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Known for:	Robin Hood, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, I'm All Right Jack
Birth name:	Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens
Birthday:	14 July 1911, Finchley, London, England, UK

Changed his professional name from Thomas Terry after repeatedly being asked if he was related to stage legend Ellen Terry He and Belinda Cunningham had two sons, Timothy ("Tiger") and Cushan. Cousin of actor Richard Briers In 1966 he was about to co-star in a movie called "Easy Come, Easy Go" with Jan Berry and Dean Torrence in the leading roles. Due to a car wreck during shooting, in which Berry suffered a severe brain damage and paralysis, the film was cancelled. For Mel Brooks, who also should have starred in the movie, this would have been his on-screen debut. The producer of Two's Company tried to get him to play a recurring character part in the series, but Thomas's suffering from Parkinson's disease made it impossible for him to sign the contract. Having played Bertie Wooster in two radio plays in 1964 ('Indian Summer of an Uncle' and 'Jeeves Takes Charge'), he was also the first choice for the same role in the television series The World of Wooster, eventually portrayed by Ian Carmichael. He was the first choice to play the role of Dr. Ezra Mungo in Call Me Bwana, a part eventually played by Lionel Jeffries. He was asked by director Derek Jarman to star as "Prospero" in his Shakespeare adaptation The Tempest, but his failing health didn't allow him to play this role, which was eventually portrayed by Heathcote Williams. The gap in his upper teeth is so famous that in British medicine there is a Terry-Thomas sign - the gap between the scaphoid and lunate bones (scapho-lunate disassociation) on x-rays. These two bones are in the human wrist. He and producer Douglas Rankin headed their own production company together. It was called Thomkins Productions Ltd. Although mentioned in some German Edgar Wallace books, Terry-Thomas did not appear in The Trygon Factor as "Thompson", neither in the original English nor in the German version of the film. The role was played by Allan Cuthbertson. He used to say that the hyphen in his name Terry-Thomas represented the famous gap between his teeth. The Marvel UK comic book villain Mad Jim Jaspers is based on him.

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