Tommy Trinder: Tommy Trinder. Actor: Three Cockeyed Sailors. An amiable, beloved Cockney cut-up from the 1930s on, London-born Tommy Trinder, the son of a tram driver, quit school and sought the stage, milking laughs at the tender age of 13 in a musical revue that was touring South Africa. Following that he became a boy vocalist at Collins' Music-Hall. The wry, rubber-faced comedian gradually built up his name in traveling variety shows,...
Known For: Three Cockeyed Sailors (Tommy Taylor), While Nero Fiddled (Tommy Taylor), She Couldn't Say No (Dugsie Gibbs), Far into the Night (Tommy Turk)