Roy Hudd is an English comedian, actor, radio host and author, and an authority on the history of music hall entertainment. Hudd first appeared on radio in 1959 on the Workers’ Playtime Show and he is best known for his very long-running BBC Radio 2 series The News Huddlines. He has appeared on TV variety shows and his acting roles include the Dennis Potter series Lipstick on Your Collar, for which he received critical praise, and Karaoke. In 1966 and 1967 he had his own comedy sketch series – The Illustrated Weekly Hudd. He made a guest appearance alongside Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke and Jonathan Hyde in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (episode entitled “The Dying Detective”), in 1994.
Hudd has appeared in many pantomime and variety performances. In the 1980′s he starred as Fagin in the revival of Lionel Bart’s musical Oliver! at the Albery Theatre, London and the musical version of Hard Times at the Haymarket Theatre with Brian Blessed. In 2004 he launched a new one man show All My Own Work. Hudd has written several books on music hall, re-recorded music hall records and appeared in the music hall revival show The Good Old Days.
Hudd was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s 2003 New Year’s Honours List.
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