- Featured on the cover of The Beatles' album "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
- Appeared in a short 10 minute film, 'Spotlight on a Star' with Margaret Lockwood.
- He became nationally known as a pioneer broadcaster.
- In the 1930s Handley frequently performed on air with the comedian Ronald Frankau in a popular comedy act as "Mr Murgatroyd and Mr Winterbottom".
- Handley and the ITMA ( It's That Man Again) team were widely credited with boosting morale during the war, and were unmissable listening for millions. A member of the Royal Household said that if the war were to end between 8.30 and 9 p.m. on a Thursday night none of the household would dare to tell the King until ITMA had finished.
- Handley went on the stage in his teens and after military service in the First World War he established himself as a comedian and singer on the music hall circuit.
- From 1924 onwards he was frequently heard on BBC variety programmes as a solo entertainer and an actor in sketches.
- He was an English comedian, best known for the BBC radio programme It's That Man Again ("ITMA") which ran between 1939 and 1949.
- Handley's greatest success came in 1939 with the BBC radio comedy show It's That Man Again, which, after an uncertain start, caught the British public's imagination and reached an unprecedentedly large audience. He starred as the good-natured, fast-talking anchor-man around whom a cast of eccentric comic characters revolved. The show was credited for its important part in keeping up morale in Britain during the Second World War.
- Although Handley was a leading star in Britain, his material in ITMA ( It's That Man Again ) was so topical and local, and delivered at such speed, that it was incomprehensible to many outside the UK. It was said that Bob Hope, though British-born, found ITMA "too fast" for him.
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