Stanley Unwin (comedian)

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Stanley Unwin
Born	(1911-06-07)7 June 1911 Pretoria, Transvaal, Union of South Africa
Died	12 January 2002(2002-01-12) (aged 90) Daventry, Northamptonshire, England
Resting place	Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England
Nationality	British
Other names	"Professor" Stanley Unwin
Alma mater	Regent Street Polytechnic
Occupation(s)	Comic actor and writer
Years active	Late 1940s–1998
Employer	BBC (1940s)
Agent(s)	Johnnie and Patsy Riscoe
Known for	Inventing "Unwinese" language
Spouse	Frances Anne Martin ​ ​ (m. 1937; died 1993)​ [citation needed]
Children	3
Website	www.stanleyunwin.com

Stanley Unwin (7 June 1911 – 12 January 2002),^[1] sometimes billed as Professor Stanley Unwin, was a British comic actor and writer.

He invented his own comic language, "Unwinese",^[2] referred to in the film Carry On Regardless (1961) as "gobbledygook". Unwinese was a corrupted form of English in which many of the words were altered in playful and humorous ways, as in its description of Elvis Presley and his contemporaries as being "wasp-waist and swivel-hippy". Unwin claimed that the inspiration came from his mother, who once told him that on the way home she had "falolloped (fallen) over" and "grazed her kneeclabbers".