Harry Fowler Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Henry James "Harry" Fowler, MBE (10 December 1926 – 4 January 2012) was an English actor in film and TV. Over a career lasting more than sixty years he made nearly 200 appearances on screen. Fowler was born in Lam­beth, South Lon­don on 10 December 1926. As a “near illit­er­ate news­pa­per boy” mak­ing eight shillings a week, he told film his­to­rian Brian McFar­lane, he was invited on to radio to speak­ about his life in wartime London. Fowler mar­ried actress Joan Dowl­ing, who took her own life in 1954 after her career began to fail. Fowler died on 4 January 2012. He... MORE

Henry James "Harry" Fowler, MBE (10 December 1926 – 4 January 2012) was an English actor in film and TV. Over a career lasting more than sixty years he made nearly 200 appearances on screen. Fowler was born in Lam­beth, South Lon­don on 10 December 1926. As a “near illit­er­ate news­pa­per boy” mak­ing eight shillings a week, he told film his­to­rian Brian McFar­lane, he was invited on to radio to speak­ about his life in wartime London. Fowler mar­ried actress Joan Dowl­ing, who took her own life in 1954 after her career began to fail. Fowler died on 4 January 2012. He is survived by his second wife, Catherine, to whom he was married for over 50 years. Fowler made his on-screen debut as Ern in the 1942 film Those Kids from Town, a propaganda piece about wartime evacuee children from London. This role was given to him after film company executives heard him speaking on the radio about his experiences in wartime London. After a screen test at Elstree studios, Fowler was given the part to star alongside George Cole. His fee was £5 a day, compared with the 8 shillings a week he had been earning as a newspaper boy up to his audition. His early juvenile roles included Hue and Cry LESS