Personal Info
Birth date
1931-11-25 (93 Years)
Day of death
2022-09-12
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Stepney, East London, England
Also known as
-Harry Landis
Biography
Harry Landis was a British actor with a long career in British television and film. He began acting with London's politically minded Unity Theatre and was elected as President of Equity, the British actors' union, in July 2002. He was best known for films such as A Hill in Korea, Dunkirk, Bitter Victory, and Edge of Tomorrow, and numerous TV credits including EastEnders and Friday Night Dinner. He died at the age of 90 on September 12th, 2022.
Filmography
Thirty-Minute Theatre
3.8
Overview:
Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. Thirty-Minute Theatre followed on from a similarly named ITV series, beginning on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy Parsons Pleasure. In 1967 BBC2 launched the UK's first colour service, with the consequence that Thirty-Minute Theatre became the first drama series in the country to be shown in colour.EastEnders
4.118
Overview:
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.No Hiding Place
3.7
Overview:
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.The Avengers
7.734
Overview:
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).Minder
6.8
Overview:
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.Play for Today
6.333
Overview:
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.The Saint
7.3
Overview:
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.Crown Court
5.4
Overview:
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.Howards' Way
5.625
Overview:
The BBC's answer to Dynasty, Howards' Way was launched in 1985 with an enormous 1 million pound budget. The main characters in the show were 'best boat designer in the world' Tom Howard, his boutique running wife Jan Howard, 'I'll have a drink' Jack Rolfe and a nasty man called Ken Masters. It starred Maurice Colbourne.Bergerac
6.667
Overview:
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.Sherlock Holmes
8.1
Overview:
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.Lovejoy
7.3
Overview:
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.Jeeves and Wooster
8.1
Overview:
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.Man in a Suitcase
7
Overview:
Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches for answers.Goodnight Sweetheart
7.2
Overview:
Gary Sparrow is an ordinary bloke in 1990s Britain, married to the ambitious Yvonne and working as a TV repairman. Then his whole world changes when he stumbles upon a portal to WWII-era London and begins a dual life as an accidental time traveler.Interpol Calling
6.7
Overview:
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.Barlow
6
Overview:
Barlow at Large is a British television programme broadcast in the 1970s, starring Stratford Johns in the title role. Johns had previously played Barlow in the Z-Cars, Softly, Softly and Softly, Softly: Taskforce series on BBC television during the 1960s and early 1970s. Barlow at Large began as a three-part self-contained spin-off from Softly, Softly: Taskforce in 1971 with Barlow co-opted by the home office to investigate police corruption in Wales. Johns left Softly, Softly for good in 1972, but returned for a further series of Barlow at Large in the following year, Barlow having gone on full-time secondment to the Home Office. This second series, rather than telling one story in serial form, as the 1971 series had, was instead ten 50-minute episodes, each with a self-contained story. In this series, Barlow was supported by Norman Comer as Detective Sergeant Rees, who had been helpful to him during the first series. He also had to deal with the political machinations of the senior civil servant Fenton. In 1974 the series was renamed Barlow and a further two series of eight episodes each followed, introducing the character of Detective Inspector Tucker, played by Derek Newark. The final episode was transmitted in February 1975. The Barlow character was seen again in the series Second Verdict in which he, along with his former colleague John Watt, looked into unsolved cases and unsafe convictions from history.Jason King
7.3
Overview:
Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering an endless parade of glamorous women, exotic locales, menacing villains and daring intrigue! Before Austin Powers swung into action, Jason King set the standard for the hip crime-fighting international playboy!Friday Night Dinner
7.841
Overview:
Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.You Rang, M'Lord?
7.4
Overview:
You Rang, M'Lord? is a British comedy series written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi! It was broadcast between 1990 and 1993 on the BBC. The show was a comedy set in the house of an aristocratic family in the 1920s, contrasting the upper-class family and their servants in a house in London, along the same lines as the popular drama Upstairs, Downstairs. The series featured many actors who had also appeared in their earlier series, notably Paul Shane, Jeffrey Holland and Su Pollard, all of whom had previously been in Perry and Croft's holiday camp sitcom, Hi-de-Hi!. Also featured were Donald Hewlett and Michael Knowles from Perry and Croft's It Ain't Half Hot Mum, and Bill Pertwee and occasionally Frank Williams from Dad's Army. The memorable 1920s-style theme tune was sung by Bob Monkhouse.A.D.
5.091
Overview:
A 12 hours miniseries adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The Kingdom of the Wicked.Black and Blue
6
Overview:
Black and Blue was a BBC TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 1973. It was so named because of the black and blue humour. The show consisted of 6 episodes of 50–60 minutes duration, each episode was a separate self-contained playlet. The only connection between them was the Black and Blue humour theme. The first episode was broadcast on 14 August 1973, with the last episode airing on 18 September 1973. The play Secrets was wiped, only surviving thanks to a domestic videotape copy made from the mastertape by its producer, Mark Shivas.Absolutely Fine
7
Overview:
A series of short comedies for Comedy Central written by and starring Tom Rosenthal. Short sitcom episodes that explore the stresses and strains of trying to do the right thing when you're a millennial with a comparatively easy life and a sense of entitlement. Simple things go wrong as Tom's attempts to be decent and generous end up tying himself, his friends and anyone he encounters in disastrous knots. From the Uber driver he's desperate to get a five star rating from to the lazy Deliveroo guy who refuses to go that extra step to the awkward encounter with the boiler repair man and his disastrous attempt at Netflix and chill. Series 2 sees Tom and his girlfriend spicing things up in the bedroom, getting rid of his annoying housemate, awkwardly meeting her ex-boyfriend, and more.Edge of Tomorrow
7.63
Overview:
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.The Enigma Files
5.5
Overview:
The Enigma Files is a British television detective drama that ran for a single series of fifteen episodes in 1980. Detective Chief Inspector Nick Lewis is tasked with investigating unsolved crimes.The Longest Day
7.583
Overview:
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"Dunkirk
6.8
Overview:
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.Ransom
5.5
Overview:
Following a series of bomb attacks in London, a group of terrorists seize Britain's ambassador to Scandinavia. With the ambassador now a hostage in his residence, another group hijacks an airliner at the capital's airport, announcing that the passengers will not be freed until their demands are met. Colonel Nils Tahlvik, Scandinavia's resourceful and ruthless head of security, seeks to take an uncompromising stance against the terrorists yet his attempts meet resistance from unknown forces at every turn...Acting
2021Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel as Himself
2017Absolutely Fine (1 Episode) as Old Man
2014Edge of Tomorrow as Old Man 3
2011Friday Night Dinner (3 Episodes) as Lou Morris
2001The Discovery of Heaven as Ibrahim
1993Goodnight Sweetheart (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Manny
1993Wall of Silence as Moishe Smelker
1993A Wall of Silence as Moishe Smelker
1993Journey of No Return as Conductor
1992The Grass Arena as Kaufman
1990One Last Chance as Alfie
1990Jeeves and Wooster (1 Episode) as Proprietor
1990You Rang, M'Lord? (1 Episode) as Sea Captain
1989Edge of Sanity as Coroner
1986Lovejoy (1 Episode) as Leo
1985Howards' Way (1 Episode) as Bernie Rosen
1985A.D. (1 Episode) as Agabus
1985EastEnders (3478 Episodes) as Felix Kawalski
1985Screen Two (1 Episode) as Kaufman
1985The Caucasian Chalk Circle as Alleko/Governor/Farmer 1/Peasant Husband/Peasant Neighbour
1984Sherlock Holmes (1 Episode) as Ikey Sanders
1981Bergerac (1 Episode) as Toby Newsom
1980Braces High as Gomez Lopez
1980The Enigma Files (1 Episode) as Peter Wolfe
1979Minder (1, 1 Episode) as Monty, Lenny Bowman
1977The Mayor's Charity as Jourdemayne Griffiths
1977Oy Vay Maria as Lionel
1976Bar Mitzvah Boy as Solly
1974Ransom as Lookout Pilot
1973Soap Opera in Stockwell as Joan
1973Black and Blue (1 Episode) as Unknown
1972Go for a Take as Maurice
1972Crown Court (1, 3 Episode) as Unknown, Arnold Curl
1972The Villa Maroc as Inspector Fazil
1971Jason King (1 Episode) as Unknown
1971Barlow (1 Episode) as Unknown
1970Play for Today (1 Episode) as Solly
1967Man in a Suitcase (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965Thirty-Minute Theatre (1 Episode) as Frank
1963The Informers as Hicks (uncredited)
1963Billy Liar as Man on Train (uncredited)
1963Doctor in Distress as Man in Cafe (uncredited)
1963Calculated Risk as Charlie
1963The Small World of Sammy Lee as Lucky Dave's Clumsy Barman
1962The Saint (1 Episode) as Bloom
1962The Longest Day as British Soldier (uncredited)
1962Oliver Twist (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1961The Avengers (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959No Hiding Place (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1959Interpol Calling (1 Episode) as Attendant
1959Operation Bullshine as Gunner Wilkinson
1959Desert Mice as German Soldier
1958Further Up the Creek as Webster
1958Dunkirk as Dr. Levy
1957Bitter Victory as Private Browning
1956A Hill in Korea as Pvt. Rabin