Background
Large was born Edward Hugh McGinnis in Glasgow in 1941. His father Teddy served as a Petty Officer in the Royal Navy during World World War II and after he returned from the war the family moved to a tenement in Oatlands.
Large was born Edward Hugh McGinnis in Glasgow in 1941. His father Teddy served as a Petty Officer in the Royal Navy during World World War II and after he returned from the war the family moved to a tenement in Oatlands.
When he was nine years old the family moved again to Manchester, where he attended Claremont Road Primary School and a grammar school.
He is best known as a part of the double act, with Syd Little. He played football as a schoolboy, became a supporter of nearby Manchester City which had its ground opposite his home and has maintained a life long devotion to the club After he left school he worked as an electrician and was a singer.
He met singer and guitarist Cyril Mead in the Stonemason"s Arms public in Wythenshawe and they formed a double act following the reaction to Eddie"s comic heckling of Cyril, who switched to comedy.
The duo then performed in northern clubs. As they began their television career on the talent show Opportunity Knocks winning in 1971 and went on to star in many television comedy programmes, including their own series The Show and the Independent Television series Who Do You Do? doing impressions and also becoming popular as pantomime stars.
In an interview in 2010, Large revealed that he and Syd Little had not spoken to each other for several years. During the 2010-2011 football season, football entertainment show Soccer Department of Administration and Management did regular comedy sketches with Peterborough football player Mark Little, and Eddie Large, as the newly reformed
Large has worked on the after dinner circuit, and in recent years performed some cameo acting roles in dramas such as The Brief and Blackpool.
In 2006 he appeared on a comedy edition of The Weakest Link, but was eliminated prior to the penultimate round.
His autobiography entitled Larger than Life was published in 2005. In 2013, Large released his first single without Little, a parody of "Je t"aime.. moi non plus" by Serge Gainsbourg entitled "Gee Musky. Moi Non Plus".