Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author and composer of comedic songs. He wrote and performed as a member of the internationally renowned British comedy group Monty Python. Early life Idle was born in South Shields, County Durham (now Tyne and Wear) and in Harton Village, the son of Nora Barron (Sanderson) and Ernest Idle.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/portal/2007/02/17/ftdetective1.xml His father had served in the Royal Air Force and survived World War II, only to be killed in a hitch-hiking accident shortly afterwards. In a particularly tragic twist of fate, this occurred on Christmas Eve of the first Christmas after the war[LINK: http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2414186] [1]. His mother had difficulty coping with a full-time job and raising a child, so when he was seven, she enrolled him into the Royal Wolverham

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