Autographs of Frank Muir

Frank Herbert Muir CBE (5 February 1920 – 2 January 1998) was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. His writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers. Together they wrote BBC Radio's Take It from Here for over 10 years, and then appeared on BBC radio quizzes My Word! and My Music for another 35. Muir became Assistant Head of Light Entertainment at the BBC in the 1960s, and was then London Weekend Television's founding Head of Entertainment. His many writing credits include editorship of The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose, as well as the What-a-Mess books that were later turned into an animated TV series. More about Frank Muir

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Current items with a signature of Frank Muir

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thumbnailA Book At Bathtime 1st Edition  Signed by Frank Muir  Hardback  Very Good Cond.£9.50logo
thumbnailBook Of A Kentish Lad The Autobiography Of Frank Muir - 1997 Signed By Author£24.99logo
thumbnailFrank Muir 'Prince What-a-Mess' Vintage Children's Hardback Double Signed 1979£50.00logo
thumbnailFrank Muir 'Prince What-a-Mess' Vintage Children's Hardback Double Signed 1979£50.00logo
thumbnailFrank Muir 'What-a-Mess The Good' Vintage Children's Hardback Double Signed 1978£50.00logo
thumbnailFrank Muir 'What-a-Mess The Good' Vintage Children's Hardback Double Signed 1978£50.00logo
thumbnailFRANK MUIR GOES INTO SIGNED COPY£4.00logo
thumbnailFrank Muir SIGNED BOOK The Oxford Book Of Humorous Prose 1990 HB DJ VGC£15.00logo
thumbnailThe Frank Muir Book - Autographed An Irreverent Companion To Social History£12.00logo
thumbnailWhat-a-Mess At The Seaside by Frank Muir & Joseph Wright, double signed, 1986£60.00logo
Muir was the second son of steam tug engineer Charles James Muir (1888–1934), originally from New Zealand, and his wife Margaret, daughter of ship's carpenter Harry Harding. Harry Harding had died young at sea; his widow, Elizabeth Jane (née Cowie) subsequently married Frank Herbert Webber, a former lighthouse inspector and licensee of the Derby Arms Hotel and pub at Ramsgate, Kent. The pub was operated by his widow for 22 years after Webber's death. Muir was born in the pub, and spent part of his childhood in Leyton, London. Charles Muir left his seafaring occupation after marrying, and took up unskilled work such as extending Ramsgate's railway and loading stores onto naval vessels; he finally took a job with a firm at Leyton, supervising their machinery, and died of pneumonia when Frank Muir was a schoolboy. Margaret Muir ran a small sweet-shop across the road from the Derby Arms.

His aunt was Rose Muir (d. 1970), MBE; she and her brother were orphaned at a young age, and when he went to sea she had remained in New Zealand and taken a low-status position at Christchurch Hospital, serving as Matron from 1916 to 1936, and ending up as its Superintendent. In later years, whenever his dignified speech patterns caused listeners to assume that he had received a public school education, Muir would demur: "I was educated in E10, not Eton". He attended Leyton County High School for Boys, though prior to this he was a pupil at Chatham House Grammar School, in Ramsgate, Kent, whose notable alumni include former Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath. He left school prematurely aged fourteen and a half at his father's death, due to the necessity of earning an income to support the family. Muir claimed that, when interviewed to join the RAF, he was "a weedy 6 feet 6 inches" but that he later "stabilised at a bent 6 feet 4 inches". Read even more about Frank Muir at Wikipedia

Traded items with a signature of Frank Muir

The most expensive item with a signature of Frank Muir (Rare What-a-Mess Signed by Frank Muir (1977 Gold Records 45 RPM 7" Vinyl)) was sold in December 2018 for £39.99 while the cheapest item (Frank Muir signed photo Call My Bluff) found a new owner for £0.99 in August 2023. The month with the most items sold (2) was August 2023 with an average selling price of £8.49 for an autographed item of Frank Muir. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in October 2020 with £29.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was July 2020. In average, an autographed item from Frank Muir is worth £8.39.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Frank Muir were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

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thumbnailA KENTISH LAD BK- SIGNED FRANK MUIR £4.99logo
thumbnailFrank Muir & Denis Norden Dual SIGNED Upon My Word Radio Panel Game BBC£24.99logo
thumbnailFRANK MUIR GOES INTO... SIGNED HARDBACK FIRST EDITION + LUNCHEON INVITATIONS£7.99logo
thumbnailFrank Muir SIGNED A Kentish Lad Autobiography Hardback£19.99logo
thumbnailFrank Muir SIGNED BOOK The Oxford Book Of Humorous Prose ID968£12.00logo
thumbnailFrank Muir What A Mess Hardback Book 1St Edition - Vintage 1977 Signed£24.99logo
thumbnailFrank Muir. The Walpole Orange.1st ed. Signed. 1993. Bantam£4.00logo
thumbnailSigned Muir Frank THE FRANK MUIR BOOK: AN IRREVERENT COMPANION TO SOCIAL HISTORY£5.99logo
thumbnailWhat-a-Mess and the Cat-next-door by Frank Muir 1981 SIGNED H/B - CG C48£21.00logo
thumbnailWhat-a-mess Goes to School - Signed by Frank Muir£15.00logo