Terry-Thomas

Terry-Thomas

▪ British actor
byname of  Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens  
born July 14, 1911, London, Eng.
died Jan. 8, 1990, Godalming, Surrey

      thickly mustachioed, gap-toothed British comic actor noted for his film roles as a pretentious, scheming twit.

      Terry-Thomas's career progressed from music hall and cabaret performances to small film parts and radio, then to television, and finally to movie lead roles. He attended Ardingly College and during World War II served (1941–46) in the British army. He gained a popular following for his television program How Do You View? (1951–52), then achieved major success with his lead role in the film Private's Progress (1956). Subsequently he appeared primarily in supporting roles—often as a blatantly devious scoundrel in a garish suit who combined exaggerated dandyism and crass stupidity. He appeared in nearly 50 films in Britain and the United States, including Lucky Jim (1957), Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1958), Tom Thumb (1958), I'm All Right, Jack (1959), School for Scoundrels (1960), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1962), How to Murder Your Wife (1964), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), and The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1970).

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