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Charles Adolphus Williams, MBE (23 December 1927 – 2 September 2006) was an English professional footballer who was one of the first black players in British football after the Second World War, and later became Britain's first well-known black stand-up comedian.
Aug 30, 2021 · Charlie Williams footage is rare so i have managed to piece together everything from the comedians collection (the published dvd's of course). I assume the B...
Sep 3, 2006 · Pioneering stand-up Charlie Williams, who found fame on hit 1970s TV show The Comedians, has died at the age of 78. Born in Yorkshire of Jamaican descent, Williams was the first black...
Jun 7, 2012 · Charlie Williams, one of the stars of hit 70s ITV standup comedy show The Comedians.
Charles Adolphus Williams MBE (23 December 1927 – 2 September 2006) was an English professional footballer who was one of the first black players in British football after the Second World War, and later became Britain’s first well-known black stand-up comedian.
Britain's first well-known black TV comedian, Charlie Williams, has died at the age of 78, it has been reported. Williams, who had suffered Parkinson's Disease and dementia for a number of...
Charlie Williams. Comedian. 23 December 1928 to 1 September 2006. A regular on ITV's quickfire, quip driven comedy show The Comedians (1971), Williams was a much loved figure with his easygoing manner and broad Yorkshire accent, and a black comic who offered an eloquent counterpoint to the casual racism of others.
Sep 4, 2006 · Charlie Williams, who died on Saturday aged 76, was the first black comedian in Britain to achieve nationwide fame on television; after his breakthrough in the early 1970s with...
Sep 3, 2006 · Charlie Williams, one of the first black comedians to appear on British TV, has died at the age of 78. The comic, who had suffered Parkinson's disease and dementia for several years died yesterday at Barnsley General Hospital. He was born on December 23, 1928, in Barnsley, to a family from Barbados.
Aug 13, 2022 · Billed as the Charlie Williams Story, this is the story of the first black comedian to become a household name in the UK. Sadly, caught between being a This is Your Life style biography and an attempt to view 1970s comedy through a 2020s lens, it fails to deliver.
