Bernie Winters

[2] In October 1957, the duo appeared on Six-Five Special and were described in the Daily Mirror as top comics for Britain's teenage TV audience.

[3] They had been recommended to the show's presenter Josephine Douglas by Tommy Steele, with whom they had been on a stage tour.

The two brothers split up in 1978 and Winters hosted his own comedy show, Bernie (1978–1980), for ITV.

Winters was a member of the showbusiness fraternity the Grand Order of Water Rats.

He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in London on 8 May and his ashes interred in the Garden of Remembrance.