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
- Premiere as Alan Glut
- Jabberwocky as Squire
- Adventures of a Private Eye as Sydney Burke
- That's Carry On! as Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung (archive footage)
- Hardcore as Art
- 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
- The Best Things In Life as Alfred Wilcox
- 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
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
- Sparrows Can't Sing as Greengrocer
- What a Crazy World as Sam
- Sammy Going South as Lem
- Ladies Who Do as James Ryder
1962
- Steptoe and Son as Harold Steptoe
- Studio 4 as The Landlord
- Some People as Johnnie's Father
- Time to Remember as Jack Burgess
1961
- The Unstoppable Man as Feist
1960
- Theatre '70 as Harry Marsden
- 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
- In the Wake of a Stranger as McCabe
- Cover Girl Killer as The Man
1958
- Nowhere to Go as Sullivan
- Emperor Jones as Smithers
- Floods of Fear as Sharkey
1957
- Theatre Night as Jules Palotin
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Harry Fender
1955
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Jason
1952
- Never Look Back as Policeman in charge cells (uncredited)