Terry Hall (ventriloquist) Terry Hall (ventriloquist) Terence "Terry" Hall (20 November 1926 – 3 April 2007) was an English ventriloquist. He appeared regularly on television with his puppet, Lenny the Lion, whose catchphrase was "Aw, don't embawass me!" Hall is credited with having been one of the first ventriloquists to use a non-human puppet. Hall was born in Chadderton, Lancashire, where his parents ran a working men's club. He was educated at St Patrick's School in Oldham and at De La Salle College in Pendleton, Salford. Hall initially worked as a ventriloquist with a boy dummy, named Mickey Finn, and won a talent
Terry Hall (ventriloquist) 1960, followed by "Lenny's Den" in 1959 to 1961, and the pop music show "Pops and Lenny" in 1962 to 1963. In 1958 Bill Mevin created a comic strip based on "Lenny the Lion". Hall visited the United States in 1958, making his debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show" with Lenny that year. Throughout the 1960s, Hall and Lenny appeared on stage in Blackpool and on television. The Beatles made one of their early TV appearances in a 1963 episode of "Pops and Lenny", singing "From Me to You" and "Please, Please Me." David Bowie's father, Hayward Jones, worked on