TERRY THOMAS BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Terry Thomas was born on July 14th, 1911 in Finchley, London in England with the birth name Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens, born to Ellen Elizabeth and Earnest Frederick Stevens.
Upon graduating from high school, Thomas went on to earn a degree from Ardingly College and then supported himself by working as a clerk with Union Cold Storage Company.
Thomas then began to develop an interest in acting and started performing in cabaret before breaking into the film industry working as an extra. After World War II he focused more of his attention on entertainment and found work in radio and television.
Some of his more well known roles were on the television series, "How Do You View?", "Strictly T-T", "Friday Night with Terry-Thomas", "Armchair Theatre", "Burke's Law", "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." starring Robert Vaughn, David McCallum and Leo G. Carroll and "The Red Skelton Hour".
Along with television work he made quite a name for himself in the film industry appearing on such features as a small part in the H. G. Wells science fiction, "Things to Come" (1936) starring alongside Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke, Pearl Argyle and Margaretta Scott, then years later
"I'm All Right Jack" (1959) starring Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price and Margaret Rutherford, "Lucky Jim" starring with Ian Carmichael, Hugh Griffith and Sharon Acker, "Brothers in Law" also starring Richard Attenborough and Ian Carmichael, (both 1957), "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963) with an ensemble cast including Spencer Tracy, Sid Caesar, Edie Adams, Jonathan Winters, Mickey Rooney, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Dorothy Provine, Phil Silvers, Buddy Hackett, Jim Backus, William Demarest, Jimmy Durante, Peter Falk, Jack Benny, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Joe E. Brown, The Three Stooges, ZaSu Pitts, Nick Stewart, Jesse White, Charles McGraw, Jerry Lewis and the list just goes on and on, "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" (1965) co-starring Sarah Miles, Stuart Whitman, Robert Morley, Danny Kaye and Red Skelton, "La Grande Vadrouille" (1966), "How Sweet It Is!" (1968) starring James Garner and Debbie Reynolds, "The Cherry Picker" (1974) starring Lulu, Bob Sherman, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Patrick Cargill, Jack Hulbert, Fiona Curzon and Marianne Stone and his final film role was in 1980 in, "Febbre a 40!".
Terry Thomas married twice throughout his lifetime, first in 1938 to Ida Patlanski and they remained together until 1962. He then married his second wife, Belinda Cunningham in 1963 and they had two children together and remained married until he passed away at the age of seventy eight, on January 8th, 1990 in Surrey, England after suffering from Parkinson's disease. His remains were cremated at Guildford Crematorium.
Filmography
1980 Febbre a 40!
1978 The Hound of the Baskervilles
1978 Kingdom of Gifts
1978 La isla de las cabezas
1977 The Last Remake of Beau Geste
1976 The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
1976 Spanish Fly
1975 Side by Side
1974 The Cherry Picker
1974 Chi ha rubato il tesoro dello scia?
1973 Robin Hood
1973 The Vault of Horror
1973 I Love a Mystery
1973 Gli eroi
1972 Film Night
1972 Dr. Phibes Rises Again
1972 The Special London Bridge Special
1972 Colpo grosso, grossissimo... anzi probabile
1971 The Persuaders!
1971 The Abominable Dr. Phibes
1970 Atlantic Wall
1970 Howdy
1969 The Peapicker in Piccadilly
1969 Arthur! Arthur!
1969 12 + 1
1969 Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies
1969 2000 Years Later
1967-1969 The Old Campaigner
1968 That's Life
1968 How Sweet It Is!
1968 It's Your Move
1968 Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
1968 Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
1967-1968 The Red Skelton Hour
1968 Danger: Diabolik
1968 Seven Times Seven
1967 Arabella
1967 How to Kill 400 Duponts
1967 The Perils of Pauline
1967 Comedy Playhouse
1967 A Guide for the Married Man
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1967 Those Fantastic Flying Fools
1966 The Mysterious House of Dr. C
1966 La Grande Vadrouille
1966 Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
1966 The Daydreamer
1966 Munster, Go Home
1966 Bang! Bang! You're Dead!
1966 The Sandwich Man
1966 Top Crac
1965 You Must Be Joking!
1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes
1963-1965 Burke's Law
1965 Strange Bedfellows
1965 How to Murder Your Wife
1963 The Wild Affair
1963 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
1963 Terry-Thomas
1963 The Mouse on the Moon
1963 The British at Play
1962 Kill or Cure
1962 The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962 Operation Snatch
1962 Bachelor Flat
1961 A Matter of WHO
1961 His and Hers
1960 Make Mine Mink
1960 School for Scoundrels
1960 Armchair Theatre
1960 That's Odd
1959 I'm All Right Jack
1959 Man in a Cocked Hat
1959 Too Many Crooks
1958 tom thumb
1958 Happy Is the Bride
1957 Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
1957 A Santa for Christmas
1957 Your Past Is Showing
1957 Lucky Jim
1957 Beat Up the Town
1957 Brothers in Law
1956 The Green Man
1956 Friday Night with Terry-Thomas
1956 Strictly T-T
1956 Private's Progress
1955 Around the Town
1951 La belle Hélène
1951 Cookery Nook
1949 How Do You View?
1949 Melody Club
1948 A Date with a Dream
1948 If You Don't Save Paper
1948 Copy Book Please
1941 Quiet Wedding
1940 For Freedom
1940 Under Your Hat
1939 Flying Fifty-Five
1939 Sam Goes Shopping
1938 Climbing High
1938 This'll Make You Whistle
1937 Rhythm Racketeer
1936 It's Love Again
1936 Cheer Up
1936 Things to Come
1936 When Knights Were Bold
1936 Crowning Glory
1936 Rhythm in the Air
1935 The Ghost Goes West
1935 Weekend Millionaire
1933 The Private Life of Henry VIII
