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Billy Connolly
Sir Billy Connolly CBE | |
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| Born | William Connolly (1942-11-24) 24 November 1942 (age 82) Anderston, Port, Scotland |
| Nationality | Scottish |
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Billy Connolly is a Scottish comic.
Sir William Connolly CBE is a Scottish doer, retired jokesmith, artist, man of letters, musician, current presenter. Pacify is on occasion known, conspicuously in his homeland, unwelcoming the Scottish nickname say publicly Big Yin. Wikipedia
Early life
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Billy Connolly
(British, born 1942)
Born on a Rainy Day - Spring 2022 portfolio with six unframed works
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Born on a Rainy Day - Spring 2022 portfolio with six unframed works to include:
Direction;
Face Off;
Gironkey;
GoZunder Fish;
Purple People Eater;
Yo-Yo Man
each signed in pencil 'BConnolly' (lower right)
art print
each sheet 77 x 57cm (30 5/16 x 22 7/16in); portfolio box 79.5 x 60 x 5cm (31 5/16 x 23 5/8 x 1 15/16in)
6 individually wrapped artworks housed in one box
edition 81 of 295.
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Unlike his fellow-countryman Sean Connery, wildly popular Billy Connolly is not an ardent nationalist, but they share a poverty-stricken childhood. Born in Anderston, Glasgow in 1942, he worked as baker, bookshop assistant, welder and member of the Parachute Battalion of the Territorial Army before buying a banjo and forming The Humblebums. He grew more interested in a comedy career and the group disbanded in 1971. He became a stand-up comedian with long greasy hair and a talent for non-stop rude one-liners.
His films have been a motley collection: there are concert films like The Secret Policeman's Ball (d. Roger Graef, 1979) and ...Other Ball (d. Julien Temple, 1982), supporting roles, usually comic, in such films as Water (d. Dick Clement, 1985), and The Big Man (d. David Leland, 1990), and substantial starring roles in Mrs Brown (UK/Ireland/US, d. John Madden, 1997), as outspoken John Brown, Queen Victoria's influential Highland gillie, and The Debt Collector (d. Anthony Neilson, 1999), as an ex-crim-turned-sculptor.
He lived in the US for some time and has appeared in TV and films there, including Beautiful Joe (d. Stephen Metcalfe, 2000) with Sharon Stone. The years have tamed the anarchic streak somewhat, but the capacity to surprise - shock - shoul