Double act habitual criminal", Fletcher (played by Ronnie Barker, already famous for his comedy partnership with Ronnie Corbett) and a young, naive, first-time prisoner, Lennie Godber. The two would bicker but endured a relationship of mutual respect. Barker also formed a partnership with David Jason in Open All Hours, with Jason playing Granville while Barker played Albert Arkwright. Many don't see this as a comedy duo, but the straight-man element coupled with Barker's funny-man antics on the show are still compressed into the script. Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson combined their success in sitcoms ("The Young Ones") and as a double act
Elsa Barker Man" in 1915, Barker developed an interest in psychoanalysis. By 1919 she was studying 14 hours a day. From 1928 to 1930 she lived on the French Riviera. Barker died August 31, 1954. Elsa Barker Elsa Barker (1869–1954) was an American novelist, short-story writer and poet. She became known for three books "Letters from a Living Dead Man" (1914), "War Letters from the Living Dead Man" (1915), and "Last Letters From the Living Dead Man" (1919), that she said were messages from a dead man produced through automatic writing. Barker was born in 1869 in Leicester, Vermont. Her parents both