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Stanley Unwin | |
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Born | |
Died | 12 January 2002 Daventry, Northamptonshire, England | (aged 90)
Resting place | Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England |
Nationality | British |
Other names | "Professor" Stanley Unwin |
Alma mater | Regent Street Polytechnic |
Occupation(s) | Comic actor and writer |
Years active | Late 1940s–1998 |
Employer | BBC (1940s) |
Agent(s) | Johnnie and Patsy Riscoe |
Known for | Inventing "Unwinese" language |
Spouse |
Frances Anne Martin
(m. 1937; died 1993) |
Children | 3 |
Website | www |
Stanley Unwin (7 June 1911 – 12 January 2002),[1] sometimes billed as Professor Stanley Unwin, was a British comic actor and writer.
He invented his own comic language, "Unwinese",[2] referred to in the film Carry On Regardless (1961) as "gobbledygook". Unwinese was a corrupted form of English in which many of the words were altered in playful and humorous ways, as in its description of Elvis Presley and his contemporaries as being "wasp-waist and swivel-hippy". Unwin claimed that the inspiration came from his mother, who once told him that on the way home she had "falolloped (fallen) over" and "grazed her kneeclabbers".