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Terry-Thomas's career on radio, film, television and record lasted from 1933 until his retirement in the late 1970s. Terry-Thomas made his debut as an uncredited extra in the 1933 film The Private Life of Henry VIII, and continued to work as an extra and in smaller roles until wartime service with Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) and Stars in Battledress helped to sharpen his stage and cabaret routine. After the war he appeared on the popular London stage revue Piccadilly Hayride, before he became the star of the first comedy series on British television, How Do You View? (1949). He continued broadcasting on British television and radio and successfully moved into film work, being most creative in the 1950s with appearances in a series of popular comedies. In the 1960s he moved into American films, before he began appearing in European films from the mid-1960s. In 1971 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which slowly brought his career to a conclusion. (Full list...)