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Spike Milligan


Born
in Ahmednagar, India
April 16, 1918

Died
February 27, 2002

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry, Literature & Fiction

Influences
J.B. Morton ...more


Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan, known as Spike, was a comedian, writer and musician. He was of Irish descent, but spent most of his childhood in India and lived most of his later life in England, moving to Australia after retirement. He is famous for his work in The Goon Show, children's poetry and a series of comical autobiographical novels about his experiences serving in the British Army in WWII. Spike Milligan suffered from bipolar disorder, which led to depression and frequent breakdowns, but he will be remembered as a comic genius. His tombstone reads 'I told you I was ill' in Gaelic. ...more

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Average rating: 3.99 · 32,353 ratings · 1,935 reviews · 273 distinct works • Similar authors
Adolf Hitler: My Part in Hi...
4.04 avg rating — 9,121 ratings — published 1971 — 31 editions
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Puckoon
3.69 avg rating — 4,046 ratings — published 1963 — 23 editions
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'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A ...
4.17 avg rating — 3,183 ratings — published 1974 — 16 editions
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Monty: His Part in My Victo...
4.17 avg rating — 2,318 ratings — published 1976 — 10 editions
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Mussolini: His Part In My D...
4.24 avg rating — 2,275 ratings — published 1978 — 8 editions
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Where Have All the Bullets ...
4.13 avg rating — 1,562 ratings — published 1985 — 17 editions
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Goodbye Soldier (War Memoi...
4.08 avg rating — 1,004 ratings — published 1986 — 15 editions
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Essential Spike Milligan, The
3.99 avg rating — 740 ratings — published 2002 — 12 editions
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Peace Work (War Memoirs, #7)
3.85 avg rating — 656 ratings — published 1991 — 18 editions
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Silly Verse for Kids
4.25 avg rating — 577 ratings — published 1959 — 12 editions
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“Said Hamlet to Ophelia,
I'll draw a sketch of thee.
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B?”
― Spike Milligan
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“Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.”
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“Money can't buy you friends, but you do get a better class of enemy. ”
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