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| name = John Comer | image = Ivy+Sid6635.jpg | imagesize = 240px | caption = John Comer as Sid with Jane Freeman as Ivy in Last of the Summer Wine | birth_date = 1 March 1924 | birth_place = Stretford, Lancashire, England | death_date = 11 February 1984 (aged 59) | death_place = Blackpool, Lancashire, England | birth_name = | occupation = actor | years_active = 1941 - 1984 | spouse = }} John Comer (1 March 1924 – 11 February 1984) was a British comic actor. He was best known for his roles in Coronation Street as Mr Birtles then as a Taxi Driver and later as Wilf Jones, in Emmerdale Farm as Ernie Shuttleworth, Les Brandon in I Didn't Know You Cared and Cafe Owner Sid in Last of the Summer Wine . Early lifeBorn and brought up in Stretford, Lancashire,[1] Comer gained an engineering apprenticeship at Metropolitan-Vickers, Trafford Park.[1] Early careerComer began his career performing a comedy routine around local social clubs and pubs in the 1930s and 1940s.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} In 1952, with his younger brother Tony, he performed in a children's theatre production for local schools in Stretford.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} The siblings then formed a double act named the Comer Brothers.[1] In 1957 the brothers began a regular slot at the Manchester Apollo, performing a variety act entitled Comer's Cottage.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} In 1958 the Comer Brothers participated in an ITV talent show called Bid for Fame and began working for Butlin's.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} In 1959 they won first prize in the Butlin's National Talent Contest, winning £1,000 and a film contract[1] with the Boulting Brothers.[1] SuccessIn 1959 the Boulting Brothers cast John and Tony Comer in the film I'm All Right Jack, in which they starred alongside Peter Sellers and Richard Attenborough as trade union shop stewards. Their next film roles were in 1961, when they featured alongside Rita Tushingham in A Taste of Honey. However shortly afterwards Tony decided to leave showbusiness and returned to full-time work at Metropolitan-Vickers, while John decided to continue pursuing his film career. He appeared in the Boulting Brothers' 1967 film The Family Way as a father-of-the-bride to Hayley Mills's character, whose father John Mills portrayed her father-in-law. He gained a recurring role in 1973 as the primary supporting role of Sid in the new BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine. He also starred in a long-running advertising campaign for Home Brew Beer.[1] 1977 saw him appear as Bill Malley in the BBC series "Murder Most English". DeathComer died of throat cancer in 1984, at the age of 59.[2] The disease had so affected his voice that in his final television appearance, as cafe owner Sid, in the Last of the Summer Wine Christmas episode Getting Sam Home, his lines had to be dubbed by another actor, Tony Melody. His funeral was held at Carleton Crematorium, Blackpool, where he is commemorated at rose-bed no. 18. After the death of Comer's wife, Mollie, in 2010, his estate was finalised; in 2013 the Comer family donated £245,000 to the hospice in Blackpool where John Comer was treated before his death.[3] Film roles
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References1. ^1 2 {{cite news| work=St Ann's Stretford Parish Magazine|date= Christmas 2007|page=14| title=The Comer Brothers}} 2. ^{{cite news| url = http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/help-hospice-in-your-will-1-6125656 | title=Help hospice in your will| work=The Gazette | publisher= Johnston Publishing Ltd. |date=8 October 2013 | location = Blackpool, Lancashire, UK| accessdate= 26 May 2016| archivedate= 26 May 2016|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160526205637/http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/help-hospice-in-your-will-1-6125656 | deadurl=no}} 3. ^1 2 3 {{cite news| url = http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/news/whereyoulive/stretfordnews/10345913.Late_Last_of_the_Summer_Wine_actor_s_family_to_donate___245_000_to_cancer_hospice/ | title=Late Last of the Summer Wine actor's family to donate £245,000 to cancer hospice| publisher=Messenger Newspapers|location=UK|first=Kate|last= Banks|date=11 April 2013|accessdate=28 March 2016|archivedate=17 January 2016| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160117163753/http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/news/whereyoulive/stretfordnews/10345913.Late_Last_of_the_Summer_Wine_actor_s_family_to_donate___245_000_to_cancer_hospice/ | deadurl=no}} External links
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