Peter Cavanagh Impressionist Winston and 50 similar items

CHAU2510 Antique hand signed autograph page of Peter Cavanagh - the Voice Of Them All who was particularly famous for his impersonations of The Duke Of Edinburgh and Winston Churchill - the autograph is dated 1954 and it corner hinge mounted from the page so separate and easily detachable. The page is lightly aged so vg and the autograph card and the signing itself are both absolutely mint. Peter Cavanagh (born Peter Cedric Coates; 31 October 1914 18 February 1981) was an English comic impressionist, popular on BBC radio in the 1940s and 1950s when he was known as "The Voice of Them All".He appeared in the 1949 Royal Variety Performance. He continued to make regular radio appearances through the 1950s, and performed impressions of many personalities of the period, including Gilbert Harding, Robb Wilton, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Eamonn Andrews. One of his specialities was to perform alternate lines of a sketch with the person he was imitating such as Arthur Askey and challenge the audience to guess which was the impersonator and which was the person being mimicked.[1] He would end his shows by quickly reprising, one after another, impressions of all those he had impersonated, ending with "...and this is the voice of them all, Peter Cavanagh..".