Spike Milligan

Spike Milligan, KBE (April 16, 1918 – February 27, 2002) was a comedian, novelist, playwright, poet, jazz musician (trumpet and guitar - also played the piano - and was a dab hand at raspberry blowing) and is best remembered as the creator, principal writer and performing member of The Goon Show.

Movies

• The Bed-Sitting Room (1969), post-nuclear-war comedy with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and also Arthur Lowe; based on the Milligan/Antrobus play.
• The Great McGonagall, untalented Scottish poet (based on the real William Topaz McGonagall) angles to become laureate, with Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria.
• The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn, a Goon-like 2-reel comedy ("Mukkinese" = "mucky knees").
• The Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film, a silent comedy, Richard Lester's debut film.
• The decrepit manager of a seedy London hotel in Bruce Beresford's The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972).
• Monsieur Bonacieux, husband of Madame Bonacieux (Raquel Welch) in Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers (1973).
• The prophet abandoned by his flock in Life of Brian.
• The traffic warden who eats the ticket in The Magic Christian.
• The Last Remake of Beau Geste, with Marty Feldman.
• A jailed French aristocrat with a thing for songbirds in History of the World, Part I.
• Country postman Harold Petts in Postman's Knock (1962).