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

Jabberwocky

Squire

Sparrows Can't Sing

Greengrocer

Adventures of a Private Eye

Sydney Burke

Shake Hands with the Devil

Clancy

That's Carry On!

Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung (archive footage)

Steptoe & Son Ride Again

Harold Steptoe

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

Ambrose (segment "Lust")

The Best of the Adventures

Sydney Burke (archive footage) (uncredited)