Acting
Community Rating
6.0
TMDB estimate
Born
October 14, 1896
Died
October 20, 1968 (age 72)
Born in
Whitechapel, London, England, UK
From Wikipedia Bud Flanagan OBE (14 October 1896 – 20 October 1968) was a popular English music hall and vaudeville entertainer from the 1930s until the 1960s. Flanagan was famous as a wartime entertainer and his achievements were recognised when he was awarded the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1959. Bud Flanagan is best remembered as part of a double act with Chesney Allen, Flanagan and Allen. They had first met on active service in Flanders, but did not work together until 1926, touring with a Florrie Forde show. They established a reputation and were booked by Val Parnell at the Holborn Empire. As music hall comedians, they would often feature a mixture of comedy and music in their act and this led to a successful recording career as a duo and roles in film and television. Flanagan and Allen were both members of The Crazy Gang, appearing in the first show at the London Palladium in 1931, and continued to work with the group, concurrently with their double-act career.

Dad's Army
as Theme Song Performance
1968

The Wild Affair
as Sergeant Bletch
1965

Life Is a Circus
as Bud
1960

Dunkirk
as Himself
1958
Tonight in Britain
as Self
1954

Here Comes the Sun
as Corona Flanagan, Screenplay
1945

Dreaming
as Bud, Writer
1944

Theatre Royal
as Bob Parker, Screenplay
1943
We’ll Smile Again
as Bob Parker, Writer
1942

Listen to Britain
as Self - Flanagan & Allen
1942

Gasbags
as Bud
1941

The Frozen Limits
as Bud
1939

Alf's Button Afloat
as Alf Higgins
1938

O-Kay for Sound
as Bud
1937
Underneath the Arches
as Bud
1937

A Fire Has Been Arranged
as Bud
1935
Wild Boy
as Dick Smith (Auctioner and Bookmaker)
1934
They're Off
1933

The Bailiffs
as Perkins
1932