Compo Simmonite (original) (raw)
William Simmonite, better known by his nickname of Compo (from unemployment compensation, as in the phrase "he's on the compo", according to series writer Roy Clarke), was a character in the world's longest-running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine.
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| dbo:abstract | William Simmonite, better known by his nickname of Compo (from unemployment compensation, as in the phrase "he's on the compo", according to series writer Roy Clarke), was a character in the world's longest-running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine. (en) |
| dbo:alias | Compo Simmonite (en) |
| dbo:child | dbr:List_of_Last_of_the_Summer_Wine_characters |
| dbo:creator | dbr:Roy_Clarke |
| dbo:firstAppearance | "Of Funerals and Fish" (Comedy Playhouse) 4 January 1973 |
| dbo:portrayer | dbr:Bill_Owen_(actor) dbr:First_of_the_Summer_Wine |
| dbo:relative | dbr:List_of_Last_of_the_Summer_Wine_characters |
| dbo:series | dbr:Last_of_the_Summer_Wine |
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| dbo:wikiPageLength | 14600 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1122349857 (xsd:integer) |
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| dbp:alias | Compo Simmonite (en) |
| dbp:align | right (en) |
| dbp:children | dbr:List_of_Last_of_the_Summer_Wine_characters |
| dbp:creator | dbr:Roy_Clarke |
| dbp:first | 1973-01-04 (xsd:date) "Of Funerals and Fish" (en) |
| dbp:gender | Male (en) |
| dbp:last | 2000-04-16 (xsd:date) "Magic and the Morris Minor" (en) |
| dbp:name | William Simmonite (en) |
| dbp:occupation | Unemployed (en) |
| dbp:portrayer | (en) Bill Owen (en) Paul Wyett (en) |
| dbp:quote | "The joy of Bill Owen's Compo is not what he does with the words but where he takes the character beyond what's in the script. He did this in a physical manner. It was only when I saw Bill on screen that I realized what a wonderful physical clown he was." (en) "Compo Semmontie is a jobless oyke. That man was a bad bicycle rider, a terrible crossword solver, a rubbish at the quiz; he told you the answers by mistake or as a prank, you know. He liked to use a B4 pencil for wiring with, picked cars locks, had more knives than Crocodile Dundee, loved to buy a good gamble, flew kites at high speeds and low altitudes and bought reject batches of personalised mugs at discount prices. Well I will always remember how he hated kippers, he never wore shorts, called breadcakes anything except breadcakes, made friends sleep on deflated airbeds, was obsessed with Ivy and Nora Batty, loved a good curry with his mate, enjoyed a canal canoe session, hated football, didn't believe in pandemic flu; though he knew everything. Overall nice guy, but by god didn't he half moan and drink. Boy I will miss that comforting smell of cow dung and curried rice; I relay will!" (en) |
| dbp:relatives | dbr:List_of_Last_of_the_Summer_Wine_characters Ada Simmonite (en) Annie Simmonite (en) Arnold Simmonite (en) Barry Simmonite (en) Beth Simmonite (en) Connie Simmonite (en) Dudley Simmonite (en) Ernie Simmonite (en) Ethel Simmonite (en) Gladys Simmonite (en) Harold Simmonite (en) Hilda Simmonite (en) Julian Simmonote (en) Julie Simmonite (en) Les Simmonite (en) Lionel Simmonite (en) Lizzie Simmonite (en) Ned Simmonite (en) Nellie Simmonite (en) Peggy Simmonite (en) Percy Simmonite (en) Phyllis Simmonite (en) Ruby Simmonite (en) Sean Simmonite (en) Vince Simmonite (en) Walter Simmonite (en) Wendy Simmonite (en) Wilfred Simmonite (en) |
| dbp:series | dbr:Last_of_the_Summer_Wine |
| dbp:source | 0001-04-16 (xsd:gMonthDay) Roy Clarke on Bill Owen and Compo (en) |
| dbp:species | Human (en) |
| dbp:spouse | Mrs. Simmonite (en) |
| dbp:width | 35.0 (dbd:perCent) |
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| dct:subject | dbc:Last_of_the_Summer_Wine dbc:Television_characters_introduced_in_1973 |
| gold:hypernym | dbr:Character |
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| rdfs:comment | William Simmonite, better known by his nickname of Compo (from unemployment compensation, as in the phrase "he's on the compo", according to series writer Roy Clarke), was a character in the world's longest-running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine. (en) |
| rdfs:label | Compo Simmonite (en) |
| owl:sameAs | freebase:Compo Simmonite yago-res:Compo Simmonite wikidata:Compo Simmonite https://global.dbpedia.org/id/tYik |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Compo_Simmonite?oldid=1122349857&ns=0 |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Compo_Simmonite |
| foaf:name | William Simmonite (en) |
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