Leslie Sarony | |
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| Born | Leslie Legge Frye 22 January 1897 |
| Died | 12 February 1985 (aged 88) London, England |
Leslie Sarony (born Leslie Legge Frye; 22 January 1897 – 12 February 1985) [1] was a British entertainer, singer, actor and songwriter.
Leslie Sarony | |
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| Born | Leslie Legge Frye 22 January 1897 |
| Died | 12 February 1985 (aged 88) London, England |
Leslie Sarony (born Leslie Legge Frye; 22 January 1897 – 12 February 1985) [1] was a British entertainer, singer, actor and songwriter.
Sarony was born in Surbiton, Surrey, England, [1] the son of William Henry Frye, alias William Rawstorne Frye, an Irish-born artist and photographer, and his wife, Mary Sarony, who was born in New York City. [2] He was christened as Leslie Legge Tate Frye at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Twickenham, on 5 May 1898. [3]
He began his stage career aged 14, with the group Park Eton's Boys. [1] In 1913 he appeared in the revue, Hello Tango . [1]
In World War I, Sarony served (as Private Leslie Sarony Frye) in the London Scottish Regiment and the Royal Army Medical Corps in France and Salonika, [1] and was awarded the Silver War Badge. [4]
His stage credits after the war included revues, pantomimes and musicals, including the London productions of Show Boat and Rio Rita . [1]
Sarony became known in the 1920s and 1930s as a variety artist and radio performer. In 1928, he made a short film in the Phonofilm sound-on-film system, Hot Water and Vegetabuel. In this film, he sang, interspersed with his comic patter, the two eponymous songs – the first as a typical Cockney geezer outside a pub, the second (still outside the pub) as a less typical vegetable rights campaigner ("Don't be cruel to a vegetabuel"). He recorded novelty songs, such as "He Played his Ukulele as the Ship Went Down", [5] [6] including several with Jack Hylton and his Orchestra. He teamed up with Leslie Holmes in 1933 under the name 'The Two Leslies'. [1] The partnership lasted until 1946. [1] Their recorded output included such numbers as "I'm a Little Prairie Flower".
His 1929 song "Jollity Farm", was recorded by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band on their 1967 album Gorilla . [7]
Sarony continued to perform into his eighties, moving on to television and films. [1] In the 1970s, he appeared in such programmes as the Harry Worth Show, Crossroads , Z-Cars , The Good Old Days , and The Liberace Show, as well as the sitcom Nearest and Dearest . He appeared in the first episode of police drama The Sweeney ("Ringer", 1975) as a police informant known as 'Soldier'.
He took over from Bert Palmer as the senile Uncle Stavely ("I heard that! Pardon?") in the fourth and final series of I Didn't Know You Cared in 1979. In 1983, Sarony appeared as one the many elderly insurance clerks in The Crimson Permanent Assurance segment of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life .
He died in London, aged 88. [1] His sons are: Neville Sarony QC, a barrister and author (The Dharma Expedient) in Hong Kong; Peter Sarony, a successful gunsmith with a business in London; and Paul Sarony, an independent film producer ( Mrs Brown , Hideous Kinky , Shine ).[ citation needed ]
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