Stainless Stephen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetStainless Stephen
British comedian
Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1892
Place of Birth: Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 13-Jan-1971
Profession: comedian
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Stainless Stephen
- Arthur Clifford Baynes (30 November 1892–13 January 1971) was an English teacher and comedian from the steel-making city of Sheffield, Yorkshire, who performed under the stage name Stainless Stephen.
- During World War One, he served in the Sheffield City Battalion.Never quite in the front rank of British music hall comedians, he would appear dressed in a smart tuxedo, a bowler hat with a steel band around it, a rotating bow tie, and a stainless steel vest.
- Perhaps third on the bill, this may explain why he did not give up his day job at Crookes Endowed School, which he joined in 1922 after his demobilisation.
- That is until 1935, when he moved to London to be nearer the BBC.
- His first stage appearance was at the Palace, Luton, in 1921. His speciality was that during his intoned monologue, he would interrupt the flow by supplying the punctuation, thus: This is Stainless aimless brainless Stephen, semi-colon, broadcasting semi-conscious at the microphone semi-frantic. Closing a broadcast on 22 March 1941, he said: And so, countrymen, semi-colon, all shoulders to the wheel, semi-quaver, we'll carry on till we get the Axis semi-circle, and Hitler asks us for a full stop! He is said to have based the idea during a radio course he took while on military service.
- Stainless Stephen appeared in Radio Parade (1933), a film of (then) current music hall acts.
- He supported Will Hay at the Victoria Palace in 1944, and appeared on the bill at the London Palladium's Royal Command Performance in 1945. As a postscript to his career Stainless Stephen appeared as a guest on Frost on Saturday on ITV on 15 November 1969.
- This edition was dedicated to the history of British Broadcasting to mark the first evening of colour transmissions on ITV.
- In the show the comedian gave the television audience a sample of his somewhat unusual comedy routine.
- This programme survives intact in the ITV archives and is available on DVD.In his younger days, Baynes was a racing cyclist and continued to have an interest in cycling throughout his life.
- His cycle racing medals are soon to be on public display in Sheffield Museum He died in Chiddingstone, Kent in 1971.
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