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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 25
Top works
- Blade and the Passion
- Well Fared, My Lovely
- No Tears for the Clown
- les Dawson Joke Book
- Dawson's Lancashire
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Film & TV
Collyhurst, Manchester, England, UK
Les Dawson (2 February 1931 – 10 June 1993) was an English comedian, actor, writer, and presenter, who is best remembered for his deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife.
Known for
- Les Dawson: 30 Funniest Moments — Archive Footage2022
- Les Dawson Lost Tapes — Self (Archive)2021
- When Comedy Changed Forever — Self (archive material)2006
- The Best of Les Dawson2004
- Nona — Nona1991
- Pebble Mill — Self1991
- Performance — Nona1991
- Fast Friends — Self - Host1991
- The Grand Knockout Tournament — Self1987
- Going Live! — Self1987
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 196
- Total plays
- 1,579
Leslie "Les" Dawson (2 February 1931 – 10 June 1993) was a popular English comedian remembered for his deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife. Raised in the Collyhurst district of Manchester, Dawson began his entertainment career as a pianist in a Parisian brothel – according to his entertaining but factually unreliable autobiography. As a club pianist ("I finally heard some applause from a bald man and <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Les+Dawson">Read
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Dawson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Collyhurst
- Place of death
- Manchester
- Occupation
- journalist
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1931-02-02
- date of death
- 1993-06-10
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1959-00-00
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