Terry Thomas

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Terry-Thomas (1965)

Terry-Thomas (actually Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens ; born July 14, 1911 in London , † January 8, 1990 in Surrey ) was an English actor and comedian.

Life

Terry-Thomas was born as Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens in Finchley, the third of four children of Ernest Frederick Stevens and Ellen Elizabeth Stevens (née Hoar). He was fascinated by the theater early on and later attended Ardingly College in West Sussex . On April 11, 1930 Terry-Thomas made his stage debut.

In many comic roles was Terry-Thomas prototype and caricature of the British snobs , in rolls clumsy idiot he shone as a slapstick -Komiker.

Terry-Thomas played the role of a creep in a number of films, such as direct hit in luck and The daredevil men in their flying boxes . In contrast, he played the innocent Lt. in A totally, totally crazy world . Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne, who by chance gets caught in the hunt for a buried suitcase full of banknotes and, with Milton Berle, engages in a conflict between British and American cultures. He was also seen repeatedly in guest appearances in television series such as solo for ONCEL with Robert Vaughn and David McCallum and Die 2 with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore . Terry-Thomas and Tony Curtis had previously played together in the 1969 film Monte Carlo Rallye .

The actor died in 1990 at the age of 78 in a nursing home in Godalming, Surrey, of complications from Parkinson's disease .

additional

His stage name Terry-Thomas with a hyphen is an allusion to his trademark, the distinctive tooth gap. This has also made him famous in medicine; In radiology, the Terry-Thomas sign means an enlarged gap between the carpal bones, the navicular bone and the lunar bone . Even in the movie Where were you when the lights went out? he is asked about the gap, with which he has shown a lot of self-irony.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1959: nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actor
  • 1964: nominated for the Golden Globe Award in the category of best actor in a musical or comedy for Even the little ones want to go up

Web links

Commons : Terry-Thomas  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Terry-Thomas in: The New York Times
personal data
SURNAME Terry Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoar-Stevens, Thomas Terry (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English actor and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England, UK
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1990
Place of death Surrey , England, UK