Harry H Corbett's Grave - Steptoe & Son, Famous Grave
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- Harry H. Corbett OBE 28 February 1925 - 21 March 1982) was an English actor and comedian, best remembered for playing rag-and-bone man Harold Steptoe alongside Wilfrid Brambell in the long-running BBC television sitcom Steptoe and Son. Another Famous grave visited on my journey to find Unusual things.
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Loved steptoe and son
R.I.P. Harry
The best episode I loved in the series is when Harry divided the house into 2 I’ve never laughed so much
Thanks 🙏 Harold for the great shows!!!
I think that episode "Divided We Stand" is the only episode Harry ever corpsed in - just after old Albert finds his old false teeth - lost after a landmine explosion in 1942 - and puts them in, saying "my gums have shrunk" Harry laughs as he says "that is the most revolting thing....." That episode had an especially warm and appreciative studio audience.
I loved that episode
I am surprised that the great Harry’s gravestone has not been maintained .
RIP Harry, genius of British comedy
Why are you "not " surprised ?
I'm very surprised that his children caint get him a decent new stone or atleast a professional clean of the existing stone..
It never fails to amaze me how unlooked after some of these graves are. So sad.
I was thinking the same thing. I vaguely recall when he died as even though I was a child in 1982 I was aware of who he was. But now the headstone looks like nobody has touched it for a hundred years.
The only thing I can think of is that they've gone for "blending in" so as not to attract attention. But still, a nice clean wouldn't go astray.
@@angelkotilainen I suppose, to be fair, the tombstone is 40 years old now so the elements will have played a part in its condition. But yes, a good clean up wouldn't go amiss.
Personally, I like the weathered look of the headstone. It is more natural and in keeping with the lovely, peaceful rural church grounds.
I still watch steptoe and son now, Still giving laughs so many years on.
A fantastic actor, Thank you Harry.
A comedy show you laughed at till your ribs hurt. Before the woke pc brigade changed TV for ever. Thanks for the laughs Harry . RIP Harry.
You mean people stopped laughing at racism?
@@mickydee7502 Who mentioned colour I didn’t . The BBC are so woke they wouldn’t show even repeats of some shows now.
@@ellenlyons4090 Racism isn't just about colour. It's about people with similar attitudes to yours. We don't want references to 'paki's' as used in this TV sit-com too frequently.
@@mickydee7502 And you know my attitude do you. Arseholes like you who’d cause a row in an empty room are dangerous. And If wit was shit you’d be constipated.
@@mickydee7502 In those days the word paki was just used as an abbriviation of the word pakistani, there was no hatred connected to its use. It was only racist when a swear word was included at the front of it such as f****** p***. And later people started to associate the abriviated word with racism when the problem wasnt the word but rather peoples attitude to others of different culture.
It's a sad truth but when we pass on a lot of graves are neglected, it always makes me said when I see this , my dad always said " son your a long time dead " he was really serious when he said it and I never forgot his words. RIP Dad x
The neglect of his final resting place is a regrettable situation. He was a remarkable person who contributed greatly to his field and society. His memory deserves more respect and recognition from his peers and descendants.
Without doubt one of the greatest British sitcoms ever!! Super funny but somehow sad at the same time 😊 Would be my second all time favourite sitcom, purely brilliant!
Unfortunately Harry H Corbett was a victim of type casting probably because of his amazing talent of portraying a character that so many could relate to, stuck in a dreary life by his over bearing dad but when opportunity arose to escape he didn't have the heart to to leave his dad because he loved him so much, such wonderful acting from them both and excellent writing too.
Thank you
Seems such a shame when a grave stone isn't looked after, its like nobody cares when the deceased gave so much to others.
I loved and still love Steptoe and Son. I still watch it. Harry H Corbett was brilliant.
My dad made sure I grew up watching Steptoe And Son and I never complained. Absolute classic.
Another great video. What amazes me about so many of these is how many of the famous people's graves are neglected and unattended. It's very sad. In this case, the headstone looks over 100 years old. All of these videos remind me of how short and fleeting our lives are.
Obviously a cheap headstone.. So worn now a shame
Great show Steptoe & son, isn't it a shame the stone not cleaned for such a man who gave us such great laughs. Thank you Paul.
Harry H Corbett was an incredible actor as was Wilfrid Brambell.The Steptoe films were both excellent, sometimes a film from a tv series does not always work but they were both fantastic. In "Steptoe and Son Ride Again" the part were Harold leaves the hospital with a concussion and falls into a crypt in the cemetery, only to emerge with falling bandages like a mummy much to the horror of the vicar who faints. My god that still makes me laugh no matter how many times I have seen it fantastic !!
Loved the scene with Harry when he goes to collect some clothes from "recently widowed" lady Diana Dors 😂😂😂
@@brianhollings7963 Thats hilarious "recently widowed" Diana Dors, her husband has only died that morning much to Harolds horror great scene!!
Now in my 50's I really appreciate steptoe and son, rising damp, porridge all the best British comedy.
Absolutely loved steptoe and son have it on DVD so watch it when I'm down and another favourite rising damp takes me away from this horrible country and world will now live in
Such a shame Harry’s headstone not as best as it could be….very sad to see ….loved him as a actor he made me laugh and still does when see steptoe reruns …carry on screaming one of my faves ..RIP Harry xx
Steptoe and Son....One of the 100 things that make you British......Both Actors were a credit to their respective caricatures.
St Michael the archangel - I think that’s who priests pray to when they exercise evil spirits. I will never forget the episode with Leonard Rossiter who had just escaped from Wormwood Scrubs with an elderly fellow inmate and they decided to break into Steptoe’s yard - They could not have chosen a worse place to seek sanctuary. An absolutely brilliant episode from the 1960’s.
Great episode, he ends up borrowing all of Leonards cigarettes 🤣
I never get tired of watching Harry and Wilfred! Without the Steptoes, there would have been no Only Fools And Horses! Wonderful pathos mixed in with the comedy!
Wilfrid.
@@ppuh6tfrz646 grow up
The rides again film is so good. I was watching it just the other day, I come back to it at least once every few years.
Frankly so sad to see that the Grave of Harry H Corbett so neglected and looking so uncared for as a big fan of Steptoe and Son he was such a brilliant comedy actor so funny too as Harold Steptoe and also I loved the movie spin offs of Steptoe and Son and the follow up movie Steptoe and Son Rides again
His performance in Steptoe was perfect, the radio versions are well worth listening to also.
Thanks Harry
I have an LP of sea shanties, featuring Harry on vocals. This appears to be something he did before Steptoe.
I remember a line in one of the TV shows was "Agh! me goolies!" Was changed to "Agh! me bum!" for the radio version 🙄
@@Mackeson3 The LP version of Monty Python's exploding penguin sketch has the line "f*ck the penguin'.
The TV version has 'intercourse the penguin'.
@@bigtone1348 😂😂😂😂😂
Rip Harry thanks for many laughs classic British comedy 🙏🙏♥️
He was brilliant in Carry on Screaming which is my fav Carry On of all time.. It is so sad when we lose the true British Classic Actors that can never been replaced. Thanks for a great video.
Comedy gold, the working classes loved this show and Harry was our star.... Rip mate..... Never forgotten.
I love Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973) with Diana Dors.
Well said and very true 👍🏻 👏🏻
Thanks for the wonderful comedy RIP
I watch this every night before retiring. I love this show. They both worked so well together. My favorite episode was where Albert hurt his back and was in bed for weeks. Harold hiding in the pantry was so funny.
I can remember watching Steptoe and Son when I was only a young kid in the seventies (in black & white and colour !)
They don't make comedies like they used to! - it also showed a lifestyle and way of life that is being forgotten.
Cheers Chris (NZ)
Steptoe an son one of my favourite comedy 🤣 TV shows of all time wen I was younger so funny...
They dont make these type of programmes anymore
R.I.P STEPTOE AN SON 🙏🙏
When I was young I used to play in a jazz orchestra in Sunderland. There was a disaster in Doxford Shipyard in 1966. A benefit was held in Sunderland Empire for he victims, I think 11 men killed, and Harry H Corbett was on the Show which he gave his time to freely and it was a success. I met him and he was a hell of a nice guy. Other acts included Susan Maughan the singer. My claim o fame? Making the noise of someone breaking wind on my trumpet when Harry H bent down in a comedy sketch. That is absolutely true, I was 16 at the time. The band I used to play with was The Ray Chester Big Band I played split lead trumpet with some fabulous musicians.
I met the pair when filming the church scenes forvthe wedding when harold got married to zita. They were polite I chatted with my friend for ages both were dressed dapper we got their autographs. I was only 11 tears old I lost mine years later when I moved from home. But I will always remember how dapper they were.and how posh steptoe spoke. Great duo. Never to be seen again.x
Absolute legend I use to love watching Steptoe & Son as a child 🤣 So much better comedy back then. Steptoe & Son I still watch today 🗣️ Harold 🐴💀🎩⚰️🎥🎬🤣 RIP 🥀
I’m constantly amazed at how neglected so many of the graves are in these videos. Surely they have families (if not fans) who would be in a position to look after the grave and/or headstone.
Steptoe and Son really was one of the all-time greats. Shame the headstone has faded so much. thanks for showing up Harry's worn out gravestone.
Nice that Harry rests in such an idyllic peaceful setting. He had a wonderful life and gave the British public many magical humerous moments. Much missed!
I have too go watch Steptoe and Son. Thank you.
Ahh I loved Steptoe & Son, looking forward to seeing this Paul fantastic 😉
Amazing the way graves fade so badly
Thanks Paul for sharing love steptoe and son. R.I.P. Harry.x.
It's a shame ANY grave should appear like this, a loved and respected grave should always appear bright, colourful (in the sunshine) and loved.
I was going to watch Steptoe and Son DVD tonight and came across this. Best Comedians ever. ❤️❤️
What beautiful countryside landscape!
I loved steptoe and son was a quality programme
.. abit before my time but used to watch it with my mum
Great to see all of these. I was an extra on the episode The Moles Tales of the Unexpected and felt he was very lonely. He kept to himself and smoked one after the other, never realised it was his last performance.
Hello, I was a child of the 1960’s and remember Steptoe and Son really well, I loved every episode, they will always be part of Britains Comedy institution alongside many many others, your video made me sad and reminded me of England in much better times, thank you for showing respect and gratitude toward the likes of Harry, he will remain in our hearts….
Steptoe & Son classic comedy at its finest! 💕
I love Steptoe and son
I have the DVDs
Harry H Corbett was a excellent brilliant Actor
He was also a classical Actor
I remember the time he died in March 1982, Wilfred Brambell was interviewed on "Nationwide" on BBC One and he was very emotional.
I remember that same interview. Poor guy was absolutely devastated.
Think because he died so young as well
I know he died shortly afterwards himself..
I heard they didn't get on.
@@philipbooth7779 yeah I always was told they litterally couldn't stand each other
Steptoe and Son was my favourite comedy of all times, still watch them on CZcams.
Thanks for the memories, Harry.
Two of the very best Corbett and Hancock!
I've been to his grave too. Lovely little Church in Penhurst near Battle. Took me ages to find the church, but I did eventually. I also gave a donation inside the church and wrote in the book of remembrance. Thanks for sharing this mate 👍
Great
He was superb in Carry on Screaming. His acting style was so exquiste, even beside the irresistible femme fatale Fenella Fielding his acting was truly superb.
Tim Whale
Yes he brought a new dimension to the carry on franchise.
An extremely funny and enjoyable film.
Tim whale you will never get actors like them again
Ye I don't think sid James would have been quite right for this role
@@paulyates2548 yes, I totally agree. as much as I loved Sid, I couldn't imagine him doing this role
Steptoe and son is a programme I grew up on and still love it today thank you for showing this great video 👍
I loved Steptoe and Son - thank you Harry and God bless.
Best comedy for me ever, just amazing remember watching in 70s when I was kid, I'm 57 now and got box set, I must have been about 10 but remember waiting to watch them, absolutely brilliant, crazy relationship they had, but thank god, they got together ❤ just fantastic 😀 p s texas chainsaw massacre 73 for me 😁😆👍❤
The combination of Galton & Simpson’s superlative script writing and two excellent comedy actors that resulted in a rare work of TV genius. Steptoe and Son was not just very funny, it could also be sad, and at times even tragic. It was unique. One of the best light comedy series ever produced by the BBC. I never tire of it.
I met Ray Galton and Alan Simpson once, about 6 years after Corbett's death. They were regulars at a restaurant in Twickenham where I worked briefly, and I had the pleasure of serving them, although I didn't know them by sight at the time. They were just 2 customers to me. I then met Simpson on his own another 20+ years later when attending a football match at Hampton & Richmond Borough, where he was one of the directors.
Well said
My favourite sit com ever, I have been watching the re-runs on Sky, they are just as funny now as they were back in the day. RIP Harry !
Steptoe and son my favorite tv comedy show ever
So sad the way the grave is dull and neglected for a legend like harry, i love steptoe and son, great job and i enjoyed the video, love halloween, donald was great in it
Sometimes there are no living relatives to tend the grave also people move away and don’t come back so often as I was thinking the same when I saw the stone
Yes Donald is an absolute legend…. Yes it’s a shame how the grave has ended up.
@@timetraveller9321 True, My Friend but once again I see that, in his case, his daughter lives in East Sussex, which is where this Church is and she is only around 60 years old but,of course, we do not know the circumstances. June Whitfield also had a daughter and only died in 2018 and yet that grave already looks unattended.
He has a daughter, she an actress the spitting image of him,,
I realise we do not know the details of their relationship but she lives in East Sussex where he is buried and look at his grave and headstone.
What a lovely man Paul . Thanks for this video. So sad the grave has not been maintained. A real Steptoe and son fan.....THOMAS. God bless them both....R.I.P. 🙏
A fan of all british comedy back in the day the list was endless.And can still be watched today Steptoe & Son was one of 'em thanks Harry... r.i.p.
Sydney Australia.
Harry H Corbett was such a great actor and ever soo funny..loved watching the old films whilst sitting on mi dads knee and still love to watch them today with the fondest of memories.
He was right in every sense of the words when he said to his on set dad, Wilfred Bramble 'You dirty owld man!' for which he truly was lol
STEPTOE & SON , true legends ....
Oh my god I was shocked when you showed the resting place of Harry H,not befitting of such a great comedy actor surely his daughter could visit alittle more she must have benefited from his money ,shame.
Such a peaceful resting place 💕
Absolutely loved steptoe and son and the movie was hysterical as well pretending that the dad was dead to get the insurance money 😂
Carry on screaming was my favourite as well xx
My late friend Mick loved Harry in Carry on Screaming . He played the part instead of Sid James, who was under contract doing something else .
I used to watch the show in black and white as a very small boy .....still watch it....CLASSIC...RIP
A great man and actor..
Those faces he pulled were classic. .I saw that episode of Shoestring....looked so unwell....and yeah...
He lives on in my eyes
I watched every episode and film of steptoe & son.That headstone looks like it was erected in the 1800's.What a mess and such a shame.Great video again and very informative 👏
It was a shock to see his gravestone, a few years ago I was in the Will Hay appreciation society . Where I gave ten pounds towards the cleaning and upkeep of his grave. I am not longer on Facebook. Look it up it is beautiful, Harry need's a new haedstone why can't we get together and make it happen.
Thank you for this video. What a shame to see his headstone in such neglect for someone who brought us so much happiness. Rest in peace Harry H Corbett.
My late friend Mick loved Harry in Carry On Screaming. RIP Mick , RIP Harry. Both sorely missed xx.
Brilliant. Loved Harry H.
Oh you dirty old man!!
Like you, I like a walk around a graveyard. I stopped there once on my travels, about 6 years ago. There's almost nothing there at Penhurst, just Gorgeous countryside. So quiet and peaceful.
My favourite comedy of all time steptoe & son 💙
He had a daughter suzanne corbett who was in dalziell n pascoe,shame his headstone is in such bad condition.love steptoe n son.
@@graemekornicki6810 Warren Clarke is also dead of denzill and pascow
Steptoe and son was very popular in Australia and we grow up watching it.👍🏻🐨🇦🇺
I loved STEPTOE & SON , great comedy back in the era of the 1960's , short life again RIP .
Thank you so much for doing this and being so respectful to such a great man, I just find life so tragic and sad for us all. I was in the post office the other day and this 86 year old man that could hardly walk with his Zimmer frame said: "When will this all end"(he told me his age) Corbett was only 57 when he died, the same age as I am now. I'm just thinking out loud I guess, what is this life all about? I served too and went through some very rough situations and kept saying to myself"If I get out of this situation I'm going to enjoy life to the fullest" and I did, but somehow you can never get that same rush as when your life is constantly at risk it just makes you live for the moment. Now I get stressed if the Chemist is closed and I cant get my heart tablets LOL.
Great video of a brilliant actor. Steptoe & Son was a great comedy and very much part of my youth. So sad to see Harry’s gravestone in such a neglected state.
One of the best comedy's they were just brilliant. R.I.P Harry🌹
As someone very close to him who visits the grave every year, it is looked after and not neglected. I hope those who may or may not feel that way about his grave understand that his family may wish to keep it like it is now.
I went there a few weeks ago its not far from where I live what a great man he was I met him once just before he died, Just remember watching Steptoe and Son when I was growing up Thank you for this video.
Rest in peace Harry. Few people leave so many people with memories of fun a laughter as you have.
Loved Steptoe & son when I was growing up. Out of all the carry on films, carry on screaming is my fave 😀
Beautiful church yard very peaceful and great Harry h Corbett resting in his grave
I loved Steptoe and Son it was great. And what a very beautiful cemetery where he is laid to rest. Thank you for another uplifting adventure. 🤗
A great actor.Steptoe & Son is and will always be a classic.Genius writing and acting.
What a classic Comedy, rip harry ,you still make me smile
Watching the box set again and again. Some extremely skillful acting and comedy. RIP.
Thank you, interesting video. I was shocked by the state of his headstone though. He was such a legend.
Harry was a marvellous actor and i still enjoy watching Steptoe & Son it never fails to make me smile!!! RIP Harry H Corbett.
Steptoe & Son was hilarious. Cheers
I love this show.
Absolutely love Steptoe and Son my Mother is in her 90s and watch it everyday I watch carry On Screaming yesterday funnily enough
We've all got to go. We have to be ready for when our number is up.
I too loved Harry's roles in Steptoe and the Carry On films. It was great acting of some wonderful writing.
It's a pity there is nothing like it now.
Everything today is propaganda.
how can anyone be ready? no one knows when their time is coming
Gr8 actor, and I'm led to believe he was RSC approved 👍off screen the hated each other,on screen u wouldn't know,thts how professional he was👌🙏god bless ,still watch steptoe and son,always get a laugh 👍
I once met Fenella Fielding who played along side Harry in Carry On Screaming ( my fav ). She said Harry was a lovely man ❤️. The Steptoe films too, hilarious .
He was such a funny brilliant actor I loved Steptoe and son I grew up watching the series and Carry on Screaming is my favourite Carry on because of him, thanks for doing this video.
I think you do a really great job of these grave tours. You deliver more respectful details than I’ve heard before, like the Leslie Grantham, poor little Fanny Adams, Fred Fleet and now this one. Thank you
He was a thoroughly nice man. Never spoke badly of anyone.
He really did seem like a nice bloke
Can't we get Harry's grave cleaned such a wonderful man a lot of Joy to millions of people seemed such a shame Steptoe and Son appreciation society still exist