map of Britain (2008); The Comedy Trail: A Shaggy Dog Story (1999); The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau (2002); The Daryl Somers Show (1983); The Des O'Connor Show (1968); The Diana Dors Show (1981); The Diane Solomon Show (1974); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Don Lane Show (1980); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1957–1968); The Frankie Howerd Show (1953); The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018); The Gladys Half-Hour (1958); The Good Old Days (1964); The Goon Show (1968); The Great Bong (1993); The Great McGonagall (1975); The Happening (1991); The Heart of Show Business (1967); The Hippodrome Show (1989); The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978); The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d (1956); The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d (1956); The James Whale Radio Show (1992); 'The Jewel in the Crown' Southall, Middx (1985); The Jo Stafford Show (1961); The Last Goon Show of All (1972); The Last Impresario (2013); The Last Laugh Before TV-am (1985); The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977); The Last Turkey in the Shop Show (1974); The Lively Arts (1976–1977); The Magic Christian (1969); The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins / Segment; Sloth (1971); The Marti Caine Show (1984); The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine (1971–1972); The Melting Pot (1975–1976); The Muppet Show (1979–1981); The Nations' Favourite Children's Poem (2001); The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (1999); The New London Palladium Show (1965); The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow (1988–1990); The Other Spike (1970); The Paranormal Peter Sellers (2002); The Pythons (1979); The Ratties (1988); The Risk (1960); The Rock 'n' Roll Years (1987); The Rolf Harris Show (1974); The Roy Castle Show (1969); The Royal Variety Performance 1965 (1965); The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959); The Saturday Show (1982); The Secret Life of Brian (2007); The Sooty Show (1986); The Super Secret Service (1953); The Sweepstakes Game (1976); The Telegoons (1963–1964); The Three Musketeers (1973); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1960); The Two Ronnies (1976); The Two Ronnies at the Movies (1999); The Two Ronnies Sketchbook (2005); The Undertakers (1969); The Undiscovered Peter Cook (2016); The Unforgettable Harry Secombe (2010); The Unforgettable Spike Milligan (2010); The Unknown Peter Sellers (2000); The Unseen Spike Milligan (2005); The Very Best of 'Have I Got News for You' (2002); The World of Beachcomber (1968–1969); Them and Us (1990); There's a Lot of It About (1982); This Is Your Life (1958–1999); Through the Keyhole (1987); Till Death Us Do Part (1970–1974); Timeshift (2007–2012); Tiswas (1980); To See Such Fun (1977); Tonight Live with Steve Vizard (1990–1993); Tonight with Jonathan Ross (1991); TV Heroes (1993); Under the Volcano (2021); Up Yer Festival (1990); Val Parnell's Spectacular (1957); Variety Parade (1955); Victoria Wood's Sketch Show Story (2001); Village (1996); Walk Across Britain: Right to Work (1973); Watch Your Stern (1960); Wham! Bam! Strawberry Jam! (1995); What a Performance! (2000); What a Whopper (1961); What We Were Watching (2025); Whatever Next? (1968–1970); When the Sun Goes In... (1999); Where Do I Sit? (1971); Wild About Harry: A Tribute to Sir Harry Secombe (2001); Wildlife Spectacular (1971); Will the Real Mr Sellers.....? (1969); 'Wiltons' - The Handsomest Hall in Town (1970); With a Little Help from My Friends (1969); Without Walls (1991); Wogan (1983–1989); Wolves, Witches and Giants (1995–1998); World in Action (1992); Yellowbeard (1983); Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here (1972); You Bet! (1988–1991).
Born on this day – Henry Mancini:
Henry Mancini
Born on this day – Edie Adams:
Edie Adams
Credits:
15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2009); 4th Annual Celebrity Parade for Cerebral Palsy (1954); 3 Things Must Die! (2021); A Cry for Love (1980); A Lovely Night: The Making of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Television Classic (2005); A Man Called Sloane (1979); ABC's Nightlife (1965); ABC's Silver Anniversary Celebration (1978); Adventures Beyond Belief (1988); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); American Cowboy (1960); American Masters (2000); Appointment with Adventure (1955); Art Carney Special (1959); As the World Turns (1982); Best Classic Commercials - The Golden Era of Advertising (2018); Biography (1998–2001); Bosom Buddies (1980); Boxoffice (1982); Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003); Call Me Bwana (1963); CBS Children's Mystery Theatre (1981); Celebrity Bowling (1976); Celebrity Parade for Cerebral Palsy (1953); Chance of a Lifetime (1953); Cinderella (1957); Cinerama Adventure (2002); Club Oasis (1958); Coke Time (1953); Cop on the Beat (1975); Danny Thomas Special: 40th Anniversary of the Coconut Grove (1964); Danny Thomas Special: The Wonderful World of Burlesque (1965); Designing Women (1990); Dr. Yesterday's Old Time News (1981); Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008); E! Mysteries & Scandals (2000); Ernie in Kovacsland (1951); Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (1984); Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius (1982); Evil Roy Slade (1972); Fantasy Island (1981); Fast Friends (1979); General Electric Theater (1958); Good Morning! with Will Rogers, Jr. (1955); Great Performances (2004); Harry O (1976); Here's Edie (1962–1964); Here's Edie: The Edie Adams Television Collection (2013); Here's Hollywood (1961–1962); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hungarian Emergency Relief Organization Christmas Day Special (1956); Inside 'The Apartment' (2008); It Takes Two (1969); It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963); It's Garry Shandling's Show. (1989–1990); I've Got a Secret (1956–1966); Jack Paar Tonite (1973); Jake Spanner, Private Eye (1989); Joe Forrester (1975); Juke Box Jury (1962); KHJ's 4th Annual Academy Awards Special (1969); Kids Incorporated (1992); Kovacs on Music (1959); Kovacs on the Corner (1952); Kovacs Unlimited (1952–1954); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1960 / 1961); Late Night with David Letterman (1982); Le Disco! (1978); Love with the Proper Stranger (1963); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Hotel Caper (1971); Lover Come Back (1961); Made in Paris (1966); Make Me an Offer (1980); McMillan & Wife (1972); Miss Television U.S.A. Contest (1950); Mrs. Columbo (1979); Murder, She Wrote (1985); NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II (1998); Omnibus (1961); Over Easy (1979); Password (1961–1971); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1957–1960); Playboy After Dark (1970); Police Woman (1978); Portrait of an Escort (1980); Producers' Showcase (1955); Racquet (1979); Rosetti and Ryan (1977); Shooting Stars (1983); Showdown at Ulcer Gulch (1956); Sid Caesar - Edie Adams Together (1963); Snap Judgment (1967); Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' (1991); Stand Up and Cheer (1971); Superdome (1978); Suspense (1954); Suspicion (1958); Take a Good Look (1959–1961); Talent Scouts (1963); Tales of the City (1993); Tarzana (1978); TCM Remembers 2008 (2008); Telescope (1963); Television's Greatest Commercials (1982); The 11th Annual Tony Awards (1957); The 14th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1962); The 20th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1963); The 25th Annual Tony Awards (1971); The 30th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1956); The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards (2009); The Apartment (1960); The Arthur Murray Party (1953–1959); The Bell Telephone Hour (1959); The Best Man (1964); The Bing Crosby Show (1962); The Blue Knight (1976); The Bob Hope Show (1963–1971); The Carol Burnett Show (1968–1969); The Chevy Show (1960); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Danny Kaye Show (1966); The David Frost Show (1970); The Dean Martin Show (1967); The Desilu Story (2003); The Dick Cavett Show (1968); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1957–1959); The Don Adams Special: Hooray for Hollywood (1970); The Don Knotts Show (1971); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1956–1958); The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978); The Ernie Kovacs Show (1952–1956); The Frank Sinatra Show (1958); The Garry Moore Show (1958); The George Gobel Show (1957); The Gisele MacKenzie Show (1958); The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980); The Hollywood Palace (1965–1969); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1969–1972); The Hollywood Squares (Primetime/Nighttime) (1968); The Honey Pot (1967); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (1999); The Jack Paar Program (1965); The Jack Paar Show (1953–1956); The Jackie Gleason Show (1969); The Joey Bishop Show (1967); The John Gary Show (1968); The Jonathan Winters Show (1956); The Kraft Music Hall (1968–1970); The Linkletter Show (1967); The Love Boat (1978); The Lucy Show (1968); The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1960); The Match Game (1969); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1976); The Mike Douglas Show (1963–1977); The NBC Comedy Hour (1956); The New Steve Allen Show (1961); The Oscar (1966); The Pat Boone Show (1966); The Paul Ryan Show (1977–1992); The Practice (1976); The Price Is Right (1964); The Red Skelton Hour (1959–1967); The Rosey Grier Show (1970); The Royal Variety Performance 1962 (1962); The Seekers (1979); The Spiral Staircase (1961); The Stork Club (1955); The Tonight Show (1955 / 1962); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959–1962); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1972); The Vic Damone Show (1957); The Walter Winchell Show (1956); Theatre '62 (1961); Three to Get Ready (1950–1952); Trapper John, M.D. (1985); Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963); Up in Smoke (1978); Vega$ (1981); Versatile Varieties (1949–1950); What's My Line? (1956–1964); Your Choice for the Film Awards (1969).





