Harry Worth (born Harry Bourlon Illingsworth, 20 November 1917, 47 Fitzwilliam Street, Hoyland Common, South Yorkshire, died 20 July 1989, Hertfordshire) was an English comedy actor and comedian. His standard performance was as a genial, bumbling middle-class and middle-aged man from the North of England, who reduced all who came into contact with him to a state of confusion and frustration.
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