Bud Flanagan

Bud Flanagan

Born: October 14, 1896
Died: October 20, 1968
in Whitechapel, London, England, UK
From Wikipedia

Bud Flanagan OBE (14 October 1896 – 20 October 1968) was a popular English music hall and vaudeville entertainer from the 1930s until the 1960s. Flanagan was famous as a wartime entertainer and his achievements were recognised when he was awarded the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1959.

Bud Flanagan is best remembered as part of a double act with Chesney Allen, Flanagan and Allen. They had first met on active service in Flanders, but did not work together until 1926, touring with a Florrie Forde show. They established a reputation and were booked by Val Parnell at the Holborn Empire. As music hall comedians, they would often feature a mixture of comedy and music in their act and this led to a successful recording career as a duo and roles in film and television. Flanagan and Allen were both members of The Crazy Gang, appearing in the first show at the London Palladium in 1931, and continued to work with the group, concurrently with their double-act career.

Movies for Bud Flanagan...

The Wild Affair
Title: The Wild Affair
Character: Sergeant Bletch
Released: December 5, 1965
Type: Movie
Young office assistant Majorie will marry soon, however she's plagued by doubts if her fiance is the right one. On her last day at work, her male colleagues don't miss a chance to comfort her... and flirt.
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Life Is a Circus
Title: Life Is a Circus
Character: Bud
Released: February 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Encompassing three hugely popular double acts, The Crazy Gang were one of Britain's best-loved, most enduring variety troupes – their antics delighting audiences for over three decades from the early 1930s and their career taking in numerous Royal Command performances. Their efforts to save a struggling circus provide the laughs in this uproarious comedy, also starring Goldfinger icon Shirley Eaton and featuring Flanagan and Allen's rendition of their greatest hit, Underneath the Arches. The Crazy Gang have been jacks-of-all-trades with Joe Winter's Monster Circus for almost as long as Joe has been on the road, and they're still hoping for a big break. But Joe has hit hard times: his equipment is mortgaged, most of his acts have deserted him and even the elephants have walked out. So the Gang set about finding a way to save the circus... and come up with a typically novel solution!
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Dunkirk
Title: Dunkirk
Character: Himself
Released: March 20, 1958
Type: Movie
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.
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Here Comes the Sun
Title: Here Comes the Sun
Character: Corona Flanagan
Released: January 12, 1945
Type: Movie
When a wealthy newspaper proprietor passes away, his crooked business partner moves to secure the deceased's fortune by substituting a false will. But 'Corona' Flanagan is onto the fraudster, and his efforts to unmask the villain see him popping in and out of jail – which isn't all that bad, since the governor is an old friend of his – and dressing up as a Russian countess...
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Dreaming
Title: Dreaming
Character: Bud
Released: November 28, 1944
Type: Movie
When a pretty Wren faints in a crowded train, Private Bud Flanagan and Captain Ches Allen are quick to render first aid. But over Bud's head, a heavy kitbag wobbles; it falls and scores a direct hit, knocking him unconscious. What follows is a dream sequence involving Ches, the Wren and Bud himself in a series of hilarious adventures as well as a magical medley of the duo's best-loved musical numbers!
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Theatre Royal
Title: Theatre Royal
Character: Bob Parker
Released: July 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The Theatre Royal is a struggling London venue battling to keep its doors open. When the bank threatens to close it, the workers fear that they will soon be forced out of their jobs. The Royal's property master, Bob Parker (Bud Flanagan), recruits the rest of the staff to stage a benefit gala. They hope their show, featuring songs and dances, can raise enough cash to stave off the end. Meanwhile, they seek investors who can keep the Theatre Royal and its staff in business permanently.
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We’ll Smile Again
Title: We’ll Smile Again
Character: Bob Parker
Released: December 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Nazi spies infiltrate a British film studio with the intention of sending coded messages in the films they produce.
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Listen to Britain
Title: Listen to Britain
Character: Self - Flanagan & Allen
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.
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Gasbags
Title: Gasbags
Character: Bud
Released: February 1, 1941
Type: Movie
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.
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The Frozen Limits
Title: The Frozen Limits
Character: Bud
Released: November 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The Crazy Gang join the 1898 gold rush. Unfortunately it's now 1939 and they're a bit late.
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Alf's Button Afloat
Title: Alf's Button Afloat
Character: Alf Higgins
Released: June 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp and that when he cleans it a genie appears.
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O-Kay for Sound
Title: O-Kay for Sound
Character: Bud
Released: February 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Hyman Goldberger, the president of film studio Super-Colossal Pictures, is in trouble--his major backer is threatening to stop financing his pictures. He finds a group of six wealthy individuals who may want to become investors in the studio if his disgruntled backer pulls out. Unfortunately, his bumbling runner Albert picks that day to invite six of his street musician friends to be in the film that is currently shooting at the studio, and Hyman mistakes them for the potential investors. Complications ensue.
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Underneath the Arches
Title: Underneath the Arches
Character: Bud
Released: January 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Two hard up Brits stowaway aboard a ship to South America where they are washed up on the shore of a banana republic.
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A Fire Has Been Arranged
Title: A Fire Has Been Arranged
Character: Bud
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.
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Wild Boy
Title: Wild Boy
Character: Dick Smith (Auctioner and Bookmaker)
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
This film is a caper story of greyhound racing and the efforts of a crooked dog owner to stop a rival's dog, Wild Boy, from running in the Greyhound Derby.
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They're Off
Title: They're Off
Released: February 2, 1933
Type: Movie
'The well-known crosstalk music hall comedians [Flanagan and Allen] presented in an amusing trifle which enables them to gag in that inimitable manner which has brought them popular success.' (Kinematograph Weekly)
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The Bailiffs
Title: The Bailiffs
Character: Perkins
Released: September 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Two incompetent Bailiffs men reposess the wrong house.