Which ventriloquist had a dummy called Charlie Brown
Arthur Worsley Arthur Worsley Arthur Wilkinson Worsley (16 October 1920 – 14 July 2001) was a ventriloquist who appeared regularly on British television from the 1950s to the 1970s. His act with dummy Charlie Brown had Charlie do all the talking, while Worsley himself remained "silent". He was born at Failsworth, near Manchester, Lancashire. At the age of eight he saw a ventriloquist for the first time which gave him the ambition to become a ventriloquist himself. Worsley made his first stage appearance aged 11 at the Casino, Rusholme, Manchester, billed as the ""World's Youngest Ventriloquist"". His London debut took place four
Jimmy Nelson (ventriloquist) five dollars for the most popular act. In 1945, Nelson asked famed Chicago ventriloquist figure maker Frank Marshall to make him a professional-quality dummy. Marshall, who had made Edgar Bergen's "Charlie McCarthy" and Paul Winchell's "Jerry Mahoney", would only do this after seeing the ventriloquist's work. He came to one of Nelson's theatre performances and was impressed, so sold Nelson a custom-made dummy, which he always carved to bear a resemblance to the ventriloquist. Nelson gave Dummy Dan's replacement the full name "Danny O'Day", which he chose because it contained none of the consonants impossible for ventriloquists to say without