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Eric Sykes (May 4 1923 - ) Oldham, Lancashire, is a British comedic writer and actor, who helped Spike Milligan with The Goon Show after Milligan's depression. He had first collaborated with Milligan on a radio special called Archie in Goonland, which was a crossover between The Goon Show and the "radio ventriloquism" show Educating Archie starring Peter Brough and his dummy Archie Andrews, which Sykes had been writing. Archie in Goonland was not a success, and all existing recordings and scripts have been destroyed, but Milligan and Sykes collaborated on numerous Goon Show scripts and shared an office for years afterward.
Sykes wrote and starred in a long-running BBC television series with Hattie Jacques and Deryck Guyler called Sykes. One of the running jokes of the series was that the extremely large Hattie and the very skinny Eric were supposed to be twins.
He has appeared recently as Mollocks on BBC Television's Gormenghast.
Sykes became profoundly deaf as an adult. His "trademark" spectacles contain no lenses, but are rather a bone-conducting hearing aid.
Eric Sykes trivia:
- it is Eric who says the word "Teletubbies!" at the end of the Teletubbies title sequence.
Films - If You Go Down to the Woods Today: Invasion Quartet: Kill or Cure: Monte Carlo or Bust: One Way Pendulum: Rhubarb: The Spy With the Cold Nose: The Plank: Watch Your Stern.
