Personal Life
Worth was a private person and resisted attempts by publishers to write his biography; it was over 16 years after his death before a book - My Name Is Harry Worth ISBN 0-9551854-0-8 - was written. He was married to dancer Kay Flynn and they had one daughter, Jobyna. Worth died in July 1989, aged 71, of spinal cancer.
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