Peter Glaze, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Peter Glaze

comedian

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1917

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 20-Feb-1983

Profession: comedian, television actor

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Peter Glaze

  • William George Peter Glaze (17 September 1917 – 20 February 1983) was an English comedian born in London.
  • He hosted Crackerjack! with Leslie Crowther and Eamonn Andrews in the 1960s, and with Michael Aspel, Don Maclean and Bernie Clifton in the 1970s.
  • In Crackerjack! sketches, he usually played a pompous or upper-class character, who would always get exasperated with his partner Don Maclean during the course of the sketch.
  • Maclean would then give an alliterative reply, such as "Don't get your knickers in a knot" or "Don't get your tights in a twist".
  • He regularly uttered the expression "D'oh!", originated by James Finlayson in Laurel and Hardy films, long before it became associated with cartoon character Homer Simpson.
  • He was also on the panel of the long-running radio panel game Twenty Questions, along with Joy Adamson, Anona Winn and Norman Hackforth. Glaze was the son of an actor-manager and started in entertainment at the Windmill Theatre.
  • He was The Crazy Gang's understudy and appeared in the 1981 musical Underneath the Arches, alongside Roy Hudd and Christopher Timothy as Flanagan and Allen; he assisted Hudd in a recreation of one of the Gang's famous routines for a televised Royal Variety Performance in 1982.
  • He also appeared in Whack-O! (1958); as the villainous City Administrator in the Doctor Who serial The Sensorites (1964); and in The Sweeney episode "Big Spender" (1975) as Joe Spratt.
  • Glaze also played the actor supplying the farm animal noises in the Hancock episode "The Bowmans" (1961).

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