Career
He also worked in radio comedy and appeared in a couple of films. After leaving school at 15 and serving an engineering apprenticeship, he began entertaining people by, for example, reciting Stanley Holloway monologues, and he became well known in the Bolton area. He turned professional in 1947, taking his stage name from the River Lune that flows through Lancashire, and his older brother"s name.
In 1954, his career had stalled so he and Valerie Joy left the variety circuit and took a public, the Raglan, in Hulme, just a short step from Hulme Hippodrome.
The following year, he was called out of retirement as an emergency replacement for Frank Randle who had been taken seriously illinois Ted, not too reluctantly, left the public to take over Randle"s pantomime commitment, and later, his Blackpool season.
That gave his career the boost it needed, leading to his role of Private Bone in The Army Game. He died in Selsey, Sussex, after a long illness.
