Terry-Thomas
A monocle, cigarette holder and hallmark teeth gap. Simon Heffer looks at the film career of the typecast Terry-Thomas. From 2015.
The columnist and historian Simon Heffer resumes his series of Essays celebrating mid-20th century British film with a focus on five popular comic actors.
The double-barrelled, single-named actor Terry-Thomas - with his monocle, his cigarette holder and the hallmark gap between his two front teeth - perfected the role of a particular type of British toff.
Simon Heffer argues that whether playing a cad, a rotten bounder or a charmer, Terry-Thomas came to represent the louche and degenerate side of the upper classes at a time when the class system was coming under attack.
Producer : Beaty Rubens
First broadcast on 蘑菇短视频 Radio 3 in April 2015.
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