What year was Dick emery born?

Question

www.imdb.com/name/nm0256289 says 1915
www.answers.com/topic/dick-emery says 1917
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Emery says 1919

Thanks for the replies, HOWEVER,,
Screenonline.com does indeed say 1917 but reading the text below says 1915, so I am not convinced it is 1917 - read my original question to see all the differencies around on the internet..

Answer 1

http://www.answers.com/topic/dick-emery

1917....

Dick Emery was born Richard Gilbert Emery in Bloomsbury, London on 19th February 1917. His parents, both in show business, had a double act with the name 'Callan & Emery' and young Dick was soon to join them in the halls as part of the act. Consequently, as a child and an entertainer, Emery attended a different school every week but the family partnership was to break up when he was just eight - his father's drinking and gambling habits being a major cause for the separation. Dick left school at 15 and, amongst other jobs, earned money as an office boy, a farm hand and even a driving instructor until he finally decided that what he really wanted to be was an opera singer!
However, at the advent of War in 1939 Dick found himself serving with the RAF, eventually joining many now famous names in Ralph Reader's Gang Show. There it was that Dick started to develop some of the characters for which he was so well known - among them the buxom blonde 'Mandy' with her catchphrase, "Ooh you are awful...but I like you". Following the end of the War, Dick had worked up a vicar act and took it to an audition at the Windmill Theatre in Soho, where young, hopeful comedians such as Hancock, Morecambe and Wise and Bob Monkhouse first got their break. His audition was at 10.30 am and 2 and a half hours later he was appearing in his first show, billed as 'The Cockney Comic'. He appeared with Hancock and stayed at the Windmill for 36 weeks.

His and Hancock's paths were to cross again in the early 50's when he landed a part in the hit radio show 'Educating Archie'. That was the big break he'd been looking for and on the strength of that show Emery went onto make a radio series of his own entitled 'Emery at Large'. It wasn't long before Emery made the sideways move to television, appearing with Libby Morris in 'Two's Company', with Michael Bentine in 'It's a Square World' and 'The Army Game'.

Dick appeared with Hancock in 2 live shows in 1956 in the first series of the Associated-Rediffusion 'The Tony Hancock Show'. His other appearances alongside Hancock include 'The Amusement Arcade', 'How to Win Money and Influence People', 'There's an Airfield at the Bottom of my Garden' and 'The Wrong Box'. Dick's other films included 'The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn', 'Crooks Anonymous', 'The Wrong Arm of the Law' and 'The Big Job' (with Sid James).

In 1963 he was given his own BBC TV show called 'Emery at Large', a show which was to run for 20 years in various guises and showcased his most famous characters including Mandy, the frustrated 'Hettie' and College & Lampwick. In 1972 he took the award for BBC TV Personality of the Year from the Variety Club of Great Britain, missing the ceremony when he was rushed to hospital. The following year one of Emery's shows was entered into the Montreaux TV Festival and he also appeared in his first Royal Variety Performance.

Throughout his later years he was dogged by illness, suffering from eye problems, stomach disorders and heart complaints. He died on 2nd January 1983 aged just 65.

Answer 2

19th Feb 1917 Pisces
1973 BBC Personality of the Year
1963 saw the start of the Dick Emery Show which ran for nearly 20 years
he died in 1983
first appearance on TV was the Tony Handcock Show

Answer 3

He was born in 1917

Answer 4

i like them the two, they have been great comedians, yet for me Dick Emery has the part as a results of fact of his form of prosperous characters, I counted six in this caricature, look out on the beggining for a youthful amazing Wendy Richards. .

Answer 5

i believe 1917 and i think he was 66 when he passed on

Answer 6

Dick Emery was born on earth.

Answer 7

February 7, 1917
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/588635/index.html

Answer 8

ask his momma