Heroes of Comedy Terry-Thomas (Season 1, Episode 5)
TV Episode | 51 min | Documentary, Comedy

Heroes of Comedy

Terry-Thomas (Season 1, Episode 5)

TV Episode | 51 min | Documentary, Comedy

Terry-Thomas invented a larger-than-life, upper-crust persona for himself and lived it to the full, with massive success as a comic actor, raconteur and performer on both sides of the Atlantic.

Director

Iain McLean

Writer

John Fisher (written by)

Producer

John Fisher

Cinematographer

Peter Morgan

Editor

Mark Sangster

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Edit Released

Updated Nov 17, 1995

Release date

Nov 17, 1995 (United Kingdom)

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20 cast members

Name	Known for
Terry-Thomas Self / Paul Robeson / Maurice Chevalier / Various (archive footage) Self / Paul Robeson / Maurice Chevalier / Various (archive footage) See fewer	It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Roy Boulting Self Self See fewer	Seven Days to Noon (1950)
Richard Briers Self Self See fewer	Watership Down (1978)
Janet Brown Self Self See fewer	For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Ian Carmichael Self Self See fewer	I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Liz Fraser Self Self See fewer	I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Nigel Havers Self Self See fewer	Chariots of Fire (1981)
Lionel Jeffries Self Self See fewer	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Harry Secombe Self (as Sir Harry Secombe) Self (as Sir Harry Secombe) See fewer	Oliver! (1968)
Richard Attenborough Pvt. Percival Henry Cox (archive footage) Pvt. Percival Henry Cox (archive footage) See fewer	Jurassic Park (1993)
Joyce Grenfell Sergeant Ruby Gates (archive footage) Sergeant Ruby Gates (archive footage) See fewer	Stage Fright (1950)
Richard Hearne Professor Pastry (archive footage) Professor Pastry (archive footage) See fewer	Mr. Pastry's Progress (1950)
Raymond Huntley Magistrate (archive footage) Magistrate (archive footage) See fewer	The Mummy (1959)
John Le Mesurier Head Waiter (archive footage) Head Waiter (archive footage) See fewer	The Italian Job (1969)
Liberace Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Behind the Candelabra (2013)
Miles Malleson 1st Magistrate (archive footage) 1st Magistrate (archive footage) See fewer	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Dennis Price Nigel Dennis (archive footage) Nigel Dennis (archive footage) See fewer	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Janette Scott April Smith / Janet Royd (archive footage) April Smith / Janet Royd (archive footage) See fewer	No Highway in the Sky (1951)
Peter Sellers Fred Kite (archive footage) Fred Kite (archive footage) See fewer	Being There (1979)
Richard Wattis Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Hobson's Choice (1954)