Harry Fowler Henry James Fowler , MBE was an English actor in film and television. Over a career lasting more than sixty years, he made nearly 200 appearances on screen.Personal life Fowler was born in Lambeth , South London on 10 December 1926. As a "near illiterate newspaper boy" making eight shillings a week, he told film historian Brian McFarlane, he was invited on to radio to speak about his life in wartime London. In 1951, Fowler married actress Joan Dowling , who committed suicide in 1954. In 1960, he married Catherine Palmer, who survived him. Fowler died on 4 January 2012. He had no children.Career Fowler made his on-screen debut as Ern in the 1942 film Those Kids from Town , a propaganda piece about wartime evacuee children from London. This role was given to him after film company executives heard him speaking on the radio about his experiences in wartime London. After a screen test at Elstree Studios , Fowler was given the part to star alongside George Cole . His fee was 2 guineas a day, compared with the 8 shillings a week he had been earning as a newspaper boy up to his audition. His early juvenile roles included Hue and Cry , usually considered the first of the Ealing Comedies . Fowler later married Joan Dowling, one of his co-stars in the Ealing film. Dowling committed suicide in 1954, aged 26. During the Second World War , he served as an aircraftman in the Royal Air Force and played a cheerful cockney character with the same job in the film Angels One Five , a portrayal he used in other contexts, often with a humorous slant, mostly especially during his year in The Army Game TV series. He played Harry Danvers in the clerical comedy Our Man at St Mark's opposite Donald Sinden and made several appearances on children's television during the 1970s, reading on Jackanory and hosting the series Get This and Going a Bundle with Kenny Lynch . He is also noted for having narrated Bob Godfrey Films' Great: Isambard Kingdom Brunel , the first British cartoon to win an Academy Award . His familiar voice was regularly used for TV commercials. In 1975, Fowler took the part of Eric Lee Fung, described as "a Chinese cockney spiv", in The Melting Pot , a sitcom written by Spike Milligan and Neil Shand . The series was cancelled by the BBC after the first episode had been broadcast. He was awarded an MBE in 1970, as part of Harold Wilson's Resignation Honours . In his book British Film Character Actors 1982, Terence Pettigrew wrote that Fowler 'was as English as suet pudding ...his characters were neither honest nor irretrievably delinquent, merely wise in the ways of the streets , surviving through a combination of wit and stealth. He had a certain arrogance, but there was an appealing vulnerability, too.'Selected filmography Those Kids from Town – Ern Salute John Citizen – Office Boy Went the Day Well? – Young George Get Cracking – The Demi-Paradise – Small Boy Bell-Bottom George – Boy on Bicycle Champagne Charlie – 'Orace Give Us the Moon – Bellboy Don't Take It to Heart – Telegraph Boy Painted Boats – His Brother Alf Hue and Cry – Joe Kirby Trouble in the Air – A Piece of Cake – Head Spiv For Them That Trespass – Dave, Rosie's friend Now Barabbas – Smith Landfall – RAF Corporal Orderly Dance Hall – Amorous Youth Once a Sinner – Bill James Trio – Undetermined Secondary Role She Shall Have Murder – Albert Oates The Dark Man – 1st Reporter Mister Drake's Duck – Corporal Scarlet Thread – Sam There Is Another Sun – Young Rider Madame Louise – Trout's Clerk High Treason – Street Photographer The Promise The Last Page – Joe 13 East Street – I Believe in You – Hooker Angels One Five – Airman The Pickwick Papers – Sam Weller Top of the Form – Albert A Day to Remember – Stan Harvey Don't Blame the Stork – Harry Fenn Conflict of Wings – Leading Aircraftman 'Buster' Up to His Neck – Smudge Stock Car – Monty Albright The Blue Peter – Charlie Barton Fire Maidens from Outer Space – Sydney Stanhope Behind the Headlines – Alfie Home and Away – Syd Jarvis Town on Trial – Leslie West of Suez – Tommy Booby Trap – Sammy Lucky Jim – Cab Driver The Birthday Present – Charlie The Supreme Secret – Bluey Soapbox Derby – Barrow Boy The Diplomatic Corpse – Knocker Parsons I Was Monty's Double – Civilian Idol on Parade – Ron The Heart of a Man – Razor The Dawn Killer – Bert Iron Don't Panic Chaps! – Ackroyd Crooks Anonymous – Woods Flight from Singapore – Sgt. Brooks The Longest Day – British Paratrooper Lawrence of Arabia – William Potter Tomorrow at Ten – Smiley Ladies Who Do – Drill Operator Seventy Deadly Pills – Covent Garden porter Father Came Too! Clash by Night – Doug Roberts The Nanny – Milkman Life at the Top – Magic Beans Man Doctor in Clover – Grafton Secrets of a Windmill Girl – Harry Start the Revolution Without Me – Marcel Crossed Swords – Nipper High Rise Donkey – Crook Sir Henry at Rawlinson End – Buller Bullethead George and Mildred – Fisher Fanny Hill – Beggar Body Contact – Herbert Chicago Joe and the Showgirl – MorrySelected TV appearances The Army Game – Cpl. 'Flogger' HoskinsDixon of Dock Green – Duncan / Billy Reynolds / Alf Stubbings / Handbag WilsonZ-Cars – Billy Carrick / Tony / ToffJackanory – StorytellerGoing A Bundle – HimselfMinder – Monty WisemanIn Sickness and in Health – Harry / Milkman Casualty – George / TerrySuper Gran – Sid ScoundrelDoctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks – HarryThe Bill – Alfred Sheldon / Pat Fitzgerald The Impressionable Jon Culshaw – Customer
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