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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).
In 1982, Brambell appeared on BBC News paying tribute to Corbett, after the latter's death from a heart attack. In 2002, Channel 4 broadcast a documentary film, When Steptoe Met Son, about the off-screen life of Brambell and his relationship with Corbett. The film claimed that the two men detested each other and were barely on speaking terms ...
Howard Hesseman (February 27, 1940 – January 29, 2022) was an American actor known for his television roles as burned-out disc jockey Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati and the lead role of history teacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class.
Coolio is dead, the rapper’s rep confirmed. The “Gangsta’s Paradise” artist was 59. Celebrity Deaths in 2022: Stars We’ve Lost Read article “We are saddened by the loss of our dear ...
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 ...
David E. Herold was born in Maryland, the sixth of eleven children of Adam George Herold (1803–1864) [1] [2] and Mary Ann Porter (1810–1883). [3] [4] Adam and Mary were married on November 9, 1828, in Washington, D.C. David was their only son to survive to adulthood.
Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg; April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) was an American actor whose television and film career spanned six decades.Morgan's major roles included Pete Porter in both December Bride (1954–1959) and Pete and Gladys (1960–1962); Officer Bill Gannon on Dragnet (1967–1970); Amos Coogan on Hec Ramsey (1972–1974); and his starring role as Colonel Sherman T ...
Corbett’s husband, Jason Corbett, died at their home in a golf course community in Davidson County in 2015. The wife of an Irish businessman and her father entered pleas to voluntary ...