Obituary: Hal Roach by The Stage

When, aged 12, Hal Roach entered a talent contest as a boy soprano and got a better response for an unrehearsed joke than for his singing, the die was cast for a career that would see him lauded as "the Arthur Askey, the Les Dawson, the Eric Morecambe of Irish comedy, all rolled into one".

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