Whit Cunliffe(1876-1966)
- Actor
Whit Cunliffe was a highly popular comic music
hall and pantomime singer from the 1890s. He was known for the outfits worn during his stage
performances, chose to sing slightly risque songs like 'Tight Shirts
Have Got To Go' often his songs also referred to political questions of
the day such as 'Do You Believe in Women's Rights?' and 'You'll Get On
In England If You're Not An Englishmen' perhaps his best known songs
were 'Who Were You With Last Night' and a World War I song 'Hoch, Hoch
Der Kaiser', Cunliffe was an enthusiastic supporter of WWI and was
involved in a great many concerts raising money to help the war drive.
Starred in a early short singing film 'I'm Afraid To Go Home In The
Dark' which was synchronised to a gramophone recording made by the
Warwick Trading Film Company in 1909.