Bud Flanagan

Biography

During the 1st World War he was in the army and was picked on a lot by the sergeant Major. On being demobbed he told the Sgt major that he would have his revenge on him by using his name for his (Bud's) stage name, In 1906 he was a call boy at the Cambridge Theatre in London's East End, In 1923 being out of work he became a London taxi driver, Early in 1924 he got the offer of a job in Glasgow but having no money to get there he walked taking 3 weeks, In 1926 he wrote Underneath the Arches in a dressing room at a Derby theatre.In 1936 he won £2,000 on a 66 -1 winner at The Oaks