Ronald Alfred Shiner (8 June 1903 in London – 29 June 1966 in London) was a British stand-up comedian and comedic actor whose career encompassed film, West End theatre and music hall. A former Royal Northwest Mounted Police Officer, farmer, greengrocer, milkman, bookie’s clerk, soldier and film extra, Shiner shot to fame appearing in 1,700 performances of the stage hit Worm’s Eye View from 1945 to 1947 (he would later top his own record by appearing in the play Seagulls Over Sorrento for 2,000 performances between 1950 and 1954). At the height of his career Shiner insured his nose for £10,000 because he said “it’s me beak which made ’em larf.” In retirement he owned a pub at Blackboys in Sussex but was plagued by ill health in his final years and retired to Eastbourne. He died there in June 1966 leaving an estate of £30,955.
Ronald Shiner Biography / Wiki
| Name | Ronald Shiner |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | London, England |
| Date of Birth | 1903-06-08 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 63 |
| Deathday | 1966-06-29 |
Ronald Shiner Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Aunt Clara | Henry Martin | 1954-11-22 | A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings–including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar–to his eccentric Aunt Clar… |
| Worm’s Eye View | Sam Porter | 1951-04-01 | Incidents in the lives of a group of R.A.F. men living in billets…. |
| Keep It Clean | Bert Lane | 1956-05-01 | A man invents a new cleaning machine. His brother in law offers to help him promote it and they get help from the Purity League…. |
| Little Big Shot | Henry Harkwood | 1952-01-01 | Harry Hawkwood is the son of ‘Pa’ Hawkwood, one of England’s greatest crooks, and it’s Harry’s ambition to follow in father’s footsteps and be as good… |
| Top of the Form | 1953-02-01 | A con man hides out in a boys’ school, posing as a professor. When the undisciplined and lazy boys have to pass a few tests, cheating becomes the only… | |
| Up to His Neck | Jack Carter | 1954-01-01 | A maritime farce set in the South Seas. A strong supporting cast includes Brian Rix, Anthony Newley & Harry Fowler…. |
| Dry Rot | Alf Tubbe | 1956-10-31 | Comedy about a trio of not particularly bright bookmakers who try to fix a horse race…. |
| Not Wanted on Voyage | Higgins | 1957-11-01 | the scheming Albert Higgins and his dim witted mate Cecil Hollebone, set out on a ocean voyage under the exasperated Chief Steward. Along for the trip… |
| Innocents in Paris | Dicky Bird | 1953-07-22 | Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend…. |
| Girls at Sea | Marine Ogg | 1958-10-01 | When HMS Scotia pays a visit to the French Riviera, the officers throw a lavish party to celebrate the engagement of Captain Robert Randall to Jill Ea… |
| The Navy Lark | CPO Banyard | 1959-01-01 | An Inshore Minesweeping Unit has been forgotten by the Navy after World War II on the peaceful island of Boonsley and they have adapted to their circu… |
| The Night We Got the Bird | Cecil Gibson | 1960-11-03 | Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn…. |
| George in Civvy Street | Fingers | 1946-07-07 | George Formby plays George Harper, a tavern owner, who works to turn a waitress from her current employer, a rival tavern owner, when Formby falls in … |
| The Balloon Goes Up | Sergeant Shiner | 1942-12-01 | Balloon unit WAAFs catch German spies…. |
| Laughing Anne | Nobby Clark | 1953-09-01 | Story of love affair of captain who runs ship in Java Seas and a French saloon singer. From a story “Because of the dollars” by Joseph Conrad…. |
| Get Cracking | Everett Manley | 1943-05-17 | Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was produce… |
| The Missing People | Sam Hackett | 1939-05-01 | 27 well-to-do people have all vanished under similar circumstances. J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to inve… |
| Operation Bullshine | Gunner Slocum | 1959-06-30 | During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territoria… |
| Salvage with a Smile | Dustman | 1940-01-01 | Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the war… |
| Forbidden | Dan Collins | 1949-02-28 | Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair ton… |
| Doctor’s Orders | Miggs | 1934-11-01 | Leslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his father’s occupation!… |
| Bees in Paradise | ronald wild | 1944-03-20 | Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. Askey plays a pilot who bales out over Paradise Island, not knowing that he is about to land in a bee-worshippin… |
| The Case of the Frightened Lady | Sergeant Totty | 1940-09-28 | A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace…. |
| Excuse My Glove | Perky Pat | 1936-07-20 | A young man, whose main interest in life is stained glass, accidentally accepts a challenge to fight in a fair boxing booth…. |
| Beauty and the Barge | Augustus | 1937-02-07 | A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn’t love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty o… |
| They Drive by Night | Charlie | 1938-12-01 | “Shorty†Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wron… |
| South American George | Swifty | 1941-12-27 | To help out his exact double, George Formby (in a dual role) takes the place of a noted South American tenor. This way he can help the opera star fulf… |
| Flying Fifty-Five | Scrubby Oaks | 1939-05-01 | Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His nam… |
| Old Bill and Son | Bert | 1941-03-01 | Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enl… |
| Gentlemen’s Agreement | Jim Ferrin | 1935-01-01 | A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out…. |
| The Man Within | Cockney Harry | 1947-05-19 | A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers…. |
| Come on George! | Nat | 1939-12-01 | George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse an… |
| Once a Thief | Alice’s Young Man | 1935-06-14 | Down on his luck inventor Roger (John Stuart) “borrows” some money from a handbag he finds but things go wrong when a necklace from the bag goes missi… |
| Sabotage at Sea | Ernie (the cook) | 1942-09-07 | The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them…. |
| King Arthur Was a Gentleman | Sergeant | 1942-12-28 | Arthur King joins the army, and soon starts fantasizing about King Arthur and his knights…. |
| The Adventures of Dusty Bates | ‘Squeaky’ Watts | 1947-09-01 | Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore…. |
| Squibs | Bill | 1935-06-11 | Squibs, a cockney flowerseller with a father overwhelmed by gambling debts wins through with the help of assorted friends and a romantically inclined … |
| Trouble Brewing | Bridgewater | 1939-03-01 | Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing … |
| Limelight | Asst. Stage Manager | 1937-06-23 | A chorus girl (Anna Neagle) discovers a singer (Arthur Tracy) in the streets and asks her producer to give him a shot at stardom…. |
| Carry on Admiral | Salty Simpson | 1957-05-14 | Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former’s lack of… |
| It’s a Bet | Fair Man | 1935-02-01 | A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the myster… |
| Dinner at the Ritz | Sydney | 1937-11-26 | The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father’s colleagues who plotted against him…. |
| The Gang’s All Here | Spider Ferris | 1939-03-04 | John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a fo… |
| The Middle Watch | Engineer | 1940-05-11 | Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon, wh… |
| Thursday’s Child | Joe | 1943-03-24 | A couple’s little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble…. |
| Wild Boy | Bit | 1934-01-01 | This film is a caper story of greyhound racing and the efforts of a crooked dog owner to stop a rival’s dog, Wild Boy, from running in the Greyhound D… |
| Unpublished Story | Agitator | 1942-08-10 | Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings…. |
| London Melody | Pickpocket on Trial | 1937-02-04 | Jacqueline intrigues a diplomat, so unbeknown to her he finds her an apartment and finances her musical training. She ends up falling in love with one… |
| My Learned Friend | Man in Wilson’s Bar | 1943-10-25 | An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him … |
| Miss London Ltd. | Sailor Meredith | 1943-06-14 | Askey stars as a man trying to save his flagging escort agency. A new partner suggests getting some new girls in, just in time for the soldiers’ leave… |
| I Live in Grosvenor Square | Paratrooper | 1945-07-20 | The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower’s home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean J… |
| The Nursemaid Who Disappeared | 1939-03-01 | An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot…. | |
| The Gentle Sex | Racegoer | 1943-05-23 | During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, dri… |
| Caesar and Cleopatra | 2nd Porter | 1945-12-11 | The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play…. |
| Let George Do It! | Musician | 1940-07-12 | Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken … |
| Spare a Copper | Piano Mover | 1940-12-02 | George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destructi… |
| They Flew Alone | Mechanic | 1942-06-29 | The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights aro… |
| The Black Sheep of Whitehall | Porter | 1942-02-23 | A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and Sout… |
| A Yank at Oxford | Bicycle Repairman (uncredited) | 1938-02-18 | A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist’s sister…. |
| The Magic Box | Fairground Barker | 1952-01-01 | Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to i… |
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