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The success of Steptoe and Son made Brambell a high-profile figure on British television, and earned him the supporting role of Paul McCartney's grandfather in the Beatles' first film, A Hard Day's Night (1964). There were also two feature film spin-offs, a stage show and an American incarnation titled Sanford and Son, some episodes of which were almost exact remakes of the original British scripts.

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A constant thread throughout the series was Albert being referred to by Harold as a "dirty old man" for example, when he was eating pickled onions while taking a bath, and retrieving dropped onions from the bathwater. It ran from 1962 to 1974, including a five-year hiatus.

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The series began as a pilot on the BBC's Comedy Playhouse, and its success led to the commissioning of a full series. It was this ability to play old men that led to his casting in his best remembered role as Albert Steptoe, the irascible father in Steptoe and Son, a man who – when the series began – was said to be in his sixties, even though Brambell was only aged 50 in 1962 (thirteen years older than Harry H. Brambell also played Bert Thomson, an Irish widower, in the film Holiday on the Buses the character in question started a close friendship with Stan Butler's mother Mabel.

This part was later renamed Rigsby for the television adaptation called Rising Damp, with Leonard Rossiter replacing Brambell in the role.

In 1971, he starred in the premiere of Eric Chappell's play, The Banana Box, in which he played Rooksby. Brambell's booming baritone voice surprised many listeners: he played the role straight, true to the Dickens original, and not in the stereotype Albert Steptoe character. This was adapted for radio the same year, and appeared on Radio 2 on Christmas Eve. In 1966, he played Ebenezer Scrooge in a musical version of A Christmas Carol. He also released two 45-rpm singles, "Second Hand"/"Rag Time Ragabone Man", that played on his Steptoe and Son character, followed in 1971 by "Time Marches On", his tribute to the Beatles.īrambell was featured in many prominent theatre roles. He was heard in the original soundtrack of The Canterbury Tales, which was one of the quickest selling West End soundtrack albums of all time. He appeared as Bill Gaye in the 1962 Maurice Chevalier/ Hayley Mills picture, In Search of the Castaways. He appeared in the short film series Scotland Yard in the episode, "The Grand Junction Case". All of these roles earned him a reputation for playing old men, though he was only in his forties at the time. His television career began during the 1950s, when he was cast in small roles in three Nigel Kneale/ Rudolph Cartier productions for BBC Television: as a drunk in The Quatermass Experiment (1953), as both an old man in a pub and later a prisoner in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954), and as a tramp in Quatermass II (1955). In the Second World War, he joined the British military forces entertainment organisation ENSA.īrambell had roles in film and television from 1947, first appearing (uncredited) in Odd Man Out as a tram passenger. He also did repertory at Swansea, Bristol and Chesterfield.

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After leaving school, he worked part-time as a reporter for The Irish Times and part-time as an actor at the Abbey Theatre before becoming a professional actor for the Gate Theatre. His first appearance was as a child, entertaining the wounded troops during the First World War. His two older brothers were Frederick Edward Brambell (1905–1980) and James Christopher Marks "Jim" Brambell (1907–1992). The family surname was changed from "Bramble" by Wilfrid's grandfather Frederick William Brambell. Brambell was born in Dublin, the youngest of three sons born to Henry Lytton Brambell (1870–1937), a cashier at the Guinness Brewery, and his wife, Edith Marks (1879–1965), a former opera singer.