Max Bacon (actor)

Max David Bacon (1 March 1904, London, England – 3 December 1969, London, England) was a British actor, comedian and musician (drummer and occasional vocalist in Ambrose's band).

[1][2] Although he was British-born, his comedic style centred on his pseudo-European, Yiddish accent and in his straight-faced mispronunciation of words.

Bacon's father came from a leather-working family to London from Katowice, then in Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

After a couple of years at the Florida Club with Ronnie Munro's band he began a long association with Ambrose's Orchestra, with whom he recorded as drummer and occasionally as Yiddish vocalist.

[6] He lived in his later years at The White House, a hotel near Great Portland Street, London, now known as the Melia White House, in Albany Street.