Harry H. Corbett Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Harry H. Corbett OBE (28 February 1925 – 21 March 1982) 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. Corbett was also a serious Method actor and early in his career he was dubbed "the English Marlon Brando" by some sections of the British press. Corbett was born in Rangoon, British Burma. His father was a British Army officer stationed in the country as part of the Colonial defence forces. Corbett was sent back to England after his mother died when he was three, and there... MORE

Harry H. Corbett OBE (28 February 1925 – 21 March 1982) 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. Corbett was also a serious Method actor and early in his career he was dubbed "the English Marlon Brando" by some sections of the British press. Corbett was born in Rangoon, British Burma. His father was a British Army officer stationed in the country as part of the Colonial defence forces. Corbett was sent back to England after his mother died when he was three, and there raised by an aunt in Wythenshawe, Manchester. Corbett served in the Royal Marines during the Second World War, at one time engaged in hand to hand fighting in New Guinea, killing two Japanese soldiers. Posted to Tonga at the end of hostilities, he deserted and remained in Australia before handing himself in to the Military Police. On returning to civilian life, Corbett trained as a radiographer before taking up acting as a career, initially in repertory. In the early 1950s, he added the initial "H" to avoid confusion with the television entertainer Harry Corbett, known for his act with the LESS