Bud Flanagan

Born Chaim Reuben Weintrop, he became one half of Flanagan and Allen, a music hall and vaudeville double act that made him one of Britain's best-loved entertainers of the mid-twentieth century. He was especially prized as a wartime performer, keeping British audiences' spirits up through the Second World War, and was appointed OBE in 1959 in recognition of a career that carried him from vaudeville stages into television and film.