Charlie DRAKE (1925-2006)

Charlie Drake This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 174
  • Subject No: 175
  • Broadcast live: Mon 11 Dec 1961
  • Broadcast time: 7.55-8.30pm
  • Venue: BBC Television Theatre
  • Series: 7
  • Edition: 11

on the guest list...

  • Russ Conway
  • Violet Springall - mother
  • Jean Geoghegan - sister
  • Ted Springall - brother
  • Joe Clayton
  • Fred Blainey
  • Reginald Hawkins
  • Fred Chant
  • Edith Braddick
  • Sid Cant
  • Alice Seaton
  • Cliff Richard
  • Dick Emery
  • Heather Barnes - wife
  • Jack Edwardes
  • Janette Scott
  • Jackie Rae
  • Gary Miller
  • Christopher - son
  • Stephen - son
  • Paul - son
  • Filmed tribute:
  • Bob Monkhouse

production team...

  • Researcher: Alfred Draper
  • Writer: Alfred Draper
  • Director: Yvonne Littlewood
  • Producer: T Leslie Jackson
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
  • With thanks to Charlie Drake's son, Chris Drake for his contribution to this page.
related pages...

Charlie Drake

second tribute


It's a Funny Old Life

it's all about the comedy


Life Second Time Around

surprised again!


Russ Conway


Bob Monkhouse


Interviews

Chris Drake, son of Charlie Drake, recalls this edition of This Is Your Life in an exclusive interview recorded in January 2020

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Photographs of Charlie Drake This Is Your Life

Series 7 subjects

Max Bygraves | Mario Borrelli | Alastair Pearson | Brian Rix | Derek Dooley | Elizabeth Twistington Higgins | Sandy MacPherson
Ronald Menday | Harry Day | Peter Finch | Charlie Drake | Timothy Cain | Isabella Woodford | David Park | Sefton Delmer
Coco the Clown | Jenny Gleed | Arthur E Davies | Tom Evans | David Pelham James | Kenneth Horne | Marie Rambert | David Butler
Glen Moody | Kenneth Cooke | Tom Breaks | Dora Bryan | Bob Oatway | Acker Bilk | Hester Meakin | Joe Filliston | Ellaline Terriss