Against an evocative backdrop of the London skyline, veteran broadcaster and entertainer Nicholas Parsons delves deep into the memory banks of his long life. Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy and television panel game, chaired, with a few exceptions, by Nicholas Parsons from 1967 until 2019. Parsons, awarded a CBE for services to charity in 2014, made his acting debut in 1947 and starred in a string of films and TV series, including The Benny Hill Show … He found TV fame appearing with comic Arthur Haynes in his ITV show in the early 1960s, and he was also a regular on The Benny Hill Show. The TV star, who died yesterday aged … Parsons was surrounded by his family when he died in … What's canceled? "Nicholas Parsons was such a lovely man," he wrote on Twitter.

"And so versatile: actor, entertainer, writer, TV star & radio host without equal, but for me, most of all, friend. TV shows to … Obituary: Nicholas Parsons Parsons was on the airwaves across eight decades, beginning his career as a prolific actor and comic performer on the radio and TV in the 1940s and 1950s.

The Arthur Haynes Show comady show From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Early life Arthur Haynes was the only child of a Fulham (south-west London) baker. Nicholas Parsons, host of BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute, has died aged 96 after a short illness, his agent said.

Nicholas Parsons was the subject of an Anglia Television documentary in 2004.

NICHOLAS Parsons was the old-school charmer, who survived changing tastes to last more than 70 years in showbiz. British broadcaster Nicholas Parsons, who hosted the witty, wordy radio program “Just a Minute” for more than 50 years, has died at the age of 96. Nicholas Parsons. For more than fifty years of the programme's run, Parsons appeared on every show, though he was occasionally a panelist rather than chairman. [3] He … In the programme 'Celebrity Going Home' he returned to Anglia and met up with some of his former colleagues Stories of school, studying engineering, and finally breaking through into acting emerge, among more poignant memories of the blitz which he could see going on from the relative safety of Hampstead Heath.