Paul Lynde

b. Paul Edward Lynde, 13 June 1926, Mount Vernon, Ohio, USA, d. 10 January 1982, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA. Starting out in New York as a stand-up comic with an outrageous line in thinly disguised sexual double entendres, Lynde appeared on Broadway in New Faces Of 1952, also appearing in the 1954 film of the show, and some of his sketches were used in the 1956 and 1962 editions of the show. He sang ‘Hymn To A Sunday Evening' in the Broadway show Bye Bye Birdie (1960), displaying a middle American's yen to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. Lynde played in summer...