Remembering Underrated British Actor Harry Andrews

Did he ever work with Eric Porter?

Harry always gave a fine performance even in crappy films. Read just a few years abut his private life and was surprised, indicating he was a better character actor than even I had credited him,.

Perfectly credible as either the Regimental Sargent Major or an arrogant Senior Civil Servant

Harry surveying the enticing Mr. Sloane.

He had a freakishly, outsized jawline.

We always break out in laughter when he appears on screen wearing some ludicrous turbans in this turkey.

Harry Andrews is the poor man's Anthony Quayle.

And Anthony Quayle is the poor man's Trevor Howard.

[quote]Yet, never a glazed panic look of "oh-shit-whats-my-next-line?" from him.

Wouldn't a film just cut away from things like that?

R6 He was on the stage, as well.

[quote] Remembering Underrated British Actor …

No, OP, I don't remember him.

[quote] You'd never, ever think he was the biggest queen in England.

OP, you need to give us some facts or factual anecdotes to justify this extravagant claim.

He was convincing playing an oak tree.

He was in a bunch of stuff I saw as a kid, a made-for-TV movie about the Titanic where he was the captain, another about King Tut's tomb where he played Lord Canarvon, an elder in Superman, he was everywhere. Had no idea he had trouble remembering his lines, but it must have been worth it to work through that, just to have him in the film.

Harry Andrews' mandible.

It dominates his performances the same way as Mary Streep's bent nose.

Or Orson Welles' fat stomach. Or Yul Brynners' baldness. Or Nicole Kidman's plasticity. Or Dustin's Hoffman's nose. Or Joaquim Phoenix' cleft lip.

I had assumed Harry and Johnnie were lovers.

Harry and Johnnie were partnered five times on screen and lots of other times on stage and OFF.

[quote] Harry and Johnnie were partnered five times on screen

Was he ever partnered with Eric Porter?

R14 Don't you know how to use 'IMDB Collaborations'?

Sylvia Sims gets fifty posts but poor Harry gets fifteen.

And she wasn't a lesbian.

Andrews and Porter were both in "Nicholas and Alexandra".

[quote] Sylvia Sims gets fifty posts but poor Harry gets fifteen.

He's been dead over 30 years and she only a day. If DL had been around in 1989, perhaps he'd have received more posts. 17 posts in 2023 is not bad.

Reunited

[quote] Andrews and Porter were both in "Nicholas and Alexandra".

Thank you, R17.

R12...Lovers And (with) Strangers

Harry and Johnnie with Edith and a cute page on stage.

Was he the one who appeared in a very early porn movie?

R23 Can you give us a clue?

Andrews' partner for more than 30 years, until his death, was fellow actor Basil Hoskins, who survived him until 2005 but next to whom he is now buried at St Mary the Virgin, Salehurst, East Sussex. The two men had worked together on the film Ice Cold in Alex.

Basil.

The so-called charge of the 'Light' brigade was a military disaster.

The film wasn't much better.

R26 How did Basil cope living with that prognathous mandible?

He was private, was disgusted at Brando.

[quote] The film wasn't much better.

The director's tone was much too sneering in the cartoon segments but overall he got a heck of a lot closer to the true story then Errol Flynn's movie.

But then again substitute Ukraine for Turkey and he describes the current UK editorial policy

Shirtless Harry and his mega-mandible.

The Brits seem to following the Hollywood Hay Code and refuse to show their navels.

He was offered the role of Lurch in the original ADDAMS FAMILY flick, but fired himself when he could do The Droop

No, NO!!!! I fucked up the comment: Here is the correction:

He was offered the role of Lurch in the original ADDAMS FAMILY flick, but fired himself when he COULD NOT do The Droop. COULD NOT!!!!

[quote] Underrated British Actor Harry Andrews

Harry Andrews isn't underrated. He is forgotten. I looked up IMDB and it gave me—

Harry Styles.

Harry Belafonte.

Harry Connick.

Harry Hamlin.

Harry Dean Stanton.

Harry Secombe.

Harry Guardino.

Harry Enfield.

plus another 40 Harries before I found Harry Andrews.

^ He looks grumpy at being so overlooked.

[quote] Harry Andrews isn't underrated. He is forgotten.

Good character actors are seldom well known by name even during their lifetime. But people would instantly recognize the face. Harry Dean Stanton is another good example of that.

Who’s had her?

[quote] Good character actors are seldom well known by name

Alec Guinness says all parts are character parts.

[quote] But then again substitute Ukraine for Turkey and he describes the current UK editorial policy

I disagree — the British didn’t give a shit about Turkey in the Crimean War. They had growing interests in Central Asia and India however and they didn’t want the Russians moving into that part of Asia, or the near East for that matter.

British aid for Ukraine obviously is in part in concern about Russian expansionism, but beyond that I think it’s mostly just sympathy for a country under attack. Much less self-interest than in the Crimea. Imo.

The biggest mystery is how Harry Guardino got in line ahead of Harry Andrews.Wha's up wit dat shit? Harry Guardino is totally forgotten and has been banished to oblivion.

[quote] The biggest mystery is how Harry Guardino got in line ahead

IMDB started as a British company but it was taken over by Americans who push their bias. The Americans have inserted so much extra advertising that it's becoming hard to negotiate IMDB's pages.

It seems Harry Andrews didn't playing the gay scene. He isn't mentioned in Noël Coward's diaries at all!

Though Noel did write one sing lyric…

[quote] Poor Uncle Harry Got a bit gay and longed to tarry

Sergeant Harry Andrews says (at 3.09) "No more fraternising with poofs".

And creepily, good-looking Derren Nesbitt gets nude behind a shower glass art 28.01.