Dick Emery

Dick Emery

Richard Gilbert Emery was an English comedian and actor. Beginning on radio in the 1950s, a self-titled television series ran from 1963 to 1981. The plot of this series centred on Emery hunting down a number of naked girls. He died in a car crash in London on November 25, 2013.

About Dick Emery in brief

Summary Dick EmeryRichard Gilbert Emery was an English comedian and actor. Beginning on radio in the 1950s, a self-titled television series ran from 1963 to 1981. His parents were the comedy double act Callan and Emery. During the Second World War he was called up to the RAF and rose to the rank of corporal. In a sporadic film career he made his debut in the Goons’ The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn. He played bungling bank robber Booky Binns in The Big Job and was one of one of the Blue Meanies in the Beatles’ Yellow Yellow Lady. The plot of this series centred on Emery hunting down a number of naked girls. The number of young girls he has tattooed on the bottoms of his legs is the number of women he has portrayed in his TV series Ooh… You Are Awoh…… in which he played many of the characters he had portrayed in films such as The Fast Lady and Mr Bateman.

He died in a car crash in London on November 25, 2013. He was buried in a private ceremony at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. He is survived by his wife, two children and a step-daughter. He had a son and a daughter with his first wife, who he had with his second wife. He also has a stepson with whom he had a daughter, who has a son with his third wife, and two step-granddaughters with his fourth wife, both of whom he has also had children with. He has one great-great-grandchild, a son who is now a TV presenter and a great-grandson with a television presenter. His son has also appeared in a series of films, including The Fast lady and The Wrong Lady.