Entertainers D-G

Autographs: entertainers D - G

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Billy Daniels - 1915-1988, American big band vocalist and actor - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed photo, signed "Mr Black Magic, Billy Daniels". £15 [ref: BD1]

above: detail of Billy Daniels autograph

Billy Daniels - 1915-1988, American big band vocalist and actor - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed photo, with dedication. £12 [ref: BD2]

above: detail of Billy Daniels autograph

Sandy Daw - Scottish music hall comic and singer - 5.25 x 9 inches (13.5 x 22.5 cm), inscribed "To Chris Brown, best wishes, yours aye, Sandy Daw". £10

above: detail of Sandy Daw autograph

Chris de Burgh - Argentinian-born Irish musician and songwriter - 4 x 6 inches (10.5 x 15 cm) autographed record company publicity photo, inscribed "For Lisa, Happy Birthday - Chris de Burgh". £20

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Alan Dean - British jazz singer, star of 1950s radio - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed photo, signed: "Best wishes, Alan Dean". £10

above: detail of Alan Dean autograph

Bernard Delfont - 1909-1994, Ukrainian-born theatrical impressario, brother of Lew Grade and uncle of Michael Grade; he was initially a dancer and then a theatrical agent who went on to put on over 200 shows including 50 musicals such as City of Angels and Sweet Charity. He was probably most famous for The Royal Variety Performances - 6.5 x 8.5 inches (16.5 x 21.5 cm) large autographed photo with dedication, signed: "Best wishes to Larissa, B. Delfont". £15

above: detail of Isabelle Dillon autograph

Isabelle Dillon - British variety/music hall singer in 1920s, particularly at The Sunderland Empire - 5 x 7 inches (12.5 x 17.5 cm) autographed photo, signed "Sincerely yours, Isabelle Dillon". £15

Barbara Dickson - born 1947; British (Scottish) singer and actress, who rose to fame as a weekly musical guest in the TV comedy series The Two Ronnies, and starred in Willy Russell's musical Blood Brothers. In the 1970s and 80s she was reputed to have sold more solo recordings than any other female British singer, with seventeen albums and a number of hit singles including "I Know Him So Well" and "January, February" - 4 x 6 inches (10 x 15 cm) autographed photo, nicely signed in black ink. £15

Sacha Distel - 1933-2004, French guitarist/singer and entertainer, hugely popular in the UK in the 1970s, appearing regularly on TV variety shows - 4 x 6 inches (10.5 x 15 cm) autographed photo, inscribed "To John, best wishes, Sacha Distel 1996". £14

Reg Dixon - 1914-1984, radio and variety entertainer/actor - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) signed record company publicity card; blue biro signature is clearer than shown on scan. £15

above: detail of Reg Dixon autograph

Val Doonican - born 1927, Irish entertainer - 4 x 6 inches (10 x 15 cm) autographed photo, signed "Thank you! Val Doonican". Nice early autograph. £15

above: detail of Val Doonican autograph

Jenny Eclair - born 1960, British comedian who was the first female winner of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival's Perrier Comedy Award. Wrote and starred in BBC TV's Grumpy Old Women, and was a panelist on Loose Women - 4 x 6 inches (10 x 15 cm) autographed publicity photo, signed: "Love, Jenny Eclair x". £12

Ray Ellington - 1915-1985, British bandleader, singer and drummer, best known for his appearances on BBC radio comedy The Goon Show in which the Ray Ellington Quartet appeared every week, and Ellington often had small speaking roles - autograph in dark blue in on 3 x 3 inches (7 x 7 cm) paper fragment snipped from autograph book. £10

Jimmy Edwards - 1920-1988, British comedian and comic actor, star of radio and TV (Whacko!, Take it from Here) - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed photo, with dedication: "To Eileen from "Professor" Jimmy Edwards". £30

G. H. Elliott - 1882-1968, British blackface minstrel, billed as "The Chocolate-Coloured Coon", a vastly successful music hall and variety singer who topped the bill for half a century - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed photo, signed: "Yours sincerely, G.H. Elliott". £25 [ref: GHE1]

George Elrick - 1910-1999, Scottish bandleader, drummer and singer, known as "The Smiling Voice of Radio"; best remembered for his signature tune "When You're Smiling, the Whole World Smiles With You" - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed postcard. £12

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Dolly Elsie - 1906-1961, British singer; female vocalist with her brother Jack Hylton in Jack Hylton's Orchestra, and then with the Fol de Rols. She regularly sang on radio variety show Band Waggon - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed photo, signed: "Best wishes, Dolly Elsie". £12

Ben Elton - born 1959, British comedian, actor and author.A stand-up comedian in the 1980s, he co-wrote cult TV series The Young Ones, Blackadder and The Thin Blue Line, and a musical, We Will Rock You. His novels include Stark, Gridlock, Popcorn and High Society - 5 x 6.5 inches (13 x 17 cm) autographed informal photo. £10

Bella Emberg - born 1937, British actress who appeared regularly on TV in the 1970s and 80s; she was best known for her appearances on The Benny Hill Show and The Russ Abbot Show as Blunderwoman. She appeared in three different Dr Who stories, and had roles in Z Cars and Softly Softly - 4 x 6 inches (10 x 15 cm) autographed publicity card showing her as Blunderwoman, signed: "Good luck, Bella Emberg". £8

Dick Emery - 1915-1983, British comedian and actor on radio (Educating Archie, Hancock's Half Hour), and star of long-running BBC TV series The Dick Emery Show - autograph on 5 x 3 inches (13 x 7.5 cm) green page from autograph book, signed: "Best wishes, Dick Emery". £30

		above: detail of Norman Evans autograph
Norman Evans - 1901-1962, British comedian, a star of variety and radio, one of the greatest pantomime dames of all time; his "over the garden wall" sketches were later adopted by Les Dawson and Roy Barraclough with their Cissie and Ada characters - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed photo. Condition: small fragments of paper and marks on reverse where item has been in album. £15 [ref: NE1]

		above: detail of Norman Evans autograph
Norman Evans - 1901-1962, British comedian, a star of variety and radio, one of the greatest pantomime dames of all time; his "over the garden wall" sketches were later adopted by Les Dawson and Roy Barraclough with their Cissie and Ada characters - 4 x 6 inches (10 x 15 cm) autographed photo with dedication, signed: "To Flo, sincerely yours, Norman Evans". £15 [ref: NE2]

Adam Faith - 1940-2003, pop legend of the 60s, later TV actor - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed publicity photo. £55

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Frederick Ferrari - 1912-1994, popular tenor and one-time member of the Crazy Gang, a well-known variety and radio performer - 2.75 x 3.5 inches (7 x 8.5 cm) small autographed photo, signed: "Sincerely, F. Ferrari". £10

above: detail of Sid Field autograph

Sid Field - 1904-1950, British comedian, major star of music hall, variety and radio, whom Bob Hope famously described as "probably the best comedian of them all" - 5.5 x 7 inches (14 x 17.5 cm) autographed photo, signed: "To Peter, Sid Field". Scarce. £75

Edith Fink - British music hall singer and entertainer - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed postcard, signed "Sincerely yours, Edith Fink, 1911". £10

Reginald Foort - 1893-1980, British celebrity theatre organist in the late 1930s - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed postcard, with handwritten signature in blue-black ink below printed one. Condition: paper fragments stuck to reverse where item has been in album. £10 [ref: RF1]

above: detail of Reginald Foort autograph

Reginald Foort - 1893-1980, British celebrity theatre organist in the late 1930s - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed photo, with handwritten signature in blue ink above a printed one. £10 [ref: RF2]

above: detail of Reginald Foort autograph

Will Fyffe - 1885-1947, Scottish music hall entertainer, best remembered for his song I Belong to Glasgow - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed photo, signed: "Yours aye, Will Fyffe, 1928". £15 [ref: WF1]

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Will Fyffe - 1885-1947, Scottish music hall entertainer, best remembered for his song I Belong to Glasgow - 2.75 x 3.5 inches (7 x 9 cm) autographed photo, signed: "Good Luck, Will Fyffe C.B.E. 1942". Condition: fragments of paper stuck to reverse where item has been in album. £12 [ref: WF3]

Will Fyffe - 1885-1947, Scottish music hall entertainer, best remembered for his song I Belong to Glasgow - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed photo, signed: "Yours aye, Will Fyffe, 1933". SOLD

above: detail of Will Fyffe autograph

above: detail of Bruce Forsyth autograph

Bruce Forsyth - born 1928, British entertainer, actor, TV personality and gameshow host; knighted in 2011, he starred in variety (famously at the London Palladium with Sammy Davies Jr.), in films (Star and Bedknobs and Broomsticks) and TV (The Generation Game, Play Your Card Right, Strictly Come Dancing) - 5.25 x 7.25 inches (13 x 18.5 cm) autographed informal photo dating from 1998. £15

Ronald Frankau - 1894-1951, versatile British comedian and musician, now famous for his risque records banned by the BBC in the 1930s, and who starred on radio with Tommy Handley as the comedy duo Murgatroyd and Winterbottom - autograph on 7 x 4.5 inches (17.5 x 11 cm) pale blue page taken from an autograph book. Lovely autograph, signed in black ink. £18

Galton and Simpson - comedy scriptwriter duo. Ray Galton (born 1930) and Alan Simpson (born 1929) legendary scriptwriters who wrote long-running radio classic Hancock's Half Hour, then all eight series of TV and radio sitcom Steptoe and Son; also the script to the Tony Hancock film The Rebel - 6 x 4 inches (15 x 10 cm) photo nicely signed by both. £45

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Uri Geller - Israeli psychic and celebrity - 3.75 x 6 inches (9.5 x 15 cm) autographed photo, postally-used in1997, with dedication, signed: "To Al Best, my best wishes, Uri Geller. See other side" then on reverse is 25 word message and another signature. £10

above: detail of Uri Geller autograph

Billy Gerhardi - British jazz violinist, conductor and bandleader: a big star of radio in the 1930s and 40s - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed postcard. Condition: paper stuck on reverse where item has been in album. £12

Ricky Gervais - born 1961: British comedian, actor, writer, director and radio presenter, famous for playing David Brent in The Office - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed photo. £15

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Joyce Golding - 1922-2012, British entertainer, impersonator and actress. She made her debut in shows for ENSA, entertaining the troops in Europe in the Second World War. A favourite routine was a recitation of Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade in the guise of a drunk, then a spiv and other characters. She also gave a lecture on the evils of alcohol, whilst falling prey to a bottle of gin. In 1948 he starred alongside Jimmy Edwards, Freddie Frinton and Jon Pertwee in the film Trouble in the Air. She was famously one of the few women to play the dame in pantomime, and from the 1950s until her retirement in the late 1960s, she was part of a double act with singer Tony Stuart - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed photo, signed: "To Bernard, with pleasure, Joyce Golding". £15

Nat Gonella - 1908-1998, British jazz trumpeter and bandleader with his big band, The Georgians - 5.5 x 3.5 inches (14 x 9 cm) autographed record-company postcard, signed in blue fountain-pen. Condition: slight indentation, top-centre, made by paperclip. £20

Stephane Grappelli - 1908-1997, French jazz violinist who started out as a busker and a silent-movie pianist, and became a huge star of live concerts and on TV. He made hundreds of recordings, and famously collaborated with yehudi Menuin and Julian Lloyd-Webber amongst many others - autograph on 4.75 x 3.25 inches (12 x 8 cm) white card. £20

Hughie Green - 1920 - 1997, British-born Canadian radio and TV personality/gameshow host, who had his first radio show aged 14 - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed postcard, postally-used pre-1936. Nice young photo with a typical example of his neat teenaged autograph, in green ink. £15 [ref: HG1]

above: detail of Hughie Green autograph

Hughie Green - 1920-1997, British-born Canadian radio and TV personality/gameshow host, who had his first radio show aged 14 - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed postcard, signed: "All good wishes, Hughie Green" in blue fountain pen. £18 [ref: HG2

above: detail of Hughie Green autograph

Nana Gualdi - 1932-2007, Swiss singer and actress - She recorded many German popular songs in the 1950s and 60s, then played singing roles in German films and on TV including Die Diehscheibe, Der Schrage Otto and Musik ist Trumf. She frequently appeared on stage in Hamburg and Stuttgart - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed record company publicity card. Condition: wear to edges and corners, and large fragments of paper stuck to reverse where item has been glued into album. £10

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