Harry Landis
Biography
Harry Landis was a British actor and theater director whose career lasted over 60 years. Born in Stepney in 1926, he attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. His first job after drama school was a Shakespeare tour with the Elizabethan Theatre Company, and he soon took a leading role as a cockney conscript in A Hill in Korea. He appeared in over 200 television shows, beginning with the 1955 pilot of Dixon of Dock Green, and became best known as the barber Felix Kawalski in EastEnders from 1995 to 1997 and as Mr. Morris in the sitcom Friday Night Dinner from 2012 to 2014. His films included Bitter Victory (1957), Ransom (1974) and Edge of Sanity (1989). He later served as artistic director at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, directing around 40 plays and two pantomimes, and was president of Equity from 2002 to 2008.
95years old at death
- Born Stepney
- Died
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
Movie Career
- Films
- 4
- Career span
- 32 years1957 to 1989
Every film, newest first
- 1989Edge of SanityIMDb rating 5.4
- 1974RansomIMDb rating 5.6
- 1963Billy LiarIMDb rating 7.2
- 1957Bitter VictoryIMDb rating 6.7
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First role
Landis started acting at 15. Once he finished drama school, his first job was a Shakespeare tour with the Elizabethan Theatre Company.
First role
Landis worked in a factory and would act out the show he had watched at the Hackney Empire the night before. The shop steward urged him to try the Unity Theatre, and after an audition he began working there.
Early training
Landis studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama for three years, paid for by a grant from the London County Council awarded when he was 20.
A first
Landis first appeared on television in 1955, in the pilot of Dixon of Dock Green. He was in several later episodes too, and in the final one more than 25 years afterward.
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Worked with
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Films together
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Casper WredeDirector, 1 film, 1974
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