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For the lead singer of the groups The Specials and later Fun Boy Three, see Terry Hall (singer)

Terry Hall (20 November 1926 – 4 April 2007), born Terence Hall, was an English ventriloquist who appeared regularly on television with his puppet, Lenny the Lion.

Hall was born in Oldham, Lancashire, and first appeared on BBC Television in 1956, and on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1958. He remained popular throughout the 1960s; the Beatles made one of their early TV appearances in a 1963 episode of Pops and Lenny, singing "Please, Please Me."

In the 1970s, Hall regularly appeared on children's daytime television, in the television programme Reading With Lenny.

Hall was twice married, and had two daughters.

He died in 2007 in Coventry, West Midlands, after a long illness.[1]

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  1. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/6544083.stm
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