When Did Tommy Handley Die?

Thomas Reginald Handley was an English comedian, best known for the BBC radio programme It's That Man Again which ran between 1939 and 1949.

How did Tommy Handley die?

The last edition of ITMA – the 310th – was recorded on 5 January 1949; four days later Handley died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage. His death was announced on air by the Director General of the BBC, Sir William Haley, who insisted on making the announcement himself.

Was Tommy Handley married?

' Tommy Handley liked to go home and read: 'He was either on-stage in the public eye or invisible, gone' (P. J. Kavanagh, 105). On 19 February 1929 Handley married a singer, Rosalind Jean (d. 1958), daughter of Robert Allistone, a jeweller, and formerly wife of William Henshall. There were no children.