Keith Harris – who found fame in Britain with puppet Orville – has died from cancer at the age of 67.
Harris worked in variety for more than 50 years, while The Keith Harris Show – which featured ventriloquist dummies Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey – ran on BBC1 prime-time from 1982 to 1990.
He also had a huge hit with The Orville Song, which reached Number 4 in the UK charts, selling more than 400,000 copies.
In more recent years Harris was a regular on the pantomime circuit, and appeared in the likes of When Louis Theroux Met…, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, The Farm and The Weakest Link.
Chris Tilly is the Entertainment Editor for IGN in the UK and actually owned a copy of that record. He can be found talking nonsense on The Superhero Show and Twitter.
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Harris worked in variety for more than 50 years, while The Keith Harris Show – which featured ventriloquist dummies Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey – ran on BBC1 prime-time from 1982 to 1990.
He also had a huge hit with The Orville Song, which reached Number 4 in the UK charts, selling more than 400,000 copies.
In more recent years Harris was a regular on the pantomime circuit, and appeared in the likes of When Louis Theroux Met…, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, The Farm and The Weakest Link.
Chris Tilly is the Entertainment Editor for IGN in the UK and actually owned a copy of that record. He can be found talking nonsense on The Superhero Show and Twitter.
Continue reading…
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