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'''David Morris''' (5 July 1896 – 8 June 1960) was a British [[music hall]] comedian who made a successful transition to radio and television.

==Biography==
He was born on 5 July 1896, son of Samuel Morris and Lily Reubens. Samuel, a tailor, lived at 110 Wilson Street, [[Middlesbrough]].<ref>Kehilat Middlesbrough Newsletter No 10 April 2001</ref>

His first stage appearance was on 10 December 1908 at the Oxford Playhouse, Middlesbrough and his first London appearance in 1913 at the London [[Shoreditch]]. He started with a juvenile troupe, "Phil Reece and his Stable Lads",<ref name=hudd>Roy Hudd and Philip Hindin, ''Roy Hudd's Cavalcade of Variety Acts'', Robson Books, 1998, {{ISBN|1-86105-206-5}}, pp.127-128</ref> then as a [[blackface]] comic. He was called up into the Army in World War 1 and resumed his stage career in 1918, touring constantly in variety and revue.

He lived in the [[Blackpool]] area from the early 1930s, and in 1940 began a thirteen-year run in the resort's summer season shows, starting at the [[North Pier, Blackpool|North Pier]], as a northern comic in his famous straw hat and very thick glasses. He had extremely bad eyesight as a result of having been gassed in the trenches in World War I and thus was not conscripted for the Second World War. After nine years, he refused to go on playing matinees and transferred to a long run at the [[Alhambra, Blackpool|Blackpool Palace]] for [[George Black (producer)|George and Alfred Black]]. He worked as a [[sketch comedy|sketch comic]], also doing some [[stand-up]] material.<ref name=wilmut>Roger Wilmut, ''Kindly Leave the Stage: The Story of Variety 1919-1960'', Methuen, 1985, {{isbn|0-413-48960-4}}, pp.199-201</ref>

In 1948, he toured with ''Paradise on Parade'' after a summer season at the [[South Pier, Blackpool]]. In January 1950, he was resident comedian of the BBC North Country variety feature, ''Variety Fanfare''. He also toured with his own stage show, ''The Dave Morris Show'', for several years. In 1950 [[Joe Gladwin]] joined him as "Cedric", a '[[straight man|feed]]', and stayed with him for ten years.<ref name=wilmut/>

The radio series ''Club Night'' was launched in the [[BBC Home Service]] north region on 7 November 1950 where it ran for 52 editions until 6 June 1955. The programme was set in a fictitious [[workingmen's club]] "'oop north." With his trademark cigar, straw hat and glasses, Dave Morris was the somewhat loudmouthed 'know all' club treasurer, ably assisted by Gladwin as Cedric and by [[Liverpool]] comedian [[Fred Ferris (actor)|Fred Ferris]] as 'The Wacker' whose primary ambition seemed to be to scrounge a drink.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/480099685d584dbdb666405f9fe75a3b|title=Dave Morris in CLUB NIGHT|date=24 August 1956|publisher=|issue=1711|pages=35|via=BBC Genome}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ronnietaylor.co.uk/id2.html|title=Ronnie Taylor - Northern Comedians and BBC Radio|website=www.ronnietaylor.co.uk}}</ref> The scripts were written by Morris with [[James Casey (variety artist)|James Casey]] and Frank Roscoe.<ref name=wilmut/>

He moved to television for six programmes of the sitcom ''[[The Artful Dodger (TV series)|The Artful Dodger]]'' from 28 September to 2 November 1959. The show was based on ''Club Night'' and used the character he developed there. It also featured Joe Gladwin as his comic foil.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/the_artful_dodger/|title=The Artful Dodger - BBC1 Sitcom|first=British Comedy|last=Guide|website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b29916eb29a142d49b35d5b60e03899c|title=The Artful Dodger: Going, Going, Gone!|date=2 October 1959|publisher=|issue=1873|pages=17|via=BBC Genome}}</ref>

Morris died in Blackpool in 1960, aged 63.<ref>[http://www.blackpoolpostcards.co.uk/2012/10/famous-blackpool-entertainers/ "Famous Blackpool Entertainers: Dave Morris", ''Blackpool Postcards'', 18 October 2012]. Retrieved 16 February 2021</ref> Writer [[Roger Wilmut]] said of him:<blockquote>Morris has been largely forgotten since his death... partly because of his relative lack of appeal in [[southern England|the south]] [of England], and also because no recordings seem to have survived of him; he was one of the finest [[northern England|northern]] comedians.<ref name=wilmut/></blockquote>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=3902025}}

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[[Category:British comedians]]
[[Category:Music hall performers]]
[[Category:People from Middlesbrough]]
[[Category:1896 births]]
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[[Category:20th-century British comedians]]

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