This Is Your Life: Harry Worth

Harry WORTH (1917-1989)

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Harry Worth, comedy actor and comedian, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at Manchester’s Gaumont cinema.

Although Harry began his working life as a miner, he developed a taste for show business while performing in RAF variety shows during the Second World War. His early act involved ventriloquism which he had taught himself from a borrowed book.

Harry toured his variety act extensively for many years before breaking into radio, with his own show Thirty Minutes Worth, and then television from 1960 with his series The Trouble With Harry and Here’s Harry.

programme details...

Edition No: 232
Subject No: 233
Broadcast date: Thu 7 Nov 1963
Broadcast time: 8.35-9.00pm
Recorded: Mon 28 Oct 1963
Venue: BBC Studios, Manchester
Series: 9
Edition: 6

on the guest list...

Norman Vaughan
Albert Bruck
Conrad Vince
Gladys Morgan
Frank Laurie
Joan Laurie
Bert Hollman
John Ammonds
Edwin Apps
Sheila Buxton
Kathleen – wife
Joybna - daughter
Suzy - dog
Stanley and wife – brother
Harold and wife – brother
Lawrence and wife – brother
Ronald – cousin
Leslie – cousin
Bernard – nephew
Leslie – nephew
Phyllis – niece
Cynthia – niece
Elsie Stratford
Harry Secombe

production team...

Researcher: Nickola Sterne
Writer: Nickola Sterne
Director: Michael Goodwin
Producer: Vere Lorrimer
Executive Producer: T Leslie Jackson

names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life

with thanks to Jo Batchelor, Joan Laurie and Geoff Bowden, editor of The Call Boy, the official magazine of The British Music Hall Society, for their contributions to this page

related pages...

It's a Funny Old Life

it's all about the comedy

The Big Red Book

the programme's icon

Harry Secombe

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