Born Max van Gelder to a Jewish family in Amsterdam in 1916, Geldray was a pioneering jazz harmonica player.

He moved to Britain and in 1951 joined a new BBC radio series, Crazy People, which a year later became The Goon Show. Alongside his jazz harmonica, he was a comic foil to Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers ...

There is something magical about the humour of the Goons, that wacky bunch of comedians who burst onto the British airwaves in 1951 and whose shows you can still catch on the ABC's Radio National at ...

Jon Penington and regular Goon show co-writer Larry Stephens. It was then heavily rewritten on the filmset by Sellers and Milligan.

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