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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Eric_SykesEric Sykes - Wikipedia

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   Eric Sykes CBE (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years.

2. www.bbc.co.uk › news › entertainment-arts-18703602Obituary: Eric Sykes - BBC News

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   Jul 4, 2012 · Long, lean and lugubrious, Eric Sykes, who has died at the age of 89, starred for many years in his own television series, Sykes And A... It cast him as the inoffensive inhabitant of 24...

3. www.independent.co.uk › news › obituariesEric Sykes: Actor and writer who overcame adversity to become a

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   Jul 5, 2012 · Eric Sykes, actor, scriptwriter, director and producer: born Oldham, Lancashire 4 May 1923; OBE 1986, CBE 2005; married 1952 Edith Milbrandt (one son, three daughters); died 4 July 2012. He...

4. www.bbc.co.uk › news › entertainment-arts-18704263Comedian Eric Sykes dies aged 89 - BBC News

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   Jul 4, 2012 · Eric Sykes, one of Britain's best-loved TV comedy actors and writers, has died at the age of 89 after a short illness, his manager says.

5. www.ancientfaces.com › person › edith-eleanore-milEdith Eleanore (Milbrandt) Sykes 1926 - 2018 - AncientFaces

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   Aug 14, 2023 · Edith Sykes, the wife of Eric Sykes, was a private person who largely stayed out of the public eye. However, she was known to be a devoted mother to the couple's four children: Julie, David, Cathy, and Robert.

   • Gender: Female
   • Birth Date: January 9, 1926

   • Location: Lambeth
   • Death Date: April 11, 2018

6. secretlibraryleeds.net › 2016/12/05 › 2926Remembering the Barnbow Tragedy: 100 Years Ago Today

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   Dec 5, 2016 · Edith was injured in the explosion and taken to Leeds Infirmary where died several weeks later. Her older brother Herbert was in the Army, based in York and borrowed a gun carriage from his Barracks to carry Edith’s coffin.

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   Who was Eric Sykes?

   • Eric Sykes, one of Britain's best-loved comedy actors and writers, has died at the age of 89, his manager has said. "Eric Sykes, 89, star of TV, stage and films, died peacefully this morning after a short illness," said Norma Farnes. "His family were with him."

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   How old was Eric Sykes when he died?

   • Brown, Mark (4 July 2012). "Eric Sykes dies aged 89". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 15 July 2013. - "Telegraph obituary". The Daily Telegraph. London. 4 July 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2013. ^ "Visual Comedy Award". Slapstick. Retrieved 21 February 2017. Wikiquote has quotations related to Eric Sykes.

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   How did Edith die?

   • Edith was injured in the explosion and taken to Leeds Infirmary where died several weeks later. Her older brother Herbert was in the Army, based in York and borrowed a gun carriage from his Barracks to carry Edith’s coffin.

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   How old was Sykes when he was born?

   • Sykes was born in Oldham in 1923. His mother Harriet, died in childbirth, aged 22. This was to be a defining event in Sykes' life, not least because his father, a cotton mill overseer, went on to marry again and had another son upon whom the couple doted. To compound matters, Sykes' elder brother was doted on by the relatives of his late mother.

   Eric Sykes: Actor and writer who overcame adversity to become a

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   Why did Sykes change his housemate from wife to sister?

   • The original concept for the new series had Eric living in suburbia with his wife, with simple plots centring on everyday problems, but Sykes soon realised that by changing the house-mate from wife to sister it offered more scope for storylines and allowed either or both to become romantically entangled with other people.

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   Who is Eric Sykes & Hattie Jacques?

   • At the turn of the decade Eric Sykes and his old friend and colleague Hattie Jacques co-starred in a new 30-minute BBC TV sitcom, Sykes and a..., which Sykes created in collaboration with writer Johnny Speight, who had worked with him earlier in the 1950s on the two Tony Hancock series for ITV.

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8. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk › news › story-of-theStory of the ‘Barnbow lasses’ lives on - Yorkshire Post

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   Oct 13, 2014 · Edith Sykes was among those killed. She was one of those who had lied about her age and fate then conspired against her on that cold, winter’s night. “She was only 15 when she died,” says Jacki.