Craig Cash is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 comedy actor, BAFTA  award-winning writer and also a director.

Biography

Cash is best known for playing slightly dull and dopey working-class northern men, particularly Dave Best in the hugely successful BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 sitcom The Royle Family

The Royle Family

The Royle Family is a popular, BAFTA award-winning television comedy drama produced by Granada Television for the BBC, which ran for three series between 1998 and 2000, and specials from 2006 onwards...

, which he co-wrote with Caroline Aherne

Caroline Aherne

Caroline Mary Aherne is an English comedian and BAFTA winning writer and actress, best known for Mrs Merton and The Royle Family.- Background :...

. He has also written for The Fast Show

The Fast Show

The Fast Show, known as Brilliant in the US, was a BBC comedy sketch show programme that ran for three series from 1994 to 1997 with a special Last Fast Show Ever in 2000. The show's central performers were Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Simon Day, Mark Williams, John Thomson, Arabella Weir and...

and for Aherne on The Mrs Merton Show

The Mrs Merton Show

The Mrs Merton Show is a mock talk show starring Caroline Aherne as the elderly host Mrs Merton. It ran from 1994 to 1998, and was produced by Granada Television.The writers included Aherne, Craig Cash, Dave Gorman and Henry Normal....

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Craig rose to prominence in the late 1980s/early 1990s as a music radio DJ on cult south Manchester station KFM, where his shows featured a section entitled 'Who's Mother', featuring the vocal talents of Caroline Aherne

Caroline Aherne

Caroline Mary Aherne is an English comedian and BAFTA winning writer and actress, best known for Mrs Merton and The Royle Family.- Background :...

. During this period he was also the manager of the band "That Uncertain Feeling".

Most recently, Cash teamed up with Phil Mealey

Phil Mealey

-Biography:Mealy co-wrote and associate-produced the BBC comedy series Early Doors with Craig Cash. Mealey also acted in the show, playing the character Duffy. Cash and Mealey won two North West Comedy Awards in 2005 for the writing and acting on the show....

 to write the critically acclaimed BBC sitcom Early Doors

Early Doors

Early Doors is a BBC sitcom written by Craig Cash and Phil Mealey who also appear in the series playing best friends Joe and Duffy. The setting is The Grapes, a small public house in Greater Manchester, where daily life revolves around the issues of love, loneliness and blocked urinals...

. He wrote the drama Sunshine

Sunshine (UK TV series)

Sunshine is a three-part comedy drama that began on 7 October 2008 on BBC1 from the co-writers of The Royle Family and Early Doors. These co-writers, Craig Cash and Phil Mealey, also appear in the series.-Plot:...

 which was filmed in Marple, Greater Manchester

Marple, Greater Manchester

Marple is a small town within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Goyt southeast of Stockport.Historically part of Cheshire, Marple has a population of 23,480 .-Toponymy:...

 and was first broadcast on BBC 1 on 7 October 2008. Cash and Mealey also founded the independent production company, Jelly Legs, which produced recent Royle Family specials, The New Sofa and the Goldon Egg Cup, as well as Sunshine.

Cash currently lives in Mellor, Cheshire. He has two sons, who appeared in the one-off episode of The Royle Family entitled "The Queen of Sheba".

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