The name Freddie Frinton popped up in a conversation between myself and my German boss. I said something like
"I'm sure you won't have heard of him but there was an English actor called Freddie Frinton who was famous for playing archetypal drunks".
To which my boss replied
"Freddie Frinton is one of the most famous English actors in Germany - everyone in Germany knows Freddie Frinton".
To which I replied
"EH!!!"
It turns out that Frinton playing the manservant in the sketch "Dinner for One" is shown every New Years Eve on German TV; it has become a veritable, unmissable institution.

https://www.comedy.co.uk/features/comedy_chronicles/freddie-frinton-dinner-for-one/