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Old 01-11-2006, 04:48 PM
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What do we know about this actor/comedian from the fifties to his death? I used to see him around my home town of Flitwick, Bedfordshire a bit, but not for a few years now.

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Quite a lot, I should think......:

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Wasn't he a regular on the Black and White Minstrel Show?
A very fine jazz trombonist I seem to recall.
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Several of his recordings (singles and LPs) are on CD....

The booklet notes might have some useful information
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What do we know about this actor/comedian from the fifties to his death? I used to see him around my home town of Flitwick, Bedfordshire a bit, but not for a few years now.
Wasn't he Arthur Daley's nemesis in Minder played by Patrick Malahide?
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Wasn't he Arthur Daley's nemesis in Minder played by Patrick Malahide?
The character in 'Minder' that you're thinking about Sam was actually named - Albert "Charlie" Chisholm.

And very funny he was too.

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Wasn't he a regular on the Black and White Minstrel Show?
A very fine jazz trombonist I seem to recall.
I thought I remembered him from that as well.

I seem to picture him in a children's programme from the early 60s, too.
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I remember he was a very fine trombonist, whose musical talents were later overtaken by appearing in comedy sketches on TV. He died a number of years ago in a retirement home.
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I remember he was a very fine trombonist, whose musical talents were later overtaken by appearing in comedy sketches on TV. He died a number of years ago in a retirement home.
Enter "George Chisolm trombone" as a Google search and a lot of entries appear.
This one is quite interesting, with stories straight from the horse's mouth:
live band stories from George Chisholm

(Jerry Colonna was also an accomplished musician (also a trombonist) who became known principally as a comedian after straining his tessitura in recordings of songs like "Ebb Tide")
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This seems to be the place

Gentleman of Jazz - George Chisholm's life story

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Gentleman of jazz is about right. I once spoke to him on the railway station and he said he was on his way to York for a gig. He had his trombone with him and he took it out of the case and showed it to me. He was pleasent and seemed glad that I was interested. The train came, he got on it, and I never saw him again.
I've got a video of Christmas no. ones (top of the pops) and he appears briefly on that, the only time I've seen him on telly.
He must have been quite a star in the fifties.
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