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595: 149: 163:, would watch him on stage and begin a career on stage; he was against the boy following in his footsteps, saying "one fool in the family is enough". After a year of Formby working at a stables in Middleham, he was apprenticed to Thomas Scourfield at Epsom, where he ran his first professional races at the age of 10, when he weighed less than 4 171:. After completing the filming, Formby Jnr was sent to Ireland to continue his jockey training, as were the five horses Formby had purchased that year, which joined others he had previously bought. 556: 632: 711: 625: 666: 706: 676: 406: 696: 656: 356: 337: 318: 661: 618: 532: 194: 524: 701: 540: 452: 681: 691: 671: 399: 112:
A stable boy outwits a gang of villains and wins a £10,000 prize when he comes first in a horse race.
167:(56 lb; 25 kg). In 1915 Formby Snr allowed his son to appear on screen, taking the lead in 42: 686: 468: 606: 492: 476: 428: 516: 392: 484: 8: 651: 436: 444: 548: 379: 352: 333: 314: 156: 594: 572: 564: 500: 384: 602: 130: 645: 160: 121: 101: 52: 416: 236: 164: 97: 32: 508: 373: 148: 306: 175: 273: 271: 268: 104:. It was Formby's first film; he was aged ten at the time. 178:, with the last-known copy having been destroyed in 1940. 217: 215: 601:
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Bert Haldane
Barker Motion Photography
George Formby
Bert Haldane
George Formby
George Formby
Moore Marriott

George Formby Snr
George Formby
stone
lost
"By the Shortest of Heads"


Fisher 1975
The Guardian
Bret 1999
Bret 1999


Smart & Bothway Howard 2011
Bret 1999
Bret, David
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978-1-86105-239-1
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978-0-7130-0139-6
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978-1-907732-59-1

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