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Ted Ray (born Charles Olden; 21 November 1905 – 8 November 1977) was an English comedian of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, on radio and television. His BBC radio show Ray's a Laugh ran for 12 years. Biography [ edit ]
Aug 18, 2007 · Ted Ray died in 1977. Nedlo, The Gypsy Violinist, started his own show in 1949 and made a very considerable success of it. Ray's a Laugh did not actually include Nedlo's name amon...
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Jul 18, 2022 · Ted Ray's radio comedy series 'Ray's A Laugh' ran from 1949 to 1960. Starting in the then common format of three separate sections with two musical interludes, it expanded the final section...
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Sep 15, 2022 · BELOVED comedian Teddy Ray has passed away at the age of 32, reports say. Officials have revealed that the comic died in an apparent drowning after a maintenance worker found his body in a pool. Investigators are waiting for Ray's autopsy results to rule his official cause of death, TMZ reports.
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Jul 31, 2013 · The comedian Ted Ray was a subject of the television programme This Is Your Life on two occasions - surprised by Eamonn Andrews in October 1955 and again in February 1975.
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In his latest book, Just a Regular Bloke: The Ted Ray Story, film historian Anthony Slide delves into the life and times of the now largely forgotten music hall, radio, television, and, sporadically, movie comic whom he labels “the greatest standup comedian.”. Table of Contents show.
Ray's a Laugh was a British comedy series starring comedian Ted Ray which ran on BBC Radio from 1949 to 1961. According to latter-day historians of the era, the show was "hugely popular with the British public" [1] and "one of the major hits of post-war radio comedy".
