Scotch on the Rocks.Comedy Chronicles – Strained Relationships: Wilfrid Brambell & Harry H Corbett McCann, Graham. www.comedy.co.uk, 23 August 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2021. Brambell was a gay man at a time when male homosexual acts were illegal in England and Wales until 1967. In 1962, he was arrested in a toilet in Shepherd's Bush for persistently importuning and given a conditional discharge. He was married to Mary "Molly" Josephine Hall from 1948 to 1955. The relationship ended in divorce after she gave birth to their lodger's baby in 1955. Death Brambell died of cancer at his home in Westminster, London, aged 72, on 18 January 1985. He was cremated on 25 January 1985 at Streatham Park Cemetery, where his ashes were scattered. Just six people attended his funeral: his brother, his partner, Galton and Simpson, a BBC representative, and Maureen Corbett, the widow of Harry H. Corbett. LegacyThe Curse of Steptoe, a BBC television play about Brambell and his co-star Harry H. Corbett, was broadcast on 19 March 2008 on digital BBC channel BBC Four, featuring Phil Davis as Brambell. The first broadcast gained the channel its highest audience figures to date, based on overnight returns. Filmography References Further reading Brambell, (Henry) Wilfrid (1912–1985), David Parkinson, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 External links 1912 births 1985 deaths Deaths from cancer in England Irish expatriates in the United Kingdom Irish male film actors Irish male stage actors Irish male television actors Irish male comedians Irish gay actors People from Ranelagh People convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom 20th-century Irish male actors 20th-century Irish comedians 20th-century LGBT people Burials at Streatham Park Cemetery