My grandfather met Wilfried in a pub and he went back to my grandfather's house for tea and surprised my grandfather's sister who was a big fan. He said he was very well spoken and nothing like he was on steptoe and son. What a great actor he was 🙂
Wilfred Bramble was a classic actor as well as appearing in many films before Stephen and Son .....watch out for him in many old films on YT, his other performances might surprise you as he had a good character range
If any actor today behaved like Bramble did in the 60s they would be slung in gaol. "We had very different lives", yeah Corbett didn't hang around public toilets at night and wasn't BFF with Jimmy Savile and Charles Hawtrey (carry on), Same choice in perversions.
@@kooringagnd Actually he hated Charles Hawtree ( as did all the Carry On folk) & he also had no link to Saville at all! You're just a nasty minded gossip.
The rumours they hated each other is unfair and was untrue,....yes they were very different personalities, who led very different lives , and never really socialized ,...but had a great professional relationship , and respected each other's talents,....and the comedy magic they produced on screen together is up there with the finest this country as EVER produced....and Steptoe and son even to this day,...remains one of the funniest, and brilliantly written and acted comedies to ever grace our tellys.......wonderful series
@@markharrison2544 Nothing wrong with the series it was brilliant. People still have those views they just don't air them as much. Political correctness will never win.
Not many of us knew Wilfred Bramble was actually irish and born in Dublin. Most people think he was from England. A great actor and also Harry H Corbett RIP both of them 🙏🙏 and thankyou both for the timeless comedy acting you left us all with.
It didn't matter then, and it doesn't matter now wether they were friends, or not. They were brilliant together on set and made one of the greatest situation comedies, EVER seen on TV.
@@keithrich8373 i think the rumours that they hated each other simply was not true. My dad told me that for years. They may not had been best friends and clash a bit but they certainly did not hate each other there was respect. Very similar to Leonard rooster and Francis de la tour. They often clashed but did not hate each other and had respect. There own screen chemistry was magic as rigsby and miss Jones,. Just like steptoe and son.
Wilf wept openly & loudly all through Harry H's funeral service, & the widowed Mrs Corbett was one of less than a dozen attendees at Wilfs very private funeral.
I was born in 76, So I grew up with my Mum and Dad watching Steptoe. I remember my Dad howling with laughter. I still love this show. They were brilliant together.. Old Steptoes voice “Harold”.Always up to something or other and eternally Skint. Gold.
I have a childhood memory of Wilfred on a news programme, maybe Nationwide, speaking about Harry. I remember it because I asked my dad why he was crying. He said because his friend had died. I think this was the first occasion I’d ever seen an adult in tears.
I saw that episode of Nationwide as well. Wilfred was paying tribute to Harry, day in front of a large black and white image of him. I was really young and the idea of death really spooked me so it sticks in my mind.
@@MagnusMaximusinWalesnot true,they got on extremely well when filming steptoe,they had a little falling out on tour in Australia around the 80s,and the media jumped on this recently and made it much bigger than it was just to make a documentary,even after Australia they still worked together making adverts and personal appearances,everybody who worked on steptoe and son says they got on extremely well together throughout the entire 7-8 seasons.
I am old enough to have watched Steptoe and son the first time around and it still has to be one of the best comedy shows ever, they were both great actors and there's been no one like them since.
They, with Morcambe and Wise were my absolute favourites when I was a kid. I have nothing but love in my heart for the joyful memories they, and many more, have have left us .
Steptoe and son were a class act, i and many others work with people we hate but get on with it to get the job done. Wilf and Harry rest in peace, your legend will live on.
I think that episode is one of the best examples of perfect writing and casting ever. It has everything; humour, pathos, drama and social comment. Just wonderful.
@JuanMacready He was never a paedophile he was just gay, but a unique actor at the sametime. which some british actors nowadays will never match the great classic british actors from the 50's, 60's and even the 70's
@@martinworld7214 Grow up ya buckin pigeon! There is absolutely ZERO proof of anything untoward. His only "crime" was to be born in an era where people in authority felt they had a divine right to stick their nose into what goes on between consenting adults.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
Old Wilfred's best acting was in the two films they made ..should have made more films ..Galton n Simpson were up there with best sit com writers of the era ...
Yeah, a lot of popular 70's sitcoms made feature films and they usually get slated, but i LOVED both Steptoe and Son feature films!!! i also have a soft spot for the George & Mildred film and not strictly taken from a sitcom but the Dick Emery film 'Ooh you are awful' is a cracking film starring a lot of characters from his sketch show.
I have a book all about Steptoe written by the writers and it says that Wilfrid broke down in tears live on TV over the death of Harry. I dont believe it was as bad as the Curse Of Steptoe made out. Its 40 years ago now, lets remember them for the fantastic work of Steptoe
I can remember seeing a late night interview with Wilfred on the day the death was announced; I'm sure it was the first tv interview he did that day. I don't remember tears but I do remember the profound shock on his face and just stating and Harry was a lovely man.
Yes, Harry got the part at short notice when Sid James had a heart attack, notice that in the next film Carry On Doctor Sid spends most of the film in bed..
He lived in Moreton Place Pimlico. I was born in in Denbigh Street diagonally across from his street. I remember my dad telling me when he was on the TV that he lived opposite somewhere. Great show, they were very funny together. Still enjoy watching Steptoe and Son today.
The reason why this is probably the greatest comedy of then all is ,most of the episodes had just the two main characters in it . Occasionally you had other people in it but for two actors to be so close in the house for most of the time is fantastic.
Those that know Steptoe and Son....remember when he dropped the jar of pickled onions in his bath and tried to put them back? My dad spat his false teeth out across the room. We all near died laughing that night and that's no lie.
Not many of the greats left alive. Truly saddens me and im only 36, my era had crap like Lenny Henry and the like. Although i am a massive fan of 'My family'
@@robertguest5215 that story is actually untue. It was because Harry was going on holiday with his family and Wilfred was going home so they were going to different places hence had to use different planes.
@@madabbafan .mate, by the end of it, they could not stand each other .there is a very good doco explaining it all.............wilfred was a right pain in the a..
@@robertguest5215 yes the documentary, which Harry H Corbet's nephew described as untrue as regards their relationship and that they catergorically did not hate each other. I think I will take the words of a family member over a film maker. If they did hated each other so much then why would Corbett's widow have attened Brambell's funeral?
Got the box set and always watched them when a kid on a Sunday after a bath 😂 You'll never get comedies like this again,absolutely priceless! Although they never got on in real life it never showed in there performances in front of the camera and that's just how great actors they both were!
They did work well together although they had totally different styles, Wilfrid was a 'natural' who could just turn the character off & on whereas Harry had to think himself into the part like a method actor
i think wilfred was given the funniest parts of the scripts but harry was the true actor, all those big pieces of story telling/roll play stuff Harold used to do like when he was talking-to the wall pug in divided we stand was pure acting talent .
It was very believable comedy, the actual set was 100% authentic and convincing, cluttered, fascinating, rich, earthy, i was young when it was on but would be riveted by it, very high quality, the situations were so convincing and had an uncomfortable feel i guess the anxiety of impending failure, but, so real, it's a classic, could never be recreated, an era that is gone forever, that really we took for granted, quirky and the old replaced by mundane tedious dull urbanisation, Boris bring back the rag and bone men.
Shame on anybody in this comment section for mentioning his sexuality. Harry H Corbett was one of the best actors the UK has ever produced. He gave us so much joy as Arold but if he hadn't had got the part he would have been a massive, massive star. Check out " Rattle of a simple man " and " Cover girl Killer" . Steptoe & Son was the pinnacle of British comedy and one of two comedies that had just as funny spin off movies as the series...the other being Bless this House with the brilliant Sid James. We don't produce comedy any more..I look at what's on today and I could cry. I have the collection of DVDs with every episode and watch them regularly. you will never get better than the best. Thank You Galton & simpson.
I loved the episode Back in Fashion. Where Harold thinks he looks cool in a smoking jacket and shades. And the lovely girl thinks his blind. Classic. Poor old Harold. Thanks for all the laughter you gave us. ❤
For anyone interested in finding out more about the great Wilfred Brambell I recommend reading "Old Never Stops" by Phillip Glass. It's sheds a little light on the great man's life story ❤
It’s a nice tribute they had a lot of chemistry together despite not liking each other it’s a sad tribute in a way, it’s even sadder knowing that Wilfred Brambell would die two years later.
The writers of the show and a couple of Corbett’s family members have disputed that they didn’t like each other. No one is saying they were best friends or didn’t have a difference of opinion her and there but to say they didn’t like each other is false
@@gargk999 is that where steptoe utters the immortal line 'blacker than a gorillas goolies' that line absolutely creases me up , just the way he delivers it totally deadpan but one of the funniest lines ever
This was filmed in Brambells flat in Pimlico. Brambell was a collector of antique silver as can be seen. Harrys funeral was attended by the cream of showbusiness Brambells had less than a dozen. Very sad.
I met a guy in the 1970’s who was propositioned by Wildred Bramble. He was an adult at the time, not a child. Yes he and Harry lived different life styles
Harry H Corbett would've been the next Laurence Olivier, but Steptoe (although i love the show sooooo much) type cast him. Poor Wilfred (and again, i'm no expert on what happened in his life) but bless him. x
@@stephenthornber1961 Back in the 1970s, I was living at home with my family in Henley on Thames. Just up river from us was, at that time, Danny la Rue's house. Wilfred Bramble used to stay with him regularly, and it wasn't unusual to see them out and about together. Always friendly and happy to chat to people. The local people were used to seeing them, so it was generally just good morning or whatever. Tourists used to be shocked to see them. Particularly as sometimes, I suppose just for fun, they would both be dressed as women.
Great Actor, Steptoe and son was a classic, both performers lead different lifes away from their roles ..but what they created was great. When the dead cant speak many assumtions are made on remaining opinions of others. And its sad individuals that believe such.....without knowing Facts.
@@THX-2208 They didn't hate each other. That programme was wrong. Many people have said so. The day after Harry H. Corbett died Wilfrid Brambell was interviewed on Nationwide. He was so upset he could hardly speak. That wasn't the reaction of some-one talking about some-one he hated.
There will never be tv or people like them all the greats that's for sure I'm glad I was around to see and have witnessed it not like the bullshit of today.
He came from a middle class protestant background in Dublin when ireland was still part of the uk which maybe accounts for his accent although it could also be attributed to his life in England in the theatre and TV and films
@@johnmurphy7316 if you watch the Steptoe films he stands in front of the TV and salutes the TV when the Queen is on playing the national anthem in Steptoe and son,also there was Union Flag drapped over he's coffin in the Steptoe and Rides again.
Camp Freddy ,Well in Steptoe and Son he is obviously playing an English character, more specifically a Cockney of the Shepherds Bush variety, so it's no surprise that he salutes the Queen or has a Union Jack draped over his coffin. But I've no idea what he felt in real life as Wilfred Brambell . He may have left Dublin far behind when he came to England but he could take off a brilliant and very funny Irish accent as in A Hard Days Night film .He was a very gifted comedian .
Brambell was not a 'paedophile'. He was gay when it was still illegal to be gay in Britain, and when it was legalised, the legal age to be a gay man was far higher, at 21, than that of a heterosexual man, at 16. Everything Brambell did naturally as a gay man would be totally legal today. It was only homosexuality between men that was deemed 'illegal' in Britain back then too, there was never any law against being a gay woman. The so-called 'laws' in Britain back then were an absolute disgrace.
I always vividly remember seeing Wilfrid Brambell being interviewed on the BBC current affairs show Nationwide directly after Harry H Corbett died and he was in bits - absolutely crying his eyes out. It would be interesting to see that clip again. It would certainly put paid to the claims they hated each other.
I love watching Steptoe & Son on DVD . My favourite is when Leonard Rossiter breaks in to Steptoe & Sons house after breaking out of prison . They were known as trotters . I all ways wondered if Only Fools and Horses was a continuation of Steptoe & Son because like the Steptoes they had little and of course their surname was Trotter .
All actors especially older back then tended to come from the upper classes as you don't think working-class people could afford acting lessons in the 20s&30s do you .
My grandfather met Wilfried in a pub and he went back to my grandfather's house for tea and surprised my grandfather's sister who was a big fan. He said he was very well spoken and nothing like he was on steptoe and son. What a great actor he was 🙂
He abused children.
Wilfred probably wanted to bum your grandfather
Strange to hear how well spoken Wilfred Bramble was after being so used to his Albert Steptoe voice. Shows was a great actor he was.
Wilfred Bramble was a classic actor as well as appearing in many films before Stephen and Son .....watch out for him in many old films on YT, his other performances might surprise you as he had a good character range
Just goes to show how affected English peoples' accents are lol
@@illegalsmirf
Okay, but he was Irish.
@@sparkfishes
Steptoe and Son?
Yes a very good actor.
@@illegalsmirf
No.
From a time when sitcoms were actually funny, I’d rather have steptoe&son than Mrs brown boys any day
It's a bit of entertainment though. Don't like mbb myself but there's a hell of a lot worse out there
If any actor today behaved like Bramble did in the 60s they would be slung in gaol. "We had very different lives", yeah Corbett didn't hang around public toilets at night and wasn't BFF with Jimmy Savile and Charles Hawtrey (carry on), Same choice in perversions.
@@kooringagnd
Actually he hated Charles Hawtree ( as did all the Carry On folk) & he also had no link to Saville at all!
You're just a nasty minded gossip.
@@petermills542 Hear,hear,I don't think Mrs Browns boys is as "good" as you have credited them to be,,how the hell did that get on Television?
I hope MBB pay Chubby Brown royalties because they've nicked 90% of his act.....they've even nicked his fu cking surname too 💩💩💩
The rumours they hated each other is unfair and was untrue,....yes they were very different personalities, who led very different lives , and never really socialized ,...but had a great professional relationship , and respected each other's talents,....and the comedy magic they produced on screen together is up there with the finest this country as EVER produced....and Steptoe and son even to this day,...remains one of the funniest, and brilliantly written and acted comedies to ever grace our tellys.......wonderful series
Steptoe and son was and will always be one of the funniest British comedies out there.
it had so many layers to it
Michael Jarrett
I totally agree
It was a racist series.
Mark Harrison so what.
@@markharrison2544 Nothing wrong with the series it was brilliant. People still have those views they just don't air them as much. Political correctness will never win.
Not many of us knew Wilfred Bramble was actually irish and born in Dublin. Most people think he was from England. A great actor and also Harry H Corbett RIP both of them 🙏🙏 and thankyou both for the timeless comedy acting you left us all with.
How can anyone dislike this 30 second clip of an old actor talking about a younger dead one?
Probably because Wilfred Brambell was allegedly an old perv?
@@markbennett6658 he was gay,but in the Steptoe series he played very well a disgusting old man
@@chaddamp2894 and a very convincing homophobic onetoo
@@markbennett6658 no he wasn't he was just gay. he wasn't a perv at all.
@@60toodles I did say ‘allegedly’!
"Mind your goolies on the corner". Best snooker advice ever.
It didn't matter then, and it doesn't matter now wether they were friends, or not. They were brilliant together on set and made one of the greatest situation comedies, EVER seen on TV.
Great laughs, even funnier then the Sanford and Son, USA version.
It doesn't matter but he could tell the truth not just what people want to hear.
How right you are it doesn't detract from their utter brilliance
@@keithrich8373 i think the rumours that they hated each other simply was not true. My dad told me that for years. They may not had been best friends and clash a bit but they certainly did not hate each other there was respect. Very similar to Leonard rooster and Francis de la tour. They often clashed but did not hate each other and had respect. There own screen chemistry was magic as rigsby and miss Jones,. Just like steptoe and son.
Wilf wept openly & loudly all through Harry H's funeral service, & the widowed Mrs Corbett was one of less than a dozen attendees at Wilfs very private funeral.
I was born in 76, So I grew up with my Mum and Dad watching Steptoe. I remember my Dad howling with laughter. I still love this show. They were brilliant together.. Old Steptoes voice “Harold”.Always up to something or other and eternally Skint. Gold.
I have a childhood memory of Wilfred on a news programme, maybe Nationwide, speaking about Harry. I remember it because I asked my dad why he was crying. He said because his friend had died. I think this was the first occasion I’d ever seen an adult in tears.
I saw that episode of Nationwide as well. Wilfred was paying tribute to Harry, day in front of a large black and white image of him. I was really young and the idea of death really spooked me so it sticks in my mind.
I can also remember him saying that Harry was like a real son too. him. That shows rumours. that they didn't get on to bed.
Steptoe is the best tv sitcom ever, the chemistry between Harry and Wilfred has never been surpassed.
There was no chemistry, they detested each other. They were just both individually very good actors.
@@MagnusMaximusinWalesnot true,they got on extremely well when filming steptoe,they had a little falling out on tour in Australia around the 80s,and the media jumped on this recently and made it much bigger than it was just to make a documentary,even after Australia they still worked together making adverts and personal appearances,everybody who worked on steptoe and son says they got on extremely well together throughout the entire 7-8 seasons.
They only Filmed it for six weeks a year, so they all had different lives. Fantastic comedy TV, a Golden Age!!
Lovely gent.
Went to his flat once in pimlico in the early 80s to repair his tv set.
Was a very simple repair and he gave me a £20 Tip.
Lovely man.
wow what was the matter with the TV ?
@@digitalmediafan was no power.
But fixed it was simple enough 😃
Surprised he didnt give you a different type of tip
@@robjanko3010
So was I as I realized when meeting him for the first time 😀
@@marcellosgarbini759 haha
I am old enough to have watched Steptoe and son the first time around and it still has to be one of the best comedy shows ever, they were both great actors and there's been no one like them since.
The series got better as it went along
Same here. I remember the great June Whitfield appearing in one episode as a fluesy. Fond memories of a great sitcom. 🇬🇧
My favourite episode was when Leonard Rossiter broke out of prison and realised that they were better off 'inside'!
"The Desperate Hours" I think. 😁 👍
a large farm, two cat's, sounds great, but unfortunately a motherinlaw.
I expect a barrage of abuse from irate female's, I'm going to go into hiding.
for the record, I love women, best invention of all time, after the wheel.
he was in it twice
One of the best comedy shows ever
A tour de force in British sitcoms. Unbeatable and that scrabble scene in Men of Letters is the greatest two-hander ever.
They, with Morcambe and Wise were my absolute favourites when I was a kid. I have nothing but love in my heart for the joyful memories they, and many more, have have left us .
'Dogs cats and a mother-in-law '😂brilliant
Sounds like a comedy script!
Typical that the mother in law ranks below the pets...
He made me laugh out loud with that! :D
Yes but notice he didn't say it in a nasty sort of belittling way, but said with respect to him and his life
Aw Susan poor Harold wasn't in a good place 4 Wilfred bramble was a DIRTY OLD MAN q
Steptoe and son were a class act, i and many others work with people we hate but get on with it to get the job done. Wilf and Harry rest in peace, your legend will live on.
The episode about the 2 escaped prisoners with Leonard Rossitter is sheer comedy genius, both the script and the acting
The Desperate hours it's called. It's just recently been uploaded on here in colour!!!!
I think that episode is one of the best examples of perfect writing and casting ever. It has everything; humour, pathos, drama and social comment. Just wonderful.
My best scene was when they split the house up and there was a fire and the firemen had to pay the turnstile to get in the room
Divided We Stand.
Nope... The best episode was the one with Leonard Rossiter as one half of an escaped prison duo.
@@leonardmcdermott7703 All down to opinion. I think the best episode was 'Upstairs, downstairs, upstairs, downstairs'.
@@MrTamiya89 Divided We stand is My Fav too
I agree 👍 brilliant episode also love the water bed one. Great comedy
i was hoping to hear him say "OH AND HAAARRROOOLDDD" LMFAO in my eyes these two are comedy legends :) R.I.P x
lyndon tizzard I just burst out laughing. I was thinking about that in upstairs downstairs again episode.
Rise from his grave to say NOW WHAT???? And his reply will be why are u dead? I ain't dead mate yet
But now it's time for your blanket bath.....
@JuanMacready He was never a paedophile he was just gay, but a unique actor at the sametime. which some british actors nowadays will never match the great classic british actors from the 50's, 60's and even the 70's
he possibly was but who knows
@@martinworld7214 Grow up ya buckin pigeon! There is absolutely ZERO proof of anything untoward. His only "crime" was to be born in an era where people in authority felt they had a divine right to stick their nose into what goes on between consenting adults.
Only he knows he was.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
Wow!! What a supremely perfect and brilliant quote... and so very true/thought-provoking.. thank you for sharing it. 😇👍
i pity the fool that posts quotes - Mr T
@@andrewjohnston2850 Wow!
@@Sameoldfitup did you come up with WOW yourself or did you have to read that somewhere
@@andrewjohnston2850 no love Kate Bush
One of the best lines ever, ......lovely boarding house. A bathroom on every landing.....How do you know?? We was only there a fortnight!!😂😂😂
legends, bless them both for the hours of entertainment and to the future years of a new audience.
They were part of my childhood. Most of the people who laughed along with me are long gone but this comedy really stands the test of time
@@taniatinn9072 quality shines through and will always stand above mediocre.
@@djohn1671 agreed 100%
God they were a class act.
They lived totally different lives..but together...the chemistry was perfect..
lol i can't believe how well spoken he is, steptoe & son is the greatest tv program ever. :D
Old Wilfred's best acting was in the two films they made ..should have made more films ..Galton n Simpson were up there with best sit com writers of the era ...
Yeah, a lot of popular 70's sitcoms made feature films and they usually get slated, but i LOVED both Steptoe and Son feature films!!! i also have a soft spot for the George & Mildred film and not strictly taken from a sitcom but the Dick Emery film 'Ooh you are awful' is a cracking film starring a lot of characters from his sketch show.
Agreed 👍 The film crossed over no problem 😊
Two greats of comedy. "Long live the Steptoes"
PussyRiot1000 what's your source for that? Where did you read it?
PussyRiot1000 Google. ..really 😂😂😂
PussyRiot1000 a quick Google of you shows you to be a prize winning fuckwit with an unhealthy interest in old ladies.
So much respect and honour 🎖 for the legendary actors 👏love from Pakistan 🇵🇰❤
I have a book all about Steptoe written by the writers and it says that Wilfrid broke down in tears live on TV over the death of Harry. I dont believe it was as bad as the Curse Of Steptoe made out. Its 40 years ago now, lets remember them for the fantastic work of Steptoe
I can remember seeing a late night interview with Wilfred on the day the death was announced; I'm sure it was the first tv interview he did that day. I don't remember tears but I do remember the profound shock on his face and just stating and Harry was a lovely man.
James Henderson what is your problem?
Does everyone out there love everyone they work with?? No
Alan Simpson always refuted the suggestion that Corbett and Brambell hated each other.
@@MrDavey2010 LoL. I love the Simpsons but what do they know about Steptoe.
Superb comedy series.
One film I saw with Harry Corbett was in carry on screaming. Any one not seen this film I highly recommend it.
Yes, Harry got the part at short notice when Sid James had a heart attack, notice that in the next film Carry On Doctor Sid spends most of the film in bed..
"Frying Tonight!
@@vintagebrew1057 DS Bung's wife, played by Joan sims, is a real battle axe, memorable interaction between herself and poor ds bung.
@@vintagebrew1057 Another classic carry on up the khyber. Devil's in skirts. 😆😆
Then we must explore...*Avery* Avenue!
One of the many comedy greats of the 1970’s. I still love watching Steptoe & Son, he was great in Holiday on the buses too 😷😎
He lived in Moreton Place Pimlico. I was born in in Denbigh Street diagonally across from his street. I remember my dad telling me when he was on the TV that he lived opposite somewhere. Great show, they were very funny together. Still enjoy watching Steptoe and Son today.
Nice area. My London house is in Sutherland Street.
so what??
I'd LOVE to see the rest of this interview.
The reason why this is probably the greatest comedy of then all is ,most of the episodes had just the two main characters in it . Occasionally you had other people in it but for two actors to be so close in the house for most of the time is fantastic.
would love to have seen the full interview, priceless.
Those that know Steptoe and Son....remember when he dropped the jar of pickled onions in his bath and tried to put them back? My dad spat his false teeth out across the room. We all near died laughing that night and that's no lie.
Back when comedies were actually funny.
You will never see the likes of wilfred again a true friend and comic
@@waynehigham6504 He probably met him on Grindr
@@waynehigham6504 google it then you wish you never did lol
@@waynehigham6504 lm sure you will get over it
@@waynehigham6504 well l dont care
@@waynehigham6504 tickety boo mate
Not many of the greats left alive. Truly saddens me and im only 36, my era had crap like Lenny Henry and the like. Although i am a massive fan of 'My family'
Lenny unfunny Henry I agree with you there,as funny as herpes.
i saw the original item on the news & Wilfred was visible upset., it must be in the BBC or iITV archives.
Steptoe and son they couldn't of casted it better Harry and Wilfred were made for the roles
A great pity, Harry could not stand to be in the same place as brambell at the end.
*couldn't "have cast"
@@robertguest5215 that story is actually untue. It was because Harry was going on holiday with his family and Wilfred was going home so they were going to different places hence had to use different planes.
@@madabbafan .mate, by the end of it, they could not stand each other .there is a very good doco explaining it all.............wilfred was a right pain in the a..
@@robertguest5215 yes the documentary, which Harry H Corbet's nephew described as untrue as regards their relationship and that they catergorically did not hate each other. I think I will take the words of a family member over a film maker. If they did hated each other so much then why would Corbett's widow have attened Brambell's funeral?
I have been enjoying watching the whole series on dvd over the holiday. A series well worth the money and l am sure l will watch it's many times.
I’ve done the same I bought them for my mother, her and my dad have enjoyed watching them again and I’m enjoying watching them for the first time
Got the box set and always watched them when a kid on a Sunday after a bath 😂 You'll never get comedies like this again,absolutely priceless! Although they never got on in real life it never showed in there performances in front of the camera and that's just how great actors they both were!
I've been looking for this for a while. Thanks for putting it up.
I actually laughed when he said mother in law 🤣
It's one of 3 shows I could watch over and over and over again the others being, Whatever happened to the Likely lads and Rising Damp.
They did work well together although they had totally different styles, Wilfrid was a 'natural' who could just turn the character off & on whereas Harry had to think himself into the part like a method actor
i think wilfred was given the funniest parts of the scripts but harry was the true actor, all those big pieces of story telling/roll play stuff Harold used to do like when he was talking-to the wall pug in divided we stand was pure acting talent .
Harry H did lots of films but some of his accents were awful
It was very believable comedy, the actual set was 100% authentic and convincing, cluttered, fascinating, rich, earthy, i was young when it was on but would be riveted by it, very high quality, the situations were so convincing and had an uncomfortable feel i guess the anxiety of impending failure, but, so real, it's a classic, could never be recreated, an era that is gone forever, that really we took for granted, quirky and the old replaced by mundane tedious dull urbanisation, Boris bring back the rag and bone men.
Shame on anybody in this comment section for mentioning his sexuality.
Harry H Corbett was one of the best actors the UK has ever produced. He gave us so much joy as Arold but if he hadn't had got the part he would have been a massive, massive star.
Check out " Rattle of a simple man " and " Cover girl Killer" .
Steptoe & Son was the pinnacle of British comedy and one of two comedies that had just as funny spin off movies as the series...the other being Bless this House with the brilliant Sid James. We don't produce comedy any more..I look at what's on today and I could cry.
I have the collection of DVDs with every episode and watch them regularly. you will never get better than the best.
Thank You Galton & simpson.
We always look forward to the 'scrappy's' van coming around - he has the Steptoe and Son theme playing out of his PA :-D
LOL. That's great. I would like to see that.
I loved the episode Back in Fashion. Where Harold thinks he looks cool in a smoking jacket and shades. And the lovely girl thinks his blind. Classic. Poor old Harold. Thanks for all the laughter you gave us. ❤
i really hope someone uploads the full interview, and ty for uploading tihis clip :D
For anyone interested in finding out more about the great Wilfred Brambell I recommend reading "Old Never Stops" by Phillip Glass. It's sheds a little light on the great man's life story ❤
11 years later and we still don't have the rest of the interview? Tragic!
It’s a nice tribute they had a lot of chemistry together despite not liking each other it’s a sad tribute in a way, it’s even sadder knowing that Wilfred Brambell would die two years later.
The writers of the show and a couple of Corbett’s family members have disputed that they didn’t like each other. No one is saying they were best friends or didn’t have a difference of opinion her and there but to say they didn’t like each other is false
i would of loved to have met wilfred bramble he seemed such a nice chap.
Best scene was when he come out the coffin.
Mick Dwyer when he has a bath in the kitchen sink was funny as well. Loved this show when I was a kid.
Also loved the Christmas dinner episode :)
Every episode was a winner,!
@@gargk999 is that where steptoe utters the immortal line 'blacker than a gorillas goolies' that line absolutely creases me up , just the way he delivers it totally deadpan but one of the funniest lines ever
Yeah funny as hell , everyone including the vicar fainted.
Always liked him for some reason
LEGENDS.
This was filmed in Brambells flat in Pimlico. Brambell was a collector of antique silver as can be seen. Harrys funeral was attended by the cream of showbusiness Brambells had less than a dozen. Very sad.
not really. he might have chosen it to be that way with only closest friends and family. Lots do.
Cool. It was an excellent show.
The flat that Wilfred was staying is at 22 Moreton Place, Pimlico, London, he lived there for may many years until his death.
I met a guy in the 1970’s who was propositioned by Wildred Bramble. He was an adult at the time, not a child. Yes he and Harry lived different life styles
A very sincere tribute. :)
I love how the mother in law is included with the pets
Harry H Corbett would've been the next Laurence Olivier, but Steptoe (although i love the show sooooo much) type cast him. Poor Wilfred (and again, i'm no expert on what happened in his life) but bless him. x
I detect a subtle taste of envy, as sincere as it was. May they both rest in peace.
Step toe and son is 1 of thee Best comedy s ever
sounds like a really nice bloke i would of loved to have met wilfred bramble
I 'Would have' too.
@@stephenthornber1961 Back in the 1970s, I was living at home with my family in Henley on Thames. Just up river from us was, at that time, Danny la Rue's house. Wilfred Bramble used to stay with him regularly, and it wasn't unusual to see them out and about together. Always friendly and happy to chat to people. The local people were used to seeing them, so it was generally just good morning or whatever. Tourists used to be shocked to see them. Particularly as sometimes, I suppose just for fun, they would both be dressed as women.
Great Actor, Steptoe and son was a classic, both performers lead different lifes away from their roles ..but what they created was great.
When the dead cant speak many assumtions are made on remaining opinions of others.
And its sad individuals that believe such.....without knowing Facts.
I still pull the Steptoe face to this day
+Danny Boy
As long as you don't do it when having sex, as that would just be sooo wrong ! :D
superfinster lol. Shit, I think I may have
@innit27 actually harolds ex wife said they actually got on well together in real life :o
would love to see the full interview.
Swash Bucklin what's funny about that?
Buckblacket That was the whole interview. They hated each other's guts😢😢
spinout3 I wonder if the whole interview is still out there somewhere? It would be amazing to see ❤
They Didn't..
@@THX-2208 They didn't hate each other. That programme was wrong. Many people have said so. The day after Harry H. Corbett died Wilfrid Brambell was interviewed on Nationwide. He was so upset he could hardly speak. That wasn't the reaction of some-one talking about some-one he hated.
Listening to him speak you’d never guess he was born and raised in Dublin. He was ashamed of being Irish
Wish this was a longer interview. I liked both actors. Enjoyed steptoe and son. I still watch
Uploaded “Steptoe and Son “ Full House.
Playlist of every episode as well.
Wonderful Chap
He was a paedophile.
Spiffing old boy.
He payed tribute to harry I respect him for this worked well together I miss them both loved steptoe and son I've got the full box set fantastic
There will never be tv or people like them all the greats that's for sure I'm glad I was around to see and have witnessed it not like the bullshit of today.
Wilfred had such a posh accent, wouldnt think he was from Dublin Ireland.
He came from a middle class protestant background in Dublin when ireland was still part of the uk which maybe accounts for his accent although it could also be attributed to his life in England in the theatre and TV and films
@@johnmurphy7316 if you watch the Steptoe films he stands in front of the TV and salutes the TV when the Queen is on playing the national anthem in Steptoe and son,also there was Union Flag drapped over he's coffin in the Steptoe and Rides again.
Camp Freddy ,Well in Steptoe and Son he is obviously playing an English character, more specifically a Cockney of the Shepherds Bush variety, so it's no surprise that he salutes the Queen or has a Union Jack draped over his coffin. But I've no idea what he felt in real life as Wilfred Brambell . He may have left Dublin far behind when he came to England but he could take off a brilliant and very funny Irish accent as in A Hard Days Night film .He was a very gifted comedian .
@@campfreddy3547 You are confusing an actor with one of their characters.
@@krashd sorry I'm not.
I wish you could find the full interview!
nice to see the number of views for such a short clip, thankyou for sharing.. x
the rest of it would be great wouldn't it.. (classic RUclips) 🙂
Great show and great actors.Sadly nothing to compare today.
Haven’t you got room for me harrooooold
@MeBenHalpin here here well said!
I loved watching steptoe and son as a kid n still do to this day 45years later
Thank you so so so much for uploading that.
Best one making pie for his sons dinner using his false teeth
"It leaves a lovely pattern though"
Brambell was not a 'paedophile'. He was gay when it was still illegal to be gay in Britain, and when it was legalised, the legal age to be a gay man was far higher, at 21, than that of a heterosexual man, at 16. Everything Brambell did naturally as a gay man would be totally legal today. It was only homosexuality between men that was deemed 'illegal' in Britain back then too, there was never any law against being a gay woman. The so-called 'laws' in Britain back then were an absolute disgrace.
Red Devil9 very well said sir
What about him being arrested in Jersey for abusing two under 12 yr old children 🤔
I always vividly remember seeing Wilfrid Brambell being interviewed on the BBC current affairs show Nationwide directly after Harry H Corbett died and he was in bits - absolutely crying his eyes out. It would be interesting to see that clip again. It would certainly put paid to the claims they hated each other.
I love watching Steptoe & Son on DVD . My favourite is when Leonard Rossiter breaks in to Steptoe & Sons house after breaking out of prison . They were known as trotters . I all ways wondered if Only Fools and Horses was a continuation of Steptoe & Son because like the Steptoes they had little and of course their surname was Trotter .
They didn't break in, Harold answered the door and they forced themselves inside. And they were "totters" not trotters.
Miss these times, comedians now just depend on the F word etc . Any body know where to find Billy Bunter material?
That's right, people will laugh anyway if you swear..
The original Billy Bunter came out as a series ON BBC in the late 50s Bunter was played by Gerald Campion try youtube or maybe buy on Amazon
He was like hilda ogden totally different in real life.
Unless it was an act that poshness lol..
All actors especially older back then tended to come from the upper classes as you don't think working-class people could afford acting lessons in the 20s&30s do you .
@@theculturedthug6609 probably so.
I think the guys are from middle class backgrounds but still great actors.
Love hearing well spoken actors who play bad spoke. Characters
I remember watching this at the time. IIRC he burst into tears at one point, presumably that's on the missing section of footage.