John Junkin

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Contents

Shows

Ask No Questions (also devisor)

Bob's Full House (writer)

Chain Letters (question-setter)

Connections (team captain)

Give Me Your Word

Jump! (also devisor)

Loose Ends (team captain)

Lucky 13

Mark My Words (panellist)

Odd One Out (voiceover)

The Unfair Quiz (also devisor)

Biography

Long-serving supporting player in TV, radio and film comedy shows. His major credits include A Hard Day's Night, radio series Hello Cheeky and the Marty Feldman vehicle Marty. Towards the end of his life he lived in near poverty due to a £70,000 legal bill for a (failed) action against a TV producer over a format of his, and £120,000 in unpaid income tax.

He died on 7 March 2006 of lung cancer, aged 76.

Trivia

He was the voice of "Mr Shifter", the piano-humping chimpanzee in the PG Tips tea ads, the longest-running series of commercials on television.

He also appeared alongside Pete Postlethwaite in the BBC comedy-drama 'The Sins' in 2000 and alongside Lorcan Cranitch in the 2001 BBC drama 'Macready and Daughter'.

Web links

Internet Movie Database entry

Wikipedia entry

The Times obituary

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