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Terry-Thomas (14 July 1911 – 8 January 1990)
was a distinctive United Kingdom|British comic
actor famous for the trademark gap in his front
teeth, cigarette holder, dressing gown, and such
catch-phrases as "You're an absolute shower!" and
"Good show!"

Born Thomas Terence Hoar-Stephens in Finchley,
London he worked in cabaret and as a film extra
before finding success as an entertainer during
World War II.  After the war he worked in TV,
radio and variety, but it was during the mid-1950s
that he developed his famous persona: as Major
Hitchcock in John and Roy Boulting's Private's
Progress (1956 in film|1956) his "shower"
catchphrase was born, a role reprised in I'm All
Right Jack (1959 in film|1959).  He played a
variety of exuberant, malevolent and silly
characters during the 1960s, and became famous for
his portrayal of the archetypal cad, bounder, and
absolute rotter.

In 1971 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease,
and by 1977 he had retired.

==Selected films==
===1950s===
*The Green Man (1956)
*Private's Progress (1956) as Major Hitchcock
*The Naked Truth (film)|The Naked Truth (1957) as
Lord Mayley, a shifty peer of the realm
*Lucky Jim (1957)
*Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957) as Captain
Romney Carlton-Ricketts
*I'm All Right Jack (1959) reprising the role of
Major Hitchcock
*Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
*Too Many Crooks (1959)
*School for Scoundrels (1959) as a British cad in
a game of oneupmanship
===1960s===
*Operation Snatch (1962) as Lt. 'Piggy' Wigg
*It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) as Lt.
Col. Algernon Hawthorne
*How to Murder Your Wife (1965) as Charles
*Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
(1965) as Sir Percy Ware-Armitage
*Our Man in Marrakesh (1966) as El Caid
*Rocket to the Moon (1967) as Sir
Washington-Smythe
*Diabolik (1968) as the Minister of Finance
*Monte Carlo or Bust (1969) as Sir Cuthbert
Ware-Armitage

===1970s===
*The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
*Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
*Walt Disney Studios|Disney's version of Robin
Hood (1973 movie)|Robin Hood (1973), as the voice
of Sir Hiss
*Spanish Fly (film)|Spanish Fly (1976) as Sir
Percy De Courcy
*The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976)
*The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978), his last
film role

==External links==
*http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/461962/
Terry-Thomas at screenonline
*imdb name|id=0856103|name=Terry-Thomas