Acting
Community Rating
5.8
TMDB estimate
Born
September 8, 1921
Died
April 11, 2001 (age 79)
Born in
Swansea, Wales, UK
From Wikipedia Sir Harry Donald Secombe, CBE (8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001) was a Welsh comedian and singer. He played Neddie Seagoon, a central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show (1951–60). He also appeared in musicals and films and, in his later years, was a presenter of television shows incorporating hymns and other devotional songs. With the success of The Goon Show, Secombe developed a dual career as both a comedy actor and a singer. At the beginning of his career as an entertainer, his act would end with a joke version of the duet Sweethearts, in which he sang both the baritone and falsetto parts. Trained under Italian maestro Manlio di Veroli, he emerged as a bel canto tenor (characteristically, he insisted that in his case this meant "can belto") and had a long list of best-selling record albums to his credit. In 1958 he appeared in the film Jet Storm, which starred Dame Sybil Thorndike and Richard Attenborough and in the same year Secombe starred in the title role in Davy, one of Ealing Studios' last films. In 1963 he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He was knighted in 1981, and jokingly referred to himself as Sir Cumference (in recognition of his rotund figure). The motto he chose for his coat of arms was "GO ON", a reference to goon.
The Harry Secombe Show
TBA

Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace
as Self (archive footage)
2014
The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
as Self (archive footage)
2010

The Paranormal Peter Sellers
as Self (Archive footage)
2001

The Unknown Peter Sellers
as Self
2000

Spike
as Self
1996

An Evening with Spike Milligan
as Himself
1996

An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck
as Self - Audience Member
1994

Just Like That!
as Self
1989
Chasing Rainbows - A Nation and Its Music
1986

Highway
1983

Wogan
as Self
1982

Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1979

Sunstruck
1972

The Last Goon Show of All
as Self
1972

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
as Stanley (segment "Envy")
1971

Song of Norway
as Bioernstjerne Bjoernson
1970

Doctor in Trouble
as Llewellyn Wendover
1970

Rhubarb
as Rev. Rhubarb
1970

Pickwick
as Mr Pickwick
1969