Profile via TMDB · Courtesy of TMDB
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1944
- Died
- 2020
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Gospel According to Cannon and Ball
- My Life (Bobby Ball
- My Life
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Film & TV
Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
Oldham born comedian famous for his comic partnership with Tommy Cannon. The pair reached their peak in the 1980s with TV shows, sell out tours and even a film, Boys in Blue. In later years Ball has branched out into solo acting, appearing in TV shows such as Not Going Out and Mount Pleasant.
Known for
- Rik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen — Self (archive footage)2026
- Rock On, Tommy: The Bobby Ball Story — Himself (Archive)2020
- The Cockfields — Ray2019
- Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule — Self2017
- The Security Men — Duckers2013
- Mount Pleasant2011
- Mount Pleasant — Barry2011
- Celebrity Antiques Road Trip — Self - Participant2011
- Celebrity Coach Trip — Self2010
- The Fattest Man in Britain — Morris2009
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 9
- Total plays
- 13
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Family name
- Harper
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Oldham
- Occupation
- welder
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Bobby Ball.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Residence
- Lytham St Annes
Show 10 more facts
- date of birth
- 1944-01-28
- Commons category
- Bobby Ball
- start of work period
- 1963-00-00
- date of death
- 2020-10-28
- cause of death
- COVID-19
- manner of death
- natural causes
- pseudonym
- Bobby Ball
- end of work period
- 2020-00-00
- name in native language
- Bobby Ball
- birth name
- Robert Harper
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