Harry H. Corbett
Acting
Biography
Harry H. Corbett OBE was an English actor. Corbett was best known for his starring role in the popular and long-running BBC Television sitcom Steptoe and Son in the 1960s and 70s. Early in his career he was dubbed "the English Marlon Brando" by some sections of the British press.
Born: February 28, 1925
Place of Birth: Rangoon, Burma, Indian Empire
Known For
Cilla
A mostly live weekly entertainment show starring Cilla Black and her special guests.
Crooks and Coronets
Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it.
Steptoe and Son
Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, "Old Ned", was composed by Ron Grainer. The series was voted 15th in a 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It was remade in the US as Sanford and Son, in Sweden as Albert & Herbert and in the Netherlands as Stiefbeen en zoon. In 1972 a movie adaptation of the series, Steptoe and Son, was released in cinemas, with a second Steptoe and Son Ride Again in 1973.
The Goodies
A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.
The Plank
Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion. TV remake of the 1967 short.
Theatre 625
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Ladies Who Do
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.
Some People
Four teen-aged Teds are persuaded to form a rock group and undertake the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme to keep them out of trouble.
The Big Day
A drama unfolding in the business world where shrewd methods are adopted by a boss to select a suitable yes-man for the Board.
Galton and Simpson Comedy
Six standalone comedy plays by writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, with themes including farce, fantasy and murder. Featured stars include Leslie Phillips and Bob Monkhouse, while there's also another collaboration with Harry H. Corbett.
Filmography
as Sydney Burke (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Wiggins
as Amourous Van Driver
as Tom
as George Balsam
as Sergeant Major Goodwin, Rtd.
as Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung (archive footage)
as Alan Glut
as Squire
as Art
as Sydney Burke
as Prime Minister
as Harold Steptoe
as Harold Steptoe
as Ambrose (segment "Lust")
as Minister for Health
as Basil Puddifoot
as Frank Finley
as Self
as Stage Door Keeper
as Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung
as Joey Boy Thompson
as Percy Winthram
as Harry Fender
as Jake Whittington
as Hemel Pike
as James Ryder
as Sam
as Greengrocer
as Lem
as Jack Burgess
as Johnnie's Father
as Harold Steptoe
as Feist
as Inspector Bruce
as Harry Jackson
as Gollar
as The Man
as McCabe
as Clancy
as Sullivan
as Sharkey
as Smithers
as Jules Palotin
as Harry Fender