argue against Steptoe's accusation that all parties are the same. As Prime Minister, Wilson wished to have Corbett appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), but the middle initial "H" was lost in the process and the award went to the Sooty puppeteer, Harry Corbett, instead. Both were eventually included in the same 1976 New Year Honours. Health problems and death A heavy smoker all his adult life, Corbett had his first heart attack in September 1979. According to his daughter, Suzannah, he smoked 60 cigarettes a day until the heart attack, after which he cut down to 20. He appeared in pantomime at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley, within two days of leaving hospital. He was then badly hurt in a car accident. He appeared shortly afterwards in the BBC detective series Shoestring, his facial injuries obvious. Other work included the film Silver Dream Racer, with David Essex, and a Thames Television/ITV comedy series Grundy, both in 1980. In the latter, Corbett played an old man discovering the permissive society after a lifetime of clean living. Corbett's final role was an episode of the Anglia Television/ITV series Tales of the Unexpected, entitled "The Moles". Filmed shortly before his death, it was broadcast two months later, in May 1982. Corbett died of a heart attack on 21 March 1982, in Hastings, East Sussex. He was 57 years old. He is buried in the graveyard at St Michael the Archangel church at Penhurst, East Sussex. The headstone inscription, chosen by his wife Maureen, reads "The earth can have but earth, which is his due: My spirit is thine, the better part of me", from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 74. Maureen was buried alongside him in 1999. Corbett is commemorated in the name of the Corbett Theatre at the East 15 Acting School at Loughton. Selected filmography References External links Harry H. Corbett Heaven 1925 births 1982 deaths 20th-century English comedians 20th-century English male actors Best Actor BAFTA Award (television) winners English male comedians British male comedy actors English male film actors English male television actors English male stage actors Freemasons of the United Grand Lodge of England Labour Party (UK) people Male actors from Manchester Officers of the Order of the British Empire People from Yangon People from Wythenshawe Royal Marines personnel of World War II