No way Tony.  Bernard was a lot skinnier. .

Same Era though.   Think School-girls.

-- Edited by Sheba on Monday 9th of April 2018 08:24:56 PM

Off you go Sandy.

 

Alastair George Bell Sim, CBE (9 October 1900 19 August 1976) was a Scottish character actor who began his theatrical career at the age of thirty, but quickly became established as a popular West End performer, remaining so until his death in 1976. He also appeared in more than fifty British films, starting in 1935.

After a series of false starts, including a spell as a jobbing labourer and another as a clerk in a local government office, Sim's love of and talent for poetry reading won him several prizes and led to his appointment as a lecturer in elocution at the University of Edinburgh in 1925. He also ran his own private elocution and drama school, from which, with the help of the playwright John Drinkwater, he made the transition to the professional stage in 1930.

Despite his late start, Sim soon became well known on the London stage. A period of more than a year as a member of the Old Vic company brought him wide experience of playing Shakespeare and other classics, to which he returned throughout his career. In the modern repertoire, he formed a close professional association with the author James Bridie, which lasted from 1939 until the dramatist's death in 1951. Sim not only acted in Bridie's works, but directed them.

In the later 1940s and for most of the 1950s, Sim was a leading star of British cinema, appearing in more than fifty films. They included Green for Danger (1946), Hue and Cry (1947), The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950), Scrooge (1951), The Belles of St Trinian's (1954) and An Inspector Calls (1954). Later, he made fewer films and generally concentrated on stage work, including successful productions at the Chichester Festival and regular appearances in new and old works in the West End.

Is it Kenneth Williams, an actor from the "Carry On" films, by any chance, Sandy

Looks like it is time for a clue, he is half of a comedy duo.

You've got it Cadpete over to you

Ernest Wiseman, OBE (27 November 1925 21 March 1999), known by his stage name Ernie Wise, was an English comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise, who became a national institution on British television, especially for their Christmas specials.

Early life and education

Ernest Wiseman, born in Bramley (a district of Leeds) to Harry and Connie Wiseman (née Wright) who married in St Thomas Stanningley,^[1] was the eldest of five children, and changed his surname (as did his future partner) to go into show business. He attended Thorpe Infant and Junior School, and then East Ardsley Boys' School, but entered the entertainment industry in 1933, appearing as an actor and singer in music hall. His father, Harry, a railway lamp man, was also a semi-professional singer, and they appeared together under the name "Bert Carson and his Little Wonder". He started making solo appearancessinging, dancing, and telling jokesin 1936, and, in autumn of 1938 he came to the attention of Bryan Michie, a leading juvenile talent spotter, who recommended him to the impresario Jack Hylton.

Performing career

In 1940, the year he met Eric Morecambe, then known as Eric Bartholomew, he appeared with British comedian Arthur Askey in his Band Waggon radio show, billed as Britain's Mickey Rooney. Gradually, Wise and Morecambe formed a close friendship, and, in 1941, they began their comedy double act, which was to last until Morecambe's death in 1984. They made their debut together as "Bartholomew and Wise" on Thursday 28 August 1941, at the Liverpool Empire. A change of name followed in the autumn: after agreeing that the combination of their respective places of birthMorecambe and Leedswould make the act sound too much like a cheap day return, they settled on "Morecambe and Wise"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Wise

Must be time for a clue.  Inventor of a self propelled weapon - there, I'm sure that will help a lot

 

Don't be shy Rocky , you know who it is don't you ...

Gday...

 ya didn't rename the file  Ballast :( ... SamuelColtPicture-small.jpg

Bung up another one I reckon

Cheers - John

-- Edited by rockylizard on Friday 13th of April 2018 10:38:44 PM

Just checked Sheba and if you right click and select save image as the name shows in the window that opens. It doesn't show on mine either if I mouse over, I'm not sure why not.

G'ay. Hint. Think about my previous post.

Cheers.

Ned Buntline, or a close relative ?

Richard Jordan Gatling

Does anyone remember this lady with the thick wavy red hair?