Terry Scott

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Terry Scott (born May 4, 1927 in Watford , Hertfordshire , † July 26, 1994 in Godalming , Surrey ; actually Owen John Scott ) was a British actor and comedian .

biography

Scott played smaller roles at the local Watford Amateur Dramatic Society as a student , where he developed an affinity for the comic subject. During the Second World War he stopped acting and fought in the Royal Navy .

After the end of the war he started a career as an actor and producer with his own resources. As a comedian, he has appeared on radio and television programs, e. B. 1949 next to Bob Monkhouse at the BBC . His first major television success was the comedy series Great Scott, it's Maynard , in which he performed skits with Bill Maynard .

1969 began his extremely successful collaboration with June Whitfield while with Scott on… . Both played the leading roles in the comedy series Happy Ever After (1974–1978) and then in Terry and June (1979–1987), which became one of the most successful weekly shows in the country at peak times with almost 15 million viewers.

Scott made his first film appearance in the Terry Thomas comedy Blue Murder at St Trinian's . At first he was seen in feature films mainly in prominent supporting roles, such as B. in Young man from a good house , Too many crooks (both again with Terry-Thomas in the leading role), Oh, you dear father! (with James Robertson Justice ), the Miss Marple crime thriller Four Women and a Murder, and the hospital comedy Help, She Does n't Love Me! (with Leslie Phillips ). The box office success set for Scott only in 1968 when he appeared in several films in the Carry-On film series . As early as 1958, he had played a minor role in Carry on Sergeant , the first film in the series. In his second carry-on film, Everything Under Control - Nobody Can See Through , he took on a bigger role as Sergeant MacNutt . In his seven films in the series as well as two other television specials, Scott u. a. Tarzan , Cardinal Thomas Wolsey , Dr. Frankenstein and the Squire Trelawney from Stevenson's Treasure Island . In 1972 he stood in front of the camera for The Totally Crazy Head Sister for the last time with the Carry-On team, which included Kenneth Williams and Sidney James as well as his former television partner Bill Maynard. In the same year he played one more time under the direction of Gerald Thomas in Schütze das Haus! , the film version of a television comedy starring Sidney James, which was also Scott and Whitfield's only film together.

In the late 1970s, Scott's health deteriorated. In 1979 he had to undergo neurosurgery lasting several hours after a brain hemorrhage . He also developed cancer in the late 1980s . After years of fighting, he succumbed to this disease on July 26, 1994.

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SURNAME Scott, Terry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scott, Owen John (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Watford , Hertfordshire
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1994
Place of death Godalming , Surrey