Harry Landis
Acting
Biography
Harry Landis was a British actor with a long career in British television and film. He began acting with London's politically minded Unity Theatre and was elected as President of Equity, the British actors' union, in July 2002. He was best known for films such as A Hill in Korea, Dunkirk, Bitter Victory, and Edge of Tomorrow, and numerous TV credits including EastEnders and Friday Night Dinner. He died at the age of 90 on September 12th, 2022.
Born: November 25, 1931
Place of Birth: Stepney, East London, England
Known For
Go for a Take
Two inept gamblers on the run from their debts and a gang of crooks find refuge in a film studio.
Jeeves and Wooster
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
The Grass Arena
The Grass Arena is based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an strongly religious family, with an abusive father, John soon learns that he has to defend himself. Growing into adulthood he takes up boxing, but soon falls victim to alcoholism. His boxing career over, John takes to the Grass Arena (the park) where he lives with other alcoholics. Prison time introduces him to a new and unexpected path.
Friday Night Dinner
Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
With exclusive interviews and outtakes, this anniversary special celebrates a decade of Robert Popper's iconic comedy, from celebrity fans to Paul Ritter's infamous squirrel-based catchphrase
The Avengers
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
Edge of Tomorrow
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Jason King
Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering an endless parade of glamorous women, exotic locales, menacing villains and daring intrigue! Before Austin Powers swung into action, Jason King set the standard for the hip crime-fighting international playboy!
Filmography
as Old Man
as Old Man 3
as Lou Morris
as Ibrahim
as Solomon Einstein
as Manny
as Moishe Smelker
as Moishe Smelker
as Conductor
as Kaufman
as Alfie
as Proprietor
as Sea Captain
as Coroner
as Leo
as Bernie Rosen
as Agabus
as Felix Kawalski
as Kaufman
as Alleko/Governor/Farmer 1/Peasant Husband/Peasant Neighbour
as Benny Winters
as Ikey Sanders
as Toby Newsom
as Gomez Lopez
as Peter Wolfe
as Monty
as Lenny Bowman
as Jay
as Jourdemayne Griffiths
as Lionel
as Solly
as Lookout Pilot
as Joan
as Maurice
as Arnold Curl
as Inspector Fazil
as Solly
as Frank
as Tommy
as Monty Blatt
as Hicks (uncredited)
as Man on Train (uncredited)
as Mum's Diner Customer (uncredited)
as Charlie
as Lucky Dave's Clumsy Barman
as Bloom
as British Soldier (uncredited)
as LCpl. Lamb
as Attendant
as Gunner Wilkinson
as German Soldier (uncredited)
as Webster
as Dr. Levy
as Private Browning
as Pvt. Rabin