SPIKE (TERENCE) MILLIGAN - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 175854
Sale Price $180.00
Reg. $200.00
SPIKE MILLIGAN
Small 3½x5½ photograph shown with an open collar and a scarf around
his neck
Photograph signed: "Spike Milligan". B/w, 3½x5½. Comedian
TERENCE "SPIKE" MILLIGAN (1918-2002) gained fame as co-host of BBC radio's
The Goon Show (1951-1960), which also featured Peter Sellers and
Harry Secombe. The show featured a zany brand of improvised comedy which
influenced later British humor. (John Cleese of Monty Python called Milligan
"the great God to all of us.") He appeared in several other films and shows,
and even turned the play Oblomov (1964), intended as a serious drama,
into a hit comedy, with the rest of the cast obliged to play along with his
ad-libbed lines. He called the Prince of Wales a "groveling little bastard" on
live TV, but the two remained good friends and Milligan was subsequently
knighted. Suffering from bipolar disorder, Milligan had at least ten nervous
breakdowns, and during one episode tried to murder Peter Sellers but blundered
instead through a plate glass window while entering Sellers' home. A competent
musician, Milligan also wrote popular children's poems and songs. (While
depressed, he also wrote serious poetry.)A wounded World War II veteran,
Milligan wrote several volumes of humorous war memoirs. Fine condition.
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