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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).
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Corbett felt he had a promising career as a serious actor, but was trapped by his role as Harold and forced to keep returning to the series after typecasting limited his choice of work. Brambell, meanwhile, was a homosexual, something that in the 1960s was still frowned upon and - until the Sexual Offences Act 1967 - illegal, and thus driven ...
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Ryan Corbett was abducted Aug. 10, 2022, after returning to Afghanistan, where he and his family had been living at the time of the collapse of the U.S.-based government there a year earlier.
Harry H. Corbett, English comedian and television actor who starred as Harold Steptoe in the BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son from 1962 to 1965 and 1970 to 1974; in Rangoon, British Burma (d.1982) [130] Died: Friedrich Ebert, 54, President of Germany since 1919, died of peritonitis four days after an emergency appendectomy.
Corbett's comments come a year after he told The New York Times that he wasn't passionate about acting. “I’ve made friends with the idea of, this is just what I do,” he explained.