Veteran comic Eric Sykes has spoken out about Ruth Jones's new BBC Four drama Hattie. The 87-year-old TV and radio star said that it was "very sad" that the broadcaster had decided to focus on his ...

With film clips and photos, Eric Sykes gives a tongue-in-cheek account of his follies and fortunes as an actor, gag writer, and comedian in a long and successful career in the theatre, on radio and ...

Eric Sykes, one of Britain's best-loved comedy actors and writers, has died at the age of 89, his manager has said. He found fame in a series of TV sitcoms from the 1950s, including Sykes And A ...

Josephine Edwina Jaques (7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980) was an English comedy actress, known as Hattie Jacques. Starting her career in the 1940s, Jacques first gained attention through her radio ...

(Reuters) - Here is a look at the life of British comic actor and writer Eric Sykes who died on Wednesday. * Eric Sykes was born in Oldham in May 1923. * He forged a successful career both in front of ...