comedian

16Apr

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Bruce Myers, actor and comedian

Bruce Myers ‑ was a British actor, comedian, and director ‑ died on April 15, 2020 due to COVID‑19. Bruce Myers was born on April 12, 1942 in Radcliffe, Manchester, England. He was an actor, known for The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), The Mahabharata (1989) and Relic Hunter (1999). He was married to Corinne Jaber and Ivanka Polchenco.

8Apr

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Ghyslain Tremblay, actor & comedian

Ghyslain Tremblay –a Canadian actor and comedian – died on April 7, 2020, due to Covid-19. Tremblay was married to actress Danielle Brassard-Leduc. They had two sons before divorcing. He died after exhibiting symptoms consistent with COVID-19 during the pandemic, and after developing Alzheimer's disease several years earlier. His doctor could not specify a cause of death.

3Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Eddie Large, comedian

Edward Hugh McGinnis, better known by the stage name Eddie Large, was a British comedian. He died on 2 April 2020 due to Covid-19 complications. He was best known as one half of the double act Little and Large, with Syd Little (the stage name of Cyril Mead). Large was born Edward Hugh McGinnis in Glasgow in 1941. His father Teddy served as a Petty Officer in the Royal Navy during 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 played football as a schoolboy, becoming a supporter of nearby Manchester City which had its ground opposite his home, and he maintained a lifelong devotion to the club. Afte...

30Mar

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Ken Shimura, comedian

Ken Shimura ‑ a Japanese comedian who co-starred with Masashi Tashiro, Nobuyoshi Kuwano in the Japanese variety show Shimura Ken no Bakatono-sama – died from Covid-19 on 29 March 2020. He was known as "Japan's Robin Williams.". Throughout his comedy career, Shimura was known for his "Bakatono-sama" character, which was unusual among Japanese comedians, in that he could satirize the deeds of powerful figures (a company president, a politician, a family head, a school principal, the head of a Japanese yakuza gang) under the garb of a foolish king who lived in the country a long time ago. Another popular shtick of Shimura in the same show was "Henna Oji-san" [weirdo] who entertained himself in the company of nubile girls....