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Thomas Reginald "Tommy" Handley (17 January 1892 – 9 January 1949) was a British comedian, mainly known for the BBC radio programme ''ITMA'' ("It's That Man Again"). He was born at Toxteth Park, Liverpool in Lancashire. He served with a kite balloon section of the Royal Naval Air Service during World War I and went on to work in variety, and in the infancy of radio became known as a regular broadcaster. He worked with people such as Arthur Askey and Bob Monkhouse, and wrote many radio scripts, but it is the BBC comedy series ''ITMA'' for which he is best known, and which itself became known for a number of catchphrases, some of which entered popular vocabulary. He later starred in the ''ITMA'' film in 1942 and in ''Time Flies'' in 1944. In later years, he suffered with high blood pressure, the result of his driving commitment to ''ITMA'', and died suddenly on 9 January 1949 from a brain haemorrhage, eight days before his 57th birthday. He was cremated and his ashes placed in the rhododenron bed at Golders Green Crematorium. In a eulogy at his memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral, the Bishop of London, John W.C. Wand, said that "()e was one whose genius transmuted the copper of our common experience into the gold of exquisite foolery. His raillery was without cynicism, and his satire without malice". ==Posthumous== On 7 November 2006, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a review of one of his partnerships, ''Mr Murgatroyd and Mr Winterbottom'': "The story of Tommy Handley and Ronald Frankau, a comedy partnership which had its heyday in the 1930s world of radio. There was no straight man, so the partnership was a rare one. Tommy was a fast talking Liverpudlian, while Ronald in contrast was upper class and Eton-educated. Presented by Nicholas Frankau, actor and grandson of Ronald." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tommy Handley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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