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Spike Milligan
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Screenwriter, Actor Born: April 16, 1918 in Ahmednagar, India Death: February 27, 2002 in Sussex, England Biography:The son of a highly mobile British military officer, actor/comedian/director/playwright "Spike Milligan" was born in India and raised throughout the "colonies" of the Far East. Milligan's earliest recorded stage appearance was in a grade-school production of The Nativity. His career proper began in 1936, when he hit the cabaret and music-hall circuit as a comic/musician. In 1950, Milligan launched the nonsensical BBC radio series Crazy People, which would evolve into the legendary Goon Shows. He appeared with fellow Goons "Peter Sellers" and "Harry Secombe" in such diverting film fare as "Down Among the Z Men" (1952) and "The Case of the Mukkinese Battlehorn" (1956). Equally balmy have been Milligan's stage shows and novels, many of which ("The Bed Sitting Room," "Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall" etc.) have been translated to the Big Screen. British telly viewers are familiar with Milligan's... Full Biography
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