William Caulfield

William Caulfield

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name = William Caulfield


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birth_date = birth date and age|1959|3|26|df=y
birth_place = Lurgan, Northern Ireland
occupation = Comedian
height = 5 ft 11 inches

William Caulfield (born 1959) is a Northern Irish writer, actor and comedian. He has achieved popularity as the creator and star of "Our Jimmy", a tribute show to Ulsters best loved comedian James Young, and also through his many stage roles and pantomime appearances. One of his first stage appearance was when still at school when he was one of Robin Hood's Merry Men.

Career

His popularity began on BBC Radio Ulster in 1991 when he began writing and broadcasting humorous monologues as "The Bard of Tyrone" on the "Just Jones" show. Over a period of six years he wrote and performed over 200 poems. As a direct result of this he was asked to appear at the Belfast Festival at Queens University Belfast (QUB) and on the BBC Radio Ulster programme, "Laugh a Minute". Caulfield became one of the busiest warm up men for both BBC and UTV on shows such as "Get it Right Next Time", "Town Challenge", "The Daniel O'Donnell Show", "Give my Head Peace", "Saints and Scholars", "Scots Irish Evenings" and "The 11+ Show". He has appeared on "The Gerry Kelly Show", "McKeever Show" and "All Mixed Up" for UTV and "Pass it On", "Town Challenge" and "The Big Science Quiz" for the BBC. He interviewed Jade Goody for Channel 4 in "What Jade Did Next". Caulfield is well established in theatre playing Nathan Detroit in "Guys and Dolls", Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady", Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" and Frank in "Annie Get Your Gun", all for Enniskillen's Light Operatic Society. Other stage roles include "Look Who's Talking", "Da" and "Playboy of the Western World". He has appeared in Pantomime in Belfast in the Waterfront Hall (2001-2003) Grand Opera House (2004-2005) and in Derry in the Millennium Forum (2006-2008)

He will be starring in his own TV show on BBC1 N ireland in December 2008

External links

* [http://www.williamcaulfield.co.uk William Caulfield's official website]
* [http://www.goh.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=148&Itemid=61 Grand Opera House, Belfast]

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