John Francis Junkin (29 January 1930 - 7 March 2006) was an English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter. In 1960 Junkin joined Joan Littlewood's Stratford East Theatre Workshop, and played the lead in the original production of Sparrows Can't Sing. A few years later he joined the Royal Court Theatre company and was the foil to Tony Hancock in some of Hancock's last work for British television.

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:Person/birthDate
  • 1930-01-29 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:Person/birthName
  • John Francis Junkin
dbpedia-owl:Person/birthPlace
dbpedia-owl:Person/deathCause
dbpedia-owl:Person/deathDate
  • 2006-03-07 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:Person/deathPlace
dbpedia-owl:Person/occupation
dbpedia-owl:birthDate
  • 1930-01-29 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:birthName
  • John Francis Junkin
dbpedia-owl:birthPlace
dbpedia-owl:deathCause
dbpedia-owl:deathDate
  • 2006-03-07 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:deathPlace
dbpedia-owl:occupation
dbpprop:abstract
  • John Francis Junkin (29 January 1930 - 7 March 2006) was an English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter. In 1960 Junkin joined Joan Littlewood's Stratford East Theatre Workshop, and played the lead in the original production of Sparrows Can't Sing. A few years later he joined the Royal Court Theatre company and was the foil to Tony Hancock in some of Hancock's last work for British television. He played a diverse range of roles on the small screen; however he is best remembered for his comedy roles, and his appearances as a television quiz master. American moviegoers will remember him best for playing "Shake", the assistant to Norman Rossington, in the Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night. In comedy roles, Junkin was rarely short of work, on account of his outstanding ability to play the stoney-faced symbol of low level, petty-minded and unquestioning authority, whether the army sergeant, police constable or site foreman. One of his rare leading roles was in the BBC series The Rough with the Smooth, in which he and Tim Brooke-Taylor played comedy writers (with both actors contributing scripts to the series as well). Junkin has an entry in the Guinness Book of Records as the voice of "Mr Shifter", one of the chimps in the PG Tips tea advertisement, the longest-running series of commercials on television. Junkin died on 7 March 2006 in the Florence Nightingale House, Aylesbury. He had been suffering from lung cancer, emphysema and asthma. His life and work were honoured at the British Academy Television Awards in 2006.
  • John Francis Junkin war ein britischer Radio-, Fernseh- und Filmschauspieler und Drehbuchautor. Er wurde durch seine Auftritte in diversen Fernseh-Comedy-Shows bekannt. 1960 nahm Junkin an Joan Littlewoods Stratford East Theatre Workshop teil und spielte die Hauptrolle in Sparrers Can't Sing. Wenig später wechselte er in die Royal Court Theatre Company. Dann wechselte er zum Fernsehen, wo er verschiedene Rollen verkörperte, am bekanntesten waren seine komödiantischen Rollen und seine Auftritte als Fernseh-Quizmaster. Er starb an Lungenkrebs.
  • John Junkin, född 29 januari 1930 i Ealing, London, England, Storbritannien, död 7 mars 2006, var en engelsk skådespelare.
dbpprop:alternativeNames
  • Junkin, John Francis
dbpprop:birthDate
dbpprop:birthName
  • John Francis Junkin
dbpprop:birthPlace
dbpprop:dateOfBirth
  • 1930-01-29 (xsd:date)
dbpprop:dateOfDeath
  • 2006-03-06 (xsd:date)
dbpprop:deathCause
dbpprop:deathDate
dbpprop:deathPlace
dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection
dbpprop:name
  • John Junkin
  • Junkin, John
dbpprop:nationality
  • British
dbpprop:occupation
dbpprop:reference
dbpprop:shortDescription
  • English TV and Radio performer, writer
dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • John Francis Junkin (29 January 1930 - 7 March 2006) was an English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter. In 1960 Junkin joined Joan Littlewood's Stratford East Theatre Workshop, and played the lead in the original production of Sparrows Can't Sing. A few years later he joined the Royal Court Theatre company and was the foil to Tony Hancock in some of Hancock's last work for British television.
  • John Francis Junkin war ein britischer Radio-, Fernseh- und Filmschauspieler und Drehbuchautor. Er wurde durch seine Auftritte in diversen Fernseh-Comedy-Shows bekannt. 1960 nahm Junkin an Joan Littlewoods Stratford East Theatre Workshop teil und spielte die Hauptrolle in Sparrers Can't Sing. Wenig später wechselte er in die Royal Court Theatre Company.
  • John Junkin, född 29 januari 1930 i Ealing, London, England, Storbritannien, död 7 mars 2006, var en engelsk skådespelare.
rdfs:label
  • John Junkin
  • John Junkin
  • John Junkin
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:givenname
  • John
  • John
foaf:name
  • John Junkin
  • John Junkin
foaf:page
foaf:surname
  • Junkin
  • Junkin
is dbpedia-owl:Film/starring of
is dbpedia-owl:TelevisionEpisode/guest of
is dbpedia-owl:TelevisionShow/starring of
is dbpedia-owl:Work/author of
is dbpedia-owl:author of
is dbpedia-owl:guest of
is dbpedia-owl:starring of
is dbpprop:guests of
is dbpprop:starring of
is dbpprop:writer of
is dbpprop:writers of
is owl:sameAs of