Jimmy Tarbuck

Jimmy Tarbuck

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name = Jimmy Tarbuck OBE
birthname = Jimmy Tarbuck
birthdate = Birth date and age|1940|02|06|mf=y
birthplace = Liverpool, England
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occupation = Comedian
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Jimmy Tarbuck OBE is an English comedian, and the father of actress and television presenter Liza Tarbuck. He attended the same school as John Lennon and newscaster Peter Sissons.

His first television show was "It's Tarbuck 65!" on ITV in 1964. [ [http://www.bemuddlement.com/McGee/Television/Tarbuck/Tarbuck.htm Bemuddlement - It's Tarbuck!] ] He has also hosted numerous quiz shows, including "Winner Takes All", "Full Swing", and "Tarby's Frame Game". He was the last original host of "Sunday Night at the London Palladium" from 1965.

In the 1980s, he hosted similar Sunday night variety shows, "Live From Her Majesty's", "Live from the Piccadilly" and finally "Live from the Palladium", which were produced by London Weekend Television for ITV. Nicknamed Tarby, at the height of his celebrity he was a prominent supporter of Margaret Thatcher and her policies. He was appearing on the fourth series of BBC One's "Strictly Come Dancing" in 2006, but he was forced to pull out on medical advice. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6069436.stm BBC News - Tarbuck pulls out of dance show] ]

He lives with his wife, Pauline, in Coombe, Kingston upon Thames, Greater London.

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