Harry H. Corbett
Born: 1925-02-28 in Rangoon, Burma, Indian Empire
Died: 1982-03-21
Known For: 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.
Filmography
1981
- The Best of the Adventures as Sydney Burke (archive footage) (uncredited)
1980
- Grundy as Leonard Grundy
- Silver Dream Racer as Wiggins
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as George Balsam
- Shoestring as Tom
- The Plank as Amourous Van Driver
1978
- What's Up Superdoc! as Sergeant Major Goodwin, Rtd.
1977
- Jabberwocky as Squire
- Adventures of a Private Eye as Sydney Burke
- Hardcore as Art
- That's Carry On! as Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung (archive footage)
- A Hymn from Jim as Alan Glut
1976
- Pot Luck as Hungry Herbert
1974
- Percy's Progress as Prime Minister
1973
- Steptoe & Son Ride Again as Harold Steptoe
1972
- Steptoe & Son as Harold Steptoe
1971
- The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins as Ambrose (segment "Lust")
1970
- The Goodies as Minister for Health
1969
- Crooks and Coronets as Frank Finley
- Galton and Simpson Comedy
- Never Talk to Strangers as Basil Puddifoot
1968
- Cilla as Self
- The House That Jigger Built as Jigger Barrett
1967
1966
- Carry On Screaming! as Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung
- The Sandwich Man as Stage Door Keeper
1965
- Joey Boy as Joey Boy Thompson
1964
- Theatre 625 as Jake Whittington
- The Bargee as Hemel Pike
- Rattle of a Simple Man as Percy Winthram
- The Hothouse as Harry Fender
1963
- Sammy Going South as Lem
- Sparrows Can't Sing as Greengrocer
- Ladies Who Do as James Ryder
- What a Crazy World as Sam
1962
- Studio 4 as The Landlord
- Steptoe and Son as Harold Steptoe
- Some People as Johnnie's Father
- Time to Remember as Jack Burgess
1961
- The Unstoppable Man as Feist
1960
- The Shakedown as Gollar
- Marriage of Convenience as Inspector Bruce
- The Big Day as Harry Jackson
1959
- Shake Hands with the Devil as Clancy
- The Bird, the Bear and the Actress as P. Panghurst Shippers
- Cover Girl Killer as The Man
- In the Wake of a Stranger as McCabe
1958
- Floods of Fear as Sharkey
- Nowhere to Go as Sullivan
- Emperor Jones as Smithers
1957
- Theatre Night as Jules Palotin
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Harry Fender
1952
- Never Look Back as Policeman in charge cells (uncredited)