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John Basil Boothroyd (also known as J. B. Boothroyd; 4 March 1910 – 27 February 1988) was an English humorous writer, best known for his long association with Punch.
Nov 4, 2020 · Those who were living in the village in the 1960s to 80s will fondly remember Cuckfield’s famous resident humorist Basil Boothroyd who died in 1988 at the age of 78. Latterly he lived near the church in Cuckfield where he found the cars for weddings and funerals a bit of a problem - but he loved the bells.
Basil Boothroyd, a celebrated editor of Punch, once regaled his fellow-humorist, the young Miles Kington, with the story of a disastrous visit to Wigan where he’d been invited to give an after-dinner speech.
The BBC screened two subsequent adaptations: in 1979 a version dramatised by Basil Boothroyd, and in 2007 a four-part dramatisation by Andrew Davies, directed by Susanna White and first shown on BBC Four as part of the channel's Edwardian season.
- Weedon Grossmith, George Grossmith
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Jan 19, 2020 · The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter brings back Basil Boothroyd’s quietly comic classic from the Seventies, with Ian Carmichael as the amiable crime writer who never quite finishes anything and Charlotte Mitchell as his wife, who does.
Basil Boothroyd was born on 4 March 1910 in Worksop, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for The Perfect Woman (1949), The Inheritance (1950) and The Delavine Affair (1955). He died in 1988.
So begins Basil Boothroyd’s autobiography, A Shoulder to Laugh on, which proclaims his association with Lincoln, and who went on from the Choir School to attend Lincoln School as a boarder.
