Which actor played 'Old Mother Riley'?
Old Mother Riley the time of Lucan's death he was scheduled to film "Old Mother Riley's Trip to Mars". Robert V Kenny, "The Man Who Was Old Mother Riley - The Lives and Films of Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane," BearManor Media, 2014, 428pp. https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Man-Who-Mother-Riley/dp/1593937717 Old Mother Riley Old Mother Riley was a music hall act which originally ran from about 1934 to 1954 played by Arthur Lucan, and from 1954 to the 1980s played by Roy Rolland. Old Mother Riley (full comedy name; Daphne Bluebird Snowdrop Riley) was an Irish washerwoman and charwoman character, devised by Lucan (born Arthur Towle). His wife
Old Mother Riley the "Motion Picture Herald" in 1943. They also gave Jimmy Clitheroe his break in 1939 in an Old Mother Riley pantomime called "The Old Woman who Lives in a Shoe", and then the following year a part in their film, "Old Mother Riley in Society". The "Film Fun" comic included an “Old Mother Riley” strip cartoon in the 1940s. Old Mother Riley was the first and arguably the most influential drag act on stage and screen. Although nothing like the glamorous acts like Danny La Rue, Old Mother Riley proved that drag could be a smash hit with audiences and