Tommy Trinder

Tommy Trinder

Infobox Person
name=Tommy Trinder


image_size = 180px
caption=
birth_name = Thomas Edward Trinder
birth_date=birth date|1909|03|24|df=y
birth_place=Streatham, London, England, UK
death_date= death date and age|1989|7|10|1909|3|24
death_place= Chertsey, Surrey, England
nationality=British
occupation=Comedian

Thomas Edward Trinder CBE (1909 - 1989) known as Tommy Trinder, was an English stage, screen and radio comedian of the pre and post war years whose catchphrase was 'You lucky people'.

Life

Born at 54 Wellfield Road Streatham, South London, (a plaque from the Streatham Society marks the spot) on 24 March 1909, the son of a London tram driver, Tommy Trinder is one of the best-loved comedians in Britain during the period from the late 1930s, until the 1960s.

He is fast-talking and quick-witted and well-suited to stand up comedy in front of a live audience. His catch phrases, 'You lucky people!' and 'If it's laughter you're after, Trinder's the name', combined with his trademarks; the pork-pie hat , the leering smile and the wagging finger were almost universally recognised in Britain.

He left school early for a job as an errand boy but by the age of 12 was on stage. He toured South Africa with a revue company in 1921 and appeared as a boy vocalist at Collins' Music-Hall the following year. Minor successes in music-hall, revues and working men's clubs followed.

By 1926, aged 17, Trinder was the star of Archie Pitt's traveling variety comedy shows.

National recognition began to come in 1937 with the revues "Tune In" and "In Town to-Night". By World War Two he was one of Britain's foremost entertainers and his shows brought welcome relief during the darkest days of the war.

Ealing Studios signed him up to films during the war. His most famous was the comedy "Sailors Three" in which he, Claude Hulbert and Michael Wilding capture a German pocket battleship.

He also took straight acting parts in "The Foreman Went to France", "Bells Go Down", a tribute to the work done by firemen in London during the Blitz; and "Bitter Springs" about a family fighting to make a new life in outback Australia.

He is believed to have originated "Trinder's Impossibility" - a "bar bet" where the mark is presented with a ten shilling note, partly torn through in two places at right angles to the long side, and challenged to hold the two corners of the torn edge and tear it into three pieces. It cannot be done!

After the war, as a national figure he was soon recruited to television. In 1955, he became the first compere for the new ITV television programme "Sunday Night at the London Palladium".

He hosted his own TV series, "Trinder Box" on BBC, in 1959.

In 1975 Tommy Trinder was awarded the Commander in the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

He was a lifelong devoted supporter of Fulham football club, and was indeed Chairman of the club for a period in the late 1960s.

In 1979 he appeared in an edition of [http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/o/oldboynetworkthe_1299002400.shtml "The Old Boy Network"] , doing his stand-up routine and presenting a condensed history of his life and career.

Confined to a wheelchair following a stroke in 1986, he made his final television appearance in I Like The Girls Who Do (BBC, tx 16/2/1989), recalling his contemporary Max Miller.

Always a favourite with the Royal Family (he made six appearances in Royal Variety Performances between 1945 and 1980), he was awarded a CBE in 1975. He died on 10 July 1989.

A biography by Patrick Newley, "You Lucky People! - The Tommy Trinder Story", was published in 2008 (Third Age Press).

Tommy Trinder - filmography

*1938 - "Save a Little Sunshine"
*1938 - "Almost a Honeymoon"
*1939 - "She Couldn't Say No"
*1940 - "Sailors Three" (aka "Three Cockeyed Sailors" in the U.S.)
*1940 - "Laugh It Off"
*1942 - "The Foreman Went to France"
*1943 - "The Bells Go Down"
*1944 - "Fiddlers Three"
*1944 - "Champagne Charlie"
*1950 - "Bitter Springs"
*1955 - "You Lucky People"
*1959 - "Make Mine a Million"
*1963 - "The Damned" (aka "These are the Damned" in the U.S.)
*1964 - "The Beauty Jungle" (aka "Contest Girl" in the U.S.)
*1974 - "Barry McKenzie Holds His Own"

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/t/trinderbox_7776470.shtml The BBC show Trinder Box]
* [http://www.britmovie.co.uk/actors/t/003.html Britmovie biography]
* [http://www.trinder.org/Tommy.Trinder.Story.htm The Tommy Trinder Story autobiographical pamphlet]
* [http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9510446 Biography at biography.com]
*imdb name|0872938

Persondata
NAME=Trinder, Tommy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Trinder, Thomas Edward
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Comedian
DATE OF BIRTH=1909-03-24
PLACE OF BIRTH=Streatham, Surrey


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