Barry Took
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Barry Took (19 June 1928 – March 22, 2002) was an English writer, television presenter, and comedian.
Marty Feldman's decade and a half writing collaboration resulted in the television series Bootsie and Snudge, as well as the radio comedy Round the Horne and other ventures. He is also remembered in the United Kingdom for hosting Points of View, a BBC television show starring viewers' letters on the BBC's output, and The News Quiz, a BBC Television show.
Early life and education
Took, the son of a Danish Bacon Company, was born in Victoria Road, Muswell Hill, north London, and lived in Bounds Green, Bounds Green. During the Second World War, when evacuated to Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, he ran away from his assigned home there, cycling 20 miles to Peterborough in order to get a train back to London. He attended Stationers School but was forced to leave at the age of 15. Philip, his elder brother, would later work with the US Space Program before dying as a young man.
Personal life and final years
During his time with the Royal Air Force, he met Dorothy "Dot" Bird, his first wife, who was working in the Women's Royal Air Force. They married in 1950 and had three children (Barry, Susan, and David), but then divorced. Lynden "Lyn" Leonard, his second marriage, which resulted in the birth of a daughter named Elinor, was born in 1964. In 1999, the couple wed and later divorced. He also spoke out about his bouts with depression and extensive psychotherapy for many years.
After suffering from bladder cancer since the 1970s, he was diagnosed with oesophagus cancer in 1999 and had a stroke just four weeks after having major surgery. He died in Enfield on Sunday, aged 73, in a nursing home.
Career
Took began working as an office boy for a magazine and a cinema projectionist with a limited education. During his time in National Service in the Royal Air Force, where he performed on trumpets, he began performing and later became a West End revue performer, appearing on For Amusement Only and For Adults Only.
Took's best work in terms of comedy writing was written in collaboration with Marty Feldman, whom he first encountered in 1954. Both men appeared on several television shows in the 1950s and 1960s, including The Army Game and its spin-off Bootsie and Snudge. He co-wrote Beyond Our Ken for two series (1958–59) with Eric Merriman for BBC Radio before leaving after a personal disagreement with his fellow author. With Marty Feldman, he wrote the majority of Round the Horne's episodes; their irregular relationship continued until 1974.
Took was a comedy advisor to the BBC in the late 1960s and was in charge of bringing together the performers who performed Monty Python's Flying Circus before moving to the United States to work briefly on Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. He returned to the United Kingdom in early 1970 and was instrumental in the production of the BBC show The Goodies, but he had to return to London Weekend Television as Head of Light Entertainment. Stella Richman, his boss and Director of Programming, resigned from his role as a result. Took wrote On the Move (1975–76), a campaign devoted to a national campaign to promote adult literacy, starring Bob Hoskins and Donald Gee. He appeared in two new television series titled Your Move and Write Away.
Took and Co., also starring Robin Bailey, Chris Emmett, Andrew Sachs, and Gwen Taylor, the series aired on ITV in 1977.
He became chairman of The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4, his first assignment before 1981 and again from 1995 to 1995. He became a host of Points of View in the same year, and stayed with the program for 71 years.
In 1998, Took hosted the BBC Radio 2 comedy panel game The Impressionists, which featured Peter Goodwright, Roger Kitter, David Jason, and Dave Evans, and, in 1998, the single-series revival of Twenty Questions titled Guess What? appeared on BBC Radio 2.
He had seven books published, including his autobiography and several histories of comedy. Kenneth Williams' life story for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography appeared in 1996.