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Spike (terence Alan) Milligan

Male : Comedy writer, Poet and Autobiographer
Nationality : English (Irish parents) Place of Birth : Armednagar, India

Date of Birth : 1918 Date of Death : 2002 Age : 84

Other Work : Actor and Comedian

Education : Lewisham Polytechnic
1959-1965
Silly Verse for Kids
(1959 Dobson)
A Dustbin of Milligan
(1963 Louvain Landsborough)
Puckoon
(1963 Anthony Blond)
The Little Pot Boiler
(1963 Dobson)
A Book of Bits or a Bit of a Book
(1965 Dobson)

1966-1970
A Book of Milliganimals
(1968 Dobson)
The Bald Twit Lion
(1968 Dobson)
Values
(1969 Offcut Press)
The Bedside Milligan
(1969 Hobbs)
The Bed-Sitting Room
(1970 Hobbs) - with John Antrobus

1971-1975
Milligan's Ark
(1971 Hobbs) - with Jack Hobbs
Adolf Hitler : My Part in His Downfall
(1971 Michael Joseph) - Autobiography
(1971 Harper's Magazine Press)
[Filmed in 1972]
Goon Show Scripts
(1972 Woburn Press)
Small Dreams of Scorpion
(1972 MJ & Hobbs £1.05)
Badjelly the Witch
(1973 Michael Joseph)
More Goon Show Scripts
(1973 Woburn Press)
Spike Milligan's Transports of Delight
(1974 Sidgwick & Jackson)
Rommel, Gunner Who ?
(1974 Michael Joseph) - Autobiography
The Book of the Goons
(1974 Robson Books)
Dip the Puppy
(1974 Hobbs/MJ)
The Great McGonagall Scrapbook
(1975 Hobbs) - with Jack Hobbs
The Milligan Book of Records
(1975 Hobbs) - with Jack Hobbs

1976-1980
William McGonagall : The Truth at Last
(1976 Hobbs)
Monty : My Part in His Victory
(1976 Michael Joseph) - Autobiography
Poems for Toni Savage
(1976 Janus Studio)
The Spike Milligan Letters
(1977 Hobbs/MJ)
Mussolini : His Part in My Downfall
(1978 Michael Joseph) - Autobiography
Goblins
(1978 Hutchinson) - W Heath Robinson
Open Heart University
(1979 Hobbs)
The Q Annual
(1979 Hobbs)
Get in the Q Annual
(1979 Hobbs)
12 Poems That Made December Colder
(1980 New Broom)

1981-1985
Chill Air
(1981 New Broom)
If Only I Were Bald
(1981 Savage Press)
Indefinite Articles and Scunthorpe
(1981 Hobbs/MJ)
Unspun Socks from a Chicken's Laundry
(1981 Hobbs/Joseph)
101 Best and Only Limericks
(1982 Hobbs)
Sir Nobonk and the Terribe, Awful, Dreadful, Naughty, Nasty Dragon
(1982 Hobbs/Joseph)
The Goon Cartoons
(1982 Hobbs/MJ)
There's a Lot of It About
(1983 Hobbs/MJ)
More Goon Cartoons
(1983 Hobbs/MJ)
Where Have all the Bullets Gone ?
(1983 Michael Joseph) - Autobiography
The Melting Pot
(1983 Robson Books)
The Spike Milligan Letters 2
(1984 Hobbs/MJ)
A Potboiling Dustbin Full of Bits
(1984 Hobbs/MJ)
Spike Milligan's Further Transports of Delight
(1985 Sidgwick & Jackson)
Floored Masterpieces with Worse Verse
(1985 Macmillan)

1986-1990
Goodbye Soldier
(1986 Michael Joseph) - Autobiography
The Mirror Running
(1987 MJ)
Startling Verse for All the Family
(1987 MJ)
The Last Goon Shows
(1987 Robson Books)
The Looney
(1987 MJ £9.95)
Milligan's War
(1988 Michael Joseph £12.95) - Autobiography
It Ends with Magic : A Milligan Family Story
(1990 Michael Joseph £15.99) - Autobiography

After 1991
Peace Work : Peace-War Autobiography Vol 7
(1991 Michael Joseph £15.99) - Autobiography
The Bible : The Old Testament According to Spike Milligan
(1993 Michael Joseph)
Wuthering Heights According to Spike Milligan
(1994 Michael Joseph)
Depression and How to Survive It
(1994 Arrow Pb) - with Anthony Clarke
Lady Chatterley's Lover According to Spike Milligan
(1994 MJ £9.99)
Fleas, Knees and Hidden Elephants
(1994 Boxtree £6.99) - Philip Hopman
D H Lawrence's John Thomas & Lady Jane, According to Spike Milligan
(1995 Michael Joseph £9.99)
Spike Milligan : A Celebration - Best of Milligan
(1995 Virgin £9.99)
Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan
(1996 Virgin)
Frankenstein According to Spike Milligan
(1997 Virgin)
The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan
(1998 Virgin) + 200 signed
Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan
(1998 Virgin)
A Mad Medley of Milligan
(1999 Virgin £8.99)
A Fine Kind of Madness
(1999 Headline) - with Rebecca Scott
Treasure Island According to Spike Milligan
(2000 Virgin)
The According to Series
(2000 Virgin) - nine titles

READING
Humphrey Carpenter : Spike Milligan - The Biography
(2003 Hodder & Stoughton £20)
Norma Farnes : Spike - An Intimate Memoir
(2003 Fourth Estate £20)
[Farnes was Miligan's Manager and agent for 36 years]

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