He starred in 32 television sitcoms and 19 films in total, as well as securing his own music hits, such as Don't Laugh At Me (Cause I'm A Fool) in 1954, and The Wisdom Of A Fool in 1957.
Other characters include a presenter, a fool in cap and bells, and a man dressed in woman's clothes.
To be assigned a fool in Shakespeare is often a sign that one is, potentially, wise.
And from that, is the narrative a farce, casting a fool in the role of the emperor?
Her lead vocal on "A Fool in Love" started a streak of Top 10 R&B hits for the revue and also reached the pop Top 40.
A Fool in Love – a mixture of covers and Batt compositions – is timeless, but only in the sense that it could have been made any time over the past 50 years.
"A patriot is a fool in every age," jeered Alexander Pope, but perhaps in no age have patriots been deemed more foolish than in our own.
As I get older I find I am more than ever exposed as a fool in my dreams, or as a sinner.
Only a fool in search of a headline would argue that its continued dominance means the end of the highly evolved food represented by the Spanish modernists or Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck.
Recording success eluded them, however, until the New York-based Sue label released a series of singles—"A Fool in Love" (1960), "I Idolize You" (1960), and "It's Gonna Work Out Fine" (1961)—that won them a national following.
Her set ranged through 40 years of music, including the first song she recorded, "A Fool in Love" from 1960, a prescient wail of pain about an irresistible, mistreating man.
