John Comer

John Comer died 1984 was a British comic actor He starred in the television series I Didnt Know You Cared Last of the Summer Wine and All Our Saturdays Born and brought up in Stretford Lancashire Comer gained an engineering apprenticeship at MetropolitanVickers Trafford Park Comer began his career performing a comedy routine around local social clubs and pubs in the 1930s and 1940s In 1952 with his younger brother Tony he performed in a childrens theatre production for local schools in Stretfordcitation needed The siblings then formed a double act named the Comer Brothers In 1957 the brothers began a regular slot at the Manchester Apollo performing a variety act entitled Comers Cottage In 1958 the Comer Brothers participated in an ITV talent show called Bid for Fame and began working for Butlins In 1959 they won first prize in the Butlins National Talent Contest winning 1000 and a film contract with the Boulting Brothers In 1959 the Boulting Brothers cast John and Tony Comer in the film Im All Right Jack in which they starred alongside Peter Sellers and Richard Attenborough as trade union shop stewards Their next film roles were in 1961 when they featured alongside Rita Tushingham in A Taste of Honey However shortly afterwards Tony decided to leave showbusiness and returned to fulltime work at MetropolitanVickers while John decided to continue pursuing his film career He appeared in the Boulting Brothers 1967 film The Family Way as a fatherofthebride to Hayley Millss character whose father John Mills portrayed her fatherinlaw He gained a recurring role in 1973 as the primary supporting role of Sid in the new BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine He also starred in a longrunning advertising campaign for Home Brew Beer 1977 saw him appear as Bill Malley in the BBC series Murder Most English From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia