Whilst waiting for KLL, a tribute to Terry Thomas

[portlock seagull]

Man who makes today's rotters look an absolute shower - Telegraph

 

[Norman Potting]

Ding, dong, or was that Leslie Phillips??

 

[Normal Rob]

I'm reading 'Bounder', his biography, at the moment having seen it recomended on one of the NSC book threads. Top Man but from what i can tell (you just have to look at all the pics before reading the book) it ultimately ends in a manner not befitting the man.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Ding, dong, or was that Leslie Phillips??

Leslie Phillips.

My Uncle Max was TT's stunt double in his movies and was the spitting image of him.

 

[just in fashion new]

Thanks Portlock, 'raaather' enjoyed reading that ! He was typecast because he was so brilliant at those roles.

 

[Jam The Man]

I think T-T was Richard Brier's cousin ..or something

 

[Normal Rob]

Leslie Phillips.

My Uncle Max was TT's stunt double in his movies and was the spitting image of him.

Must be your Uncle Max on the pic on page 149 then - caption reads ' TT and his body double preparing for Its a Mad Mad Mad World'(1963)

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Must be your Uncle Max on the pic on page 149 then - caption reads ' TT and his body double preparing for Its a Mad Mad Mad World'(1963)

Link please? Haven't seen the old sod since he died, not long after TT himself.

 

[Normal Rob]

Link please? Haven't seen the old sod since he died, not long after TT himself.

erm - it's a book.

I'll see what i can do to scam the pic in but it'll take a bit of time. I'm not very technical

 

[Sussex Nomad]

d'oh! Sorry.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Top man, just been watching some of his clips on YouTube.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Just googled the stunt double on Mad World and it wasn't my Uncle Max it was Carey Loftin, so he had more than one stunt double in his career.

 

[glasfryn]

an absolute shower you know
great actor and truly and English gent

 

[piersa]

they even named a radiological finding him "The terry thomas sign"

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Dick Dastardly was based on Terry Thomas

 

[Normal Rob]

Dick Dastardly was based on Terry Thomas

Not sure about that one - but Basil Brush was most definitely was.