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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 28, 1925
Died
March 21, 1982
Place of Birth
Rangoon, Burma, Indian Empire
Harry H. Corbett
1.5 Popularity
Biography
Harry H. Corbett OBE was an English actor. Corbett was best known for his starring role in the popular and long-running BBC Television sitcom Steptoe and Son in the 1960s and 70s. Early in his career he was dubbed "the English Marlon Brando" by some sections of the British press.
Known For
5.5
Sydney Burke (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Best of the Adventures
1981
🎬
7.0
Leonard Grundy
Grundy
1980
5.1
Wiggins
Silver Dream Racer
1980
7.4
Amourous Van Driver
The Plank
1979
6.8
Shoestring
1979
6.7
George Balsam
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
3.2
Sergeant Major Goodwin, Rtd.
What's Up Superdoc!
1978
5.7
Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung (archive footage)
That's Carry On!
1977
0.0
Alan Glut
A Hymn from Jim
1977
6.0
Squire
Jabberwocky
1977
Credits
The Best of the Adventures
as Sydney Burke (archive footage) (uncredited)
1981
5.5
🎬
Grundy
as Leonard Grundy
1980
7.0
Silver Dream Racer
as Wiggins
1980
5.1
The Plank
as Amourous Van Driver
1979
7.4
Shoestring
1979
6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
as George Balsam
1979
6.7
What's Up Superdoc!
as Sergeant Major Goodwin, Rtd.
1978
3.2
That's Carry On!
as Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung (archive footage)
1977
5.7
A Hymn from Jim
as Alan Glut
1977
0.0
Jabberwocky
as Squire
1977
6.0
Hardcore
as Art
1977
3.1
Adventures of a Private Eye
as Sydney Burke
1977
4.0
🎬
Pot Luck
as Hungry Herbert
1976
0.0
Percy's Progress
as Prime Minister
1974
3.4
Steptoe & Son Ride Again
as Harold Steptoe
1973
6.8
Steptoe & Son
as Harold Steptoe
1972
6.2
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
as Ambrose (segment "Lust")
1971
4.8
The Goodies
as Minister for Health
1970
7.5
Never Talk to Strangers
as Basil Puddifoot
1969
0.0
Galton and Simpson Comedy
1969
7.0
Crooks and Coronets
as Frank Finley
1969
8.3
🎬
The House That Jigger Built
as Jigger Barrett
1968
0.0
Cilla
as Self
1968
10.0
🎬
Mr Aitch
1967
6.0
The Sandwich Man
as Stage Door Keeper
1966
6.1
Carry On Screaming!
as Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung
1966
6.5
Joey Boy
as Joey Boy Thompson
1965
5.8
Rattle of a Simple Man
as Percy Winthram
1964
5.2
🎬
The Hothouse
as Harry Fender
1964
0.0
Theatre 625
as Jake Whittington
1964
7.2
The Bargee
as Hemel Pike
1964
6.9
Ladies Who Do
as James Ryder
1963
7.0
What a Crazy World
as Sam
1963
6.2
Sparrows Can't Sing
as Greengrocer
1963
5.1
Sammy Going South
as Lem
1963
6.1
Time to Remember
as Jack Burgess
1962
5.5
Some People
as Johnnie's Father
1962
7.0
🎬
Studio 4
as The Landlord
1962
6.0
Steptoe and Son
as Harold Steptoe
1962
7.8
The Unstoppable Man
as Feist
1961
0.0
Marriage of Convenience
as Inspector Bruce
1960
5.5
The Big Day
as Harry Jackson
1960
7.0
The Shakedown
as Gollar
1960
5.7
Cover Girl Killer
as The Man
1959
4.8
In the Wake of a Stranger
as McCabe
1959
0.0
Shake Hands with the Devil
as Clancy
1959
6.5
🎬
The Bird, the Bear and the Actress
as P. Panghurst Shippers
1959
0.0
Nowhere to Go
as Sullivan
1958
6.6
Floods of Fear
as Sharkey
1958
6.7
Emperor Jones
as Smithers
1958
0.0
Theatre Night
as Jules Palotin
1957
0.0
Armchair Theatre
as Harry Fender
1956
5.8
🎬
Never Look Back
as Policeman in charge cells (uncredited)
1952
6.3