Morecambe is most remembered for his double act with Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman). The two met in 1939 when Morecambe was just 13, and while it was several years before they started working together, it was to be a long and successful partnership, culminating in the hugely popular Morecambe and Wise Show.
Eric Morecambe died in 1984, though in 1999 was voted the funniest person of the 20th century in a British internet poll. In the same year, though probably not for the same reason, a statue of Morecambe in one of his iconic Long John Silver poses was unveiled in Morecambe's home town.
