Dick Bentley was an Australiancomedian and actor. He starred with Jimmy Edwards in Take It From Here for the BBC. A comedian (also comedienne, female) is a person who attempts to make people laugh through a variety of methods, normally through joke telling, or a stream of funny banter. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Jimmy Edwards (23 March 1920 – 7 July 1988 was a British radio and television comedy actor, best known as Pa Glum in Take It From Here and as the headmaster Professor James Edwards in Whack-O. Born James Keith ONeill in Barnes, London, Edwards served in the Royal Air... Take It From Here (often referred to as TIFH, pronounced tife) was a British radio comedy programme broadcast by the BBC between 1947 and 1958. ...
It was written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and starred Jimmy Edwards, DickBentley and Joy Nichols.
The radio producer Charles Maxwell had contracted Edwards, together with Joy Nichols and DickBentley, for the final series of the radio show Navy Mixture for which Muir had provided some scripts, and after this show ended Maxwell received a commission for a new weekly comedy series to star Edwards, Nichols and Bentley.
The story would be about some recent episode in the lives of Ron, Mr Glum's dim son (played by DickBentley), and Eth, a plain girl for whom Ron represented her only chance of marriage (played by June Whitfield).
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