Duggie Brown
Comedian, Actor & Singer
Dougie Brown's real surname was Dudley. He was born on 7 August 1940 in Rotherham. I thought this was spelled Duggie myself but a friend says Dougie is correct. You know what a sucker I am - I'll believe anybody. Well Duggie himself has been in touch and confirmed that I was right. That doesn't half make me feel virtuous. His sister, known professionally as Lynne Perrie was born Jean Dudley on 7 April 1931 in Masbrough, Rotherham.
For a long time Duggie toured the clubs with the Four Imps pop group, before eventually turning professional as a comedian, regularly appearing on TV in The Comedians and The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club. He later became an actor with one of his early acting roles being in the film Kes playing a milkman alongside his real sister Lynne Perrie. No sibling rivalry there then!
He has a long list of TV credits including:-
- The 6.5 Special
- The Good Old Days
- Slattery's Mounted Foot
- Leeds United
- Say Goodnight to Grandma
- Days of Hope
- The Price of Coal
- The House That Jack Built
- Bring On The Girls
- Take My Wife
- Crown Court
- The Combination
- The Enigma Files
- The Cuckoo Waltz (as himself)
- My Brother's Keeper
- The Glamour Girls
- The Hard Word
- All Creatures Great and Small (two roles)
- The Bill
- Minder
- Stay Lucky
- Heartbeat
- Rik Mayall Presents
- The Comedians Christmas Cracker
- Brookside (Ray Piper)
- The Final Cut
- Ellington
- Coronation Street
- He also appeared in the film "For the Love of Ada".
- List not updated recently.
You can still find doing some shows around here and he seems in demand as an after dinner speaker (I know I'd prefer him any day of the week to John Major in that respect). He has a website that you can visit at www.duggiebrown.co.uk for more information and lots of interesting stuff.