Terry Hall (ventriloquist) "Crackerjack" and "3-2-1". From 1977 to 1980, Hall regularly appeared in the educational television programme "Reading With Lenny". He wrote the "Kevin the Kitten" series of children's reading books which accompanied the series. Hall married twice. He had two daughters from his first marriage. He married a second time in 1980, to dance teacher Denise Francis. He suffered from Alzheimer's disease in later life, and died in 2007 in Coventry aged 80. Dr Harry Brünjes, a long-standing family friend, gave the eulogy at the service. Terry Hall (ventriloquist) Terence "Terry" Hall (20 November 1926 – 3 April 2007) was an
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