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Harry H. Corbett (28 February 1925 – 21 March 1982) [1] was an English actor and comedian, best remembered for playing rag-and-bone man Harold Steptoe alongside Wilfrid Brambell in the long-running BBC television sitcom Steptoe and Son (1962–1965, 1970–1974).
Henry Wilfrid Brambell (22 March 1912 – 18 January 1985) was an Irish television and film actor, best remembered for playing the grubby rag-and-bone man Albert Steptoe alongside Harry H. Corbett in the long-running BBC television sitcom Steptoe and Son (1962–1965, 1970–1974).
Born in Marylebone in London, Corbett is the daughter of actor Harry H. Corbett (known for the BBC Television sitcom Steptoe and Son) and his second wife Maureen (née Blott). She attended Moira House School in Eastbourne, East Sussex, and trained as an actor at East 15 Acting School, Debden, Loughton, Essex.
Following the broadcast, Harry H. Corbett's nephew from his second marriage released a statement which claimed the drama was inaccurate and defamatory. [9] [10] In addition to numerous factual errors, he claimed that the two actors did not hate each other, and that the suggestion that Steptoe and Son ruined either actor's career was nonsense.
Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell, willing as they are to keep the characters alive, can do little within these confines to revive the complex, tragi-comic love/hate relationship of father and son which sustained their slim television anecdotes, and it takes Milo O'Shea, as a tipsy, myopic GP, to demonstrate what can be done, even with ...
For the last 18 years, Bo has shared her life on a ranch in a rural part of California with Corbett. Bo Derek Reflects on '10' Cornrows, John Corbett Romance and Linda Evans Friendship (Exclusive)
Crooks and Coronets (U.S. title: Sophie's Place) is a 1969 British crime comedy film written and directed by Jim O'Connolly and starring Telly Savalas, Edith Evans, Warren Oates, Cesar Romero and Harry H. Corbett. [1]
The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "Having failed to make an international movie star out of Tony Hancock with The Rebel, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson tried to fashion a film comedy for their Steptoe and Son protégé Harry H. Corbett. However, in spite of the presence of a number of comic luminaries, the result is ...