Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Terry-Thomas

Terry-Thomas
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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/October 4, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 11:08, 24 September 2013‎ (UTC)



Terry-Thomas (1911–90) was an English comedian and character actor, known to a world-wide audience through his portrayals of upper class cads, toffs and bounders. His dress sense and style were striking, as was the gap of a third of an inch between his two front teeth. He worked his way through small and uncredited film parts in the 1930s before wartime service with Entertainments National Service Association and Stars in Battledress led to a post-war career on stage and then into How Do You View? (1949), the first comedy series on British television. He successfully transferred into British films, appearing in works by the Boulting brothers which included Private's Progress (1956), The Green Man (1956), Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957), I'm All Right Jack (1959) and Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959). During the early 1960s he worked extensively in Hollywood, providing a coarser version of his already-unsubtle screen persona in films such as Bachelor Flat, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and How to Murder Your Wife. Later in the 1960s he worked in European films, before being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1971. He spent much of his fortune on medical treatments and, towards the end of his life, lived in poverty, existing on charitable hand-outs before a 1989 charity gala in his honour brought him financial comfort for the remaining months before his death.

Support as nom. - SchroCat (talk) 23:30, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, of course. — Crisco 1492 (talk)
 * Support – Co-nom at FAC. I think my support is inevitable.  --   Cassianto Talk   07:22, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Support  Pumpkin Sky   talk  22:57, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Support GregJackP   Boomer!   12:47, 18 September 2013 (UTC)