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My Family and Other Monsters
Season 5, Episode 5
Timothy falls for a narrowboat owner and resolves to leave home, but is surprised when Mother appears to be in favour. Ronnie Corbett stars
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Movie/Drama
Sitcom
Cast & Crew
Ronnie Corbett
(Actor)
.. Timothy Lumsden
Barbara Lott
(Actor)
.. Phyllis Lumsden
William Moore
(Actor)
.. Sydney Lumsden
More Information
Did You Know..
Ronnie Corbett
(Actor)
.. Timothy Lumsden
Born:
December 04, 1930
in
Edinburgh
Best Known For:
Being one half of The Two Ronnies.
Early-life:
Born Ronald Balfour Corbett on December 4, 1930, in Edinburgh, the son of a baker. Corbett realised he wanted to be a performer after appearing in a pantomime at the age of 16, but first served in the Royal Air Force as a commissioned officer during his National Service. He later worked as a storeman and a bar manager to make ends meet before moving to London in 1951 to further his showbiz career, where he became Danny La Rue's straightman.
Career:
In 1966, David Frost asked Corbett to join The Frost Report, where he met Ronnie Barker. Their on-screen chemistry proved so successful that their series, The Two Ronnies, ran from 1971 to 1987. After Barker's retirement, Corbett appeared in cabaret, in the Ray Cooney farce Out of Order and John Cleese's film Fierce Creatures, and featured in a variety of TV programmes, including The Ronnie Corbett Show and The Ben Elton Show. During his time on The Two Ronnies, he also had his own sitcom, Sorry!, which ran for seven years. His other TV credits included Love Soup, Extras, Little Britain and two-part documentary Ronnie Corbett's Comedy Britain. He revived some of his old Two Ronnies sketches together with new material in a special Christmas Day show The One Ronnie, which aired in 2010. He died on March 31, 2016 at the age of 85.
Quote:
"People laugh when I arrive, without my even having to say a joke. There is, I suppose, something comic in the way I speak and move."
Trivia:
In 2012, Corbett received a CBE to add to the OBE he was awarded in 1978.
Barbara Lott
(Actor)
.. Phyllis Lumsden
William Moore
(Actor)
.. Sydney Lumsden
