Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of notable ventriloquists and their best known characters. It is ordered by nationality or country in which they were notable in an alphabetical order, and then by alphabetical order of surname. It does not include voice-over artists who did not perform with a figure, or "dummy" as it is usually called.
The Great Lester with Frank Byron Jr. on his knee, c. 1904 Young 1897 Harry E. Lester in Thanes The Egg.. Harry Lester (born Maryan Czajkowski; 8 September 1878 – 14 July 1956), best known by his stage name The Great Lester, was a Polish-American seminal vaudeville ventriloquist.
Arthur Wilkinson Worsley (16 October 1920 – 19 July 2001) [1] was a British ventriloquist who appeared regularly on British television from the 1950s to the 1970s. His act with dummy Charlie Brown had Charlie do all the talking, while Worsley himself remained "silent".
A ventriloquist entertaining children at the Pueblo, Colorado, Buell Children's Museum Modern ventriloquists use multiple types of puppets in their presentations, ranging from soft cloth or foam puppets (Verna Finly's work is a pioneering example), flexible latex puppets (such as Steve Axtell's creations) and the traditional and familiar hard ...
Photo of Alexandre Vattemare in The Public Library of the city of Boston : a history by Horace G. Wadlin, 1910, 1911. Nicolas Marie Alexandre Vattemare (1796 in Paris – 1864), also known under the stage name Monsieur Alexandre, was a French ventriloquist and philanthropist who created the first international system for the exchange of items among libraries and museums.
Simon even declared Celia the night’s “best act so far.” However, 11 total acts took the stage Tuesday, and on Wednesday’s live results show, only two of those acts, as voted by America ...
A comic whose distinctive shtick continues to resonate with big crowds is coming back to Columbia. Jeff Dunham — whose act centers on an array of not-so culturally sensitive ventriloquist dummy ...
All six of these figures (the seventh is not among the group) are on display at the Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. As time passed, however, Vernon began to lose his eyesight, and, according to correspondence, he eventually went blind on Christmas morning, 25 December 1920, in the middle of a performance at the Orpheum Theater in ...