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- 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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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Scotland
- Active from
- 1931
- Active to
- 1993
punk
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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
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- date of birth
- 1931-02-02
- date of death
- 1993-06-10
- start of work period
- 1959-00-00
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1931 births1993 deaths20th-century English comedians20th-century English male actors20th-century English male writers20th-century English pianists20th-century English writersActors from Lytham St AnnesComedians from LancashireComedians from ManchesterEnglish comedy writersEnglish game show hostsEnglish male comediansEnglish male pianistsEnglish male television actorsEnglish people of Irish descentEnglish satiristsEnglish stand-up comediansMale actors from LancashireMale actors from ManchesterPantomime damesPeople from Collyhurst