Sir Harry Donald Secombe, CBE ( 8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001 ) was a Welsh entertainer with a talent for comedy and a noted fine tenor singing voice.

After the war he decided to become a comedian and worked in the Windmill Theatre where he met Harry Secombe.

He co-founded The Goon Show radio show with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, but appeared in only the first 38 shows on the BBC Light Programme from 1951 to 1953.

* 1921 – Harry Secombe, Welsh tenor and actor ( d. 2001 )

While he was with the Central Pool of Artists ( a group he described as composed " of bomb-happy squaddies ") he began to write parodies of their mainstream plays, that displayed many of the key elements of what would later become The Goon Show ( originally called Crazy People ) with Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine.

After a delayed start, Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine joined forces in a relatively radical comedy project, The Goon Show.

After the death of Harry Secombe from cancer, he said, " I'm glad he died before me, because I didn't want him to sing at my funeral.

* September 8 – Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer ( died 2001 )

The first series began on 3 October 2007 and features Harry Enfield as Dirk, Billy Boyd as Richard, Olivia Colman as Janice, Jim Carter as Gilks, Andrew Sachs as Reg, Felicity Montagu as Susan, Robert Duncan as Gordon, Toby Longworth as the Monk, Michael Fenton Stevens as Michael, Andrew Secombe, Jon Glover, Jeffrey Holland, Wayne Forester and Tamsin Heatley.

The special was broadcast in June 1954 and featured the regular Goon Show cast ( Harry Secombe was then appearing in both ) plus Peter Brough, his dummy Archie Andrews and Hattie Jacques.

The Goons ( Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe ) starred in their own anarchic series The Goon Show which ran throughout the 1950s.

* Harry Secombe once lived in Cheam

In latter years another well-known rector was Fred Secombe ( brother of Harry Secombe ).

Born in Swansea, he is the elder brother of the late Sir Harry Secombe.

-The Secombe Theatre, Sutton The Secombe Centre theatre ( named after Sir Harry Secombe ) is situated in Cheam Road, Sutton.

It starred original Fagin Ron Moody with Jack Wild, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Mark Lester and Harry Secombe.

* Sacred Songs – Harry Secombe

Harry Secombe also appeared in a short film clip, performing Nessun Dorma.

" was developed by Eric from a similar saying by Harry Secombe in The Goon Show.

* 11 – Sir Harry Secombe, 79, Welsh actor, comedian, member of The Goon Show, prostate cancer.

* Regular cast: Harry Secombe ( Episodes 1 – 4 ), Tony Hancock ( Episodes 4 – 12 ), Bill Kerr, Sid James, Andrée Melly, Kenneth Williams, Alan Simpson ( uncredited )

Harry Secombe was brought in at short notice to replace Hancock and starred in the first three episodes, and made a guest appearance in the fourth.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

Harry later buries his friend, Albert, played by Michael Jayston, draped in a Charlton Athletic flag, to which Frank says, " hear that ?".

His less fantastic rivals include Le Carre's George Smiley and Harry Palmer as played by Michael Caine.

The same year he directed an episode of Rip Van Winkle, where Harry Dean Stanton played the lead role.

Harry Shearer appeared in the series 2 episode Changing the Face of Current Affairs where he played the character of Larry Hadges.

Capra returned to Harry Cohn's studio, now renamed Columbia Pictures, which had then been producing short films and two-reel comedies used as " fillers ", which played between main features.

In 1974, Moon played drums on Harry Nilsson's album " Pussy Cats ", which was produced by John Lennon.

In Episode 4 (" Animals ") of the British sitcom Men Behaving Badly, Series 1, Dermot ( played by Harry Enfield ) says to Gary ( played by Martin Clunes ), " There she was, just standing there, making Michelle Pfeiffer look like Neil Kinnock.

Augurio Perera's house in Edgbaston, Birmingham, where he and Harry Gem first played the modern game of lawn tennis

Between 1859 and 1865 Harry Gem and his friend Augurio Perera developed a game that combined elements of rackets and the Basque ball game pelota, which they played on Perera's croquet lawn in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Occasionally, McGarrett's Five-O team was assisted by other officers as needed: medical examiner Doc Bergman ( played by Al Eben ), forensic specialist Che Fong ( played by Harry Endo ) and a secretary.

Set in New Orleans to avoid confusion with the Dirty Harry films, Eastwood played a single-parent cop drawn into his target's tortured psychology and fascination for sadomasochism.

* British — Gordon, Harry: Scottish entertainer ( 1893 – 1957 )— formed a Pierrot troupe in 1909 that played both in theaters and at seaside piers in the northeast of Scotland.

Michael Caine played Harry Palmer in the films based on three of the first four of the published novels featuring this character, and also later in two films not based on Len Deighton's novels.

Since at least 2003, Harry Potter fans have played ball games resembling the Harry Potter sport.

The British comedy sketch show, Harry Enfield's Television Programme, included a series of sketches in which Paul Whitehouse played a character called Michael Paine ; an amalgam of previous Michael Caine impressions, who in a reference to the The Ipcress File wears oversized, thick-rimmed glasses and a trench coat.

Laughton played the lead role of Harry Hegan in the world premiere of Sean O ' Casey's The Silver Tassie in 1928 in London.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

Harry Cann was a footballer who played for Plymouth Argyle ( as goalkeeper ).

Directed by Harry A. Pollard ( who played Uncle Tom in a 1913 release of Uncle Tom's Cabin ), this two-hour movie was more than a year in production and was the third most expensive picture of the silent era ( at a cost of $ 1. 8 million ).