Harry Bourlon Illingsworth (20 November 1917 - July 20, 1989), known professionally as Harry Worth , is a British comedy actor, comedian and ventriloquist. Unlike humorous humor from other comedians at the time, Worth portrays a charming, gentle and friendly character, totally confused with life, creating comedy confusion wherever he goes.
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Worth was born in Hoyland Common, West Riding of Yorkshire, the youngest son of a miner. He has ten siblings. When he was only five months old, his father died of injuries from an industrial accident. He left school at the age of 14 and became a miner for eight years. He earned 2s 2½ and worked near the elevator in the mine; he says he hates every minute. He joined the RAF in 1941.
As a teenager he was in the Tankersley Amateur Dramatics Society and self-taught ventriloquism from a book he borrowed from a local library, purchased his first doll in 1936. During the Second World War he appeared in a variety show RAF in India and had additional written material for him by the show's director, Wallie Okin. Harry Worth warned his previous audience that he was not very good: according to ITMA impressionist Peter Cavanagh, the beginning of his apologetic and incompetent style.
He acts diverse for years before he becomes famous and is often at the bottom of every 'bill'. After leaving the RAF, and insisting he would never get off the mine again, he started in show business with his first booking at the Bradford Institute of Mechanics in 1946. In 1947 he married his wife Kay and in 1948, like many other comedians of the Forces, he got his audition at the London Windmill Theater. Out of 40 in the auditions, he graduated, along with Morecambe and Wise and Tony Hancock. She performed six performances a day as a comedian among dance fans. In 1948 he also made his first radio appearance in a show New to You . He now has two puppets for his ventriloquist action, Fotheringay and Clarence, but in the meantime develops his show sound.
He toured for two years with Laurel and Hardy towards the end of their career. He says he can always come in and talk to them and they tell him about Hollywood and their careers. In 1952, in Nottingham, Oliver Hardy, who watched his show, persuaded him to stop the ventrilokuis routine and concentrate on being a comedian: what he did later. The first stage action without ventriloquism is in Newcastle. He continued to include ventilatory action in his cabaret act through his career, doing a lot of material he used during the war. This includes three appearances at the Royal Variety Show.
After appearing several times in the Variety Bandbox , Worth got his own radio show, Thirty Minutes Worth . He takes his scenario seriously and is not ad lib. He said he built the dithering style on his show without realizing it.
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Television career
Worth's first TV appearance was a five-minute stand at Henry Hall's Guest Night in 1955. He became famous in the public and even appeared in the London Palladium, after which he took the show to Manchester, the main venue for variety on those days, for 8 weeks. In 1960 the TV program The Trouble With Harry was broadcast. John Ammonds and Worth wrote a trial script in 3 to 4 weeks. A series of six programs were commissioned, and written by Vince Powell, Ronnie Taylor and Frank Roscoe.
He makes this style himself by creating a character with whom the public can connect. He once said, "If Harry (the character) ever looked straight into the camera, or the audience, it will all end". His character is Harry and everyone sees Harry as Harry.
She is now best remembered for her 1960s series Harry, which is then titled Harry Worth , which lasts for 10 years and more than 100 episodes (the longest English sitcom running from time, and still one of a handful to run for over 100 episodes). Harry Worth's opening title shows Worth stopping on the road to do optical tricks involving shop windows: lifting one hand and one foot reflected in the window, giving the impression of levitation. Reproducing this effect is known as "doing Harry Worth". She also starred in Thirty Minutes Worth and My Name is Harry Worth . The first store window sequence used in Here's Harry was filmed in St Ann's Square, Manchester, at Hector Powes's tailor shop, now a Starbucks coffee shop. The idea for this was suggested by Vince Powell who had done it himself as a child.
One of the famous comic sketches involved Worth and his family preparing for a royal visit to the area, where the Queen will visit her home. His commotion about the house made his family angry. Just before the Queen arrives, a beggar arrives at the door and keeps coming back because the increasingly frustrated Worth is trying to get him to leave. When a knock came at the door once more, Worth took a bucket of dirty water and threw it out the door to the caller, only to find that it was not a beggar but the Queen stood there, and she had just wet her. Another sketch involves Worth complaining to a policeman outside the Parliament House that Big Ben's watch is slow because Jimmy Young, presenter of BBC Radio 2 known "always right" has said that it's ten ten minutes, while the clock says it's 10 Ã, morning. After bothering the policeman, Worth has a ten-minute moving clock. Just as the clock changed, Young appeared on the radio to apologize that the studio clock was wrong by ten minutes. A visible Worth was speeding up in his car, to the angry screams of the angry police officer.
Although never written, the slogan is commonly known as "My name is Harry Worth. I do not know why - but that's it!" It was actually created by an impressionist day to provide common tag lines together to work with. One of the jokes on television shows involving references to Harry has never seen aunts known simply as "Aunts", a popular nickname for the BBC itself. In one show, Harry commissioned Aunt's picture, only to receive the head-and-shoulders of a faceless woman. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in October 1963 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Gaumont Manchester theaters.
In the early to mid 1980s Worth was forced by health problems to early retirement from his show, but he continued to work on the radio (and make guest TV appearances from time to time for interviews or pop-up guest appearances at multiple shows) until several months before he died. Among the last regular appearances of his career was the lead role in sitcom How was your father? (Yorkshire TV 1979-81) and Oh Happy Band! (BBC TV 1980).
Personal life
Worth wed Kay (Daisy) nÃÆ' Â © e Flynn (1947), who is a Principal Girl. They decided early on that he would continue his actions while Kay became a housewife. They had a long and happy marriage and he took care of him during his long illness with cancer. During this time, he referred to it as "Maggie Thatcher" for diligently paying attention to his daily dietary intake and exercise. After some brief recovery, Worth finally succumbed to spinal cancer. He died at his home in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, with his wife, daughter (Jobyna) and grandchildren (Dane-Allen and Emma-Jo) by his side. Kay lives for another 10 years. Attempts that the publisher is opposed to writing his biography; it's more than 16 years after his death before a book, My name is Harry Worth , published.
Legacy
At his funeral, Sir Harry Secombe said, "Harry has left a legacy of laughter and we have all been enriched by his presence on this Earth."
In October 2015, actor, playwright, and Barnsley-born director Jack Land Noble (born 1989) brought Worth's life and career to the stage in the world premiere of My Name is Harry Worth . The show aired as a "one-man tour-de-force written by and featuring Jack Land Noble as the abandoned son of the British comedy." Cute but sharp, My name is Harry Worth celebrates pioneering talent comics in style. " it - which has the support of the Harry Worth estate - was first staged with great praise in Harry's hometown of Barnsley in the city's Lamproom Theater, ahead of the 2017 tour of England and run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival marking the centenary of Harry. Speaking to BBC Radio Sheffield, Jack Land Noble explains, "The time is ripe for bringing Harry's different talents back to the public arena.This show is my humble appreciation to my comedic idol: a genius, a real comic genius and, , Best Yorkshire, comic boy. "
Television
- Issues with Harry
- Here's Harry
- The Harry Worth Show
- My name is Harry Worth
- Spoon
- The Mikado
- Thirty Minutes Worthy
- How was your father?
- Oh Happy Band!
Theater
- Here's Harry
- Harvey
- Pardon Me, Prime Minister (by popular Yes Minister sitcom television
- Rockefeller and Red Indian
- See How They Run
- Norman, Is That You?
Radio
- Thirty Minutes Worthy
- Harry Worth in Things Can Be Worse
- We're in Business
References
Further reading
- Roy Baines (2005) My name is Harry Worth ; ISBNÃ, 0-9551854-0-8
External links
- Harry Worth on IMDb
- Harry Worth: The Man in the Window Program BBC Radio 4
- Jo Batchelor remembers his father's appearance in This is Your Life
- Harry Worth Official Website
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