1967Nominee
Best Performance
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Jimmy Clitheroe
Actor
Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, UK
December 24, 1921
Biography
Northern English comic entertainer best remembered for his long-running BBC Radio programme, The Clitheroe Kid (1956–72). in 1938, aged 16, he was 3 feet 6.5 inches (1.08 m) tall and never grew taller than 4 feet 2 inches (1.27 m) – the average height of an eight or nine-year-old boy, upon whom well into adulthood he based his show business character.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2011Nominee
Best Performance
Funny Up North
1956Nominee
Best Performance
Stars in Your Eyes
Career Highlights
1949Highlight
Best Performance
School for Randle
1942Highlight
Best Performance
Much Too Shy
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Stars in Your Eyes