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Stanley Unwin
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- La Memoire Culturelle de la Deuxieme Guerre Punique
- Six-Hour Day and Other Industrial Questions
- The truth about a publisher
- Deep joy
- The Miscillian Manuscript
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Film & TV
Pretoria - South Africa
Stanley Unwin was born on June 7, 1911 in Pretoria, South Africa. He was an actor, known for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1968, The Secret Service 1969 and Carry On Regardless 1961. He was married to Frances Anne Unwin. He died on January 12, 2002 in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England.
Known for
- Shaun the Sheep Movie — Bus Station Announcer / Hospital Announcer (voice) (archive footage)2015
- Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus — Self (archive footage)2008
- Rex the Runt — Mr. Wangle (voice)1998
- Cue Here for Laughs with John Virgo — Self1994
- Lazarus and Dingwall — The Judge1991
- John Lennon: A Journey in the Life — Balloon Seller1985
- Digital Dreams — The Power of Babel1983
- The Paul Daniels Magic Show — Self1979
- Tell Tarby1973
- Hands, Knees and Bumps a Daisy — Narrator1969
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Stanley Unwin (7 June 1911 Pretoria, South Africa – 12 January 2002 Danetre Hospital, Daventry, Northamptonshire), sometimes billed as Professor Stanley Unwin, was a British comedian and comic writer, and the inventor of his own language, "Unwinese," referred to in the film Carry On Regardless as "gobbledegook". Unwinese was a mangled form of English in which many of the words were corrupted in playful and humorous ways, as in its description of Elvis Presley and his contemporaries as being "wa
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The World of Stanley Unwin
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Stanley
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Pretoria
- Place of death
- Daventry
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Westminster
- Employer
- BBC
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Official website
- www.stanleyunwin.com
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- date of birth
- 1911-06-07
- date of death
- 2002-01-12
- Commons category
- Stanley Unwin
- start of work period
- 1998-00-00
- pseudonym
- Professor Stanley Unwin
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