This article is published as part of The Telegraph’s Greatest Interviews series, which revisits the most significant, ...

Everyone loved Morecambe and Wise. Consequently ... props including Eric's famous ventriloquist dummy, Charlie. 'Eric and Ernie took Charlie to America to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.

One half of comedy duo Morecambe and Wise, Eric died in 1984 at the age of just 58, leaving behind two sons and a daughter.

Robbie Williams said he cried like a child after winning an auction bid on Eric Morecambe’s glasses and pipe as he has always seen the comedian as an “uncle of sorts” ...

The programme reveals how, as young performers, Eric and Ernie really did share a bed, and reveals the BBC's rather lofty response when they first auditioned for television in 1948.

Previously unseen sketches and gags by comedy great Eric Morecambe, together with his personal items have come back to his ...

The singer Robbie Williams has revealed he cried "happy, childlike tears" after making the winning bid for comedy legend Eric Morecambe's glasses and pipe at auction. A lifetime o ...

Eric Morecambe’s glasses collected a five-figure ... was part of an iconic and hilarious duo with his comedy partner Ernie Wise, who died in 1999. Morecambe and Wise ruled the airways in Britain ...

Robbie Williams has purchased Eric Morecambe's glasses and pipe at an ... him wearing the spectacles alongside his comedy partner Ernie Wise. A lifetime of the comedian’s precious showbiz ...

It appears as it was originally published. The Telegraph’s encounter with Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise took place at the height of their powers and a year after Eric had undergone open-heart ...