'Monsewer' Eddie Gray Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

'Monsewer' Eddie Gray (10 June 1898 – 15 September 1969) was an English stage comedian who performed in Music Halls. He was born in Pimlico, London, as Edward Earl Gray. He became a professional juggler, but by the time he was twenty, he had extended to comedy. He discovered what became his trademark of "Cockney-French" while performing in Paris, France, when he spoke on the stage in his very bad French. The audience, however, liked it and he used it in his act from then on. His stage costume included a pair of horn-rimmed glasses and a looped moustache. He joined with the comedy pair... MORE

'Monsewer' Eddie Gray (10 June 1898 – 15 September 1969) was an English stage comedian who performed in Music Halls. He was born in Pimlico, London, as Edward Earl Gray. He became a professional juggler, but by the time he was twenty, he had extended to comedy. He discovered what became his trademark of "Cockney-French" while performing in Paris, France, when he spoke on the stage in his very bad French. The audience, however, liked it and he used it in his act from then on. His stage costume included a pair of horn-rimmed glasses and a looped moustache. He joined with the comedy pair Nervo and Knox in the Crazy Shows, but went solo in the early 1920s. He rejoined them again in 1957 when he was associated with the Crazy Gang shows at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London. He married Pattie Loftus Jones in 1931 and they had two sons. He died on 15 September 1969 in Worthing, Sussex. Eddie and his wife Pattie lived in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, throughout their 38 year marriage. Pattie had a singular claim to local fame as it was an aunt of hers, Marie Loftus, a well known Music Hall artiste at the beginning of the 20th century, who was responsible for founding the show business LESS