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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).
Harry Corbett [1] OBE [2] (28 January 1918 – 17 August 1989) was an English magician, puppeteer and television presenter. He was best known as the creator of the glove puppet character Sooty in 1952.
When Steptoe Met Son is a 2002 Channel 4 documentary about the personal lives of Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett, the stars of the long-running BBC situation comedy, Steptoe and Son. It aired on 20 August 2002. The programme reveals how Brambell and Corbett were highly dissimilar to their on-screen characters.
Matthew Corbett (born Peter Graham Corbett on 28 March 1948) is an English former actor, singer, comedian, magician, puppeteer, television presenter, and writer, [1] best known for presenting The Sooty Show and later Sooty and Co. [2] He is the son of Sooty's creator, Harry Corbett, and took over the show from his father in 1976. He retired in ...
Marjorie Corbett (née Hodgson; 12 May 1912 – 27 July 1995) was a British stage, voice actress, puppeteer, and film actress, she was the wife of Sooty's creator, Harry Corbett. [ 1 ] Earliest Appearances on Film
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Marriage of Convenience is a 1960 British crime film directed by Clive Donner and starring Harry H. Corbett, John Cairney and John Van Eyssen. [1] The screenplay was by Robert Banks Stewart, based on the 1924 Edgar Wallace novel The Three Oak Mystery. [2] It is part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios from ...