Harry Secombe (1921-2001)

Harry Donald Secombe CBE (8th September 1921 - 11th April 2001) was a Welsh entertainer with a talent for comedy and had a tenor singing voice. He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, the central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show (1951-60). He also appeared in musicals and, in his later years, was a prominent presenter of television shows incorporating hymns and other devotional songs. He was knighted in 1981, and jokingly referred to himself as Sir Cumference (in recognition of his rotund figure). Secombe died at the age of 79, from prostate cancer, in hospital in Guildford, Surrey.