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Harry Secombe is a Actor British born on 8 september 1921 at Swansea (United-kingdom)

Harry Secombe

Harry Secombe
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Birth name Harry Donald Secombe
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 8 september 1921 at Swansea (United-kingdom)
Death 11 april 2001 (at 79 years) at Guildford (United-kingdom)
Awards Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Sir Harry Donald Secombe, CBE (8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001) was a Welsh comedian and singer. He played Neddie Seagoon, a central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show (1951–60). He also appeared in musicals and films and, in his later years, was a presenter of television shows incorporating hymns and other devotional songs.

Best films

Oliver! (1968)
(Actor)

Usually with

Graham Stark
Graham Stark
(5 films)
Joan Sims
Joan Sims
(3 films)
James Hayter
James Hayter
(3 films)
Eric Sykes
Eric Sykes
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Harry Secombe (14 films)

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Sunstruck
Sunstruck (1972)
, 1h32
Themes Films about education
Actors Harry Secombe, John Meillon, Donald Houston, Bobby Limb, Derek Nimmo, Stuart Wagstaff
Roles Stanley Evans
Rating59% 2.9572952.9572952.9572952.9572952.957295
Stanley Evans, a Welsh schoolteacher, decides to emigrate to Australia for a better life but ends up working in a school in the dead-end town of Kookaburra Springs. He forms a school choir and decides to compete in a singing competition in Sydney. It is also known by the alternative title of Education of Stanley Evans.
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, 1h47
Directed by Graham Stark
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Spike Milligan, Geoffrey Bayldon, Marty Feldman, Bruce Forsyth, Leslie Phillips, Paul Whitsun-Jones
Roles Stanley (segment "Envy")
Rating54% 2.7113352.7113352.7113352.7113352.711335
Le Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins est un film de comédie britannique de 1971 réalisé et produit par Graham Stark. Son titre est un mélange de The Magnificent Seven et des sept péchés capitaux. Il comprend une séquence de sept sketches, chacun représentant un péché et écrit par un éventail de talent d'écriture comique britannique. Les croquis sont liés par des séquences d'animation. La musique est interprétée par le musicien de jazz britannique Roy Budd, la cinématographie par Harvey Harrison et éditée par Rod Nelson-Keys et Roy Piper. Il a été produit par Tigon Pictures et distribué aux États-Unis par Tigon Film Distributors Ltd .
Rhubarb
Rhubarb (1970)
, 37minutes
Directed by Eric Sykes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Harry Secombe, Kenneth Connor, Jimmy Edwards, Hattie Jacques, Gordon Rollings, Johnny Speight
Roles Rev. Rhubarb
Rating56% 2.823572.823572.823572.823572.82357
A Police Inspector and a vicar play a round of golf. The Police Inspector has a Constable help him to cheat by removing his golf ball from awkward situations, and the vicar ultimately requests divine intervention.
Doctor in Trouble, 1h30
Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Harry Secombe, Leslie Phillips, Robert Morley, Irene Handl, Angela Scoular, Joan Sims
Roles Llewellyn Wendover
Rating53% 2.660342.660342.660342.660342.66034
Renowned surgeon Sir Lancelot Sprat (James Robertson Justice) arranges a cruise for his patient, the famous television star Basil Beauchamp (Simon Dee). The captain of the ship is Lancelot Spratt's brother (Robert Morley).
The Bed Sitting Room, 1h30
Directed by Richard Lester
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Théâtre, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Political films, Films based on plays, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Rita Tushingham, Dudley Moore, Ralph Richardson, Harry Secombe, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe
Roles Shelter Man
Rating60% 3.048693.048693.048693.048693.04869
The film is set in London on the third or fourth anniversary of a nuclear war which lasted two minutes and twenty-eight seconds, including signing the peace treaty. Three (or possibly four) years after the nuclear holocaust, the survivors wander amidst the debris. Penelope is 17 months pregnant and lives with her lover, Alan, and her parents in a tube train on the (still functioning) Circle Line.
Oliver!
Oliver! (1968)
, 2h33
Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, L'enfance marginalisée, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Jack Wild, Harry Secombe
Roles Mr. Bumble
Rating73% 3.6978253.6978253.6978253.6978253.697825
A workhouse in Dunstable, England is visited by the wealthy governors who fund it. While a sumptuous banquet is held for them, the barefoot orphan boys who work there are being served their daily gruel. They dream of enjoying the same "Food, Glorious Food" as their masters. While eating, some boys draw straws to see who will ask for more to eat, and the job falls to a boy named Oliver Twist. He goes up to Bumble and Widow Corney, who run the workhouse and serve the gruel, and asks for more. Enraged, Bumble takes Oliver to the governors to see what to do with him ("Oliver!"). A decision is made to have Oliver sold into service. Bumble parades Oliver through the snow, trying to sell him to the highest bidder ("Boy for Sale"). Oliver is sold to an undertaker named Mr. Sowerberry, who intends to use him as a mourner for children's funerals. After his first funeral, Noah Claypole, Sowerberry's apprentice, insults Oliver's mother. Oliver attacks Noah in fury and Sowerberry forces him into a coffin while Noah fetches Bumble. Oliver is too angry to be intimidated by Bumble, who places the blame on not keeping Oliver on a diet of gruel, instead of meat, which made him strong. Oliver is thrown into the cellar as further punishment. Alone in the dark with a roomful of empty coffins, Oliver wonders ("Where is Love?"). While clutching the window grate, Oliver pushes it open and escapes.
Jet Storm
Jet Storm (1959)
, 1h28
Directed by Cy Endfield
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley, Harry Secombe, Bernard Braden, George Rose
Roles Binky Meadows
Rating64% 3.2449953.2449953.2449953.2449953.244995
Ernest Tilley (Richard Attenborough), a former scientist who lost his daughter two years earlier in a hit-and-run accident, tracks down James Brock (George Rose), the man he believes is responsible for the accident and boards the same airliner on a transatlantic flight, flying from London to New York.
Davy
Davy (1958)
, 1h23
Directed by Michael Leighton George Relph
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Harry Secombe, Alexander Knox, Bill Owen, Ron Randell, Joan Sims, George Relph
Roles Davy Morgan
Rating56% 2.8163752.8163752.8163752.8163752.816375
A young entertainer is conflicted over the chance of a big break. He has to decide whether to remain with his family's music hall act or to go solo. An audition scene at Covent Garden includes an especially fine rendition of Puccini's Nessun Dorma by Secombe, who, while known mainly as a comedian, had a fine tenor voice, and Mozart's Voi Che Sapete performend by Adele Leigh.
Down Among the Z Men, 1h11
Directed by Maclean Rogers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Spy films
Actors Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, Michael Bentine, Graham Stark, Miriam Karlin
Roles Harry Jones
Rating43% 2.181872.181872.181872.181872.18187
Harry Jones (Secombe) is a clerk in Mr. Crab's general mercantile store and an amateur actor in community theatre, where he is currently playing a Scotland Yard inspector, "Batts of the Yard". When the absentminded Prof. Osrick Purehart (Bentine) leaves a secret military formula in the store, mayhem ensues as two suspicious secret agents, who have been shadowing the professor, question Harry regarding the formula.
Penny Points to Paradise, 1h17
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Harry Secombe, Alfred Marks, Peter Sellers, Paddie O'Neil, Spike Milligan, Bill Kerr
Roles Harry Flakers
Rating49% 2.486572.486572.486572.486572.48657
Secombe plays the part of Harry Flakers, a man who has a big win on the football pools. He and his friend Spike Donnelly (Milligan) decide to go to the same shabby seaside boarding house that they have always patronised for their summer holiday, but this year all the other guests (including two young women out to marry money, a dodgy investment advisor and a master forger and assistant) are intent on taking the fortune off them in one way or another.
Helter Skelter, 1h24
Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Actors David Tomlinson, Carol Marsh, Mervyn Johns, Peter Hammond, Richard Hearne, Jon Pertwee
Roles Alf
Rating52% 2.626042.626042.626042.626042.62604
Susan Graham (Carol Marsh) is a discontented heiress whose joint guardians (Mervyn Johns and Peter Haddon) are both trying to get her married to their odious nephews (Peter Hammond and Geoffrey Sumner, respectively). On her nineteenth birthday, the five of them visit a nightclub called the Magnolia Club; also present happens to be radio star Nick Martin (David Tomlinson), whom Susan detests. When she is inadvertently seated at Martin's table directly in front of the floor show, she refuses to move, and Martin, despite his radio reputation as a fearless detective, is too intimidated by her hauteur to insist. This, however, proves to be a mixed blessing for Susan; when the evening's principal performer, a ventriloquist, comes out, she laughs so hard at his routine that she gets a bad case of the hiccups. She attempts to cure them by getting a drink of water, but succeeds only in getting caught in the crossfire of a pie fight.