With his sly little moustache, broad gap-toothed grin, garish waistcoats and ostentatious cigarette holder, Terry-Thomas was known as an absolute bounder, both on-screen and off. Graham McCann's hugely entertaining biography celebrates the life and career of a very English rascal.
Born in 1911 into an ordinary suburban family, Thomas Terry...
Collection of six films featuring British comedy actor Terry-Thomas.
In Private's Progress (1956), upper-class twit Windrush (Ian Carmichael) causes military mayhem when he joins up in the army. An inept soldier, he unwittingly becomes involved in his high-ranking uncle's (Dennis Price) scam to appropriate some rather valuable spoils of war...
This box set contains three of Britain's favourite comedies, starring the best-loved cad in the business, Terry-Thomas. It provides a cocktail of double-crossing, eyebrow raising, cigarette clutching, gap-toothed farce.
In this, Terry-Thomas's colourful autobiography, he recalls his humble beginnings in Finchley and amateur dramatics, his experiences in variety, radio and television and the films which led him to become Hollywood's favourite Englishman.
This is a frank, vivid and moving account of his extravagant and idiosyncratic life.