* 1925 – Harry H Corbett, English actor ( d. 1982 )

* August 17 – Harry Corbett, British TV presenter, creator of Sooty ; OBE award winner ( b. 1918 )

And the creator of the famous glove puppet Sooty Harry Corbett, also lived in the town.

Harry Corbett OBE ( 28 January 1918 — 17 August 1989 ) was a British puppeteer, known as the creator in 1948 of the long running Sooty glove puppet character.

Productions of The Alchemist and Richard II, the latter of which starred Harry H. Corbett as the King, established the reputation of the company.

In 1977, Le Mesurier starred opposite Michael Palin and Harry H. Corbett in the Terry Gilliam-directed Jabberwocky.

The Sooty Show, cancelled in 1967 by the BBC, aired on Thames ' first day and after Harry Corbett's retirement in 1975 continued with his son, Matthew Corbett, until November 1992, a month before Thames closed down ( the programme was replaced by Sooty & Co, produced by Granada ).

Harry Corbett of Sooty fame was a nephew of Harry Ramsden and played the piano in his uncle's original restaurant.

Many soon-to-be-famous faces pop up, including: Lionel Jeffries (" Murder Ahoy " and " Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ", Leslie Philips, Jane Asher, Anne Reid ( Coronation Street and Dinnerladies ), Edward Mulhare ( The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and Knight Rider ), Patrick Troughton ( the Second Doctor ), Irene Handl, Desmond Llewelyn ( Q in the Bond films ), Sam Kydd, Sid James, Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw ( Carry On films ), Leo McKern ( Rumpole of the Bailey ), Alfie Bass ( The Army Game ), Sylvia Kay ( Just Good Friends ), Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell ( Steptoe and Son ), Barbara Mullen ( Dr Finlay's Casebook ), Richard O ' Sullivan ( Man About the House ), Geoffrey Bayldon ( Catweazle ), Billie Whitelaw, Ronald Allen, Gordon Jackson.

And for later series include: Paul Hansard, Paul Eddington, Michael Lane, Edward Mulhare, Shaun O ' Riordan, Morris Barry, Patrick Troughton, Wilfrid Brambell, Nigel Davenport, Harry H. Corbett, Kevin Stoney, Ronald Hines and Max Faulkner, who also did stunt / double work.

These included Yootha Joyce, Glynn Edwards, Harry H. Corbett, George A. Cooper, Richard Harris, Stephen Lewis, Howard Goorney, Brian Murphy, Murray Melvin, Nigel Hawthorne and Barbara Windsor.

* Harry H. Corbett

Regular productions are staged at the theatre, which was named after Harry H. Corbett ( 1925 – 1982 ), himself a Theatre Workshop member and benefactor of East 15.

On British television, he also portrayed actor Harry H. Corbett in The Curse of Steptoe, part of " a season of new one-off dramas for BBC Four revealing the stories behind some of Britain's best loved television entertainers, and their achievements ," first broadcast in March 2008.

In 2009, he was nominated at the British Academy Television Awards for Best Actor for his role as Harry H. Corbett in The Curse of Steptoe.

Speight's next comedy was For Richer ... For Poorer ( 1975 ), a one-off pilot which featured Harry H Corbett as a left-wing answer to Alf Garnett.

In a 1970 episode of the British sitcom Steptoe and Son, Harold ( Harry H. Corbett ) points out to an ex-girlfriend that her deceased husband was a " great Tory twit, always sneering about Clem Attlee and the Groundnut Scheme ".

In 1999, he starred as Prince Charming in ITV's Christmas pantomime alongside Ben Miller, and with Samantha Janus, Paul Merton, Harry Hill, Frank Skinner and Ronnie Corbett.

Items of interest include, Robert Harbin ’ s original Zig Zag lady illusion, Chung Ling Soo's robes, rifles used for the ‘ Bullet Catch ’ by Maurice Fogel in the 1940s, an original Sooty with associated Harry Corbett apparatus, sets of props used by television magicians David Nixon and Tommy Cooper, items and a sound recording of Harry Houdini taken from an Edison cylinder, and a set of cups and balls used by HRH The Prince of Wales when he took his Magic Circle exam in 1975.

In Carry on Screaming he played Detective Constable Slowbotham, the assistant for Detective Sergeant Bung played by Harry H Corbett, or as Citizen Bidet in " Carry On Don ’ t Lose Your Head " where he was the assistant to Citizen Camembert played by Kenneth Williams.

Harry Corbett created Sooty, a child orientated puppet.

* Harry Corbett

Managed by Harry Wright, Cincinnati adopted a uniform with white knickers and red stockings, and earned the famous nickname, a year or two before hiring the first fully professional team in 1869.

If one has to name a famous wizard, the names would typically be Merlin, Gandalf or Harry Potter.

Notable ones were samples from Beavis and Butthead and the famous faked orgasm scene from When Harry Met Sally ....

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

* Harry Beck, a London Underground employee who, in 1931, devised the famous diagrammatic map, which is the template for most rapid transit system maps across the world.

William Roll, Hans Bender, and Harry Price are perhaps three of the most famous poltergeist investigators in the annals of parapsychology.

For example, the Star Trek catchphrase " Beam me up, Scotty " did not appear in that form in the original series — likewise, the famous Dirty Harry quotation " Are you feeling lucky, punk?

Among these are the. 22 rimfire, a caliber popular for target shooting and teaching novice shooters ;. 38 Special and. 357 Magnum, known for its police use ; the. 44 Magnum, famous from Clint Eastwood's " Dirty Harry " films ; and the. 45 Colt, used in the Colt revolver of the Wild West.

He worked on famous projects like the Century 21 Exposition, 1964 New York World's Fair and Expo 67, with such notables as Walt Disney, Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller, Mies van der Rohe, Louis I. Kahn, Paul Rudolph, Marcel Breur, José Luis Sert, Edward Durell Stone, Minoru Yamasaki, Harry Weese, Moshe Safdie, Jacques Yves Cousteau, Alexander Calder, and Edward Larrabee Barnes.

An early edition of the next day's paper carried the headline " DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN ", turning the paper into a collector's item when it turned out that Harry S. Truman won and proudly brandished it in a famous picture taken at St. Louis Union Station.

Inspired by Harry Harlow's famous experiments on rhesus monkeys, which established a link between neurotic behavior and isolation from a care-giving mother, Prescott further proposed that a key component to development comes from the somesthetic processes ( body touch ) and vestibular-cerebellar processes ( body movement ) induced by mother-child interactions, and that deprivation of this stimulation causes brain abnormalities.

In the decisive seventh game of that series, Slaughter, running with the pitch, made a famous " Mad Dash " for home from first base on Harry Walker's hit in the eighth inning, scoring the winning run after a delayed relay throw by the Red Sox ' Johnny Pesky.

Even singer Harry Belafonte was dubbed ( by LeVern Hutcherson ), and Dorothy Dandridge was dubbed by Marilyn Horne ( long before Horne became a famous singer ).

Harry Houdini, a famous escapologist and magic ( illusion ) | magician

* Bloomsbury Publishing, British publisher, famous for publishing the Harry Potter series

Whatever the real reason was, in one famous episode, George stops a conversation between Harry ( Clark ) and Blanche ( Bea Benadaret ) and claims that Clark wanted too much money for being on the show, and was being fired.

As the former home and burial site of the famous magician, Harry Blackstone, Sr. ( The Great Blackstone ), Colon refers to itself as " The Magic Capital of the World.

Ford's controversial personnel director, Harry Bennett, built the famous " Pagoda House " on West River in 1939.

Some other famous peoples known to have lived in the county include General Lighthorse Harry Lee, Wiley Jones, and General John Simon Farley ( British ).

The town is famous for Harry Ramsden, whose fish and chip shop traded from a small shed next to the tram stop.

Straitjacket escape is one of the most sensational and famous magicians ' tricks ; it was a staple in illusionist Harry Houdini's act.

Updike's most famous novels – Couples, the Rabbit tetrology, The Witches of Eastwick – were peopled by characters, such as Harry " Rabbit " Angstrom, who were lax-conscienced pleasure-seekers barely troubled by illicit sexual adventure.

Columbia's short-subject department employed many famous comedians, including Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, Harry Langdon, Andy Clyde, and Hugh Herbert.