Colin Crompton

Aliases: The Chairman
Real name: Colin Crompton
Born: June 22, 1931
Died: August 24, 1985
Country: United Kingdom
Comments: He found fame on the Granada Television programme The Comedians in the early 1970s. From 1974 to 1977 he was also the "club chairman" in another Granada programme, The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club. An attempt by producer Johnnie Hamp to reproduce the atmosphere of the working men's clubs in a television studio, Crompton was famous for ringing a hand-operated fire alarm bell and telling the audience to "give order" when making announcements from "the committee" in between acts.

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