Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of R.oman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic. Always something of a playboy, he then plunged into the world of show business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school. He began his career as a band musician,but since became famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. He was one of the main figures in and behind the infamous Goon Show.