Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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).
Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business in 26a Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC in black and white from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974 in colour.
Harold Albert Kitchener Steptoe (Harry H. Corbett) was born in 1925 (Corbett's birth date) in the 1960s series, or around 1930 in the 1970s series.In the episode "Loathe Story" he says he was aged 10 just before the outbreak of the Second World War, which would indicate a birth year in 1928 or 1929, and in the episode "A Star is Born" he claims to be the same age as Sean Connery, (born 25 ...
The episode Pilgrim's Progress sees Albert and Harold attempt to fly to France to visit Albert's old battlegrounds. Shortly after the war, he married his wife Gladys Mary Bonclark (referred to as Emily in Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard) and they had a son, Harold. His wife died on 23 December 1936 and Albert brought up Harold by himself.
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).
The judge pulled a loaded gun from his ankle holster and fatally shot his wife while their adult son looked on, prosecutor Seton Hunt said during opening testimony. ... Jeffrey Ferguson was ...
An Oklahoma woman who was severely injured in a car crash that killed her son as they were en route to a Kansas City Chiefs game last month continues to grieve his tragic passing. "He had that big ...
The year is 2005. Steptoe's old house is now the property of the National Trust. Harold Steptoe, now in his 70s, visits the place, but gets shut in after closing time. Through his monologue, the audience discovers that he accidentally killed his father. Since then, he has been living in secret in Rio de Janeiro.