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| Born | December 20, 1966 |
| Hometown | Gravesend, England |
| Height | 5'10" (1.78m) |
| Spouse | Polly Radcliffe (m 1996 - 2021) |
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Harry Landis, actor who played a barber in EastEnders and the ghastly Mr Morris in Friday Night Dinner – obituary
- Harry Landis, the actor and theatre director, who has died aged 95, began his career with Lionel Bart at the Unity Theatre in Camden, and went on to notch up numerous television credits, including a two year stint on the BBC's EastEnders and a hilarious turn as the repulsive Mr Morris in Robert Popper’s Channel 4 Jewish family sitcom Friday Night Dinner.
AWARDS
| Year | Associations | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | British Academy of Film & Television Arts | Male Performance in a Comedy Programme | Friday Night Dinner | Nominated |
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Tamsin Greig is telling me about the first time the actor Simon Callow met the theatre agent Peggy Ramsay. “He went to her flat and she was wearing this diaphanous robe with nothing on underneath,” she says. “She had put thousands of candles all through the flat like some sort of romantic grotto. She was 70. Seventy! Simon went away as though he had just encountered real love.”
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Middle age, melancholy and Stephen Mangan
Stephen Mangan has been thinking about his past, present and future a lot lately. That sort of comes with the territory of playing Ebenezer Scrooge, as he is in Jack Thorne’s jubilant adaptation of A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic for the next six weeks, but it’s also just part and parcel of being 53.
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'Operation Mincemeat' director John Madden pays tribute to 'extraordinary' Paul Ritter as first trailer lands
John Madden, the award-winning director of Shakespeare In Love, has dedicated his fascinating new World War II drama Operation Mincemeat to the memory of late actor Paul Ritter who appears in the film.
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Bafta TV nominations full list: Steve McQueen’s Small Axe and The Crown lead pack
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