Bounder!

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With his sly little moustache broad gap-toothed grin garish waistcoats & ostentatious cigarette holder Terry-Thomas was known as an absolute bounder both onscreen & off. Graham Mc Canns hugely entertaining biography celebrates the life & career of a very English rascal. Born in 1911 into an ordinary suburban family Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens set about transforming himself at a very early age into a dandy & a gadabout. But he did not put the finishing touches to his persona until the mid-1950s with his groundbreaking TV comedy series How Do You View? a forerunner of The Goon Show & Monty Python. Terry-Thomas went on to carve out a long & lucrative career in America appearing on TV alongside Judy Garland Bing Crosby & Lucille Ball & in Hollywood movies with Jack Lemmon Rock Hudson & Doris Day. He became every Americans idea of a mischievous English gent. After a long battle with Parkinsons disease he died in 1990 in comparative obscurity but his influence lives on. Basil Brush was a polyester tribute to Terry-Thomas & comedians including Vic Reeves & Paul Whitehouse hail T-T as a role model. Dandyism is the product of a bored society DAurevilly observed. Terry-Thomas cocked a snook at the dull sobriety of post-war Britain with his sly humour. As he would say himself: Good show!