Terry-Thomas

Born

Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens , Finchley, London, England

Birthday

1911-07-14

Occupation

Actor

Spouse(s)

Ida Patlanski (1938–1962)
Belinda Cunningham (1963–1990)

Years Active

1933–1983

Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens (14 July 1911 – 8 January 1990) was a distinctive English comic actor, known as Terry-Thomas. He was famous for his portrayal of disreputable members of the upper classes, especially cads, with the trademark gap in his front teeth, cigarette holder, smoking jacket, and catch-phrases such as "What an absolute shower!", "Good show!", "You dirty rotter" and "Hard cheese." He played a variety of exuberant, malevolent and silly characters during the 1960s and became famous for his humorous portrayal of the archetypal English upper class cad and bounder (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines; Monte Carlo or Bust; How Sweet It Is!; Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon). In the 1970s he reprised his character from the first two of the films above along with Eric Sykes to make high quality cinema and TV advertisements for Benson & Hedges cigarettes. In 1966, he played a notable but very different role as an RAF airman travelling through occupied France – and nicknamed "Big Moustache" by his French helpers – in the French film La Grande Vadrouille, which for over forty years remained the most successful film in the history of cinema in France.

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