Spike Milligan Biography (1918-)

Full name, Terence Alan Milligan; born April 16, 1918, in Ahmed Nagar, India;son of Leo Alphonso (a British army officer) and Florence Mary Winifred (maiden name, Kettleband) Milligan; married June Marlow, 1952 (divorced, 1960); married Margaret Patricia Ridgeway (an actress), 1962 (died, 1978; some sources say marriage ended, 1976); married Shelagh Sinclair, 1983; children: (firstmarriage) Laura, Sean, Sile; (second marriage) Jane; (from other relationships) Romany (daughter), James. Addresses: Office: Spike Milligan Productions, 9 Orme Ct., London W.2, England.

Nationality
Indian
Gender
Male
Occupation
Actor, director, writer, composer
Birth Details
April 16, 1918
Ahmed Nagar, India

Famous Works

  • CREDITS
  • Stage Appearances
  • Ben Gunn, Treasure Island, Mermaid Theatre, London, 1961
  • Mate, The Bedsitting Room (also known as The Bed Sitting Room), Mermaid Theatre, then Duke of York's Theatre, London, both 1963
  • Title role, Oblomov, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London, 1964
  • Title role, Son of Oblomov, Comedy Theatre, 1964
  • Mate, The Bedsitting Room (also known as The Bed Sitting Room), Mermaid Theatre, 1966, then Saville Theatre, London, 1967
  • Ben Gunn, Treasure Island, Mermaid Theatre, 1973, 1974, and 1976
  • For One Week Only (solo show), Adelphi Theatre, London, 1974
  • Ben Gunn, Treasure Island, New London Theatre, London, 1975
  • Ubu, Young Vic Theatre, London, 1980
  • Major Tours
  • Toured in For One Week Only (solo show), British cities.
  • Stage Work
  • Codirector, The Bedsitting Room (also known as The Bed SittingRoom), Mermaid Theatre, then Duke of York's Theatre, both London, 1963
  • Director, The Bedsitting Room (also known as The Bed Sitting Room), Mermaid Theatre, 1966, then Saville Theatre, London, 1967
  • Film Appearances
  • Spike Donnelly, Penny Points to Paradise, Adelphi, 1951
  • Eccles and waiter, Let's Go Crazy, 1951
  • Private Eccles, Down among the Z Men (also known as The Goon Show Movie), NR, 1952
  • The Goon Movie (also known as Stand Easy), 1953
  • The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn, 1956
  • The Running Jumping and Standing Still Film, 1959
  • Lieutenant Godfrey Pringle, Invasion Quartet, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,1961
  • Arthur, The Risk (also known as Suspect), Kingsley International, 1961
  • Tramp, What a Whopper, Regal Films, 1961
  • Dockyard matey, Watch Your Stern (also known as What a Carry On: Watch Your Stern), Magna, 1961
  • Harold Petts, Postman's Knock, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1962
  • Mate, The Bedsitting Room (also known as The Bed Sitting Room), United Artists, 1969
  • Traffic warden 27, The Magic Christian, Commonwealth, 1970
  • Tramp, "Sloth," The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, Tigon, 1971
  • Landlord, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, Longford, 1972
  • Gryphon, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, American National Enterprises, 1972
  • Customs officer, Rentadick, Virgin, 1972
  • Leo Milligan, Adolph Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, United Artists, 1973
  • Bill Bombay, Ghost in the Noonday Sun, 1973
  • Monsieur Bonancieux, The Three Musketeers (also known as Los tres mosqueteros), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974
  • Dr. Harz, Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World, Cinerama, 1974
  • Himself, Man about the House, 1974
  • William McGonagall, The Great McGonagall, Scotia American, 1975
  • Hawker, Barney (also known as Lost in the Wild), 1976
  • Crumble, The Last Remake of Beau Geste, Universal, 1977
  • Himself, To See Such Fun, 1977
  • Spike, Monty Python's Life of Brian (also known as Life ofBrian), Warner Bros./Orion, 1979
  • Member of Baskerville police force, The Hound of the Baskervilles,Atlantic Releasing, 1980
  • Monsieur Rimbaud, The History of the World, Part I, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981
  • Flunkie, Yellowbeard, Orion, 1983
  • Himself, Group Madness, 1983
  • "Der Schauspieler," The Big Freeze, 1993
  • Television Appearances
  • Series
  • Multiple roles, Son of Fred, 1956
  • Multiple roles, Idiot Weekly, Price 2nd, 1956
  • Voice of Minnie Bannister, The Telegoons, 1963
  • Multiple roles, A Show Called Fred, 1967
  • The World of Beachcomber, 1968
  • Kevin O'Grady, Curry and Chips, 1969
  • Multiple roles, Q5 (retitled as Q6, Q7, Q8, and Q9), beginning in 1969
  • The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine, ABC, 1972
  • Multiple roles, There's a Lot of It About, 1982
  • Narrator, Wolves, Witches, and Giants, The Disney Channel, 1995
  • Also appeared in The Best of Beachcomber, The Best of British, A Milligan for All Seasons, and Oh in Colour.
  • Television Appearances
  • Episodic
  • The Radio Show," Hancock's Half Hour, 1956
  • "Christmas Special," Not Only ... but Also, 1966
  • Pakistani on train, Till Death Do Us Part, 1972
  • Himself, The Muppet Show, 1978
  • Himself, Have I Got News for You, 1995
  • Wham! Bam! Strawberry Jam! 1995
  • Himself, Clive Anderson Talks Back, 1995
  • Himself, Room 101, 1999
  • Also appeared in an episode of TIWAS.
  • Other Television Appearances
  • Bob Hope's Happy Birthday Homecoming (special), 1985
  • Road sweeper, Mr. H Is Late, 1987
  • Pakistani Dalek, Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the Tardis (also known as Doctor Who: More Than Thirty Years in the Tardis), 1993
  • Himself, The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything, 1999
  • Deadyawn and De'ath, Gormenghast (miniseries), BBC America, 2000
  • Radio Appearances
  • Series
  • The Goon Show, BBC, 1951-60
  • RECORDINGS
  • Albums
  • Narrator and co-composer, The Snow Goose, RCA, 1976
  • Narrator, Adolph Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, Columbia, 1981
  • BBC Radio Presents: The Goon Show Classics, BDD, 1995
  • WRITINGS
  • Stage
  • (With Jon Antrobus) The Bedsitting Room (also known as The BedSitting Room), Mermaid Theatre, London, 1963, published by Margaret &Jack Hobbs, 1970
  • (Adapter) Oblomov, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London, 1964
  • (Adapter) Son of Oblomov, Comedy Theatre, London, 1964
  • (Adapter) Ubu, Young Vic Theatre, London, 1980
  • Film
  • Let's Go Crazy, 1951
  • The Goon Movie (also known as Stand Easy), 1953
  • The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn, 1956
  • The Running Jumping and Standing Still Film, 1959
  • (With John Briley, Jack Trevor Story, and George Barclay) Postman's Knock, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1962
  • The Bedsitting Room (based on his stage play; also known as TheBed Sitting Room), United Artists, 1969
  • "Sloth," The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, Tigon, 1971
  • Adolph Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, United Artists, 1973
  • Additional dialogue, Ghost in the Noonday Sun, 1973
  • (With Joseph McGrath) The Great McGonagall, Scotia American, 1975
  • Television Series
  • Son of Fred, 1956
  • Idiot Weekly, Price 2nd, 1956
  • The Telegoons, 1963
  • A Show Called Fred, 1967
  • (Also composer) Q5 (retitled as Q6, Q7, Q8, and Q9), beginning in 1969
  • Six Dates with Barker, 1971
  • The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine, ABC, 1972
  • There's a Lot of It About, 1982
  • Television Episodes
  • "The Phantom Raspberry Blower," a serial, The Two Ronnies, 1971
  • Radio Series
  • The Goon Show, BBC, 1951-60
  • Other
  • Silly Verse for Kids (juvenile), Dobson (Durham, England), 1959
  • A Dustbin of Milligan (self-illustrated collection), Dobson, 1961
  • The Little Pot Boiler: A Book Based Freely on His Seasonal Overdraft (fiction), Dobson, 1963
  • Puckoon (novel), M. Joseph (London), 1963
  • A Book of Bits, or A Bit of a Book (collection), Dobson, 1965
  • (With Carol Barker) The Bald Twit Lion (juvenile), Dobson, 1968
  • A Book of Milliganimals (self-illustrated juvenile), Dobson, 1968
  • The Bedside Milligan, or Read Your Way to Insomnia (collection), Margaret & Jack Hobbs, 1969
  • Values (poetry), Offcut Press, 1969
  • Adolph Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (fiction), M. Joseph, 1971
  • (Editor with Jack Hobbs) Milligan's Ark (collection), Margaret & Jack Hobbs, 1971
  • (With Margaret and Jack Hobbs) Badjelly the Witch (juvenile), M. Joseph, 1971
  • Small Dreams of a Scorpion (juvenile poetry), Margaret & JackHobbs, 1972
  • The Goon Show Scripts (collection), Woburn Press (London), St. Martin's (New York City), 1973
  • Dip the Puppy (juvenile), Merrimack Book Services (Topsfield, MA),1973
  • More Goon Show Scripts (collection), Woburn Press, 1973
  • (Contributor) Cricket's Choice, Open Court (London), 1974
  • Rommel: Gunner Who? (fiction), M. Joseph, 1974
  • (Contributor) The Book of Goons, Corgi Books (London), 1974
  • (With J. Hobbs) The Milligan Book of Records, Games, Cartoons, and Commercials (juvenile), M. Joseph, 1975
  • (With Hobbs) The Great McGonagall Scrapbook, M. Joseph, 1975
  • Transport of Delight, Penguin (London), 1975
  • Monty--His Part in My Victory (fiction), M. Joseph, 1976
  • (With Hobbs) William McGonagall: The Truth at Last (fiction), M. Joseph, (also published as McGonagall: The Truth at Last, Margaret & Jack Hobbs, 1976
  • The Spike Milligan Letters, edited by Norma Farnes, M. Joseph, 1977
  • Mussolini--His Part in My Downfall (fiction), M. Joseph, 1978
  • A Book of Goblins (juvenile poetry), Hutchinson, 1978
  • Open Heart University (poetry), M. Joseph, 1979
  • "Q" Annual (fiction), M. Joseph, 1979
  • Get in the "Q" Annual (fiction), Margaret & Jack Hobbs, 1980
  • Unspun Socks from a Chicken's Laundry (self-illustrated juvenile),Margaret & Jack Hobbs, 1981
  • Indefinite Articles and Scunthorpe, M. Joseph, 1981
  • Sir Nobunk and the Terrible, Awful, Dreadful, Naughty, Nasty Dragon (juvenile), M. Joseph, 1982
  • Goon Cartoons, M. Joseph, 1982
  • More Goon Cartoons, M. Joseph, 1983
  • There's a Lot of It About, M. Joseph, 1983
  • Melting Pot, Robson Books (London), 1983
  • More Milligan Letters, edited by Farnes, M. Joseph, 1984
  • Floored Masterpieces and Worse Verse, Macmillan (London), 1985
  • Where Have All the Bullets Gone, Penguin, 1986
  • Goodbye Soldier (fiction), M. Joseph, 1986
  • Further Transports of Delight, Penguin, 1986
  • The Looney: An Irish Fantasy, M. Joseph, 1987
  • The Lost Goon Shows, Robson Books, 1987
  • Mirror Running (poems), M. Joseph, 1987
  • Startling Verse for All the Family, 1987
  • The 101 Best and Only Limericks of Spike Milligan, Penguin, 1988
  • Milligan's War: The Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan, M. Joseph, 1988
  • (With Hobbs) William McGonagall Meets George Gershwin, M. Joseph,1988
  • That's Amazing, Ladybird Books (Loughborough, England), 1988
  • It Ends with Magic ... a Milligan Family Story, M. Joseph, 1990
  • Dear Robert, Dear Spike: The Graves-Milligan Correspondence, edited by Pauline Scudamore, A. Sutton (Gloucester, England), 1991
  • Condensed Animals (juvenile poetry), Puffin (New York City), 1991
  • Peacework: My Downfall (novel), M. Joseph, 1991
  • (With Anthony Clare) Depression and How to Survive It, Ebury Press(London), 1992
  • Mini-Milligan Collection, 1992
  • The Bible according to Spike Milligan (novel), M. Joseph, 1993
  • William McGonagall: Freefall, Penguin, 1993
  • Hidden Words (poetry), M. Joseph, 1993
  • Fleas Knees and Hidden Elephants (poetry), Boxtree, 1994
  • Wuthering Heights according to Spike Milligan, M. Joseph, 1995
  • D.H. Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane according to Spike Milligan, M. Joseph, 1995
  • Spike Milligan: A Celebration, Virgin (London), 1995
  • Black Beauty according to Spike Milligan (novel), Virgin, 1996
  • Lady Chatterly's Lover according to Spike Milligan,1994, Thomas Beeler, 1997
  • Frankenstein according to Spike Milligan (novel), Virgin, 1997
  • The Goons: The Story, edited by Farnes, Virgin, 1997