happy birthday terry-thomas

[frankthring]

"Listen up you absolute shower ! Dear old Terry Thomas, the absolute
bounder and cad of all time, was born 100 years ago this week ! Yes,
I know what you are thinking.... "Gosh ! I say !! " No one was ever
better at wearing a carnation in his buttonhole, sporting a gap-toothed
grin, twirling his moustache, claiming to be an army major.....then winking
at a busty barmaid and saying.....(slyly) "Well....hellooo !" No one ever
cheated at cards, air races, cricket, car races, golf and wooing the ladies
like spiffing TT.
"We all know he`s not with us anymore, worse luck !
"So, be a set of good chaps and watch a Terry Thomas movie this weekend
- Jim Slip loves him outfoxing Ian Carmichael in "School for Scoundrels", I
chortle at his rakish tango with Joyce Grenfell in "Blue Murder At St Trinians"
or his cactus collecting major in "Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World"....
"So get on with it you shower ! As Sir Percy or Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage,
the dastardly father-son duo of "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying
Machines" and "Monte Carlo Or Bust" would say...."Bog off !!"

[jimslip]

Here's Terry Thomas's BP commercial he made in 1950, during which he utilises all his looks and expressions. Note the health and safety issues as he drives into a petrol station smoking a fag! lol

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I met him once, briefly. He seemed to be always in character.

[steve56]

Played Roger Moores relation in The Persuaders too!

[andy at handiwork]

Not the TV series, rather it was 'Munsters Go Home', a 1966 feature film involving the family visiting ( a very Hollywood back-lot) England.

[andy at handiwork]

No need to shout. Of course it was still the Munsters, but some who may not have been that familiar with the details might have been trying to remember a tv episode with him in it.