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Aug 15, 2021 · And yet despite this surely unique combination, the bewildered and bewildering character created by Harry Worth is cruelly unheralded in reflections of stars of yesteryear. Born in 1917 near Barnsley, Harry Illingsworth (the Illings was dropped for a greater stage impact) was, like many of his peers, not born into a showbiz family.
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Harry Worth. Actor: The Trouble with Harry. His real name was Harry Illingsworth and he was an ex miner, He changed his surname soon after he left the RAF after the war.
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- November 20, 1917
- Harry Worth
- July 20, 1989
Jul 21, 2024 · One of the big comedy stars of the 1960s, Harry Worth is now near-forgotten with his television work rarely repeated, but there are familiar domestic mishaps aplenty in the mid-70s sitcom My Name Is Harry Worth.
The Barnsley-born comedy actor Harry Worth is probably best remembered for the title sequence of his 1960s BBC sketch show. He was filmed standing by a shop window in Manchester, raising his left arm and leg to create the optical illusion of levitation.
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Harry Bourlon Illingsworth (20 November 1917 – 20 July 1989), professionally known as Harry Worth, was an English comedy actor, comedian and ventriloquist. Harry was born in 1917. He was the son youngest child of Charles Illingsworth and Alice Crick .
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- Daisy Kathleen (Flynn) Illingsworth
My Name Is Harry Worth is a British comedy television series which originally aired on ITV in a series of eight episodes in 1974. It starred Harry Worth and Lally Bowers as his landlady Mrs Maybury. Worth plays a mild-mannered, well meaning man who ends up in a series of unlikely adventures.
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Harry Worth English comedy actor. Upload media Wikipedia. Date of birth: 20 November 1917 South Yorkshire: Date of death: 20 July 1989 Hertfordshire: Manner of death:
